Halmet

Moniker
Sam Cottington, Gaia Del Santo, Noah Merzbacher

Exhibition
14.04.25 – 18.05.25

Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. Sam Cottington, Let’s get married, 2025, 1. The exhibiting artists are all asked one question: Growing up, what was your father’s job?, 2. The answers to this question will be painted onto the wall in colours taken from paint used at New York construction sites, where the artist is producing this work remotely.
Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. Sam Cottington, Let’s get married, 2025, 1. The exhibiting artists are all asked one question: Growing up, what was your father’s job?, 2. The answers to this question will be painted onto the wall in colours taken from paint used at New York construction sites, where the artist is producing this work remotely.
Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. Sam Cottington, Let’s get married, 2025, 1. The exhibiting artists are all asked one question: Growing up, what was your father’s job?, 2. The answers to this question will be painted onto the wall in colours taken from paint used at New York construction sites, where the artist is producing this work remotely.
Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. Sam Cottington, Let’s get married, 2025, 1. The exhibiting artists are all asked one question: Growing up, what was your father’s job?, 2. The answers to this question will be painted onto the wall in colours taken from paint used at New York construction sites, where the artist is producing this work remotely.
Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. Sam Cottington, Let’s get married, 2025, 1. The exhibiting artists are all asked one question: Growing up, what was your father’s job?, 2. The answers to this question will be painted onto the wall in colours taken from paint used at New York construction sites, where the artist is producing this work remotely.
Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. Sam Cottington, Let’s get married, 2025, 1. The exhibiting artists are all asked one question: Growing up, what was your father’s job?, 2. The answers to this question will be painted onto the wall in colours taken from paint used at New York construction sites, where the artist is producing this work remotely.
Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. From left to right: Noah Merzbacher, pyramid, 2025; Noah Merzbacher, pyramid, 2025, UV flatdbed print on dibond
Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. From left to right: Noah Merzbacher, pyramid, 2025; Noah Merzbacher, pyramid, 2025, UV flatdbed print on dibond
Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. From left to right: Noah Merzbacher, pyramid, 2025; Noah Merzbacher, pyramid, 2025, UV flatdbed print on dibond
Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. From left to right: Noah Merzbacher, pyramid, 2025; Noah Merzbacher, pyramid, 2025, UV flatdbed print on dibond
Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. From left to right: Sam Cottington, Phone Play, 2024 ; Gaia Del Santo, black essie series, 2024 - ongoing 48 Essie nail polishes with individual titles (diet pepsi, consumer subjectivity, sweet, aura, artist statement, angel, reality, financial temporality; pretty face, dissecting gaze; bernadette corporation, nicole gravier; presentational context, prepetual more; xx, aesthetic disinterest)
Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. From left to right: Sam Cottington, Phone Play, 2024 ; Gaia Del Santo, black essie series, 2024 - ongoing 48 Essie nail polishes with individual titles (diet pepsi, consumer subjectivity, sweet, aura, artist statement, angel, reality, financial temporality; pretty face, dissecting gaze; bernadette corporation, nicole gravier; presentational context, prepetual more; xx, aesthetic disinterest)
Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. Noah Merzbacher, two birds, 2025, UV flatdbed print on dibond
Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. Noah Merzbacher, two birds, 2025, UV flatdbed print on dibond
Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. Noah Merzbacher, two birds, 2025, UV flatdbed print on dibond
Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. Noah Merzbacher, two birds, 2025, UV flatdbed print on dibond
Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. Noah Merzbacher, fence, 2025, UV flatdbed print on dibond
Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. Noah Merzbacher, fence, 2025, UV flatdbed print on dibond
Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. From left to right: Sam Cottington, Phone Play, 2024 ; Gaia Del Santo, black essie series, 2024 - ongoing 48 Essie nail polishes with individual titles (difference, repetition; high fashion, post-fordism, ego death, style, object; contempo-casual, chance, desire, subject-centered inquiry, eye, vanish into you, perfect celebrity, snapchat surgery, copyright, archetype; matcha shortage, flat lay, romanticism); Noah Merzbacher, fence, 2025, UV flatdbed print on dibond
Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. From left to right: Sam Cottington, Phone Play, 2024 ; Gaia Del Santo, black essie series, 2024 - ongoing 48 Essie nail polishes with individual titles (difference, repetition; high fashion, post-fordism, ego death, style, object; contempo-casual, chance, desire, subject-centered inquiry, eye, vanish into you, perfect celebrity, snapchat surgery, copyright, archetype; matcha shortage, flat lay, romanticism); Noah Merzbacher, fence, 2025, UV flatdbed print on dibond
Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. From left to right: Sam Cottington, Phone Play, 2024 ; Gaia Del Santo, black essie series, 2024 - ongoing 48 Essie nail polishes with individual titles (postmemoiristic, prada, promise; temu twenties, site-genericity, west village, boyfriend in private equity, brand new, so you, zany, lipgloss mold, absence); Gaia Del Santo, Addison Rae (after Addison Rae), 1-7, 2025, 7 Risograph prints on Lessebo 240g (10+ 1 AP), 17 x 38 cm
Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. From left to right: Sam Cottington, Phone Play, 2024 ; Gaia Del Santo, black essie series, 2024 - ongoing 48 Essie nail polishes with individual titles (postmemoiristic, prada, promise; temu twenties, site-genericity, west village, boyfriend in private equity, brand new, so you, zany, lipgloss mold, absence); Gaia Del Santo, Addison Rae (after Addison Rae), 1-7, 2025, 7 Risograph prints on Lessebo 240g (10+ 1 AP), 17 x 38 cm
Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. From left to right: Sam Cottington, Phone Play, 2024, Performance during the closing, 18th May 2025, 2-6pm
Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. From left to right: Sam Cottington, Phone Play, 2024, Performance during the closing, 18th May 2025, 2-6pm
Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. Gaia Del Santo, black essie series, 2024 - ongoing, 48 Essie nail polishes with individual titles (difference, repetition; high fashion, post-fordism, ego death, style, object; contempo-casual, chance, desire, subject-centered inquiry, eye, vanish into you, perfect celebrity, snapchat surgery, copyright, archetype; matcha shortage, flat lay, romanticism)
Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. Gaia Del Santo, black essie series, 2024 - ongoing, 48 Essie nail polishes with individual titles (difference, repetition; high fashion, post-fordism, ego death, style, object; contempo-casual, chance, desire, subject-centered inquiry, eye, vanish into you, perfect celebrity, snapchat surgery, copyright, archetype; matcha shortage, flat lay, romanticism)
Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. Gaia Del Santo, black essie series, 2024 - ongoing, 48 Essie nail polishes with individual titles (postmemoiristic, prada, promise; temu twenties, site-genericity, west village, boyfriend in private equity, brand new, so you, zany, lipgloss mold, absence; difference, repetition; high fashion, post-fordism, ego death, style, object; contempo-casual, chance, desire, subject-centered inquiry, eye, vanish into you, perfect celebrity, snapchat surgery, copyright, archetype; matcha shortage, flat lay, romanticism)
Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. Gaia Del Santo, black essie series, 2024 - ongoing, 48 Essie nail polishes with individual titles (postmemoiristic, prada, promise; temu twenties, site-genericity, west village, boyfriend in private equity, brand new, so you, zany, lipgloss mold, absence; difference, repetition; high fashion, post-fordism, ego death, style, object; contempo-casual, chance, desire, subject-centered inquiry, eye, vanish into you, perfect celebrity, snapchat surgery, copyright, archetype; matcha shortage, flat lay, romanticism)
Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. Sam Cottington, Let’s get married, 2025, 1. The exhibiting artists are all asked one question: Growing up, what was your father’s job?, 2. The answers to this question will be painted onto the wall in colours taken from paint used at New York construction sites, where the artist is producing this work remotely.
Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. Sam Cottington, Let’s get married, 2025, 1. The exhibiting artists are all asked one question: Growing up, what was your father’s job?, 2. The answers to this question will be painted onto the wall in colours taken from paint used at New York construction sites, where the artist is producing this work remotely.
Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. From left to right: Sam Cottington, Let’s get married, 2025, 1. The exhibiting artists are all asked one question: Growing up, what was your father’s job?, 2. The answers to this question will be painted onto the wall in colours taken from paint used at New York construction sites, where the artist is producing this work remotely.; Gaia Del Santo, Addison Rae (after Addison Rae), 1-7, 2025, 7 Risograph prints on Lessebo 240g (10+ 1 AP), 17 x 38 cm
Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. From left to right: Sam Cottington, Let’s get married, 2025, 1. The exhibiting artists are all asked one question: Growing up, what was your father’s job?, 2. The answers to this question will be painted onto the wall in colours taken from paint used at New York construction sites, where the artist is producing this work remotely.; Gaia Del Santo, Addison Rae (after Addison Rae), 1-7, 2025, 7 Risograph prints on Lessebo 240g (10+ 1 AP), 17 x 38 cm
Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. Gaia Del Santo, Addison Rae (after Addison Rae), 1-7, 2025, 7 Risograph prints on Lessebo 240g (10+ 1 AP), 17 x 38 cm
Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. Gaia Del Santo, Addison Rae (after Addison Rae), 1-7, 2025, 7 Risograph prints on Lessebo 240g (10+ 1 AP), 17 x 38 cm
Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. Gaia Del Santo, Addison Rae (after Addison Rae), 1-7, 2025, 7 Risograph prints on Lessebo 240g (10+ 1 AP), 17 x 38 cm
Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. Gaia Del Santo, Addison Rae (after Addison Rae), 1-7, 2025, 7 Risograph prints on Lessebo 240g (10+ 1 AP), 17 x 38 cm
Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. Gaia Del Santo, Addison Rae (after Addison Rae), 1-7, 2025, 7 Risograph prints on Lessebo 240g (10+ 1 AP), 17 x 38 cm
Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. Gaia Del Santo, Addison Rae (after Addison Rae), 1-7, 2025, 7 Risograph prints on Lessebo 240g (10+ 1 AP), 17 x 38 cm
Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. Gaia Del Santo, Addison Rae (after Addison Rae), 1-7, 2025, 7 Risograph prints on Lessebo 240g (10+ 1 AP), 17 x 38 cm
Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. Gaia Del Santo, Addison Rae (after Addison Rae), 1-7, 2025, 7 Risograph prints on Lessebo 240g (10+ 1 AP), 17 x 38 cm
Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. Gaia Del Santo, Addison Rae (after Addison Rae), 1-7, 2025, 7 Risograph prints on Lessebo 240g (10+ 1 AP), 17 x 38 cm
Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. Gaia Del Santo, Addison Rae (after Addison Rae), 1-7, 2025, 7 Risograph prints on Lessebo 240g (10+ 1 AP), 17 x 38 cm
Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. Gaia Del Santo, Addison Rae (after Addison Rae), 1-7, 2025, 7 Risograph prints on Lessebo 240g (10+ 1 AP), 17 x 38 cm
Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. Gaia Del Santo, Addison Rae (after Addison Rae), 1-7, 2025, 7 Risograph prints on Lessebo 240g (10+ 1 AP), 17 x 38 cm
Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. From left to right: Gaia Del Santo, Addison Rae (after Addison Rae), 1-7, 2025, 7 Risograph prints on Lessebo 240g (10+ 1 AP), 17 x 38 cm; Noah Merzbacher, fence, 2025, UV flatdbed print on dibond
Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. From left to right: Gaia Del Santo, Addison Rae (after Addison Rae), 1-7, 2025, 7 Risograph prints on Lessebo 240g (10+ 1 AP), 17 x 38 cm; Noah Merzbacher, fence, 2025, UV flatdbed print on dibond
Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. From left to right: Gaia Del Santo, Addison Rae (after Addison Rae), 1-7, 2025, 7 Risograph prints on Lessebo 240g (10+ 1 AP), 17 x 38 cm; Noah Merzbacher, fence, 2025, UV flatdbed print on dibond
Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. From left to right: Gaia Del Santo, Addison Rae (after Addison Rae), 1-7, 2025, 7 Risograph prints on Lessebo 240g (10+ 1 AP), 17 x 38 cm; Noah Merzbacher, fence, 2025, UV flatdbed print on dibond
Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. From left to right: Gaia Del Santo, Addison Rae (after Addison Rae), 1-7, 2025, 7 Risograph prints on Lessebo 240g (10+ 1 AP), 17 x 38 cm; Sam Cottington, Let’s get married, 2025. 1. The exhibiting artists are all asked one question: Growing up, what was your father’s job?, 2. The answers to this question will be painted onto the wall in colours taken from paint used at New York construction sites, where the artist is producing this work remotely.
Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. From left to right: Gaia Del Santo, Addison Rae (after Addison Rae), 1-7, 2025, 7 Risograph prints on Lessebo 240g (10+ 1 AP), 17 x 38 cm; Sam Cottington, Let’s get married, 2025. 1. The exhibiting artists are all asked one question: Growing up, what was your father’s job?, 2. The answers to this question will be painted onto the wall in colours taken from paint used at New York construction sites, where the artist is producing this work remotely.
Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. Sam Cottington, Let’s get married, 2025, 1. The exhibiting artists are all asked one question: Growing up, what was your father’s job?, 2. The answers to this question will be painted onto the wall in colours taken from paint used at New York construction sites, where the artist is producing this work remotely.
Exhibition view, Moniker, HAMLET, Zürich, 2025. Sam Cottington, Let’s get married, 2025, 1. The exhibiting artists are all asked one question: Growing up, what was your father’s job?, 2. The answers to this question will be painted onto the wall in colours taken from paint used at New York construction sites, where the artist is producing this work remotely.

Artists
Gaia Del Santo, Sam Cottington, Noah Merzbacher

Curator
Divided Studios

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Location

Halmet
Dörflistrasse 67
8050 Zürich-Oerlikon
Switzerland
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Website
https://www.halmet.org

Published on: 25.04.25