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Angels of Power, Angels of Beauty
Ileana Magoda 15 Nov 2024 - 25 Jan 2025 Zurich Opening: November 15, 2024 | 6 - 8 pm Bernheim is thrilled to announce the opening of Ileana Magoda’s first solo exhibition in Europe at our Zurich gallery, Angels of Power, Angels of Beauty . Based in Queretaro, Mexico, Magoda’s multidisciplinary practice encompasses both painting and drawing as well as... Read more -
The Light Shines in the Darkness and the Darkness Has Not Understood It
Dorothea Rockburne 21 Nov 2024 - 25 Jan 2025 London Opening November 21, 2024 | 6 - 8 pm Curated by Lola Kramer Bernheim is honoured to present the first European survey exhibition of Dorothea Rockburne, curated by Lola Kramer, on view at the gallery’s London location. This historical exhibition comprises over two dozen artworks dating from 1967 to 2013,... Read more -
Janus
Ding Shilun: ICA Miami 3 Dec 2024 - 30 Mar 2025 Off-site https://icamiami.org/exhibition/ding-shilun/ “Ding Shilun: Janus” debuts a group of newly commissioned paintings and a site-specific installation in the artist’s first solo US museum exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami . Shilun’s ethereal and at times ominous works feature idiosyncratic mythologies inspired by his everyday life. Each painting acts as... Read more
Past
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Bloodline
Sarah Slappey 8 Oct - 2 Nov 2024 London Opening October 8, 2024 | 6 - 8 pm Bernheim is delighted to announce a new exhibition by American artist Sarah Slappey entitled Bloodline . The show will be her first solo presentation in London. Focused on the dichotomy of the public and the private sphere, an important theme in... Read more -
St Jerome in the Wilderness
David Flaugher 30 Aug - 8 Nov 2024 Zurich Opening August 30, 2024 | 6 - 8 pm Bernheim is thrilled to announce the opening of David Flaugher's first solo exhibition with the gallery in Zurich, ‘St Jerome in The Wilderness’. Comprising an entire new body of work, the show will focus on the theme of landscapes, in particular... Read more -
Whispers
Ebecho Muslimova 7 Jun - 26 Jul 2024 Zurich Rumors: May 25 - August 10, 2024 Mendes Wood DM, Sã o Paulo Whispers: Opening June 7, 2024 | 6 - 8 pm June 7 - July 26, 2024 Bernheim, Zürich 'Rumors' and 'Whispers' is a two-part presentation of Ebecho Muslimova’s recent series of paintings across Mendes Wood DM’s São... Read more -
Klodin Erb
31 May - 19 Jul 2024 London Opening May 31, 2024 | 6 - 8 pm Bernheim is delighted to announce ' Klodin Erb' , our newest London exhibition, showcasing one of the most renowned current Swiss artists of her generation and winner of the prestigious 2022 Prix Meret Oppenheim. After intense exploration of conceptual issues in... Read more -
Solitude
Miriam Cahn 5 Apr - 11 May 2024 London Opening April 5, 2024 | 6 - 8 pm Bernheim is delighted to announce “ Solitude”, a historic exhibition of works by Miriam Cahn at our London Gallery. Comprising a body of work rooted in feminist thinking and activism, we are thrilled to present works that will captivate the audience... Read more -
Do Nothing Machine
Eric Oglander 5 Apr - 19 Jul 2024 London Opening April 5, 2024 | 6 - 8 pm curated by Lola Kramer Bernheim is pleased to present a monographic exhibition of New York-based artist Eric Oglander’s “Do Nothing Machine” featuring approximately 87 small-scale sculptures made between 2020 and 2024. This marks the artist’s first show at the gallery and... Read more -
Big Time Shopping is Here
Michelle Uckotter 21 Mar - 17 May 2024 Zurich Shelley Uckotter is holed up in a cheap motel room somewhere upstate. It is a strip-backed pine box with all the grim personality of an amateur porn set. She is sprawled across a queen-size mattress, trying to relax on a surface as sturdy and comfortable as an operating table. The... Read more -
Mirage
Ding Shilun 7 Feb - 22 Mar 2024 London Bernheim is delighted to announce “ Mirage”, the second solo show of Ding Shilun with the gallery and his first solo exhibition in London. Comprising a new body of work, with paintings on an ambitious scale as well as a substantial set of works on paper, we are thrilled to... Read more -
BERNHEIM x ADZ Gallery
group show 1 Feb - 16 Mar 2024 Zurich Oliver Bak Katrine Bobek Joanne Burke Anders Davidsen Justin De Verteuil David Flaugher Tomas Leth Tali Levi Shota Nakamura Eli Ping Ding Shilun Shiwen Wang Bernheim invites the Lisbon based gallery ADZ to collaborate in a joint exhibition at its Zurich location. This joint showcase revolves around shared aesthetics, featuring... Read more -
