RELAX (chiarenza & hauser & co)

[8] RELAX’ artistic practice and exhibition activities include projects in public spheres, personal and group shows, lectures and performances at Swiss and international art institutions.

In 1994 they realized Thank You, a collaborative and interactive installation at Capp Street Project (CSP)[10] in San Francisco, on issues about art and money, using a coffee bar, video and audio interviews.

In June 2000 RELAX represented Switzerland at the Venice Biennale of Architecture, in Less Esthetics more Ethics,[11] a group exhibition organized by the Federal Office of Culture.

[12] In 2004 RELAX realised a permanent work at the Headquarters of the United Nations in New York City, under the title INLAY consisting of "a set of renovated rooms forming the backstage of the General Assembly."

[14][15] In 2006 the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein describes the neon sign WHO PAYS?, which is part of the museum collection, elaborating that "the critical analysis of the significance of economic values and the status of art and its players is formative of the work of the artist group RELAX".

[17] Through video essays with activist and political philosopher Silvia Federici and with feminist economist and expert on care work Mascha Madörin from 2014 to 2017, RELAX have addressed concerns such as: the stigmatization and displacement of women from public life during the transition from the Middle Ages to early capitalism; the dispossession of rural people forced into wage labor; furthermore, the contemporary absence of domestic, nurturing, and care work in the representation of contemporary economic balances.

[24] Capp Street Project San Francisco (1994) Center for Contemporary Art Tbilisi, Georgia (2015) Cornerhouse Manchester, England (2010) Graphische Sammlung ETH Zurich (2018) Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (1999) Kunsthalle Basel (1992) Kunsthaus Centre Pasquart Biel-Bienne (2005) Kunsthaus Glarus (1994) Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin (2003) Kunstmuseum Thurgau, Kartause Ittingen (1994) Museum Folkwang Essen (2008) Shedhalle Zurich (1990) Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken (1995) The Corridor Reykjavik (1989) Aargauer Kunsthaus Aarau (1991, 2021) Kunsthalle Bern (1998, 1999) Kunstmuseum Bern (2011, 2018) Fondazione Michelangelo Pistoletto Biella (2002) Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Santiago de Chile (2010) Fri-Art Kunsthalle Fribourg (2007) Museo Arte Gallarate (2015) Steirischer Herbst Graz (1991, 2007) Dunkers Culture Center Helsingborg (2003) Kunsthaus Langenthal (2008) Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein (2017, 2021) Kunstmuseum Lucerne (2015, 2017) Art en plein air, Môtiers (2007, 2015) City of Munich (2006) CAN Neuchâtel (2016) Swiss Institute New York City (1999) Sinopale 5, Sinop (2014) 1st Tbilisi Triennial, CCA Tbilisi (2012) Venice Biennial, 7.