In a tour through the exhibition “A garden that turns around itself once a day”, you can mentally travel the whole world. A world characterized by polarities, in which a distinction is made between north and south, west and east, up and down, dark and light, and yet which is conceived as a sphere in constant motion. As such, it can be rotated, turned and turned upside down at will, so that seemingly fixed opposites dissolve, pole and antipole flow into each other. Depending on the perspective, the angle from which the world is viewed, the interpretation also changes and sometimes makes sense from one side, sometimes from the other.

Born in St. Gallen in 1962, the artist Thomas Stricker is less interested in universal answers, as his works are investigations into sculptural questions that have driven the artist since the beginning of his career. He unites two artists who create visible and invisible sculptures and, depending on the question, sometimes one, sometimes the other provides answers. Based on Beuys' expansion of the concept of art into the field of social sculpture, Stricker's exhibition is dedicated to his socially committed sculptures, which, as amorphous, shapeless works, describe processes.

They were created in Australia, Germany, Namibia, Mexico and Mongolia. Each location requires its own artistic means in response to a constantly changing starting point. In mutual development, the respective inhabitants of the places become co-producers in the creative process. With the artist's tactile sense, a very practical work at eye level is sought, a cautious approach, an associative groping, finds a form in its openness and creates a basis of trust.

At the panel discussion “When is art relevant?” on September 5, Stricker will talk to the artists Marcus Kaiser and Tomas Kleiner about the theoretical and personally perceived relevance of art in a political and social context. On September 11, the audience can explore the parallels and differences between Schlingensief and Stricker's projects at the film screening of “Knistern der Zeit - Christoph Schlingensief und sein Operndorf in Burkina Faso”. At the finissage on October 10, the charity campaign by Thomas Stricker and Petra Knyrim, “The Relevance of Fleeting Moments”, will be presented with a live video talk with Matilda Kharuchas, principal of the Kalkfeld Primary School in Namibia.