Switzerland Art Guide

Your guide to the world-class art exhibitions at Switzerland’s leading galleries and museums this November.
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Switzerland now:

Exhibiting Artists

Artists

A · Arakawa · Hans Arp · B · Jorge Méndez Blake · C · Daniel Canogar · Tony Conrad · Anne-Lise Coste · D · Wim Delvoye · Carroll Dunham · E · Andrea Ehrat · K · René Kemp · L · Maria Lassnig · Jung Lee · Kyung-Lim Lee · Simone Leigh · Glenn Ligon · O · Odinakachi Okoroafor · P · Ezra Petronio · R · Kilian Rüthemann · S · Julia Scher · Cindy Sherman · T · James Turrell · W · Romane de Watteville

35 exhibitions to see

Bailly GalleryGeneva

Masters of Modern Art
12 Nov - 15 Dec 2021

10 rue de l'Hôtel de Ville, 1204

Mon-Fri 10am-1pm & 2pm-7pm, Sat 12-6pm

not open today
Christophe Guye GalerieZürich

just opened
Jung Lee
25 Nov 2021 - 5 Mar 2022

Dufourstrasse 31, 8008 Zürich

Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-4pm

not open today
the first solo exhibition in Europe of the Korean artist includes works from the series “Aporia” as well as new and never shown before works
Cortesi GalleryLugano

no current exhibition listed
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Maag ArealZürich

Carroll Dunham: Qualiascope Paintings and Related Drawings
30 Oct 2021 - 29 Jan 2022

Zahnradstrasse 21, CH-8005

Wed-Fri 12noon-6pm, Sat 11am-5pm & by appointment

not open today
in this new series, Dunham has invented a narrative conceit that isolates his protagonists, showing these figures centered within drawn and painted frames
Fabian LangZürich

Kilian Rüthemann: Lag
17 Sep - 18 Dec 2021

Obere Zäune 12, CH-8001

Tue-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 12-4pm

not open today
a new body of works by Rüthemann, bringing together the artist’s main gestural concerns in his practice - Minimalism, process-based art, humor, intervention and re-purposing
Fabienne LevyLausanne

just opened
Romane De Watteville: Every Me
27 Nov 2021 - 22 Jan 2022

Avenue Louis-Ruchonnet 6, 1003

Tue, Fri 10am-6.30pm, Wed, Thu, Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
Fondation BeyelerBasel, Public

museum of modern and contemporary art
GagosianBasel

just opened
Arakawa: Waiting Voices
25 Nov 2021 - 22 Jan 2022

Rheinsprung 1, 4051

Mon-Fri 10am-6pm

not open today
the first exhibition with the gallery in Basel of one of the earliest international pioneers of Conceptual art and founding member of the Japanese avant-garde collective Neo Dada. “I wanted to change art, to change life - I became a radical” - Arakawa
GagosianGeneva

modern and contemporary art
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, WaldmannstrasseZürich

no current exhibition listed
galerie gmurzynskaZug

no current exhibition listed
galerie gmurzynska, ParadeplatzZürich

just opened
Ezra Petronio: Stylistics
25 Nov 2021 - 22 Feb 2022

Paradeplatz 2, 8001

Mon-Fri 10am-6.30pm, Sat 10am-4pm

not open today
across both the Paradeplatz and Talstrasse spaces, this is Petronio’s first gallery exhibition - “I am old school, pre-digital, and I learned how to make everything from scratch”
galerie gmurzynska, TalstrasseZürich

just opened
Ezra Petronio: Stylistics
25 Nov 2021 - 22 Feb 2022

Talstrasse 37, 8001

Mon-Fri 10am-6.30pm, Sat 10am-4pm

not open today
across both the Paradeplatz and Talstrasse spaces, this is Petronio’s first gallery exhibition - “I am old school, pre-digital, and I learned how to make everything from scratch”
Hauser & Wirth Bahnhofstrasse 1Zürich

last week
Arp: Art is a Fruit
17 Sep - 4 Dec 2021

Bahnhofstrasse 1, 8001

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
major sculptures and works on paper by one of the most celebrated artists of the 20th Century - in the inaugural presentation at the gallery’s new space
Hauser & Wirth RämistrasseZürich

no current exhibition listed
Hauser & WirthSt. Moritz

forthcoming:
Maria Lassnig & Cindy Sherman
9 Dec 2021 - 5 Feb 2022

Via Serlas 22, 7500

Tue-Sat 2pm-7pm

not open today
Hauser & WirthZürich

last week
Simone Leigh
17 Sep - 4 Dec 2021

Limmatstrasse 270, CH-8005

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

not open today
in her first exhibition with the gallery, and first major show in Switzerland, new sculptures continue Leigh’s exploration of black female-identified subjectivity
Hauser & WirthZürich

