Friends of NADA Edition 2025:
Marius Steiger
Mushroom, 2024
Oil and acrylic on linen
7 ⅛ × 5 ½ × 1 ¾ in / 18 × 14 × 4.5 cm

Mushrooms are a series of paintings by London-based Swiss artist Marius Steiger. Both poisonous and alluring, mushrooms occupy a space where childhood wonder meets adult enchantment, existing at the threshold between the real and the imaginary. The mushroom becomes more than a motif; it is a metaphor for transformation. Each painting seems to migrate, to sprout, as if feeding on its environment, and in doing so, the individual works grow into a collective organism: a vast, immersive still life constructed from smaller, autonomous still-life paintings.

Marius Steiger, *1999, lives and works in London and Switzerland.