Erik Steinbrecher, Ohne Titel, 2011 (Photo: Serge Hasenböhler)

[...] The wall piece Unterstand links (2003) only became part of the collection after the marketing building was completed. In addition to Rosemarie Trockel, Thomas Hirschhorn and Adrian Schiess, Steinbrecher was one of four artists to be invited as early as 1998–99 to submit suggestions for artistic furnishings for the building designed by Herzog & de Meuron that was due to be constructed. Adrian Schiess and Rosemarie Trockel were the winners of this competition. Schiess had developed a color concept for curtains that shield the rooms from view and glare from the outside and influence the atmosphere of the open-plan offices with their colorfulness. Trockel suggested woolen curtains for the conference room and designed the large meeting room. Steinbrecher, whose project was not incorporated, had suggested furnishing the building, which was originally designed as an open pavilion, with flexible canvas room dividers.

With this suggestion, he was responding to the architects’ idea that the building is intended to be used as flexibly and dynamically as possible. His competition entry and model of a room divider can now be found in the Ricola collection.
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