{"id":3469,"date":"2026-02-17T15:02:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openartmuseum.ch\/ausstellung\/stranger-than-paradise\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T14:28:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T12:28:02","slug":"stranger-than-paradise","status":"publish","type":"ausstellung","link":"https:\/\/openartmuseum.ch\/en\/ausstellung\/stranger-than-paradise\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranger Than Paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The carpet is rolled out a second time: At the center of<em><strong data-start=\"444\" data-end=\"470\"> Stranger Than Paradise<\/strong><\/em> is the monumental picture collage from the Olma 2025 special exhibition. In the museum, the carpet appears in a new context between paradisiacal harmony and broken idyll. <\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5>The motifs of the carpet collage come from the museum collection and can be seen in their original form in the exhibition. They are complemented by other works that take up the theme of &#8220;paradise&#8221; in a variety of ways: transfigured nature, idealizations of rural life, images of longing, but also irritations and ruptures. When viewed together, the seemingly familiar is cracked; harmony tips over into the absurd, the idyll becomes fragile. The result is not a uniform image of paradise, but a polyphonic collage &#8211; like the carpet itself.   <\/h5>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3405,"template":"","class_list":["post-3469","ausstellung","type-ausstellung","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Stranger Than Paradise &#8211; open art museum<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The open art museum St.Gallen is showing Stranger Than Paradise, the OLMA carpet and miniature gardens by Thessy Schoenholzer Nichols, from March 15.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/openartmuseum.ch\/en\/ausstellung\/stranger-than-paradise\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Stranger Than Paradise &#8211; 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