Die Schwere des Seins (The Gravity of Being)

Mickry 3 always work together. The three young women Dominique Vigne, Christina Pfander, and Nina von Meiss met nine years ago in the art class at F+F in Zurich and have been making art together ever since. With “Supermarket,” an art installation in the form of a shop with hundreds of consumer items such as vegetables, Barbie dolls, organs, and female orgasms, all handmade from paper and papier-mâché, attractively painted, and packaged in bright, pop-art designs, Mickry 3 took the Zurich art scene by storm in 2001.
Since then, Mickry 3 have been a fixture in the art world, regularly appearing in Zurich at happenings organized by the artist group “Häuser und Wir” (Houses and Us), which emerged from the Cabaret Voltaire squat.
The comic-like creatures in the Mickry 3 universe are funny, cheeky, lively, and self-confidently feminist. The artists work as a collective, their art has only one authorship, thus questioning the (male) cult of genius.
At the message salon, Mickry 3 is showing new sculptures inspired by the current Rodin exhibition at the Kunsthaus Zurich. The molded bodies, standing on pedestals, consist of oversized genitals and shine with a fake bronze sheen. Mickry 3 celebrate Rodin’s cult of the body with relish and wit, challenging it with a feminist perspective through their overly sexualized sculptures.