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Jan Eugster – Sculpture Fabrication
Jan Eugster is a sculpture fabricator, production strategist, and problem-solver with nearly 30 years of experience realizing complex three-dimensional artworks for leading contemporary artists. Trained as a casting technician and art founder at Kunstgiesserei St. Gallen, he led patination and advanced surface development before becoming production manager and helping drive the foundry’s international project portfolio and technical innovation. His early work included key collaborations on projects by Urs Fischer, Ugo Rondinone, Elmgreen & Dragset, Anne Chu and others, where traditional craft met old and new materials and technologies.
Jan is known in the art world not for generic fabrication but for inventing and adapting processes to make difficult ideas real — from large electroformed reliefs to hybrid material assemblies — always balancing artistic intention with technical feasibility. His reputation as the go-to producer for challenging sculptural work is grounded in decades of practical problem-solving and an engineer’s rigor.
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Jan Eugster LLC (Switzerland) & Jan Eugster d.o.o. (Belgrade)
Founded in 2008, Jan Eugster LLC operates as an independent sculpture fabrication studio based in Switzerland, providing technical consulting, prototyping, engineering, and full production oversight for contemporary artists worldwide. The studio’s work spans casting, electroforming, surface finishing, structural engineering, and bespoke production workflows tailored to each project’s demands.
In 2009 Jan Eugster d.o.o. was established in Belgrade, Serbia, expanding the studio’s production capacity and process development. This workshop pioneered the use of electroforming at large scale for relief works — most notably for Rudolf Stingel’s Celotex Panels, which required adapting and refining the technique beyond conventional industry norms. Today the Belgrade team, a group of eight skilled fabricators from across the former Yugoslavia, combines traditional craft with advanced metal forming, fabrication, and finishing to serve a broad international artist roster.
Across both studios the practice is defined not by one technique but by choosing or inventing the right one — from lost-wax casting and electroformed copper to plated metals, engineered composites, and integrated structural systems — always with full project responsibility and documentation. Services also extend to specialist crating and logistics for artworks of all scales.
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Why Artists Work With Jan Eugster
Jan’s practice isn’t about offering a menu of methods — it’s about unpacking an artist’s requirement, anticipating technical risk, and architecting a production path that respects intent and material integrity. The studio’s strength lies in creative technical thinking, hands-on execution, and the ability to deliver on ambitious sculptural demands at any scale.
… like a personal assistant with a wide range of experience and technical knowledge.
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NZZ 08.08.2017