The wolves where so bold last night, that they carried away a fresh bearskin that was lying by the fire / 2021 - 2024 / Photography
Serie Inspired by the language of myths and legend from alpine regions.
Reverseglass prints, framed / 20:30cm, 40:60cm
Exhibitionviews Benzeholz Meggen
Exhibitionviews standard/deluxe Lausanne
For the project Hollywood (UR) (formerly Uri-Blog), Nathalie Bissig continues her long-term exploration of the Canton of Uri: its raw Alpine landscapes, everyday life, and traditions.
At the heart of the project lies carnival, with its anarchic quality: social roles loosen and established orders momentarily dissolve. While most costumes today may be made in China, the sense of community beneath them is real.
In the villages, carnival often unfolds around a chosen theme.
In 2024, Unterschächen, a 700 inhabitants mountain village, adopted “Hollywood,” giving the project its title.
The project is extensive—an archive of over 10,000 images—and is presented in different sections throughout this website.
> EXHIBITION VIEWS “HOLLYWOOD (UR) ALTE KIRCHE FLÜELEN / 2025
Drawings / 2021 - 2024
Gouache on paper / 40cm:50cm / 30cm:40cm / 24cm:32cm / 10cm:15cm
Exhibitionviews Espace Jörg Brockmann, Geneva
Thunder / 2025 / Publication
23cm:17cm / Offset
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Drawing Charokal on Paper
150cm:110cm / 110×75cm
Installationview Kunsthaus Zug
Exhibition “Eintauchen”
SITE UNDER CONSTRUCTION (APRIL 2026)
For the project Hollywood (UR) (formerly Uri-Blog), Nathalie Bissig continues her long-term exploration of the Canton of Uri: its raw Alpine landscapes, everyday life, and traditions.
At the heart of the project lies carnival, with its anarchic quality: social roles loosen and established orders momentarily dissolve. While most costumes today may be made in China, the sense of community beneath them is real.
In the villages, carnival often unfolds around a chosen theme.
In 2024, Unterschächen, a 700 inhabitants mountain village, adopted “Hollywood,” giving the project its title.
The project is extensive—an archive of over 10,000 images—and is presented in different sections throughout this website.
> EXHIBITION VIEWS “HOLLYWOOD (UR) ALTE KIRCHE FLÜELEN / 2025
Drawings / 2021
Chines ink or gouache on paper / 40:50cm / 30:40cm / 24:32cm
Exhibitionviews Espace Jörg Brockmann
Ongoing project with children from Kanton Uri since 2021
With: Irina, Sanna, Timeo, Kalina, Annika, Jano, Kian, Elisa, Maria, Oscar, Ari
SITE UNDER CONSTRUCTION (APRIL 2026)
For the project Hollywood (UR) (formerly Uri-Blog), Nathalie Bissig continues her long-term exploration of the Canton of Uri: its raw Alpine landscapes, everyday life, and traditions.
At the heart of the project lies carnival, with its anarchic quality: social roles loosen and established orders momentarily dissolve. While most costumes today may be made in China, the sense of community beneath them is real.
In the villages, carnival often unfolds around a chosen theme.
In 2024, Unterschächen, a 700 inhabitants mountain village, adopted “Hollywood,” giving the project its title.
The project is extensive—an archive of over 10,000 images—and is presented in different sections throughout this website.
> EXHIBITION VIEWS “HOLLYWOOD (UR) ALTE KIRCHE FLÜELEN / 2025
What is it that old photographs do to us?
Can ghosts be laid to rest?
"Kaum einer wird sich noch erinnern" (Hardly Anyone Will Remember) draws on the popular volume "Uri damals, Photographien und Zeitdokumente 1855–1925" by Karl Iten. Bissig selects images from the book and reinterprets them photographically — faces become shadowy puppet heads, landscapes turn into backdrops. As so often in her work, the familiar shifts into something uncanny.
The work was published as a newspaper supplement in the Urner Wochenblatt, distributed in an edition of 13,000 copies to every household in Uri. It functions as an addendum to "Uri damals" — an invitation to a dialogue between then and now, and a way of renegotiating the book's role in shaping local identity.