Glenn Ligon. First Contact
17 Sep - 23 Dec 2021

Limmatstrasse 270, CH-8005

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

not open today
the debut of a new, large-scale work in the celebrated American conceptual artist’s first exhibition with the gallery
Häusler ContemporaryZürich

James Turrell: Circular Glass
permanent installation

Stampfenbachstrasse 59, 8006

Tue-Fri noon-6pm, Sat noon-4pm

conceived for an everyday architectural environment, a work that enables the visual and sensory experience of light as was previously reserved for larger installations by the artist
Häusler ContemporaryZürich

Kyung-Lim Lee: Transposition II
4 Nov 2021 - 15 Jan 2022

Stampfenbachstrasse 59, 8006

Tue-Fri noon-6pm, Sat noon-4pm

not open today
“I like to imagine the geometric forms as being alive, breathing and seeing. They can reveal a beginning, middle and end of cycles” - Kyung-Lim Lee
Kogan AmaroZürich

no current exhibition listed
Kunstmuseum BaselBasel, Public

the largest and most significant public art collection in Switzerland
KutlesaGoldau

last week
Odinakachi Okoroafor: Ogadimma
29 Oct - 4 Dec 2021

Bernerhöhe Nord 7, 6410

Mon-Tue by appointment, Wed-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 11am-3pm

not open today
an exhibition of new paintings by the Nigerian artist that explore human conditions of friendship, self-love, and empathy
Laleh June GalerieBasel

Andrea Ehrat: Une certaine sensualité
18 Nov 2021 - 20 Jan 2022

Picassoplatz 4, CH - 4052

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

not open today
the Zurich-based artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery
Lullin + FerrariZürich

Anne-Lise Coste: TOUT EROS
29 Oct - 18 Dec 2021

Limmatstrasse 214, CH-8005

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

not open today
a new group of paintings using water-based spray paints on loose unprimed canvases that Coste has worked on in a variety of ways - “Coste has a gift for creating valid artistic works through minimal mark-making on simple material”
Mai 36 GalerieZürich

Jorge Méndez Blake: I Will Defend Poetry
12 Nov 2021 - 29 Jan 2022

Rämistrasse 37, CH-8001 Zürich

Tue-Fri 11am-6.30pm, Sat 11am-5pm

not open today
“not an epitaph on a dying art, but a call to arms to rekindle the power of ancestral futures”
Mai 36 GalerieZürich

René Kemp: L’univers crie
12 Nov 2021 - 29 Jan 2022

Rämistrasse 37, CH-8001 Zürich

Tue-Fri 11am-6.30pm, Sat 11am-5pm

not open today
works from three groups of conceptual paintings that come from a compassionate detachment, a peculiar vantage point, a niche that the artist has created for himself: Hysterical Realism
MamcoGeneva, Public

Tony Conrad
6 Oct 2021 - 30 Jan 2022

10, rue des Vieux-Grenadiers, CH-1205

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

Conrad works in music, cinema, video, painting, teaching and media activism - this exhibition, organized by Balthazar Lovay, is a collaboration with Kölnischer Kunstverein and Culturgest and retraces his career over nearly sixty years
MamcoGeneva, Public

Julia Scher
6 Oct 2021 - 30 Jan 2022

10, rue des Vieux-Grenadiers, CH-1205

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

organised by Paul Bernard and Lionel Bovier - “Years before popular culture brought us ‘Jennicam,’ Big Brother and The Truman Show, Julia Scher made surveillance an art form” - Anna Indych
MamcoGeneva, Public

Discipline and Perform
6 Oct 2021 - 30 Jan 2022

10, rue des Vieux-Grenadiers, CH-1205

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

organized by Paul Bernard and Julien Fronsacq, with the Verbund and Kontakt collections, an exhibition bringing together works by Central European artists from countries behind the erstwhile Iron Curtain created at the height of the Cold War
Pace, GenevaGeneva

Little Things: Parts I & II
10 Nov 2021 - 5 Jan 2022

Quai des Bergues 15-17, CH-1201

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
a two-part group exhibition bringing together miniature artworks by thirty-nine artists, spanning painting, photography, textile, sculpture and video
WildeBasel

just opened
Daniel Canogar: Hidden Tides
27 Nov 2021 - 29 Jan 2022

Angensteinerstrasse 37, CH - 4052

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

not open today
WildeGeneva

Wim Delvoye
6 Nov 2021 - 7 Jan 2022

Rue du Vieux-Billard 24, CH- 1205

Tue-Fri 2pm-6pm, Sat 11am-5pm

not open today

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