| Swetlana Heger | Out of the Shadow - Into the Fog
With the exhibition Out of Shadow / Into the Fog in the crypt of Cabaret Voltaire, Czech-Austrian artist Swetlana Heger (born in Brno, lives and works in Berlin) focuses her attention on Emmy Hennings (1885-1948), who in 1916 was the „true star of the Cabaret Voltaire'.
Thus, by concentrating on Cabaret Voltaire´s female co-founder, Out of the Shadow / Into the Fog looks at the... |
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| POURQUOI ATTENDRE!
An exhibition regarding the Fonds Andre Iten
With: Giovanni Anselmo, Abramovic / Ulay, Vito Acconci, Samuel Beckett, Stefan Brüggemann, Claude Closky, Martin Creed, Peter Friedl, Holger Friese, Dominique Gonzalez Foerster, Thomas, Hirschhorn, Christelle Lheureux, Gianni Motti, Bruce Nauman, Jean-Paul Sartre, Richard Serra, Tatiana Trouvé, and Bill Viola.
“The waiting room is... |
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| Pavel Pepperstein | Retrospective
Pavel Pepperstein’s artist name is a literary reference to Der Zauberberg by Thomas Mann. Far away from any village or city, the discussions between the guests of a sanatorium are crucial to the life of the inhabitants, even though these conversations are not always significant. Professor Mynheer Peeperkorn holds his recitations in front of a waterfall while the incessant noisy rush... |
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| Made in China - Scholarship holders of the Stiftung GegenwART
Subsequent to the "Mahjong" exhibition (2005), efforts were made to organize an artists' exchange with China. As of 2007, with the help of the Chinese artist Ai Wei Wei an apartment-studio was set up in Beijing and made available for six months at a time to young Swiss artists. Over a period of two years, the GegenwART foundation and its patron Dr. h.c. Hansjörg Wyss supported this... |
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| Tatjana Trouvé | A Stay Between Enclosure and Space
Tatjana Trouvé (born Cosenza, 1968, lives and works in Paris) works on spatial productions or metal snake-like objects caught in movement thus appearing strangely solidified, similar to a frozen situation. Her spatial productions frequently use the parameters of “inner” and “outer” working with the principle of eversion. Psychic spaces reversed to the outside and become... |
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| John Miller
The exhibition of the work of artist, musician and critic John Miller, who was born in 1954 and lives in New York and Berlin, provides a comprehensive insight into a body of work that has been formulated since the 1980s and creates societal and artistic identification and representation models with analytical precision, wide-ranging humour and visual urgency.
With over 45... |
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| Deimantas Narkevicius | The Unanimous Life
In his works, Deimantas Narkevičius explores the past of the states in the former Eastern Bloc using found footage and autobiographical narratives. His films are reflections on specific facts and historical oddities and are often linked to Lithuania’s recent history and also to the Socialist past of other countries under the Soviet regime.
Narkevičius accounts for his interest... |
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| Shift – Electronic Arts Festival
Magic. Tech-Evocations and Assumptions of Paranormal Realities
From the dazzling shaman of dance music Ebony Bones to electro pioneers Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius aka Cluster, from Susan Collins' live-video broadcast from a haunted house in Britain and real-time tech-necromancy courtesy of Hamburg robotics artists F18, to seriously fathoming the borders of reality with... |
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| Daniel Knorr | Led R. Nanirok
Daniel Knorr was born in 1968 in Bucharest and he currently lives in Berlin. The artist’s works often assume deceptively simple shapes that are characterized by economies of modest means or, on the contrary, they materialize exuberantly as eye-catching large-scale interventions that interfere with the uniform expression and clearly defined functions of public urban spaces. Some of... |
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| Giovanni Giacometti: Colour in the Light
This exhibition devoted to Giovanni Giacometti (1868-1933) is being organised by the Kunstmuseum Bern in collaboration with the Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur. After Amiet ("Cuno Amiet - von Pont Aven bis Brücke", 2000), Anker ("Albert Anker und Paris", 2003), Felix Vallotton ("Sonnenuntergänge", 2004/04) and Ferdinand Hodler ("Eine symbolistische Vision", 2008), this exhibition will... |
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| Antonio Dias: Anywhere Is My Land
Daros Latinamerica is presenting Switzerland's first major solo exhibition of works by Brazilian artist Antonio Dias.
Anywhere Is My Land focuses on two equally fascinating and decisive phases in Dias' career: the 1960s, characterized by his ironic social critique in the form of drawings and assemblages, and the 1970s, in which he created a multimedia conceptual oeuvre.
The... |
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| Golden Agers and Silver Surfers | Old age and aging in contemporary art
A project by Christoph Doswald and Sabine Schaschl
Although the exhibition Golden Agers & Silver Surfers focuses on a certain age group and target population, it develops a dialogue that involves all age groups. Aging is a phenomenon of societal relevance that is given pictorial reflection in the visual arts. While the art of our time mirrors the yearnings and desires of humankind,... |
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| Tracey Emin - 20 Years
Tracey Emin (born in 1963) belongs to the group of successful contemporary British artists. Becoming known in the field of Young British Artists (YBA), she gained a degree of notoriety with her uncompromising personal works in which she thematized her sexual past, her lack of schooling as well as her affinity with drugs.
In 1999 Tracey Emin was nominated for the Turner Prize. She... |
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| The Non-Age at Kunsthalle Winterthur
Miguel Aguirre, Sabine Dehnel, Ana de Matos, Peter Granser, Dani Marti, Luis Molina-Pantin, Erwin Olaf, Jesus Segura, Thomas Zollinger
Curated by Madrid-based curator Paco Barragan, the show questions relational, historical and sociological ideas and preconceptions concerned with ageing and old age. The artists showcased in the exhibition reflect on the quest for a new way of... |
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| Javier Téllez | Mind The Gap
Javier Téllez (born 1969 in Valencia/Venezuela, lives and works in New York) is one of the most internationally reputed contemporary artists: his work has been shown at many exhibitions, including Manifesta 7 in Trento, last year’s Whitney Biennial and the Sydney Biennials in 2004 and 2008. Kunsthaus Baselland is proud to present three significant works of recent years in their full... |
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