The Big Chill
Opening Group show & Gallery 30 Nov 2023 - 22 Jan 2024 London I am thrilled to inaugurate Bernheim’s new location in Mayfair, London with the group show, 'The Big Chill'. Titled after Lawrence Kasdan’s 1983 film focusing on a group of reunited college friends, it is a show built with the artists who have shaped the gallery program over the past decade:... Read more -
Excerpts
Thomas Sauter 10 Nov - 22 Dec 2023 Zurich Bernheim is delighted to announce the second solo exhibition by Thomas Sauter at the gallery in Zurich entitled “Excerpts”. The show runs from November 10th until December 22nd 2023. The paintings on exhibition are unquestionably abstract, colour holds the unformed and lines the unstructured. What seeps beneath the canvas is... Read more -
Counterfeit Poast
Jon Rafman 9 - 23 Nov 2023 Off-site Famously concerned with the ways technology has affected human society and the way human society has, in turn, used technology to reflect the ways it has changed, Jon Rafman has also explored the sublime, the uncanny, the ingenuity of human creativity, and the changing role of the artist. His latest... Read more -
Cinematic November with Jon Rafman
Jon Rafman 1 - 30 Nov 2023 Off-site TICK TACK is excited to announce ‘Cinematick November with Jon Rafman’. Throughout November, TICK TACK will be transformed into a temporary cinema, exclusively dedicated to hosting a series of screening evenings showcasing films by the renowned Canadian artist and filmmaker Jon Rafman. This marks the inauguration of Rafman’s video work... Read more -
Roma Roma Roma
Denis Savary 6 Oct 2023 - 1 Jan 2024 Off-site Activation of the work Roma Roma Roma by Denis Savary Since 2011, CDH-Culture has invited an artist to present a work in collaboration with the Rolex Learning Center. This year, Denis Savary will present his project Roma, Roma, Roma , the result of a commission by the city of Geneva... Read more -
Invites | Zabludowicz Collection
Ding Shilun 28 Sep - 19 Nov 2023 Off-site Zabludowicz Collection is pleased to present an Invites exhibition by Chinese-born, London-based artist Ding Shilun. Influenced by Chinese folklore and contemporary comics, Shilun works across illustration and painting to build mythological narratives depicting the absurdity of everyday life. Venue: Zabludowicz Collection, London For a virtual visit at Ding Shilun's studio,... Read more -
Octogone
Denis Savary 2 Sep - 15 Oct 2023 Off-site In her spatial installations, Chloé Delarue combines latex castings, cables, industrial building materials, dissected screens and other relics of the electronic age into disturbing scenarios. The work is based on a long-standing preoccupation with the influence of technological developments on body and mind, on artificial intelligence and biotechnology. Denis Savary... Read more -
A Robot Never Made Me Laugh
Tom Waring 1 Sep - 27 Oct 2023 Zurich Bernheim is proud to present Tom Waring’s first solo show with the gallery and in Switzerland. Entitled A Robot Never Made Me Laugh, the exhibition draws upon his traditional surrealist and incongruous motifs on an unparalleled scale. Waring’s paintings are based on intricate compositions, meticulously built with art historical references... Read more -
Body and Blood
Mitchell Anderson 9 Jun - 28 Jul 2023 Zurich This exhibition sequences continuations in readymade, encaustic and embroidery. The main concerns are patterning, coding and cannibalism. The visual patterns have been employed by some hegemonic artists. I reappropriate what they previously claimed. The reclamation of the original is more vital than any reference to earlier use in contemporary art.... Read more -
LANDSCHAFTSGEMÄLDE | Kunsthalle 8000
Mitchell Anderson 4 Mar - 20 May 2023 Off-site How does a crowd react at the moment of greatest panic? Can hysteria be mapped? That's exactly what the FBI did after the infamous Columbine High School shooting (1999): Movement sketches were made of all the students. Zurich-based US artist Mitchell Anderson stages these in his installation 'Score for a... Read more -
Something or Other
