Liz Magor: You You You. Retrospective at Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich
The Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zürich currently presents the first extensive exhibition of Canadian artist Liz Magor's oeuvre in Switzerland. Liz Magor is considered as one of Canada's most important contemporary sculptors. She works in sculpture, installation, public art and photography. The retrospective at Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst focuses on sculptures and installations Liz Magor has created in her studio in Vancouver over the past three decades.
“Her art investigates the culture of production and value and the associated ambivalent relationship humans have with consumer goods. … Composed of found everyday objects, her allegorical tableaus question idealized notions of nature embedded in modern culture and penetrate the psychology of desire and addiction. From an art-historical perspective, Liz Magor’s decades-long engagement with the world of material things and their resonance has led her to stake out a highly idiosyncratic position. Presented casually, without pedestals, her meticulously finished sculptures are defined by a profoundly affecting physicality. In light of the recent “material turn” in the work of younger artists, but also in the humanities and cultural studies, Magor’s art speaks forcefully to contemporary concerns.” (excerpt from the exhibition text).
Liz Magor: You You You at Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst is curated by Heike Munder (Director, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst) and runs until May 7, 2017.
Liz Magor: You You You. Retrospective at Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst. Vernissage, February 17, 2017.
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Collection / Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst / Zürich, Switzerland
The current exhibition at the Migros Museum in Zürich links recent collection acquisitions to older works of the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst collection. This year it is celebrating its 30th year jubilee with, amongst others, works by Monica Bonvicini, Christoph Büchel, Maurizio Cattelan, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Dan Flavin, Gilbert & George, Douglas Gordon, Mark Leckey, Bruce Nauman, Cady Noland, Katharina Sieverding, Stephen Willats and Cathy Wilkes. The exhibition is curated by Heike Munder.
The actual concern of the collection concept is to make contact with contemporary art production and direct it at a broad-minded public in a lively and vital environment. Purchases for the collection have arisen, for the most part, from works produced for exhibitions, or at the very least in working together with the artists involved.
At the end of May a comprehensive exhibition catalogue will be published by JRP|Ringier, featuring text contributions by Nicolas Bourriaud, Dan Fox, Raphael Gygax, Tom Holert, Heike Munder, Philip Ursprung, Astrid Wege, Judith Welter, Jan Verwoert and Tirdad Zolghadr. This is to provide, for the first time, a complete inventory of the core form and substance of the collection. Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Opening, May 31, 2008.
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Olaf Breuning / Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich
The Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst presents a large-scale installation by Olaf Breuning which comprises drawings, sculptures and his new film “Home 2 (2007)”. The exhibition is Olaf Breuning’s largest solo show to date in Switzerland. “Since the late 1990s, this Swiss artist (born 1970 in Schaffhausen, lives and works in New York) has produced quotation-rich works, which refer back to the imaginary visual memory of the West and its pictorial worlds. He has gained recognition through his films, staged photography, and colourful, huge-eyed, infantile sculptures and drawings, which comment on reality in a laconic manner.” (From the press release). Works by Olaf Breuning were most recently to be seen at the exhibition Swiss Video at the Tate Modern in London (2006), and at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo in the context of all about laughter (2007). Olaf Breuning, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, museum for contemporary art, opening, August 24, 2007. The exhibition, curated by Heike Munder, runs through October 21, 2007.
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Dorothy Iannone Retrospective at Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst Zürich
The exhibition with the title Censorship And The Irrepressible Drive Toward Love And Divinity is Dorothy Iannone’s first major solo show in Switzerland. Dorothy Iannone, who was born in 1933 in Boston and currently lives and works in Berlin, is known for an oeuvre that depicts erotic love. As artistic media she uses paintings, drawings, collages, audio pieces, video sculptures, objects, and artist’s books. The retrospective at Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zürich, Switzerland, starts with her artist’s book The Story Of Bern, which she created in 1969 in response to the censorship of her artworks.
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Josephine Meckseper / Migros Museum, Zürich
German artist Josephine Meckseper’s photography, videos and installations deal with the interaction between politics and glamour. In her current exhibition at the Migros Museum for contemporary art in Zürich, Switzerland, the visitor is confronted with chrome rims, oil rigs, car advertising, political statements and shop displays.
In this conversation with Sabine Trieloff, the director of the Migros Museum and curator of the exhibition, Heike Munder, talks about the political background of Josephine Meckseper’s work, the concept and the key works of the exhibition.
A centerpiece of Josephine Meckseper’s show at the Migros Museum is the installation Ten High (2007). It consists of numerous silver shop display dummies on a mirror smooth platform holding in their hands objects such as signs, bearing anti-war slogans like “No War in Iran”, “Thank a Vet” or the notorious recession signal “Going Out of Business / Sale”, a whisky bottle or a bible and other classical American “icons”. Another one is her video 0% Down. Here, Josephine Meckseper mixes promotional films for cars with an Industrial Noise Song by Boyd Rice with the text line “Do you want – total war!”.
