Artist
Marianne Eigenheer
Swiss experimental artist whose cassette releases and sound installations merged avant-garde music with visual art contexts since the 1970s.
About
Marianne Eigenheer is a Swiss artist and sound practitioner active in experimental and conceptual music since at least the late 1970s. Her work spans cassette-based compositions, performance art, and multimedia installations, positioning her within the broader European experimental and post-industrial underground. Eigenheer's early releases, including the self-released cassette "Frauenkalender / Konventionell" (1978) and "Bilder zur Lage" (1982) produced in collaboration with APROPOS Art Space and Project Room Luzern, demonstrate an engagement with process-based composition and art documentation. Her practice appears closely integrated with the visual arts and institutional exhibition contexts, blending sound, performance, and critical artistic discourse. Though operating somewhat outside mainstream music channels, Eigenheer's work contributes to the documented history of European experimental cassette culture and the intersection of visual art and sonic practice during the 1970s and 1980s underground art scene.
