(*1982 in St. Gallen, lives and works in Zurich, Basel and St. Gallen). Since a high school exchange year in 1999, Barbara Signer has repeatedly spent time in Japan and later also in China. After a year at the Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK, she studied Japanese Studies at the University of Zurich from 2004 to 2014. During this time, she attended Kansai University in Osaka from 2005 to 2006 and completed an internship at the Tomio Koyama Gallery in Tokyo in 2008. This was followed by residencies in Beijing (Apartment A307), Los Angeles (Mountain School of Art), Joshua Tree CA (Wagon Station Encampment, A-Z West), Kunming (studio scholarship from the City of Zurich), Tokyo (Atelier Takiguchi), Nakanojo (Nakanojo Biennale), Paris (Cité des Arts) and Rome (studio scholarship from the Canton of St. Gallen).
How Scurrealism Comes into the World
Where the real and the bizarre meet, “scurrealism” enters the world. This neologism comes from the Ebensee writer Walter Pilar, the instigator of the Villa Karbach art project. He and many other artists show works of unconventional power and intensity.
