When Pierre-Alain Münger was a child, he loved smashing his toy cars with a hammer. Many years later, he still does that. Impressed and fascinated by car crashes, impact, destruction and deformation, the artist crashes real cars and uses them for his work. He meticulously studies and documents the effects, and creates imagery concerned with car crashes in various media. In his works, deformed cars and broken trees are silent victims and witnesses of the invisible kinetic forces.

The Swiss artist performs crash tests, smashing old cars into a metal sheet at 110 km/h. The frontal collision deforms metal, providing the artist with the effect and footprints he sought for. These tests require numerous hours of planning and preparation, but Münger’s works of various sizes and artistic expression would be impossible without it.

Münger is a true researcher and an expert on car crashes. After graduation from a design school and spending time as an assistant to Swiss sculptor Carlo Borer, the artist spent more than 15 years studying collisions and the deformation of shapes. His work does not only depict a ruined vehicle, but also a damaged lamp post, sign, tree or any other object. Sometimes, his work features imagery related to the act of rescuing. Whether it’s painting, sculpture or brilliant pen study on paper, the artist’s deep fascination with crashes is obvious.

2022
art miami / laurent marthaler contemporary / stand am517
29.11.2022 - 4.12.2022
artwalk bremgarten
fränkisches museum / feuchtwangen (D)
alte brennerei / primeart / unterramsern

2021
alte brennerei / weihnachtsausstellung / unterramsern

2019
kunsthaus rot / köniz
alte brennerei / primeart / unterramsern
artstübli / DEFEKT / with simon berger / basel

2018
esp / exposition simon pam / with simon berger / alte kirche härkingen
SCULPTURE GARTEN / with simon berger / alte kirche härkingen
galerie radial art contemporain, strasbourg (F) / SOLO SHOW
galerie SOON / group-show during ART-BASEL 2018
ART KARLSRUHE / galerie radial art contemporain, strasbourg (D/F) PAMCR10, Vauffelin / ford fiesta 1994


2017
Dingkult, Derendingen

2016
Kunstnacht Brienz / Brienz
soon gallery bern / soloshow
PAMCR10, Vauffelin / BENTLEY 1988
PAMCR9, Vauffelin / alfa Romeo 1998
soon gallery , bern

2015
soon gallery , zürich / soloshow
ours , bellelay / soloshow

2014
ST-ART, strasbourg, galerie radial art contemporain, strasbourg (F)

2013
galerie soon-art, bern
galerie IVOKAMM,zürich
PAMCRr8, vauffelin /chevrolet blazer 1988
PAMCRr7, vauffelin /cadillac deville hearse 1973
ST-ART, strasbourg, solo-show/installation galerie radial art cont.,strasbourg (F)
LONDON 13 art fair (GB), galerie IVOKAMM, zürich

2012
ST-ART, strasbourg, galerie radial art contemporain, strasbourg (F)
KUNST 12 zürich, galerie IVOKAMM, zürich
summer group show - galerie radial, strasbourg (F)
Stroke artfair, galerie SOON Bern / münchen (D)
autopsie de l‘impact - soloshow / galerie radial, strasbourg (F)
PAMCR5, PAMCR6, Vauffelin

2011
Burgergalerie, Brienz
Kunstnacht Brienz, Brienz
WAREHOUSE, manegg-areal, Zürich
PAMCR4, Vauffelin

2010
Brienzer Kunstnacht, Brienz
pamcrash und vitra, teo jakob solothurn
pamcrash meets crash, Autoabbruch Safenwil

2009
Brienzer Kunstnacht, Brienz
Museum Kesselhaus, Berlin (D)
THIN AIR, Biel
Galerie Katapult Basel

2003
Kant. Jahresausstellung Kunstmuseum Solothurn
Gruppenausstellung Künstlerhaus S11, Solothurn
Jugendart Olten