Winner of the Kifer Hablitzel prize in 2014 and 2015, and of the Kunstpreis Riehen in 2019, Selina Baumann has made a name for herself with her ceramic sculpture work, which oscillates between figuration and abstraction, with architectural and sometimes decorative forms.
Selina Baumann's sculptures are strong figures. Mostly presented as an abstract group, united in some way by a primitive but organic, compelling, redemptive quest to trigger our senses and to awaken our perceptions with ancestral forms. She uses a vocabulary of forms that is anchored in our collective memory. Spirals, plant formations, molecular structures or snake shapes have a model character.
A two-time winner of the Kiefer Hablitzel prize (2014 and 2015) and the Kunstpreis Riehen in 2019, Selina Baumann creates ceramic sculptures that are in turn figurative, abstract, architectural and sometimes decorative. The artist's works boldly explore the range between sculpture and craft, in some places suggesting the forms that
that revolutionised the genre of sculpture in the early 20th century.
Selina Baumann's work has recently been exhibited at the Kunst(Zeug)Haus in Rapperswil-Jona, the Kunstmuseum in Olten and the Kunsthalle in Basel.