Containers love disorder: Seven artists unpack the hidden systems of global logic

The group exhibition «Containers Love Disorder» brings together seven artists and collectives active in Switzerland who explore strategies of arrangement, classification and situatedness. On display are works by Michèle Graf & Selina Grüter, Dominic Michel, Mathis Pfäffli, Matthias Sohr, Kelly Tissot, Paulo Wirz and the collaborative project La Bibliothèque des Ready-Mades, initiated by Anaïs Wenger in 2023. As the title suggests, the exhibition is based on the idea of the container as a symbol and model for social organisation and beyond. Specifically, the standardised metal containers function as a basic prerequisite for the efficient, global circulation of goods. More figuratively speaking, containers create spaces, assign places to things and act as moderators for relationships and actions. In this sense, also an institution – also a Kunst Halle – can be understood as a container: for art,