Josephine Meckseper was born in Lilienthal (Germany) in 1964. She lives and works in New York. Works by Josephine Meckseper were last to be seen amongst others in the exhibition New Photography: Josephine Meckseper and Mikhael Subotzky, MoMA (2008), exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (solo exhibition, 2007) or in the Whitney Biennial (2006).
Josephine Meckseper at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich / Switzerland. Opening, February 20 2009. The exhibition runs until the 3rd May, 2009.
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Stephen Willats: Languages of Dissent / Solo Exhibition at Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Stephen Willats’ solo exhibition “Languages of Dissent” at Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zürich, Switzerland, brings together key works from the British artist's practice since the 1960s to the present. The retrospective is curated by Heike Munder (Director, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst) and spans more than four decades of Willats' career. The show runs until August 18, 2019.
“The work of the British conceptual artist Stephen Willats (b. London, 1943) interrogates structures of community life and social interaction. Exploring the modular architecture of social housing projects, he spotlights forms of individual creative adaptation that defy the uniformity and functionality of the spaces. Such dissent with normative parameters is especially interesting to Willats because it is where individuality reveals itself and selfdetermination is articulated. He finds similar modes of nonconformist expression in London’s experimental underground club scene and in places on the urban periphery where teenagers seek escape from institutional or conformist pressures. His understanding of what art is and does is reflected in a collaborative and interdisciplinary practice that takes inspiration from sciences beyond the realm of art. Since the 1960s, his work has been influenced by cybernetics, the study of reciprocal relations in dynamic systems, which helps him think through autonomous forms of organization and their structures of control and communication. Providing him with both a method and an aesthetic vocabulary, it is fundamental to his redefinition of the social function and agency of art.” (info text, excerpt)
Stephen Willats: Languages of Dissent / Solo Exhibition at Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst. Zürich, Switzerland, June 7, 2019.
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Tatiana Trouvé at Migros Museum Zürich
| Tatiana Trouvé is known for her room constructions, architectonic interventions, and snake-like metal sculptural objects that are semmingly solidified in movement, as if frozen. At the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst Zürich, Tatiana Trouvé presents new works in her first solo exhibition in Switzerland: an installative spatial structure with architectonic interventions and large format drawings. More info:
One of the highlights of the exhibition is the installation in the main hall of the museum, called 350 points à linfini (350 points towards eternity). Its an area with numerous pendulums that have been brought to a standstill, each of which has been sent in a different direction by an invisible magnetic field. The pendulum, an instrument frequently used in research about magnetic fields and often lending a space the character of a living organism, here takes an uncanny, mysterious character. In the antithesis of the rhythmic time-defined beat of the metronome, the organism space appears to have been cast into an artificial, deep slumber. (excerpt from the press release).
Works by Tatiana Trouvé have been shown (amongst others) at the Centre Georges Pompidou (solo show, 2008), at FRAC Lorraine (solo show, 2008), and at Manifesta 7 (2008).
Tatiana Trouvé: A Stay Between Enclosure and Space, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich / Switzerland. Opening reception, November 20, 2009.
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Tatiana Trouvé is known for her room constructions, architectonic interventions, and snake-like metal sculptural objects. In 2009, Trouvé had her first solo exhibition in Switzerland. The Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zürich showed new works by the artist: an installative spatial structure with architectonic interventions and large format drawings. One of the highlights of the exhibition was the installation in the main hall of the museum, called 350 points à l’infini (350 points towards eternity).
Tatiana Trouvé: A Stay Between Enclosure and Space, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich / Switzerland. Opening reception, November 20, 2009.
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Tatiana Trouvé: A Stay Between Enclosure and Space, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich / Switzerland. Opening reception, November 20, 2009.
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Florian Germann at Migros Museum Zurich
| In this video VernissageTV attends the opening reception of Swiss artist Florian Germann's solo exhibition at Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zurich, Switzerland.
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Vom Exil zurück ins Herz der Stadt: Nach einer fast zweijährigen Umbauphase zieht das Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst zurück ins Löwenbräukunst-Areal. Neue Möglichkeiten eröffnen sich.
Jimmie Durham: God’s Children, God’s Poems / Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
For the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, the artist Jimmie Durham (b. 1940) has realized the project God’s Children, God’s Poems (2017). The exhibition explores the relationship between humans and nature. Jimmie Durham's solo show features fourteen sculptures made out of the skulls of Europe’s largest animal species, supplemented by materials such as metal, wood, and fabric. Jimmie Durham lives and works in Berlin and Naples. He is an artist, poet, essayist and political activist. His works have been presented in numerous exhibitions around the world, most recently, for instance, at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art in Los Angeles (2017), the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (2014, 2003, 1993), and the Venice Biennale (2015, 2005, 2003, 2001, 1999). The exhibition is curated by Heike Munder (Director, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst).
