John Armleder
John Armleder, born 1948 in Geneva, Switzerland, lives and works in Geneva, Switzerland and New York City. Since the 1970s he has been an influential voice in contemporary art, known for playfully blurring the boundaries between ‘high’ art and popular culture. With his installations and spatial interventions, Armleder questions artistic hierarchies and undermines conventional distinctions of taste, embracing both the refined and the trivial. His celebrated Furniture Sculptures highlight the ways in which paintings, sculptures, and other media are increasingly absorbed as decorative elements in private and public spaces. Rich in art-historical references – from Minimalism to Pop Art and beyond – his oeuvre unfolds as a dynamic journey through the visual languages of the 20th and 21st centuries.
John Armleder Editions
Unique Works
Untitled (Thonet)
2021/2025
From Table Tableau
Laminate (HPL) on wooden board (black on white or white on black), 200 x 90 x 4 cm, to be used as a table top on trestles or hung on a wall in horizontal or vertical orientation. Edition of 30 + 3 A.P., with a signature label affixed verso and a signed and numbered artist’s certificate.
For this contribution to the group edition project Table Tableau, John Armleder translates his iconic dot paintings into a new material and chromatic register. Rendered in black on white or white on black laminate, the work preserves the strict seriality and visual rhythm of the white-gold canvases while emphasizing surface, reflection, and material precision. By shifting from hand-painted gesture to industrial production, Armleder highlights the interplay between uniqueness and reproducibility – a recurring theme in his practice – and once again invites reflection on the boundaries between art, design, and decoration.
EUR 8,000
Untitled (Thonet)
2019/2025
From Table Tableau
Acrylic paint on canvas, 200 × 90 x 4 cm (79 x 35.4 x 1.6 in). Edition of 5 painted in acrylic in white on gold and 5 painted in gold on white, signed and numbered on accompanying artist's certificate.
EUR 15,000
This unique edition by John Armleder reduces painting to a simple yet striking system of dots, executed in two complementary variations: white on gold and gold on white. The work resonates with the legacies of Minimalism and geometric abstraction while at the same time playing with notions of decoration, taste, and seriality – central concerns throughout Armleder’s practice. As with much of his oeuvre, the surface seduces with clarity and elegance, yet beneath lies a subtle questioning of how we see, value, and display art.
