Alex Grunenfelder

Alex Grünenfelder is a Canadian and Swiss artist and designer studying the sensory and relational nature of landscapes. His projects employ performance, printed matter, informal pedagogy, and expanded sensory modalities of tasting. Through adapting and transforming historical and present-day landscape-oriented vernacular practices, his work seeks an embodied engagement with place. Current projects focus on the sensory analysis of atmospheric phenomena, and the medical history of the Air Cure and Milk Cure as site-specific climatic therapies.

He has been working across disciplines since the early 2000s when he began a graphic design career and co-founded a not–for-profit society dedicated to teaching design thinking and facilitating creative engagement with urban environments. In the late 2000’s and 2010’s, a growing interest in the politics of urban landscapes led him to pursue site-specific art practices, first in Canada, then in South Korea and Switzerland.

His work has been exhibited in Canada, USA, South Korea, Switzerland and Sweden, and has been recognized with grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the British Columbia Arts Council.