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Young British Art II – an exhibition curated by Ryan Gander and Christina von Rotenhan

Centrik Isler — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:08:10 +0100

This exhibition is a group show of 45 artists selected by the artist Ryan Gander.
The young artists chosen for this exhibition are all exceptionally talented individuals, who are British or live in Britain.
All the works in this exhibition are black and white.

Exhibition

10 February 2012 - 17 March 2012

Daniel Gustav Cramer - Works

Centrik Isler — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:37:40 +0100

Daniel Gustav Cramer leads us to the borders of human modes of perception and thought in his works. He experiments with fragments of causality in space and time and makes them visible in pictures and abstract narrations. Gaps, elisions and overlaps are significant elements in the practice of his art.

Exhibition

12 February 2012 - 6 May 2012

Tour d'Horizon - Works from the collection of the migros museum für gegenwartskunst - Part I

Centrik Isler — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:03:48 +0100

Lothar Baumgarten, Georg Baselitz, Jan Dibbets, Martin Disler, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Robert Mangold, A. R. Penck, Giuseppe Penone, Gerhard Richter, Robert Ryman, Klaudia Schifferle

After the collection exhibitions in Vaduz, Kassel and Krems, the migros museum für gegenwartskunst presents a variety of works from the collection before another presentation in Bolzano.

Exhibition

11 February 2012 - 4 March 2012

startup

Centrik Isler — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:37:48 +0100

Ein wildes Ideen-Pitching mit Pascal Bracher, Sarah Bühler & Prisca Wüst, Matteo Hofer, Claudia Kübler, Vanessa Piffaretti und Mathias Walther.

Fällt der Entscheid für den Künstlerberuf erfolgt zwangsläufig der Schritt in die Selbständigkeit: KünstlerInnen sind nie (nur) ArbeitnehmerInnen, sondern eigene Unternehmungen.

Exhibition

9 February 2012 - 16 March 2012

Clare Kenny, Vanessa Safavi, Hagar Schmidhalter, Valentina Stieger - The Thing Itself

Centrik Isler — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:22:54 +0100

John Szarowski war Leiter der Abteilung für Fotografie am MOMA New York während der sechziger bis in die neunziger Jahre. 1966 hat er in seiner wegweisenden Analyse "The Photographer's Eye", fünf Kriterien beschrieben, welche in einem perfekten fotografischen Bild enthalten sein müssen.

Exhibition

10 February 2012 - 24 March 2012

Barbara Graf, Elisabeth Masé, Bettina Maurer, Marianne Vogler - Leibhaftig

Centrik Isler — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:52:53 +0100

In den letzten Jahrzehnten aber insbesondere verstärkt in den letzten Jahren, setzt sich eine neue Auffassung "figurativer" Kunst durch, die vornehmlich von Künstlerinnen vorgetragen wird. Im Gegensatz zur traditionellen Malerei wird nicht mehr der Körper als physische Erscheinung oder dessen Abstraktion dargestellt, sondern eine Figur, die als Ausdruck eines Empfindens der eigenen Körperlichkeit zu bezeichnen ist.

Exhibition

10 February 2012 - 3 March 2012

Francis Baudevin, Dominik Stauch featuring Daan Van Golden - Golden Days.

Centrik Isler — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:29:11 +0100

"Golden Days" displays works of the two artists Francis Baudevin (born 1964) and Dominik Stauch (born 1962). The artists come together for the first time at the Thun exhibition and develop new works for the exhibition as well as adapt existing groups of older works to the context of the museum. In some rooms the artists work together and thus enter into a direct dialogue.

Exhibition

12 February 2012 - 9 April 2012

Renée Schauecker - Mapping and Rule Management

Centrik Isler — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:40:12 +0100

Der Begriff "Mapping and Rule Management" vermittelt Reglement, System, Businesstalk. Was passiert wenn Anweisungen oder systematische Regelwerke ihrem Kontext entnommen, ästhetisch zerlegt und verschoben werden? Renée Schauecker interessiert die Welt der Regelsysteme.

Exhibition

8 February 2012 - 25 February 2012

Dan Graham - Rock 'n' Roll Show. Unrealised Projects for Children and Boutique Architecture

Centrik Isler — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:05:50 +0100

Over a period of more than four decades, Dan Graham has developed a diverse practice that refuses to be contained within the confines of contemporary art and instead aligns itself within popular culture. In his exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Zürich, 'Rock 'n' Roll Show. Unrealised Projects for Children and Boutique Architecture', Graham will present drawings for two unrealised architectural projects: ...

Exhibition

11 February 2012 - 7 April 2012

Manufacture

Centrik Isler — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:25:45 +0100

Michael Beutler, Vanessa Billy, Dewar & Gicquel, Ida Ekblad, Vincent Ganivet, Dunja Herzog, Hedwig Houben, Brian Jungen, Emmanuelle Lainé, Charles Mason, Vik Muniz, Kilian Rüthemann, Zin Taylor

Building upon its successful presentation at Parc Saint Leger in Pougues-les-Eaux (France) and the John Hansard Gallery in Southampton (UK) in 2011, the group exhibition "Manufacture" now travels to the CentrePasquArt in Biel/Bienne (Switzerland).

Exhibition

5 February 2012 - 18 March 2012

Nic Hess - Agglobal

Centrik Isler — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:59:56 +0100

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.

Exhibition

2 February 2012 - 17 March 2012

Baktash Sarang - Disturbance and Contemplation

Centrik Isler — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:02:21 +0100

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.

Exhibition

1 February 2012 - 10 March 2012

Fatima Chafaa - Far from the Walls of Takamara

Centrik Isler — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:56:11 +0100

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.

Exhibition

1 February 2012 - 10 March 2012

Simeen Farhat, Farideh Lashai, Claudia Meyer and Manal Al Dowayan - Simply Words?

Centrik Isler — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:48:11 +0100

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.

Exhibition

5 February 2012 - 10 March 2012

Samira Hodaei and Samira Alikhanzadeh - Samira

Centrik Isler — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:39:34 +0100

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.

Exhibition

5 February 2012 - 10 March 2012

Ray Hegelbach / ZARIN MOLL / Noemi Stoll

Centrik Isler — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:46:40 +0100

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.

Exhibition

4 February 2012 - 18 March 2012

Haroun Haward - Mythologies

Centrik Isler — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:15:48 +0100

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.

Exhibition

28 January 2012 - 3 March 2012

Hannah Weinberger – When You Leave, Walk Out Backwards, So I'll Think You're Walking In

Centrik Isler — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:25:16 +0100

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.

Exhibition

29 January 2012 - 18 March 2012

Yüksel Arslan - Artures

Centrik Isler — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:47:05 +0100

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.

Exhibition

28 January 2012 - 9 April 2012

Human Valley - Spring: "Microclima Zurich Tropical" / Experimento Improvisacional by Pablo León de la Barra

Centrik Isler — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:37:59 +0100

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.

Exhibition

28 January 2012 - 9 April 2012