Cosmicball

‘cosmicball’ is about the artist Thomas Schär, the founder and designer of this art project and the urn manufacturer Urne.ch. What he began as an experiment 25 years ago now includes a collection of over 200 urns that have met with a great response. Today ‘cosmicball’ exhibits in art museums at home and abroad.

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Highlights

Death, radically normal.

Presence in the Vogele Cultural Center

This exhibition offered a wealth of insights and information, including a selection of special urns from Urne.ch.

That One Moment – exhibition in the Kunst(Zeug)-Haus Rapperswil

‘cosmicball’ Thomas Schär, artist, designer and founder of URNE.CH, exhibited a selection of his most important urn creations as part of the exhibition ‘That One Moment’ in the Kunstzeughaus Rapperswil.

Beobachter 2021

Article: ‘The urn is the last shell of a person’

Urn design – designer urns – urn art

Questions for ‘cosmicball’ Thomas Schär, excerpt from an interview by M. Haas, November 2016

What does your work involve?
Since founding urne.ch in 1998, I have been building my own urn collection. I design my urns in principle like an architect plans houses and apartments. First, I have a basic idea. I then develop a concept, a design and a story around the object, which then creates a name. My collections have different names, such as ‘ball of love’ for my round urns. It takes a long time - sometimes up to two years - until the first prototype is produced. My work is an artistic process and consists of conception, design and implementation. After production, I give some of my urns the finishing touches in the studio - in the form of a printed motif, an engraving or an assembly of individual components. In my work, it is important to me that my creations appeal to a wide variety of people and also reflect the essence of a deceased person. Depending on the customer's wishes, I customize the urns or develop completely new concepts, although this takes more time and resources. Other artists have also immortalized themselves on some selected urns in my collection.