Past
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 Waring’s paintings are based on intricate compositions, meticulously built with art historical references...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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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