Sula Bermúdez-Silverman, Talia Chetrit, Susan Cianciolo, Nikita Gale, Kate Mosher Hall, Nancy Lupo, Amanda Ross-Ho, Ilana Savdie, Michelle Uckotter, Isabel Yellin | curated by Isabel Yellin 3 Feb - 31 Mar 2023 Zurich From across the pond, does anything appear any differently? The distance softens the nuances of our world, yet these artists have a conversation that is particular to themselves, to their place, to the time in which we are here and making art in Los Angeles and New York. Hard to... Read more -
Sin City | Auto Italia
Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi 20 Jan - 19 Mar 2023 Off-site Auto Italia presents Sin City, the first UK solo exhibition by Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi. This newly commissioned body of site-specific sculptures, drawings and collages continues Ghaznawi’s investigations into the classist and racialised structures of hegemonic Western aesthetics, and seeks to challenge dominant codes of institutional display and accepted ideas of... Read more -
Sacrifices
Sarah Slappey 18 Nov 2022 - 27 Jan 2023 Zurich Galerie Maria Bernheim is pleased to present “Sacrifices”, a solo exhibition of new works by New York based painter Sarah Slappey. Slappey’s works embraces the femininity of the 21st century in surreal compositions and harnesses an invented body of imagery, both provocative and sensual; confronting the viewer with a vision... Read more -
Fatebe Specere Mural | Kunstmuseum Basel
Ebecho Muslimova 24 Sep 2022 - 19 Mar 2023 Off-site Ebecho Muslimova realized in situ a great mural at the group show Fun Femminism at Kunstmuseum Basel: 'Fatebe Specere Mural' . Even today, works by female artists are still underrepresented in the Kunstmuseum Basel collection. The same is true for leading art museums around the world. Now as before, women... Read more -
Ɛցɾҽցօɾҽʂ and Grimoires | Schinkel Pavillon
Jon Rafman 15 Sep 2022 - 22 Jan 2023 Off-site Jon Rafman takes over the Schinkel Pavillon’s Klause with Ɛց ɾҽցօ ɾҽʂ and Grimoires presenting four visual works from 2021 and 2022. The exhibition title derives from the language of Magick by Aleister Crowley, where a Grimoire is a spell-book, and Egregore is an Occult concept representing a non-physical entity... Read more -
Paradiso
Ding Shilun 9 Sep - 10 Nov 2022 Zurich Galerie Maria Bernheim is pleased to announce the first solo show of Guangzhou-born, London-based artist Ding Shilun. Opening on September 9th, the show is entitled Paradiso. Ding Shilun harnesses his heritage, current events and a global history of art to create large and detailed pictorial works depicting the absurdity in... Read more -
Carambolages enchantés
Denis Savary 1 Sep 2022 Off-site Denis Savary is currently working on two projects: an artistic intervention at the ECA in Lausanne, on view since summer 2022, and the scenography for the Tactilisme exhibition at the MAMCO in Geneva. On the face of it, there's not much in common ... but that would be without knowing... Read more -
Eli Ping
Eli Ping 10 Jun - 29 Jul 2022 Zurich To experience a thing as beautiful means: to experience it necessarily wrongly. – Nietzsche Eli Ping once got in a bad fight. When he lost his footing, a man got on top of him, intending to drive a knife into his chest. He 'could feel that the space between life... Read more -
The Flesh Failures
Bailey Scieszka 23 Apr - 4 Jun 2022 Zurich Many American artists of the early 19th century are called 'pioneer', 'primitive', or “folk”. These artists were of varied backgrounds, mixed lineage and mixed aesthetic traditions, pragmatic and resourceful and, most importantly, highly mobile. Many of them, like Ammi Phillips (1788-1865), traveled throughout the young United states, capturing the age,... Read more -
Self-Portrait
Juan Antonio Olivares 3 Feb - 2 Apr 2022 Zurich The work of Juan Antonio Olivares sensualizes a search for the sublime. He gleans the micro and macro as equal elements of the everyday. The depths of the universe and the minuscule on earth are grounded, colliding with the personal and historical across fresh technologies and the registration of a... Read more -
Flowers Painting
Mitchell Anderson 12 Oct - 20 Nov 2021 London Galerie Maria Bernheim London is delighted to present a new solo show by Swiss-based American artist Mitchell Anderson. This will be his first exhibition in the UK. Drawing upon his series of red encaustic paintings, Anderson brings a new set of references, whilst retaining the conceptual questioning surrounding the idea... Read more -
Images: Ghost Painterly Abstraction
