This exhibition marks an incredible exercise in marketing and lateral thinking. Marie-Claire could be thought of as working in a kind of latter-day Pop art style both celebrating the possibilities of globalisation while critiquing its unkinder aspects…
Anthony Bond
Director Curatorial and Head Curator International Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales

For the Swiss artist Marie-Claire Baldenweg plastic carrier bags are "a typical symbol of our capitalistic high gloss- and hi-tech era."
Petra Bosetti
ART Magazin, Germany, 11/2003

Critical art at the stock exchange. In a frisky, very colorful and also cynical way, the paintings symbolize our globalized, profit-centered world economy with its fatal cycle: manufacture, sell, consume, throw-away. The artist points it out, with one single throw-away-object: painted plastic carrier bags from all over the world.
Franz Glinz
Blick, Switzerland, 09/2003

For the first time in its history the Swiss Stock Exchange gets involved in a confrontation with art.
NZZ Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Schweiz 09/2003

The artist Marie-Claire Baldenweg, 49, has entered the holy halls (stock exchange)!
CASH economic magazine, Switzerland, 09/2003

The venue of the exhibition "Global Market – Bagflags of the World" symbolically could not have been chosen any better: the Swiss Stock Exchange in Zurich.
20 Minuten, Switzerland, 09/2003

Her installation "For Sale" is a work which ironically shows the "appearance and reality" (to be or not to be) in our consumer society and even though everything is veiled in plastic she reveals it all...
I. Schaffter-Wieland
Schweizer Illustrierte, Switzerland, 12/ 2001

1974 already marks the artists discovery of the plastic carrier bag as a symbol which stands for many things which describe our affluent society: advertising, marketing, commerce, capitalism, perfection, high-tech, but also transitoriness and fragility. She explores different cultural, social and political correlations - and this in a sensual way… The attractive appearance of her work doesn't minimise the strength of her statements - her provocation is of the fine kind.
Heiner Halder
Aargauer Zeitung, Switzerland, 03/2001

The art of painting is not at its end! But it has to take on the challenge of its time. With her painted plastic carrier bag compositions Marie-Claire Baldenweg manages to create a synthesis between aesthetics, social criticism and irony…
Annelise Zwez, art historian
Live/Aargauer Zeitung, Switzerland, 04/1998

Without valuing she puts problems, clichés or myths of our culture into the centre of her theme. Regardless of the irony in Marie-Claire's work, it has an amazingly positive effect on one.
Sandra Escher
TARA (Fascinating Personalities), Switzerland, 12/1996

Marie-Claire Baldenwegs work stands close to pop art as it juggles with clichés which are distributed by media and advertising. …"artificial" and "natural" are just as connected as "in" and "out".
Roswitha Hohl-Schild, art historian
Oltener Tagblatt / Solothurner Nachrichten, Switzerland, 12/1994

Her oil paintings are a masterly mix of pop art, realism and surrealism - simply Marie-Clairism...
Isolde Schaffter-Wieland
Schweizer Illustrierte (The Best), Switzerland, 06/1994

Mainly in the English speaking part of the world, art with consumer articles attracts fans magically... The exhibition "Carried Away" in Sydney (Australia) gained a tremendous public response and was a vertical take off for the Swiss artist.
Freundin (An artist lady from the plastic-world), Germany, 03/1991

Marie-Claire Baldenweg has become a shooting star thanks to her exhibition in the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney (Australia). Her work is more understood today than ten years ago. ...mergence of advertisement and eroticism. The triangle of plastic, nature and art... In the meantime, after having had successful exhibitions in Sydney and Melbourne, Marie-Claire Baldenweg is considered "hot" and "chic".
Isolde Wieland
Schweizer Illustrierte (Portrait: Art out of the Bag), Switzerland, 1990

The exhibition (Carried Away) was a huge public success, it was covered and discussed in-depth by many newspapers, magazines and television. Marie-Claire gave Mick Jagger a poster of her exhibition in Sydney - with a written devotion, "it's only sack'n roll…"
Hanspeter Eggenberger
Sonntags Blick (Sydney wrapped & conquered by Swiss), Switzerland, 04/1989

One of the year's most unusual exhibitions opens on September 14th, when the humble plastic bag becomes an art form at the Hyde Park Barracks.
Good Weekend Magazine, Australia, 09/1989

Marie-Claire Baldenweg uses the ubiquitous hold-alls in an imaginative and creative way to create her medium -"plastic art"-.
Ansett News, Australia, 1988

"I shop - therefore I am" is the message of the Hyde Park Barracks' latest exhibition, Carried Away.
Michael Bogle
Sydney Morning Herald (Shopping is in the Bag), Australia, 1988

After all, the everyday objects of today are tomorrow's collectable antique artefacts.
Sunday Telegraph, Australia, 09/1988

Marie-Claire Baldenwegs exhibition makes you feel "well". Well - because it makes you look beyond your horizons, lets art appear spontaneous, explosive, dynamic, expressive and direct. Her art brings a valuable contribution towards tolerance.
Peter Breitschmid
Badener Tagblatt, Switzerland, 12/1985

A young artist, which comments precisely on our time… ...clear indications of an upcoming, substantial voice in the Swiss avant-garde scene.
Annelise Halder-Zwez
Aargauer Tagblatt, Switzerland, 1980

The artist either integrates the plastic carrier bag cleverly discreet or brutally open into her paintings and sculptures.
Schweizer Illustrierte (Plastic Trash-Art), Switzerland, 1980