lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland

The photographic medium has always been central to his artistic practice. The relationship to the supposedly objective, but also to the subjective, has been crucial for Oliver to explore, understand and rethink the techniques of this medium. Oliver is interested in pushing boundaries by exploring where the image ends and space begins, as well as as well as the material and textural properties of the image. Therefore, he treats the photograph as an object rather than a simple image. Through this approach, Oliver examines architectural landscapes and transforms them from the outside into the exhibition space exhibition space, from two-dimensional images into three-dimensional installations, around a a spatial narrative. He often wonders what might happen if we demolished all buildings to explore the potential to create something new from the ruins. His focus is on spatial practices and the production of space as they reflect the current state of the built environment and the possible future of architecture. This research has led him to develop a series of works in which he continually rearranges parts to see new ways of looking at
. One of these series is xeno-places, in which he reshapes interstitial spaces,
transforming interstices, gaps and niches from architectural models into alien structures, and from positive to negative spaces, in order to challenge our conventional notions of place by blurring the boundaries between the physical and the non-physical, the tangible and the intangible.