Emmenbrücke LU - 19 May 2012 - 1 July 2012

Exchange - Muriel Baumgartner und lettische Kunstschaffende

Kunstplattform akku

Gerliswilstrasse 23
6020 Emmenbrücke LU
Exhibition
Online since 15 May 2012

Grenzen überwinden, Austausch suchen und den intellektuellen wie kulturellen Horizont erweitern, bilden einen wichtigen Nährboden für das Vorantreiben der künstlerischen Arbeit. Muriel Baumgartner (*1976) hatte als erste Künstlerin die Gelegenheit, im Sommer 2011 dank Pro Helvetia einen Atelieraustausch in Riga zu erleben. Read more...

Copenhagen - 18 May 2012 - 16 June 2012

Mikkel S. Andersen and Morten Skrøder Lund - Mulatto or Gray

Galleri Christoffer Egelund

Bredgade 75
1260 Copenhagen
Exhibition
Online since 15 May 2012

Galleri Christoffer Egelund proudly present "Mulatto or Gray", a dialogue show with new works from the two young and talented artists Mikkel S. Andersen and Morten Skrøder Lund. They both graduated from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2009 and work in a variety of medias. Read more...

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Zurich - 19-24 May 2012

Cris Faria / Vinzenz Meyner - Cooperations 3

Cooperations

Larkin Erdmann
Enzenbühlstrasse 81
8008 Zurich
Exhibition
Online since 15 May 2012

Cris Faria sucht stets nach den Grenzen zwischen Kunst und Leben, um sie dann zu überschreiten. Aus der Performance kommend, spielen seine Werke meist mit dem Einbezug des Publikums. Die Kollaboration mit Vinzenz Meyner, der Galerist von Faria und Grafiker, rekurriert auf eine Fotoserie hin, die Faria während seiner eigenen Performances gesammelt hat. Read more...

New York, NY - 10 May 2012 - 16 June 2012

A Tribute to Robert Delpire: Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Josef Koudleka, Duane Michals and Paolo Roversi

Pace/MacGill Gallery

32 East 57th Street, 9th floor
10022 New York, NY
Exhibition
Online since 14 May 2012

Pace/MacGill Gallery is pleased to present "A Tribute to Robert Delpire", an exhibition celebrating the life and work of the prolific French publisher, art director, film producer, and curator. A pivotal figure in the history of photography, Delpire has played an essential role in the promotion and distribution of the medium for more than 60 years. Read more...

Glarus - 20 May 2012 - 19 August 2012

João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiva - Those animals that, at a distance, resemble flies

Kunsthaus Glarus

Im Volksgarten
8750 Glarus
Exhibition
Online since 14 May 2012

The Portuguese artist duo João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiva (b.1979/1977, living in Lisbon) themselves call their work "recreational metaphysics". In their first solo exhibition in a Swiss institution, the artists are showing new films and a space-filling camera obscura at Kunsthaus Glarus. Read more...

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New York, NY - 18 May 2012 - 22 June 2012

Richard Prince - 14 Paintings

303 Gallery

547 W 21st Street
10011 New York, NY
Exhibition
Online since 13 May 2012

303 Gallery is pleased to announce our first exhibition of new works by Richard Prince since 1991. Some people see leaves falling from a tree and see it as, leaves falling from a tree. Others see it as an inexhaustible mystery of the signified from the mundane closed-off simulation of a world sign. Read more...

New York, NY - 16 May 2012 - 21 July 2012

Roger Mayne

Gitterman Gallery

170 East 75th Street
10021 New York, NY
Exhibition
Online since 10 May 2012

This exhibition of the renowned British photographer Roger Mayne (b. 1929) includes vintage black and white photographs by the renowned British photographer from his seminal body of work on the working class neighborhoods of post-war London, as well as rare early work. Many of these images are being exhibited for the first time. Read more...

London - 23 May 2012 - 28 July 2012

The Historical Box. Curated by Mara McCarthy

Hauser & Wirth London

196A Piccadilly
W1J 9DY London
Exhibition
Online since 9 May 2012

On 23 May, Hauser & Wirth opens 'The Historical Box' in its Piccadilly gallery in London, following the exhibition's critically acclaimed presentation in Zurich. Curated by Mara McCarthy, director of The Box, Los Angeles, this exhibition showcases key pieces by influential American artists including John Altoon, Judith Bernstein, Simone Forti, Wally Hedrick, Robert Mallary, Barbara T. Smith and Stan VanDerBeek, many of which have never been exhibited in the UK. Read more...

Zurich - 17 May 2012 - 30 June 2012

Men at Work

Widmer+Theodoridis contemporary

Weggengasse 3
8001 Zurich
Exhibition
Online since 9 May 2012

Matthew Cox, Othmar Eder, Andreas Fux, Hiroshi Kumagai, Johannes Post, Ernst Stark, Lars Theuerkauff, Hans Thomann, Nicolas Vionnet, Werner Widmer

Widmer+Theodoridis contemporary is pleased to present this year's group show by ten gallery artists from Europe and the U.S.A. They will exhibit photographs, paintings, sculptures, videos and mixed media works. Read more...

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Zurich - 19 May 2012 - 9 June 2012

Alex Zwalen - Ansichtssache Wipkingen

KunstRaum R57

Röschibachstrasse 57
8037 Zurich
Exhibition
Online since 9 May 2012

Ein Kreis zeigt sein Gesicht. Alex Zwalen ist ein halbes Jahr mit seinem Pleinair-Atelier durch den Kreis 10 gezogen und hat sich von Häusern, Orten und Menschen zu Bildern inspirieren lassen. An der Ausstellung werden Gemälde mit bekannten und unbekannten Ansichten des Quartiers zu sehen sein. Read more...

