Switzerland Art Guide

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This Week: 2 Exhibitions Opening and 1 Exhibition Closing

Tuesday 10th - Tuesday 17th, December 2019

Opening This Week

Hauser & WirthSt. Moritz

forthcoming:
Calder
13 Dec 2019 - 9 Feb 2020

Via Serlas 22, 7500

Tue-Sun 10.30am-6pm

mobiles, stabiles, standing mobiles, paintings, and a monumental outdoor sculpture feature in this major exhibition of one of the most influential and pioneering artists of the twentieth century
Laleh June GalerieBasel

forthcoming:
Contratiempo
14 Dec 2019 - 29 Feb 2020

Picassoplatz 4, CH - 4052

Tue-Fri 1pm-6pm, Sat 12noon-5pm

Closing This Week

Robilant + Voena, St MoritzSt. Moritz

last week
In Memoriam: Ettore Spalletti (1940-2019)
3 Dec - 14 Dec 2019

Via Serlas 35, CH-7500

not open today
classic subtly-coloured sculptures and paintings by the revered and celebrated “painter of light”

All Exhibitions

Exhibiting Artists

Artists

B · Stephan Balkenhol · Martin Barré · Irma Blank · C · Alexander Calder · Valentin Carron · Rosemarie Castoro · Guy de Cointet · F · Cris Faria · G · Johannes Gees · K · Frans Krajcberg · L · Maria Lassnig · M · Takesada Matsutani · P · Nazareth Pacheco · R · Arnulf Rainer · S · Ettore Spalletti · W · Michael Williams

Christophe Guye GalerieZürich

Land_Scope
28 Nov 2019 - 25 Jan 2020

Dufourstrasse 31, 8008 Zürich

Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-4pm
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Maag ArealZürich

Michael Williams: New Paintings
12 Oct - 21 Dec 2019

Zahnradstrasse 21, CH-8005

Tue-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-5pm

new works preoccupied with the dialectic relationship between painting and photography, seeking to dishonor this very dialogue by stealing photography’s quality of cool detachment
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, RämistrasseZürich

forthcoming:
Valentin Carron
25 Jan - 29 Feb 2020

Rämistrasse 33, CH-8001

Tue-Fri 10am-6.30pm, Sat 11am-5pm
Fondation BeyelerBasel, Public

museum of modern and contemporary art
GagosianBasel

no current exhibition
GagosianGeneva

no current exhibition
Galerie Gmurzynska ZugZug

no current exhibition
Galerie Gmurzynska Zürich, ParadeplatzZürich

Expressions d’Afrique - Inside Jean Pigozzi’s Collection
23 Oct - 23 Dec 2019

Paradeplatz 2, 8001

Mon-Fri 10am-6.30pm, Sat 10am-4pm
Galerie Gmurzynska Zürich, TalstrasseZürich

Expressions d’Afrique - Inside Jean Pigozzi’s Collection
23 Oct - 23 Dec 2019

Talstrasse 37, 8001

Mon-Fri 10am-6.30pm, Sat 10am-4pm
Hauser & WirthSt. Moritz

forthcoming:
Calder
13 Dec 2019 - 9 Feb 2020

Via Serlas 22, 7500

Tue-Sun 10.30am-6pm

mobiles, stabiles, standing mobiles, paintings, and a monumental outdoor sculpture feature in this major exhibition of one of the most influential and pioneering artists of the twentieth century
Hauser & WirthZürich

Maria Lassnig: Zarter Mittelpunkt / Delicate Centre
11 Oct - 21 Dec 2019

Limmatstrasse 270, CH-8005

Mon-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 11am-5pm

over thirty rarely exhibited drawings and watercolours which deal with Lassnig’s investigations into the borders of abstraction
Hauser & WirthZürich

Takesada Matsutani: Yohaku
11 Oct - 21 Dec 2019

Limmatstrasse 270, CH-8005

Mon-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 11am-5pm

Matsutani’s explorations of monochromes from the 1970s to the present day
Kogan AmaroZürich

