Peter Röllin

Peter Röllin was born in 1946 in St. Gallen. He has a Ph. D. in Cultural Studies and Art History and lives and works in Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland, as a lecturer, journalist, researcher, art expert, and curator. His specialties include cultural history and contemporary cultural work, along with the processes and experience of spatial transformation, the theory and practice of architecture and urban planning, and cultural projects and art interpretation. His numerous publications focus mostly on the history of architecture and urban planning. At Expo.02 in Neuchatel, he put on the pavilion “aua extrema” for the cantons of Eastern Switzerland. His other exhibitions include “Stickerei-Zeit” at the Art Museum in St. Gallen in 1989, “Stadtbahnhof-Bahnhofstadt Bern” at the University Library in Bern, and the photography of Peter Heman at the Architecture Museum in Basel. He also runs the IG Halle Rapperswil (the Kunsthalle).