Eine klare Anordnung: sechs quadratische Bildtafeln gleicher überschaubarer Grösse (50 x 50 cm) in zwei Dreierreihen übereinander, eine siebte Tafel separat für sich allein montiert. Auf jedem der Bilder, die nach einer durchdachten Regie neben- und übereinander angeordnet sind, ist dieselbe identische sechseckige Figur eingemittet. Read more...

Grieder Contemporary is delighted to announce the first solo exhibition by the Swiss artist, Nic Hess, being presented in the gallery's new venue in Zurich. Alongside an expansive installation occupying the whole of the gallery's main exhibition space, the artist will be showing a number of works on paper and sculptures, as well as an installation featuring paperhangings. Read more...

Hauser & Wirth is proud to present an exhibition of late paintings by American Abstract Expressionist, Joan Mitchell. Created during the last decade of her life, these large-scale canvasses mark a distinct departure from her more sombre works of the early 1960s. Read more...

Christina Benz, Françoise Caraco and Karoline Schreiber were awarded the room stipend by "sihlquai55 offspace visarte zürich". A month ago, the three artists formed a temporary group, using the Visarte Zurich exhibition space as a studio and discussion hub. Read more...

The Iranian artist Baktash Sarang creates mostly autobiographical works criticising disturbing political developments and unpleasent affairs of today's world, sometimes directly and provocative, sometimes in a more subtle way. Today he lives and works in Strasbourg. However, he returns from time to time to his hometown to feel the country and to see what is going on the streets. Read more...

Fatima Chafaa was born in 1973 in Algiers, where she currently lives and works. She practiced as a photographer for a few years, then resumed her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts of Algiers until 2006. Her work is a mixture of photographs and installations, on personal themes of ambiguity and ambivalence are the daily, the unconscious is dissected in a relationship of observer observed. Read more...

Words and their meaning are thought to be culturally specific. Being signifiers they refer to something that may or may not exist in the real world - depending on the nature of the signified - and on the specific language as well as the certain context and person deciphering its meaning. Read more...

At first there is only one connecting element, the name Samira. Both artists are Iranian, both are examining the contemporary image of the women. Using found images they both work in the transformation of their subjects in their own particular ways. Read more...

In seiner Einzelausstellung zeigt Ray Hegelbach neueste Bilder und Zeichnungen, die sich im Spannungsfeld zwischen Vergangenheit und Gegenwart bewegen. Mit viel Humor und Gespür für Bildinhalte hinterfragt er die Malereitradition, um sie spielerisch neu zu interpretieren. Read more...

We are delighted to announce the first solo exhibition of the young British painter Haroun Haward at Herrmann Germann Contemporary. Born in 1983, Haward lives and works in London. Haroun Haward's paintings are about tradition, narration, and interpretation. Read more...

Kunsthalle Basel is delighted to present the first solo exhibition of Swiss artist Hannah Weinberger. An essential mode of Weinberger's artistic practice and production to date has been that of collaboration and participation. Her music and sound works were often included in exhibitions as live performances that took place during opening nights or special events. Read more...

Until recently, Turkish artist Yüksel Arslan (born 1933, lives and works in Paris) remained almost unknown to a broader public. The exhibition at Kunsthalle Zürich presents for the first time a selection of over 200 works since 1959 outside of Turkey and focuses on the so called "Artures", works on paper using a unique technique. Read more...

MICROCLIMA ZURICH TROPICAL is a salon with works by Ana Roldán, Alejandro Cesarco, Gilda Mantilla and Raimond Chaves, Julia Rometti and Victor Costales, Radames 'Juni' Figueroa, Tetine, and others. MICROCLIMA ZURICH TROPICAL also includes a library and a cine club. Read more...

The Aargauer Kunsthaus kicks off the new year with a large one-man exhibition of internationally renowned Swiss artist Roman Signer. The idea for this monographic exhibition at the Aargauer Kunsthaus arose from a desire to introduce a wider public to the artist's photo series "Street Views", which was acquired in 2011. Read more...

In 2009, the Swiss Media Company Ringier committed its archive of roughly seven million images to the Canton of Aargau. For the exhibition "Blick", the Aargauer Kunsthaus invited artists to sound out the depths of this image reservoir and, each in their own way, use it to develop works. Read more...

In 2012, the Aargauer Kunsthaus continues its series of exhibitions of young art by presenting the work of Basel-based artist Daniel Karrer (b. 1983). Karrer creates surprising small- and large-scale paintings whose image fragments are culled from the internet and the virtual world of computer games. Read more...

We enter into a space with an island of carpet, clusters of objects, and paintings hanging on the wall. Elements can be picked out, traces of carving, lengths of flowing hair, and figures merging into, or coming out of, abstract spaces. Read more...

Time and space are represented and perceived differently. Evolution, transition, research, technique and technology accompany each of us throughout our lives. A selection of works by artists who have integrated time or space in their practice are presented in this group show, recalling exhibits held over the past 4 years. Read more...

Die Arbeiten der niederländischen Künstlerin Madeleine Berkhemer zeichnen sich durch ihren explizit erotischen Gehalt aus. Dabei exponiert die Künstlerin nicht bloß die Erotik des weiblichen Körpers, sie verhandelt vielmehr gesellschaftliche Prozesse in denen sich der weibliche Körper zwischen Objekt der Begierde, Ware und Selbstbestimmtheit hin und her bewegt. Read more...

Die Galerie Bob Gysin präsentiert mit "Les Voyageurs Immobiles II" die erste Einzelausstellung nach dem tragischen Tod von Bessie Nager im Januar 2009. Die Zusammenarbeit von Bessie Nager und der Galerie Bob Gysin begann 1993 nachdem Bob Gysin ihre Arbeiten ca. 1991 zum ersten Mal in einer Gruppenausstellung entdeckte. Eine intensive und fruchtbare Zusammenarbeit entwickelte sich. Read more...