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)

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)