Doris Gassert

Thomas Seelig

Olivia Baeriswyl

Pierre Hourquet

Anna Planas

What happens when photographers and artists incorporate hobbies into their work as a means of challenging artistic practices and hierarchies? How do hobbyists describe their passions photographically, not least today in our era of digital communication? The Hobbyist is the first major exhibition to explore the relationship between photography and hobby culture, both in connection to photography of hobbies and also photography as a hobby. Both hobby and photographic practices similarly find themselves in between leisure and labour, ideology and consumerism, between amateur culture and professionalism. From the hippy and avant-garde cultures of the 1960s, to 1980s do-it-yourself, to today's maker movement, The Hobbyist explores photography's engagement with a wide variety of lively, often quirky amateur obsessions.

The Hobbyist

Fabio Paris

Mona Schubert

Surveying the humorous, bold interventions of the acclaimed Net-art duo Net art innovators Eva and Franco Mattes (both born 1976) have investigated the internet's effects on our lives since the 1990s. Their brilliant interventions are collected here.

Doris Gassert

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