Carla Accardi, Leda Bourgogne, Heike - Karin Föll, Lisa Jo, Carol Rama, Maja Ruznic, Amy Sillman, Richard Tuttle, Michaela Yearwood-Dan 2 Sep - 23 Oct 2021 London, Zurich Ghost-Painterly Abstraction is planned as a diverse exhibition of contemporary positions exploring the effect of history and technological innovation on art over the past two decades. Beginning from a sort of oppositional joke stemming from Clement Greenberg’s ever outmoded term for the 1964 exhibition, Post-Painterly Abstraction; which was seemingly conceived... Read more -
FAUNA
Juan Antonio Olivares and Kelly Akashi 17 Jun - 24 Jul 2021 London Galerie Maria Bernheim LONDON is pleased to present Fauna, an exhibition of new works by Kelly Akashi and Juan Antonio Olivares exploring interactions of the human and natural worlds across time and space. Continuing his ongoing interest in the microscopic and the cosmic, Juan Antonio Olivares presents a series of... Read more -
Ventimiglia
Denis Savary 26 May - 12 Jun 2021 London Galerie Maria Bernheim LONDON is pleased to present Ventimile , an exhibition of new works by Denis Savary. Exuding the artist’s eclectic and versatile multifaceted practice, this new series of sculptures embraces his ability to push the material to its limits. In this exhibition, his new works represent a continuum... Read more -
LOVE / Terms and conditions
Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi 1 Apr - 13 May 2021 Zurich Manifesto: No Time For Your Crocodile Tears “The collective is natural and shaped by anger and wisdom. The wisdom we talk about is not from your books. intimate vulnerability is strength genuine class solidarity is strength The wisdom we talk about is from a spirit of survival of... Read more -
Body Double
Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi, Mitchell Anderson, Kyle Dunn, Ebecho Muslimova, Denis Savary, Bailey Scieszka, Sarah Slappey, Rico Weber 15 Feb - 31 Mar 2021 London Body Double marks the gallery’s first exhibition in London in their temporary space on Mount Street, thought of as an outpost to engage local audiences during a time of stilted world travel. This exhibition explores, dissects and reimagines the relationships between culture and the body, looking at form in relation... Read more -
Ebecho Muslimova: Scenes in the Sublevel
Ebecho Muslimova 5 Feb - 23 May 2021 Off-site For Ebecho Muslimova’s first solo museum exhibition, the artist presents Scenes in the Sublevel , a site-specific installation that includes ten large-scale mixed-media drawings. Muslimova (b. 1984, Makhachkala, Dagestan, Russia) is known for her pen-and-ink drawings and large-scale paintings that feature her bold and uninhibited cartoon alter ego, Fatebe. Her... Read more -
Ithaca
Denis Savary 15 Jan - 27 Mar 2021 Zurich Denis Savary knows that art is a territory without limits or dimensions. Once again for this exhibition, he makes ghosts appear. The name of the exhibition Ithaca refers to the American city home to the famous and liberal Cornell University, one of the main areas of development of the american... Read more -
Emmy Hennings / Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi | Swiss Institut New York
Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi 18 Nov 2020 - 3 Jan 2021 Off-site duo show Swiss Institute is delighted to present a two-person presentation of underrecognized 20th-century writer and artist Emmy Hennings (b. 1885, d. 1948) and emerging Zurich-based artist Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi (b. 1995). The exhibition situates Henning’s rarely seen archive of art and writing within a series of vitrines and showcases... Read more -
Partial Gift
Mitchell Anderson 13 Nov - 23 Dec 2020 Zurich Galerie Maria Bernheim is pleased to present “Partial Gift”, our second solo-exhibition of Zurich-based American artist Mitchell Anderson. The exhibition consists of three newly developed bodies of work continuing Anderson’s interests in collective coding, the narrative possibilities of existing objects and social forms and investigations into the paradoxes of societal... Read more -
Silver Dust
Rico Weber 12 Jun - 25 Jul 2020 Zurich This second solo exhibition of Rico Weber's work at Galerie Maria Bernheim presents a series of strange and ghostly architectural fragments filled with fetishes, signs and symbols. The crevices of everyday life seem to be full of beliefs and the real is traversed by magical tensions. The chromatic range reduced... Read more -
Emmy Hennings / Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi | Cabaret Voltaire
Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi 13 Mar - 22 Sep 2020 Off-site duo show Emmy Hennings (1885–1948) was co-founder of the artists’ bar with Hugo Ball, and probably the most present figure at Cabaret Voltaire. The fact that she received little attention as a writer and artist may be due to various reasons. Perhaps it was the distinct language, or the general... Read more -
FATEBE
Ebecho Muslimova 12 Mar - 18 Apr 2020 Zurich Galerie Maria Bernheim is thrilled to announce an exhibition of new work by Ebecho Muslimova (b.1984, Makhachkala, Dagestan, Russia, lives in New York). Muslimova will present a new series of paintings and drawings continuing around the motif of FATEBE, her sexually and bodily liberated alter-ego. FATEBE is shameless and free,... Read more -
CRUISE KIDMAN KUBRICK
Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi, Kyle Dunn, Andrea Fourchy, Doris Guo, Valerie Keane, Miriam Laura Leonardi, Ebecho Muslimova, Juan Antonio Olivares, Denis Savary, Bailey Scieszka, Sarah Slappey, Stewart Uoo, Rico Weber 25 Oct - 21 Dec 2019 Zurich CRUISE Black dress slips slowly off her back KIDMAN Couple in formalwear pass Impressionism KUBRICK Baby did a bad bad thing Cocktail party, different women on his arms Baby did a bad bad thing She, dancing with another, walls of hanging light Baby did a bad bad thing He, on... Read more -
Disbelief
Manuel Burgener 22 Sep - 17 Nov 2019 Off-site The Espace d'art contemporain (les halles) presents an exhibition by Manuel Burgener (*1978 - Bern) entitled Disbelief. The Bernese artist presents a series of works, including a monumental piece composed of glass plates, which, through the interplay of reflections, brings space, light and the visitor directly into play. The material's... Read more -
Moon piece, the Apostle and related works | Fondazione Converso
Mitchell Anderson 27 Jun - 27 Jul 2019 Off-site The work of Mitchell Anderson is characterized by multifaceted reactions to found objects, images, situations and their circulation. He recontextu-alizes the symbols human culture uses knowingly and subconsciously to contain memory and narrative in order to examine their veracity. At CONVER-SO Anderson adopts the capabilities and dualities of the history... Read more -
Dissonant Healing
Vanessa Conte, Jesse Darling, Marie Matusz 7 Jun - 27 Jul 2019 Zurich Dissonant Healing gathers the works of three artists addressing the complex conditions of control and power on the body and individuals in our contemporary age. Underlying or celebrated violence create contemporary tales inspired by premodern history, allegories, myths and forms of representations. Vanessa Conte is not only informed by Gian... Read more -
Underworld Classic | Luma Westbau
Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi 3 May - 18 Aug 2019 Off-site In her first institutional solo exhibition, Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi deals with the often thematized tension between art and the public sphere by means of a large-scale intervention in Heimo Zobernig's schwarzescafé, which significantly determines the exhibition space. Zobernig's permanent, multifunctionally conceived work invokes the coffeehouse (especially in its Austrian variant... Read more -
Houdini
Denis Savary 10 Mar - 2 Jun 2019 Off-site Denis Savary's work is rooted in two matrix activities, drawing and video, two nomadic practices whose results could fit into two shoeboxes. The exhibition is based on the idea of enlarging these 'boxes' to the size of the two large rooms on the first floor. These two opposing rooms function... Read more -
Interlude
Manuel Burgener 17 Jan - 23 Feb 2019 Zurich Galerie Maria Bernheim is pleased to present the second solo show of Manuel Burgener with the gallery. Entitled “Interlude”, the show runs from January 17 until February 23, 2019. For this exhibition, the artist will present new bodies of work creating an interpretation of the space, the sculptures creating an... Read more -
Topology
Nick Oberthaler 2 Nov - 22 Dec 2018 Zurich Other Dimensions The main problem that geometric abstraction must set itself is that of its own historicity. The supply of geometric forms is limited, as are their possible combinations, and thus almost allgeometric abstract pictures make reference to other geometric abstract pictures. In the marginal case of monochrome... Read more -
Ojingeo