Bookrelease and Performance in Flüelen
Concept and Photos: Nathalie Bissig
Graphic Design: Sarah Infanger
Texts: Tobias Büchi, Marilin Brun
Print: Gisler Druck AG, Altdorf.
Hausfasnacht Unterschächen / 2010 / Photography
C-Prints, framed, 45cm:60cm
"During Carnival in Unterschächen, a village of 700 inhabitants in the mountains of Uri, Central Switzerland, groups of masked people go from house to house to perform their theater in front of families."
Exhibitionviews Winkelriedhaus Stans
Apotropäen / 2013–2019 / Textile Masks
Apotropaic (ancient Greek apotropaios "turning away, repelling") is called actions that drive out demons or ward off evil. These are defensive spell measures designed to keep damaging spells away or render them ineffective.
More Masks
2020 / Photography and Textile Masks
inspired by the Dionne-Sisters / Project for Edition5 Erstfeld
For the project Hollywood (UR) (formerly Uri-Blog), Nathalie Bissig continues her long-term exploration of the Canton of Uri: its raw Alpine landscapes, everyday life, and traditions.
At the heart of the project lies carnival, with its anarchic quality: social roles loosen and established orders momentarily dissolve. While most costumes today may be made in China, the sense of community beneath them is real.
In the villages, carnival often unfolds around a chosen theme.
In 2024, Unterschächen, a 700 inhabitants mountain village, adopted “Hollywood,” giving the project its title.
The project is extensive—an archive of over 10,000 images—and is presented in different sections throughout this website.
> EXHIBITION VIEWS “HOLLYWOOD (UR) ALTE KIRCHE FLÜELEN / 2025
2015, textile masks
Dall’ Alto / 2014 – 2019 / Photography
Project about the natural forces up the mountains.
Pigment and silver gellatine prints, unframed.
Sizes: 165cm:110cm / 110cm:73cm / 24cm:34cm
Exhibitionviews Espace Jörg Brockmann, Geneva
SITE UNDER CONSTRUCTION (APRIL 2026)
For the project Hollywood (UR) (formerly Uri-Blog), Nathalie Bissig continues her long-term exploration of the Canton of Uri: its raw Alpine landscapes, everyday life, and traditions.
At the heart of the project lies carnival, with its anarchic quality: social roles loosen and established orders momentarily dissolve. While most costumes today may be made in China, the sense of community beneath them is real.
In the villages, carnival often unfolds around a chosen theme.
In 2024, Unterschächen, a 700 inhabitants mountain village, adopted “Hollywood,” giving the project its title.
The project is extensive—an archive of over 10,000 images—and is presented in different sections throughout this website.
> EXHIBITION VIEWS “HOLLYWOOD (UR) ALTE KIRCHE FLÜELEN / 2025
Hollywood (UR) / Since 2023 / Photography
The work documents the costume choices of young people during Carnival in Canton Uri since 2023, tracing the marks of globalisation within this ancient tradition.
Pigment prints, framed, 40cm:60cm
This work is part of the series Hollywood (UR)
See exhibition > Hollywood (UR)
Im Wald / 2017 / Drawings
Chinese ink on paper / 40:50cm / 30:40cm
Exhibitionviews Winkelriedhaus Stans
SITE UNDER CONSTRUCTION (APRIL 2026)
For the project Hollywood (UR) (formerly Uri-Blog), Nathalie Bissig continues her long-term exploration of the Canton of Uri: its raw Alpine landscapes, everyday life, and traditions.
At the heart of the project lies carnival, with its anarchic quality: social roles loosen and established orders momentarily dissolve. While most costumes today may be made in China, the sense of community beneath them is real.
In the villages, carnival often unfolds around a chosen theme.
In 2024, Unterschächen, a 700 inhabitants mountain village, adopted “Hollywood,” giving the project its title.
The project is extensive—an archive of over 10,000 images—and is presented in different sections throughout this website.
> EXHIBITION VIEWS “HOLLYWOOD (UR) ALTE KIRCHE FLÜELEN / 2025
