Muholi calls herself a “visual activist” who challenges thinking in binary categories of male / female and black / white with portraits of people who do not correspond to common expectations. Muholi’s images may well be so effective because they confound our notion of order and highlight the fact that our language has no appropriate expression for what we see. The exhibition is the first comprehensive presentation of works by Zanele Muholi in Switzerland.

(Photo courtesy Guggenheim Collection Online © Zanele Muholi)

Layering spiritual iconography and ancient mythology with narratives of transience, carnality and sensuality, Berlinde De Bruyckere surpasses religious connotations and transfers them to the realm of the universal and profane. Presenting a powerful meditation upon the fundamental human search for transformation, transcendence and reconciliation in the light of mortality, De Bruyckere’s upcoming exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Zurich, Limmatstrasse will feature new bronze and lead sculptures from the Arcangelo series.

(Photo courtesy Hauser & Wirth)

Museum im Bellpark continues its series on contemporary art with a solo exhibition by Gabriele Garavaglia (*1981). Following their first collaboration in the frame of the group exhibition „The Replacements“ in 2019, the museum is presenting Garavaglia’s first solo exhibition in an institutional context.

The artist builds up atmospheric moments of suspense, familiar to us from film, to investigate the museal space. Garavaglia’s interest in the imagery of dark and gloomy pop, which includes elements of sci-fi, goth culture, manga, normcore aesthetics and everyday life, takes over. Hovering over everything is a strange atmosphere of the unruly, which plays on the poles of presence and absence.

(Photo courtesy ATP Diary)

The Photobastei presents milestones in Hansruedi Giger's (1940 - 2014) career from his drawings in underground magazines to variations of the motifs characteristic of his erotic-morbid style "Atomkinder" (1963), "Biomechanoiden" (1969) and "Passagen" (1971-73). In his work cycle "Biomechanoiden" he anticipates the fusion of body and technology; in the work "Atomkinder" the fear of the extinction of mankind through nuclear war. In "Passagen" Giger refers to the trauma of birth and creates visual worlds far beyond individual experience that show the horrors of modern society.

(Image courtesy Photobastei)

Acid in prints from Albrecht Dürer to William Kentridge.

Highlights of etched art from the archives of the Basel Kupferstichkabinett were selected for the Acid Lab: From the earliest line etchings of the 16th century (Urs Graf, Albrecht Dürer) to shimmering surface effects during Impressionism (Camille Pissarro, Edgar Degas) to etched abstraction (Sam Francis, Richard Serra).

War is one of the oldest and most intense experiences of humanity – and its artistic representation is equally old. From the virtually endless wealth of images, the exhibition War in Art features a concentrated selection of artworks that stand out for their new and surprising approach to this serious subject – artistic expression succeeds at coping with the dreadful topic.

(Image courtesy Kunst Museum Winterthur)

Isamu Noguchi is one of the most experimental artists of the 20th century. In his varied work he made sculptures from a great variety of materials such as stone, bronze, aluminium, plastic and ceramics. As well as works on paper, he designed stage sets, lamps, furniture and public squares. The extensive exhibition explores Noguchi as a citizen of the world, who moved between the USA, Japan and Europe and merged different cultural traditions and technologies in his incomparable body of work.

The boundless diversity of Zurich's museums can be explored particularly well during the LONG NIGHT when exhibitions, collections, and a varied supporting programme turn the night into day. Whether art, architecture, design and creation, cultural history, non-European cultures, natural science, plants and animals - the spectrum offers something for every interest.

The Woven Child is the first major survey to focus exclusively on Louise Bourgeois’ fabric-based works. The exhibition charts the artist’s lifelong connection to textiles, and the memories they conjure, through a diverse body of sculptures, installations, drawings, collages, books and prints.

(Photo © The Easton Foundation/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022, Erika Ede)

In keeping with the exhibition title »PEL / Becoming the figure«, Berlinde De Bruyckere approaches the becoming of her sculptures through different methods. The palette ranges from the shell that forms a body, to its fragmentation, to fully formed corporeality. In the process, the subject of sexuality, especially the female sex, comes into the artist’s focus.

(Photo courtesy Mirjam Devriendt)

The solo exhibition of Berlinde De Bruyckere at MO.CO. is the most ambitious presentation of her work in France this far. On the occasion, MO.CO. inaugurates a new chapter of its history, with a programme that, from now on, incorporates vast monographic exhibitions.

(Photo courtesy MO.CO)

Kistefos is proud to present Variants by the French artist Pierre Huyghe (b. 1962, Paris) as the 50th work in the sculpture park. Variants is a site-specific work made especially for Kistefos. It is Huyghe’s largest permanent work to date, and the most ambitious Kistefos sculpture park commission so far.

(Photo courtesy Kistefos Museum)