Franziska Rutishauser focuses on the dependence on conditions of perception. […] Her artistic exploration is based on precise, analytic observation and is inspired by its manifestations; this in turn also explains the choice of her artistic media – painting, photography and drawing. Photography is of particular importance for her, because this medium is an aid for her paintings and drawings, but it is also an expression in its own right. […] Similarly, to her compatriot Franz Gertsch, she examines her topics through meticulous scrutiny. Elements of nature such as trees, branches, mountain and water attract her attention, through which she deeply indulges herself into the painting. What in the end seems to be a hyper realistic painting that evokes the illusionist technique of photographs, reveals – if you take a closer look – a school of seeing that demands to indulge visually – not only into the oil paintings, but into all artworks created by Franziska Rutishauser, in order to discover unexpected, utterly unreal details or to enable the perception of solely abstract structures. […]  Dr. Margit im Schlaa, 2014

[…] Seeing is on the one hand a reflection of the real world, as Rutishauser writes: “It’s a ‘simulation’ of the real world that is constructed by the brain and exists in the brain”. On the other hand, every view is subjective or as the artist puts it: “For me, the view I have matters, This view goes along with a practiced idea that stems from the worldview and the utopia, which I develop inside myself.” 

[…] It’s no coincidence that the Swiss artist who is living in Berlin is attracted by mountains, even if that is only temporary. Berlin is built on sand and knows only a few natural mountains. There are only mountains of rubble, overgrown und overbuilt, witnesses of horrendous times, devastating wars, which have made almost left almost nothing untouched. “Berlin is a plate” writes the artist, “a plate without safe margins. A huge flat urban area that is built on sand. A place of permanent change.” Or in the words of the often quoted author Karl Scheffler; who spoke in the book “Berlin – the fate of a city” of the “tragic fate that has forced Berlin to change always, and never be”. […]  Michael Nungesser, 2014

Franziska Rutishauser 2006-2014
Berliner Sandberge (Berlin’s sand mountains)

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