Marie-Claire BALDENWEG is a Swiss/Australian contemporary artist.

Since the 70s she has been using the motif of plastic bags, trash bags and plastic credit cards in her work. By playing with the multifaceted meaning and iconography of these motifs, she creates ambiguous and thought-provoking visual compositions, which point to manifold sociopolitical and ethical issues of our PLASTIC AGE.

In her paintings, objects and installations BALDENWEG critically and ironically explores the themes of our contradictory PLASTIC FANTASTIC era. The notion of liberty and value, commercialisation, globalisation, free market, mass production, consumerism, artificiality, exploitation and waste are core topics of her work.

BALDENWEG’s oeuvre now spans over almost five decades and is an ongoing and consistent reflection about our time – about the ambivalence of living in the PLASTIC AGE.