Sonia Leimer – «Perlen»
Vernissage in the presence of the artist
Friday, 9 May 2025, 6:00 pm
Dorfpark, opposite Bahnhofstrasse 17, 5300 Turgi
Instead of formal speeches, a short talk with key project participants will take place:
Markus Schneider, President of the ART FLOW Association / Mayor of Baden
Peter Schaub, Chairman of the Board, Perlen Industrieholding AG
Klemens Gottstein, CEO, Perlen Papier AG
Christoph Doswald, Artistic Director ART FLOW
Sonia Leimer, Artist
Esther Nägeli, Managing Director ART FLOW
Moderated by: Simone Töllner, Communications & Media ART FLOW
«Perlen» is the 16th project of the growing exhibition series ART FLOW – Art in the Limmat Valley. For the Dorfpark in Turgi, the artist Sonia Leimer, living in Vienna, has created a three-part sculpture group that evokes the once-dominant paper industry and the historical use of hydropower.
The sculptures are largely composed of deinking sludge and fibre pulp – materials that emerge from production at the last operational newsprint factory in Switzerland. Leimer has transformed these industrial remnants into striking forms that simultaneously recall the childlike act of playing with paper scraps and provoke layered questions about how we handle resources and media.