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. Read more...

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. Read more...

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. Read more...

"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. Read more...

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. Read more...

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: ... Read more...

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). 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...

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...