André Werner | works

Selected works of art by André Werner. You may refine the selection by choosing to display only live streams, installations, video art, overhead installations, mixed media, objects, photographs, Polaroids, stills, projects or collaborations. Often a specific group of works span over several sub genres. You’ll find associated tags at the bottom of each entry that allows to see an entire group of art regardless of the media or material. The pieces shown here are mainly media art. Paintings, drawings and painted over photographs will be added over time. If you look for a specific work of art don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Life is calm in the secret pavilions and palaces of the Goldcoast, the lower eastern shore of the Lake Zurich. Like in this hidden temple of the wealth in Küsnacht. A frozen fairy-tale.  

El Viaje de Venus | The Journey of the Venus

The third installment of the series What Remains of Cinema, an interactive video installation. Based on an image of a Ledischiff (freighter ship) on the Lake Zurich. …continue reading

Autopoiesis, like its prequel La Femme et Le Fou, is an interactive closed circuit installation. An old black-and-white TV set and an analog video camera are directly connected opposite to each other, creating a feedback loop in a closed circuit. The single frame of this edition, a selfie image of a nude girl standing in front of the mirror in a changing cubicle, is printed on an overhead sheet and placed, hanging on thin thread, between the camera and the monitor.

Thus, the image, which in itself reflects an autopoietic system, becomes part of the loop, jumping into the TV, immediately reborn in the camera, an autopoietic beauty. …continue reading

André Werner | The Yeosu Mandalas The Yeosu Mandalas are three silent video loops. necessity | community | territory. Based on a closed-circuit installation of a camera interacting with a black and white tv-set. A … Continue reading “Yeosu Mandalas | necessity community territory”

Circles. You may find yourself. The Collector of pictures had begun to live very much in seclusion; he had locked himself in and started living among his pictures. He simply needed his suitcases about, and … Continue reading “Circles | Installation for 13 monitors and a curious person.”

Part of A Girl As An Independent Creation, an ongoing series of portraits of self-portraits. Snippet from the remaining text: “Der Mensch als das höchste Geschöpf ist auch der vornehmste Gegenstand solcher Darstellung, in und … Continue reading “The Most Noble Subject”

A Girl As An Independent Creation The title of the image refers to the last line of the first book page, “mehr als selbstständige Schöpfung”, which translates into “rather as an independent creation”. A somehow … Continue reading “Autopoietic Beauty”

Infundere shows caustics (light reflexes) caused by falling drops in a bowl of water. Infundere was first shown as part of the exhibition  Raumlektüre at the Zwingli Church. André Werner, “Infundere”, 2016, overhead-projector, water, infusion … Continue reading “Infundere | Zwingli Church”

Necessity silent loop, 2014, part 1 of 3 of the Yeosu Mandalas. Yeosu Mandala | Necessity by André Werner, created for and shown first at the 5th. Yeosu International Art Festival, September 2014 at the … Continue reading “Yeosu Mandala | Necessity”

Community silent loop, 2014, part 2 of 3 of the Yeosu Mandalas. Yeosu Mandala | Community by André Werner, created for and shown first at the 5th. Yeosu International Art Festival, September 2014 at the … Continue reading “Yeosu Mandala | Community”