Jimmie Durham: God’s Children, God’s Poems / Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich (Switzerland). Opening reception, August 25, 2017.
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Tim Etchells: Open Mind / Vitrine, Basel
Open Mind is the title of Tim Etchells' first solo exhibition in Switzerland. Open Mind is the second show with Vitrine Gallery (London and Basel). It presents a new neon installation and a multi-channel sound installation. Visually dominating is the neon work Seeing Through Walls. The neon sign that reads The Superpower of Seeing Through Walls stretches across a whole side of the gallery. Audibly dominating is the multi-channel sound installation Open Mind, in which Tim Etchells works and reworks the phrase “we do what we can”.
Tim Etchells: Open Mind / Vitrine, Basel (Switzerland). March 17, 2017.
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Willi Dorner: Bodies in Urban Spaces
Until November 2014, the 12th edition of the Swiss Sculpture Exhibition is taking place in the city of Biel/Bienne (Switzerland). Entitled Le Mouvement, the contemporary art exhibition is dedicated to performance in the urban space. One of the artists, which have been invited by the curators Gianni Jetzer and Chris Sharp is the Austrian, Vienna-based choreographer, curator and video artist Willi Dorner. Le Mouvement presents his itinerant performance Bodies in Urban Spaces, a work that merges the human body with the urban architecture.
Willi Dorner: Bodies in Urban Spaces. Le Mouvement, 12th Swiss Sculpture Exhibition 2014, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland. Performance, August 30, 2014.
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Christoph Büchel: Training Ground for Training Ground for Democracy
At Art Basel Miami Beach 2007, Hauser & Wirth presented Christoph Büchel’s installation “Training Ground for Training Ground for Democracy, 2007″. The installation is a scaled-down version of the aborted work for the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art MASS MoCA. It consists basically of a shipping container and includes original Florida voting booths, Arabic propaganda films, a bomb, a ladder to climb the container’s roof, bad food, and lots of other stuff. According to The Art Newspaper it sold for $250,000 to the Flick Collection and is to be installed at the Hamburger Bahnhof museum in Berlin. Art Basel Miami Beach, December 5, 2007.
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Beth Campbell and Stephen Willats
| With the exhibition Social Interactions (December - February 2009) the gallery Seiler + Mosseri-Marlio in Zurich, Switzerland, presents two artists, Beth Campbell and Stephen Willats. Campbell and Willats are of separate generations and educational experience.
Beth Campbell was born in the USA in 1971. She recently participated in Manifesta 7 with the installation piece Following Room – Trento, 2008, that is now on display at the gallery. Stephen Willats, too, participated in Manifesta 7. He was born in the UK in 1943. Stephen Willats is a pioneer of conceptual art. Over the past five decades he has investigated networks and cybernetic theories of social interactions and communication as well as feedback. Seiler + Mosseri-Marlio Gallery presents a selection of works on paper and card from 1994 to 2005.
Social Interactions: Beth Campbell / Stephen Willats was inspired by the artists’ independent curiosity about thoughts, patterns, associations and consequences, their work and interest in architecture and social structures. (...) Both are concerned with sociology, psychology, communication, chance, and portray this in their art. They have chosen to work in various media to investigate space and interaction within limited space and time. (Excerpt from the press release).
Social Interactions: Beth Campbell / Stephen Willats, Seiler + Mosseri-Marlio Gallery, Z?rich, Switzerland. Impressions of the opening reception. December 12, 2008.
Jiri Kovanda: Kissing Through Glass
The 12th edition of the Swiss Sculpture Exhibition Biel/Bienne (Switzerland) is entitled Le Mouvement. The contemporary art exhibition is dedicated to performance in the urban space. Among the invited artists is the Czech, Prague-based Jiří Kovanda, who presents his work Kissing Through Glass, a performance in which he invites passers by to exchange a kiss through a glass window. In Biel/Bienne, the performance took place at the entrance of the Volkshaus (Maison du Peuple).
Jiri Kovanda: Kissing Through Glass. Le Mouvement – Performing the City, 12th Swiss Sculpture Exhibition 2014, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland. Performance, August 30, 2014.
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Czech, Prague-based artist, Jiří Kovanda (b. 1953) active since the 70s, has earned an international reputation for his slight, poetic yet very potent gestures, actions and interventions. For Le Mouvement, he presents Kissing Through Glass, a performance in which he invites passersby to exchange a kiss through a glass window. At once joining and dividing lips through glass, this work inevitably speaks to the boundaries between the public and the private, interior and exterior, and most importantly, between bodies themselves.
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