Practice · 01 / Create
Create
Commissioned public art, participatory festivals, immersive formats and light processions. Works that only exist through collective presence — enacted, not observed.
ForCultural institutions · Municipalities · Festival organisers · Cultural funds
What we offer
A short list of specific things we do — every engagement is shaped to fit.
Participatory festivals
Multi-week collective formats with budgets of up to CHF 80k and around 50 contributing parties. We hold artistic concept, production, partnership and community engagement.
Public art commissions
Permanent and temporary works for plazas, parks, waterfronts and civic interiors. Concept through installation, with full technical drawings and engineering coordination.
Light processions
Collective processions in which a group carries a large handmade light body through the landscape — like Leuchtzug ZUKUNFT, carried by 30 people from Ittigen to the Bantiger.
Immersive formats
Immersive light and space formats, built with volunteers from recycled materials — currently developing Holy Pet Pyramid with Domenic Keller.
Editioned works
Small-run physical works that document or extend a project — prints, objects, scores. Distributed through galleries and the studio shop.
Recent under Create
Selected engagements.
Create · Social sculpture
melt dome olten
A temporary dome on Olten’s Platz der Begegnung: three and a half weeks of readings, concerts, workshops, discussions and participatory theatre with around forty invited guests — free to all, in public space.
Create · Light procession
Leuchtzug Zukunft
Thirty people carry a glowing advertising balloon from Ittigen to Bantigen near Bern — a light procession, inspired by Sisyphus, about the shared effort of shaping the future.
Create · Mural
Ursprung
108 circles in 108 hand-mixed blue-green tones on the 15 × 12 m wall of the Neubad in Lucerne — painted together with 27 volunteers who answered an open call.
Create · Light installation
Mitte
A glowing light body on the 2,907 m summit of Piz Uter, pulsing every night from July to October — carried up and down the mountain by volunteers.
Create · Interactive installation
Big Swing
A swing for seven: people of all ages can only reach the ceiling if they swing together.
Create · Participatory installation
Sprossen
Visitors burn prayers, wishes and blessings into wooden stakes and drive them into the ground of Steinhausen — where they will slowly turn into soil.
Create · Light installation
One
A pulsing light body, an OM tone at 432 Hz and meditations on Persian carpets — during which the light followed the artist's heartbeat.
Create · Works on paper
Vision
Four pastel works, 150 × 150 cm each, based on images that appeared during sunset meditations in the forest.
Create · Earthen wall & mural
Wave
A 12 m long, 3 m high earthen wall shaped like a wave, built and painted together with residents, students and Vietnamese lacquer artists on the riverfront of Ho Chi Minh City.
Create · Light installation
Holy Pet Pyramid
An immersive light installation of 9 × 108 PET bottles and 9 × 108 LEDs, running on car batteries and solar power — by Domenic Keller and Yannick Portmann.
Create · Festival
melt dome 2028
The second melt dome: four weeks in the Lucerne area with ten curated theme days, a new reusable dome and an open bar between them — a temporary village square where very different lives meet.
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