Sara Gassmann
Born in 1980.
Sara Gassmann, presented under this name on the Residency Unlimited page, develops an artistic practice centred on an exploration of forms, colours, and materials that reveals processes at work rather than fixed narratives.
Her approach is described as exploratory: it begins with a “non-understanding” and a “non-recognition of the world” and is constructed around a relationship to time and geography, explicitly compared to a “zoom lens” that navigates from macro-structure towards a micro view.
Her educational background includes wide-ranging studies in art and the social sciences, including an MA in Contemporary Arts Practice (Hochschule der Künste Bern), two BAs in art (Haute École d’Art et de Design Genève; Hochschule Kunst und Design Luzern), a Foundation Class (Alanus University, Alfter Bonn), and studies at the University of Bern and the Università di Bologna.
Her work takes the form of “process-oriented” paintings, objects, and installations grounded in shared principles of interaction between volumes, surfaces, and materials.
She situates her works at the intersection of poem and music: they may evoke a range of tonalities—from subtle, noisy, or unsettling dissonances to reflective atmospheres and the ambiences of daylight.
As described, her method thus combines a distanced stance towards observed phenomena with a practice of temporal and spatial modulation, in which understanding often emerges only after movement back and forth between the whole and the detail.
The presence of a descriptive page on Residency Unlimited attests to the public dissemination of her profile under the professional name Sara Gassmann.
She has also been the subject of an interview in the Swiss Artist Talk series conducted by the Consulate General of Switzerland, indicating media visibility and a contextual exchange around her practice.