Manuel Burgener 29 Jun - 26 Aug 2018 Off-site Manuel Burgener’s (* 1978, CH) installations, objects and images appear unfinished and precarious. For his new installation spanning five rooms the winner of the 2018 Manor Art Award combines video, sound and space. Armed with two mobile cameras in a remote seaside house, the artist captured the temporality and fleetingness... Read more -
Recurrence
Mitchell Anderson 8 Jun - 28 Jul 2018 Zurich Galerie Maria Bernheim announces R ecurrence, Mitchell Anderson’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. The show is comprised of new series of sculptural and wall hanging works, in a variety of mediums, tied together by Anderson’s mediation and archiving of objects and images that carry the narratives of unfulfilled histories.... Read more -
Moléculas | Whitney Museum of American Art
Juan Antonio Olivares 2 Mar - 10 Jun 2018 Off-site This exhibition by Juan Antonio Olivares (b. 1988) presents his 2017 video Moléculas, along with a suite of related drawings. Moléculas relates a highly personal narrative that is part autobiographical, part fantastical reality. The work explores fundamental questions about family, loss, separation, and contemporary politics, as well as the ways... Read more -
Interiors
Denis Savary, Mitchell Anderson, Nick Oberthaler, Rico Weber, Manuel Burgener, Ramaya Tegegne, Miriam Laura Leonardi, Jessi Reaves, Gaetano Pesce, John Armleder, Martine Bedin 24 Nov 2017 - 13 Jan 2018 Zurich Interiors are reduced. The cold chic tones and emptiness of minimalism seem to have won for now, at least at home. IKEA brought the look to everyone. Not long ago one accumulated. One had things one used, one pondered, one explored over a lifetime. The gallery here is all storefront,... Read more -
As Mountain Winds | FriArt Kunsthalle Fribourg
Mitchell Anderson 12 Nov 2017 - 21 Jan 2018 Off-site Mitchell Anderson is interested in the circulation of “memory objects” and recontextualises, in exhibition spaces, objects he purchases outside the usual economic circuits. The exhibition as mountain winds presents a set of 180 objects in the two rooms of the second floor of Friart, acquired in the context of an... Read more -
FATEBE X OLDPUT
Ebecho Muslimova, Bailey Scieszka 9 Jun - 29 Jul 2017 Zurich FATEBE x OLDPUT unfolds the encounter between two fictional characters central to the work Ebecho Muslimova (b. 1984 in Daghestan Russia, based in New York) and Bailey Scieszka (b. in 1989 in Royal Oak, MI, based in Detroit). Through the satirical mise en scène of FATEBE, a young woman both... Read more -
If you're looking for a straight line go to the sea
Thomas Sauter 20 Jan 2017 - 25 Feb 2020 Zurich One of art history’s best-known disputes took place during the Renaissance—the quarrel between the schools of Florence and Venice over whether painting’s claim to represent reality was based on line or on color. What was at stake was nothing less than the claim to primacy in perception: between head and... Read more -
Thomas Sauter im Pavillon der Ruhigen
Thomas Sauter 18 Sep - 31 Oct 2016 Off-site Opening: Sunday, September 18, 2 - 6 pm Open for public 24/7 For further information please visit the social network : https://fr-fr.facebook.com/pavillonderruhigen/ Read more -
Posthumous Lives
Mitchell Anderson, Jon Rafman 11 Jun - 13 Aug 2016 Zurich Let's begin with an inherited belief — a vague picture of what exists beyond this life and extends uncertainly so into the next. Rendered material and concrete, this spirit is bound up in mundane stuff and built into vacant containers: dead stock trading cards, stacked up produce crates, idle confessionals.... Read more -
I HAVE TEN THOUSAND COMPOUND EYES AND EACH IS NAMED SUFFERING | Stedelijk Museum
Jon Rafman 21 May - 14 Aug 2016 Off-site Immerse yourself in another reality through the installations of Canadian artist Jon Rafman. Explore the far-flung corners of the web in the world of avatars, online subcultures and fetish communities. In his video films and installations, Canadian artist Jon Rafman (1981, Montreal) explores the social effects of digital media. The... Read more -
Tunguska
Mitchell Anderson, Manuel Burgener, Miriam Laura Leonardi, Nick Oberthaler, Jon Rafman, Denis Savary, Ramaya Tegegne 18 Dec 2015 - 13 Feb 2016 Zurich “One and the same civilization produces simultaneously two such differentthings as a poem by T. S. Eliot and a Tin Pan Alley song, or a painting by Braque and aSaturday Evening Post cover. All four are on the order of culture, andostensibly, parts of the same culture and products of... Read more
