LG NATUR #2: Joachim Dierauer – Haselboden

Hazelboden (2004-2025), aquatint etchings and drypoint copperplate printing. The series focuses on landscape changes on the site used by Holcim AG in Untervaz between 2004 and 2025. The copper plates developed on site preserve snapshots of the landscape over a longer period of time. They thus represent the successive mining of rock by visual means. The series is part of a larger discussion by Dierauer that revolves around the ecological effects of human resource use.

Joachim Dierauer (1971, Chur), lives and works in Chur. Dierauer studied fine art in Braunschweig and dedicated his work to the art of printing. Since then, he has been actively exhibiting at home and abroad and has been awarded several prizes and scholarships. From 2005 to 2011, he was part of the open collective In Situ in Chur, which critically contributed to social debates with his work. Dierauer is currently working as technical manager of the Haldenstein printing workshop.