Sanna Helena Berger, Difference at Matteo Cantarella, Copenhagen

Upon entering Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, one might begin to reflect on how fragile every attempt to impose order on the world truly is. To classify, to archive, to contain: gestures that appear reassuring, yet always conceal a quiet tension. What happens when what has been neatly arranged begins to shift, to slip out of place? Containers Love Disorder emerges precisely from this friction, from a relationship between order and disorder that feels almost sentimental.

The exhibition brings together seven artists and collectives active in Switzerland — Michèle Graf & Selina Grüter, Dominic Michel, Mathis Pfäffli, Matthias Sohr, Kelly Tissot, Paulo Wirz, and the collaborative project La Bibliothèque des Ready-Mades, initiated by Anaïs Wenger in 2023 — invited by curator Giovanni Carmine to reflect on the idea of the “container.” Not only the metal container that crosses oceans carrying goods, but also the symbolic container: the structure that organizes objects, people, relationships, and forms of access.

The works, conceived as sculptures and installations in dialogue with the architecture of the Kunst Halle, explore the relationship between individuals and infrastructures. Through practices of collecting, recording, reuse, and appropriation, the artists engage with a world saturated with objects, turning their attention to its remnants, its discards, and the minor stories embedded in everyday things. What emerges is a landscape where economy, technology, and material memory intertwine.

At the core of the exhibition lies the idea that every system already contains its own instability. Disorder is not merely rupture; it can become a space for transformation, an opportunity to redraw relationships and categories. Containers Love Disorder thus suggests that classification does not necessarily mean closure, but rather the opening of new ways of reading the world — noticing the cracks between things and, perhaps, imagining another way of inhabiting them.