Endless Possibilities: Geometric Abstraction
The UBS Lounge at Art Basel in Basel 2025 features works in the UBS Art Collection by international artists who engage with geometric abstraction.
Beat Zoderer’s practice draws from the traditions of historic Concrete Art, a mid-twentieth century art movement with an emphasis on geometric abstraction. His drawings, paintings, reliefs and spatial interventions reinvent Concrete Art’s formal language with a playful and deconstructed response to its severity and precision. Zoderer’s work is characterized by the rhythmic arrangement of elemental shapes in space. He employs and manipulates everyday objects and industrial materials, transforming their original purpose and meaning. Zoderer created Kleiner Einspann auf 2 Lagen (2005) using sheet metal to produce an intricate composition with a sculptural quality.
Zoderer’s approach to geometry goes beyond the mere maneuvering of shapes, inviting the viewer to consider the relationship between structure and disorder, the rigid and the fluid, as well as the impact of scale and proportion on perception. His work reflects on the geometry that surrounds us, not just in its idealized, theoretical form but in the ways it interacts with the physical world.