Dangerous Beauty: Nazareth Pacheco and Frans Krajcberg
2 Nov - 21 Dec 2019

Löwenbräukunst, Limmatstrasse 270, 8005

Tue-Fri noon-6pm, Sat 11am-5pm

a double exhibition, curated by Ricardo Resende, bringing together iconic works of the two artists, creations that seduce by the beauty of matter and ways of expressing harsh realities
Kunstmuseum BaselBasel, Public

the largest and most significant public art collection in Switzerland
Laleh June GalerieBasel

forthcoming:
Contratiempo
14 Dec 2019 - 29 Feb 2020

Picassoplatz 4, CH - 4052

Tue-Fri 1pm-6pm, Sat 12noon-5pm
Lullin + FerrariZürich

just opened
Narration and Performance
7 Dec 2019 - 29 Feb 2020

Limmatstrasse 214, CH-8005

Tue-Fri noon-6pm, Sat 11am-5pm
Mai 36 GalerieZürich

Stephan Balkenhol
1 Nov 2019 - 11 Jan 2020

Rämistrasse 37, CH-8001 Zürich

Tue-Fri 11am-6.30pm, Sat 11am-4pm

new work by Balkenhol where his rough-hewn, painted sculptures render visible the artisanal process and the sculptural approach, combining both the raw and the precise
Mai 36 GalerieZürich

ABUC - Eleven Cuban Artists
1 Nov 2019 - 11 Jan 2020

Rämistrasse 37, CH-8001 Zürich

Tue-Fri 11am-6.30pm, Sat 11am-4pm

Mai 36 Galerie owner Victor Gisler provides an overview of the contemporary art scene in Havana with four generations of artistic practises in Cuba - mythical, mysterious, sensual, dynamic, unique and bizarre
Mai 36 Galerie ShowroomZürich

no current exhibition
MamcoGeneva, Public

Irma Blank
9 Oct 2019 - 2 Feb 2020

10, rue des Vieux-Grenadiers, CH-1205

Tue-Fri noon-6pm, Sat-Sun 11am-6pm

like many women of her generation, Irma Blank’s work has been overlooked for too long and is now garnering the attention it deserves
MamcoGeneva, Public

Martin Barré
9 Oct 2019 - 2 Feb 2020

10, rue des Vieux-Grenadiers, CH-1205

Tue-Fri noon-6pm, Sat-Sun 11am-6pm

Switzerland’s first large-scale presentation of Barré’s work retraces his engagement with the medium of painting, experimenting ceaselessly with the sensory, cerebral, chromatic and physical properties of pictorial form
MamcoGeneva, Public

Arnulf Rainer: Territoires latents, Foëx Gift
9 Oct 2019 - 2 Feb 2020

10, rue des Vieux-Grenadiers, CH-1205

Tue-Fri noon-6pm, Sat-Sun 11am-6pm

works by the artist who has practised “painting in order to quit painting” for some 60 years
MamcoGeneva, Public

Rosemarie Castoro
9 Oct 2019 - 2 Feb 2020

10, rue des Vieux-Grenadiers, CH-1205

Tue-Fri noon-6pm, Sat-Sun 11am-6pm

organised into chapters, the exhibition offers a retrospective journey through the practice of an artist who favored transgression and metamorphosis over orthodoxy and linear progression
MamcoGeneva, Public

Guy de Cointet
9 Oct 2019 - 2 Feb 2020

10, rue des Vieux-Grenadiers, CH-1205

Tue-Fri noon-6pm, Sat-Sun 11am-6pm

works on paper and “post-Pop” paintings, acquired by MAMCO on occasion of the first de Cointet retrospective the museum organized in 2004
Robilant + Voena, St MoritzSt. Moritz

last week
In Memoriam: Ettore Spalletti (1940-2019)
3 Dec - 14 Dec 2019

Via Serlas 35, CH-7500

not open today
classic subtly-coloured sculptures and paintings by the revered and celebrated “painter of light”

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