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Marck: Das Wasser
Bluerider ART Shanghai·The Bund is honored to present the 2025 solo exhibition of Swiss video-sculpture artist Marck, “Das Wasser”. As a pioneering figure of video sculpture, Marck places framing, the body, and the act of seeing at the core of his practice. By merging video and sculpture into a cross-media language, he creates a new artistic context of “dynamic sculpture.” This exhibition takes water as its central theme—both as a source of the spirit and an inner reflection, as well as a metaphor for flow, tension, and transformation. It invites viewers to participate and experience the interplay of the real and the virtual.
Marck is internationally recognized for his video sculptures. Based in Zurich, he is an atypical artist: he dropped out of art school, unable to accept rigid academic structures, and instead worked in fields as varied as auto dismantling, electrical engineering, rock music, and design for technological installations. These unconventional experiences shaped a distinctive artistic vocabulary—blending imagination, reality, and the playful ambiguity of perception. In 2019, he received the International Culture Award from the Accademia Culturale Internazionale Cartagine in Italy. His works have been exhibited at Kunst(Zeug)Haus Rapperswil and are held in major collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; ArtCenter Istanbul; and ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, as well as numerous private collections worldwide.
Exhibition Title “Das Wasser” bridges Eastern and Western conceptions of water. In Chinese philosophy resonates with Laozi’s “Highest good is like water”—a state of clarity, humility, and compassion: soft yet resilient, yielding yet all-encompassing. In Western thought, “Das Wasser” has long carried associations of becoming, flux, and perception. Heraclitus revealed the constant flow of existence through the river; Merleau-Ponty likened water to the fluidity of perception, accessible only through embodied experience; Bachelard called water “the most poetic element,” bearing dreams and imagination.
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Bluerider ART Shanghai·The Bund is honored to present the 2025 solo exhibition of Swiss video-sculpture artist Marck, “Das Wasser”. As a pioneering figure of video sculpture, Marck places framing, the body, and the act of seeing at the core of his practice. By merging video and sculpture into a cross-media language, he creates a new artistic context of “dynamic sculpture.” This exhibition takes water as its central theme—both as a source of the spirit and an inner reflection, as well as a metaphor for flow, tension, and transformation. It invites viewers to participate and experience the interplay of the real and the virtual.
Marck is internationally recognized for his video sculptures. Based in Zurich, he is an atypical artist: he dropped out of art school, unable to accept rigid academic structures, and instead worked in fields as varied as auto dismantling, electrical engineering, rock music, and design for technological installations. These unconventional experiences shaped a distinctive artistic vocabulary—blending imagination, reality, and the playful ambiguity of perception. In 2019, he received the International Culture Award from the Accademia Culturale Internazionale Cartagine in Italy. His works have been exhibited at Kunst(Zeug)Haus Rapperswil and are held in major collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; ArtCenter Istanbul; and ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, as well as numerous private collections worldwide.
Exhibition Title “Das Wasser” bridges Eastern and Western conceptions of water. In Chinese philosophy resonates with Laozi’s “Highest good is like water”—a state of clarity, humility, and compassion: soft yet resilient, yielding yet all-encompassing. In Western thought, “Das Wasser” has long carried associations of becoming, flux, and perception. Heraclitus revealed the constant flow of existence through the river; Merleau-Ponty likened water to the fluidity of perception, accessible only through embodied experience; Bachelard called water “the most poetic element,” bearing dreams and imagination.
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Bluerider ART Shanghai·The Bund is presenting the 2025 solo exhibition of Swiss video-sculpture artist Marck, “Das Wasser”, opening on Saturday, November 1, 2025.
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