Zurich - 5 May 2012 - 2 June 2012

Jesús "Bubu" Negrón - Encuentro Folklorico Loiza-Zurich, curated by Pablo León de la Barra

Christinger De Mayo

Ankerstrasse 24
8004 Zurich
Exhibition
Online since 8 May 2012

Christinger De Mayo is proud to invite Pablo León de la Barra to curate the first solo exhibition in Europe of Puerto Rican artist Jesús "Bubu" Negrón. On December 2011, for his participation in the First Bienal Tropical, which took place in the seaside near the village of Loiza in Puerto Rico, artist Jesús "Bubu" Negrón carved a series of coconut masks which he copied from the traditional masks made by the descendants of African slaves in the town. Read more...

Zurich - 10 May 2012 - 1 June 2012

Svetlana Hansemann, Julia Sheppard, Santa Mancilla - Werkschau

Starkart Exhibitions

Brauerstrasse 126
8004 Zurich
Exhibition
Online since 8 May 2012

Die Werkschau der drei talentierten Künstlerinnen soll anhand exemplarisch ausgewählter Werke einen Überblick über ihr Schaffen und ihren Werdegang ermöglichen. Read more...

Zurich - 17 May 2012 - 30 June 2012

Rita Ernst - Progetto Tunisino, 2008 - 2012

Galerie Walter Keller

Oberdorfstrasse 2
8001 Zurich
Exhibition
Online since 8 May 2012

Die Künstlerin Rita Ernst (*1956) zeigt eine Serie von Gemälden, welche in Zürich noch nie zu sehen war. Rita Ernst ist seit ihrer Ausstellung im Haus Konstruktiv in Zürich im Jahr 2009 auch einem breiteren Kunstpublikum bekannt. Read more...

New York, NY - 3 May 2012 - 23 June 2012

Rita McBride - Maverick

Alexander and Bonin Gallery

132 Tenth Avenue
10011 New York, NY
Exhibition
Online since 7 May 2012

"Maverick", a selection of works from 2009 – 2011 will be presented at Alexander and Bonin. The exhibition includes a number of works related to McBride's public sculpture, "Mae West". This 170-foot high, 57-ton rotational parabola is one the largest sculptures in the world and the first of its kind to be built of carbon fiber. Read more...

New York, NY - 10 May 2012 - 30 June 2012

Fred Stein - Paris / New York

Robert Mann Gallery

210 Eleventh Avenue
10001 New York, NY
Exhibition
Online since 7 May 2012

Virtuoso of the Leica, Fred Stein is a largely unsung master of a generation of photographers whose talents were swept across Europe by the dark geopolitical events of the 1930s and 1940s, only to land in the safe haven of New York. Read more...

New York, NY - 10 May 2012 - 23 June 2012

Carlos Estrada-Vega - Building a Painting

Margaret Thatcher Projects

539 West 23rd Street
10011 New York, NY
Exhibition
Online since 7 May 2012

For Carlos Estrada-Vega the process of cutting, sanding, drilling, magnetizing and coating thousands upon thousands of tiny wooden cubes with a combination of pigment, wax and limestone dust is only an act of preparation: an exercise to aid him in developing the discipline and focus required for his work. Read more...

Biel - 6 May 2012 - 17 June 2012

Aeschlimann & Corti Stipendium 2012

CentrePasquArt

Kunsthaus Centre d'art
Seevorstadt 71-75 Faubourg du Lac
2502 Biel / Bienne
Exhibition
Online since 7 May 2012

Die Bernische Kunstgesellschaft schreibt alljährlich das Louise Aeschlimann und Margareta Corti Stipendium aus. Dem grössten privaten Stipendium für bildende KünstlerInnen, das seit 1942 vergeben wird, steht seit 2005 jährlich eine Preissumme von insgesamt CHF 70'000 zur Verfügung. Read more...

Zurich - 12-18 May 2012

Adrian Schiess / Annelies Štrba - Cooperations 2

Cooperations

Larkin Erdmann
Enzenbühlstrasse 81
8008 Zurich
Exhibition
Online since 7 May 2012

Adrian Schiess und Annelies Štrba präsentieren in einer neuen, gemeinsam erarbeiteten Werkgruppe von Blumenstillleben, Blumenbildern und Landschaften einen engen Dialog zwischen Fotografie und Malerei. Read more...

Wettingen - 12 May 2012 - 2 September 2012

Eduard Spörri trifft Paul Takács - Anderswelt

Museum Eduard Spörri

Bifangstrasse 17a
5430 Wettingen
Exhibition
Online since 7 May 2012

In der 2010 begonnenen Ausstellungsreihe "Eduard Spörri trifft" setzt sich dieses Jahr der Maler und Videokünstler Paul Takács mit Leben und Werk des Aargauer Bildhauers auseinander. Neben biografischen Erinnerungen fliessen ebenfalls Sagen-, Geister- und Tierwelten mit ein, die Takács in einer neuen, beeindruckenden Werkgruppe von Bildern, Videoarbeiten und einer Installation mit dem Titel "Vogelpredigt" zeigen wird. Read more...

Solothurn - 12 May 2012 - 12 August 2012

Félix Vallotton - Zeichnungen

Kunstmuseum Solothurn

Graphisches Kabinett
Werkhofstrasse 30
4500 Solothurn
Exhibition
Online since 7 May 2012

Félix Vallotton (1865–1925) ist in den vergangenen Jahren mit grossen Übersichtsausstellungen bedacht worden. Dabei standen fast ausschliesslich die Malerei, zuweilen auch seine berühmten Holzschnitte im Zentrum. Seine Zeichnungen dagegen wurden nur selten ausgestellt und zumeist in ihrer dienenden Funktion als Studien für Gemälde oder für graphische Blätter. Read more...