"With my art, I challenge our Christian culture, our faith and our society. I want to make the mystic and invisible, visible. My focus is on the idea. For getting the best result, I'm working with the most diverse media and techniques."
German artist, from the border triangle near Basel, Tanja Bürgelin-Arslan completed studies in Design and then in 2000, began work as a freelance artist. Her current practice focuses on the topics of faith, life after death, god and his glory.
"The ideas of new works of art usually come to me in dreams. It fascinates me to find ways to make the mystic and invisible, visible, with my art. Then I try to find the best technique or material to realize each idea. This is why I work with the most diverse materials and in a variety of disciplines: painting, photography, graphics, design, sculpture, or installation. I often work on a large scale and have already won three competitions for art in public spaces as well as had many commissioned works. My most extensive commissioned work to date was inaugurated in 2019 at the Roche Innovation Center Zurich: WINGS OF HOPE - a filigree wooden artistic representation of an antibody, made up of over 50,000 individual parts. It is in the company’s foyer, where it welcomes visitors."
Art in public spaces
2019, WINGS OF HOPE, Roche Innovation Center, Zurich, Switzerland
2019, Goldwall, Glory Life Center, Stuttgart, Germany
2018, Memorial for victims of National Socialism in Binzen, Germany
2014, PRAYERS - Installation, Friedenskirche, Norddeich, Germany
2014, bus stop shelter, Eimeldingen, Germany
2011, AUGENBLICKE, Binzen, Germany
2009, 1st prize, fountain THE PATH OF LIFE, Grenzach-Wyhlen, Germany
2006, 1st prize, ENTENPORTAL, Eimeldingen, Germany
1995, 1st prize, subway station „Rathaus“, Fürth, Germany
Select Solo Exhibitions
2015, Art&Context 101 Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
Select Group Exhibitions
2020, Frontofbicycle Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
2019, Kulturfabrik Schopfheim, Germany
2018, Artrooms London
2018, Artrooms Rome
2018, Museum St. Johann, Tirol, Austria
2017, Frontofbicycle Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
2016 + 2015 Dreiländermuseum Lörrach, Germany
2013, Filter4 cultur affairs Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
2013, Basel cathedral, Switzerland
