Auch die vierte Ausstellung des Programmjahres 2007/2008 trägt den Titel eines Blattes aus dem utopisch-visionären Zeichenwerk "Alpine Architektur", das der deutsche Architekt Bruno Taut kurz nach dem ersten Weltkrieg publizierte. In "Sternennebel" gelingt es den beiden Künstlerinnen Susan Philipsz und Monika Sosnowska mit einer subtilen Sound-Installation und einer überraschenden architektonischen Intervention, die Betrachter aus Raum und Zeit heraus zu reissen und den gewohnten Ausstellungsraum neu erfahren zu lassen. Read more...

Luhring Augustine is pleased to present an exhibition of recent paintings and works on paper by Christopher Wool. This is the 10th solo presentation of the artist's work with the gallery.

Christopher Wool was born in 1955 and lives and works in New York City and Marfa, TX. His work is owned by numerous museums and institutions worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Tate Modern and the Museum Ludwig, Cologne. Recent solo exhibitions of his work have been held at the Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg (2006) and the Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia (2006); a solo exhibition is currently being organized by Ulrich Loock for the Fundação de Serralves in Porto, Portugal scheduled to open in November 2008. Read more...

Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery is pleased to present "Fields", its second solo exhibition by Alona Harpaz.

Alona Harpaz' seductive surfaces negotiate the rift between figural and abstract through implied, dramatic shifts of scale. Like fractals revealing the intricately repetitive structures of organic forms, the compositions unify portraiture and ornamentation by fluidly transitioning between micro and macro views. As Christoph Tannert writes, "this kind of painting ... lets the cosmic particles around the figures gleam in psychedelic colors that sound like inwardness with no minor key." Read more...

Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery is pleased to present its second solo exhibition by Mika Rottenberg.

In Mika Rottenberg's drawings, the artist's body serves as markmaking tool, creating painterly, expressive graphic elements that both anchor and disrupt microcosmic tableaux. Expressive yet systematic, the drawings start with a vocabulary of marks which the artist continually deploys and reworks. These frenetic symbols flirt with legibility and, like worker bees, organize into structures suggestive of factories or Rube Goldberg machines. Read more...

Through his works Alfredo Pirri incites us to pay attention to what sensible, visible, invisible surrounds us in our proceeding in a complex world, both of natural (dawn, sunset, rain, light) and of social phenomena. Light and colour are protagonists of Alfredo Pirri's gift for narrating, with manifold variations in each exhibit and in the ways the onlooker is attracted by the rhythms and tones this narration develops.

In 2003, in his personal VERSO N at Galleria Tucci Russo, the artist displayed some works composed of single and assembled elements, each being an image complete in itself and in mutual relationship, in a narrative tension that recalled the mutations of the important moments of the day, like dawn and sunset. Read more...

For his first solo show in Italy, "Promenade", South African born artist Robin Rhode will present new works, all of which were realized on-site at Tucci Russo Studio Per L'Arte Contemporanea. Rhode creates an atmosphere of limbo achieved through the construct and combination of the works in the exhibition; paintings, drawings, animation, and photography are executed in monochrome black and white, illustrating not just the passing and suspension of time, but also its transcendence.

The influence of music and sound scores has been a consistent factor in Rhode's practice. Since the realization of his earlier low-fi animations, the affect of music has matured and developed coming forth as a focal point for this exhibition. "Promenade" refers to the segments or chapters of a piano concerto or composition; in Rhode's "Promenade", the compositional structure becomes visual, one that shifts from picture to picture. Read more...

Deweer Art Gallery is pleased to announce the eighth solo show by Jan Fabre at the gallery, "Is the brain the most sexy part of the body?", an exhibition with almost exclusively new works. It will be the artists first show after the opening of his show at the Louvre. 
Fabre has not been out of the picture for the last couple of years. The "Homo Fabre" series of events in 2006 in Antwerp, his work at the festival d'Avignon as artistic director and his upcoming exhibition at the Louvre, for which the artist was given carte blanche in the Richelieu wing of the museum, are just some recent highlights in a career that is hardly equalled by any other contemporary artist from the Belgian scene. Read more...

Haas & Fischer is delighted to present Canadian artist Erica Eyres (*1980, lives and works Glasgow) for the first time in Switzerland.

Erica Eyres is interested in the human condition; through her drawings and videos she examines human nature, how we perceive others, how others perceive us and how we portray ourselves to others.

In stark ballpoint pen Eyres depicts disquieting female characters that self-consciously pose for the viewer in states of undress or contrived sexual poses; awkward, clumsy, vulnerable and bashful, their flaws and blemishes are openly on display. In each instance the viewer is persuaded to engage in the power games instigated in watching and being watched, though the experience is never wholly satisfying. Read more...

Rolf Winnewisser (b. 1949) is one of the most interesting Swiss artists of his generation. Even early in his career he was able to mark up major artistic successes: these include the 1972 invitation to the legendary documenta 5 in Kassel as well as exhibitions in Museum of Art Lucerne and Kunsthalle Basel. In the 1970s and early 1980s Rolf Winnewisser took part in all the major exhibitions featuring young Swiss artists. He was engaged in a close exchange of ideas with artist friends such as Theo Kneubühler, Aldo Walker, Martin Disler and Hugo Suter, and also stimulated and encouraged many other artists. Read more...

Jörg Köppl und Peter Zacek arbeiten seit 1997 zusammen. Sie realisieren Performances, Interventionen und Installationen, für die sie oft auch mit weiteren Akteuren, nicht zuletzt mit dem Publikum kooperieren. In ihrer Arbeit konstruieren sie schicksalshafte Verbindungen und Abhängigkeiten, vom Material und voneinander. Read more...