Switzerland Art Guide

Curated gallery guide for world-class contemporary art exhibitions at Switzerland's leading galleries and museums. Browse or filter our listings to find artists, exhibition openings and events happening now across the country. Use NearMe to see what's on near you in the art world today.

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Exhibiting Artists

Artists

B · Martin Barré · Irma Blank · Isabelle Borges · C · Alexander Calder · Valentin Carron · Jacobo Castellano · Rosemarie Castoro · Guy de Cointet · E · Zhang Enli · Sérvulo Esmeraldo · F · Cris Faria · G · Johannes Gees · H · Peter Hujar · M · Justin Matherly · Olivier Mosset · P · Tobias Pils · R · Arnulf Rainer · S · Ena Swansea · T · Paul Thek · Z · David Zink Yi

29 exhibitions to see

Christophe Guye GalerieZürich

last week
Land_Scope
28 Nov 2019 - 25 Jan 2020

Dufourstrasse 31, 8008 Zürich

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

not open today
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Maag ArealZürich

forthcoming:
Tobias Pils: Adam & Eve
25 Jan - 14 Mar 2020

Zahnradstrasse 21, CH-8005

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

not open today
uncertainty, ignorance, and the allusions to existing narratives — for example, that of Adam and Eve — evolve only when viewer and work face each other. Pils interweaves a subjective future made present in the pieces and the past of collective memory
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Maag ArealZürich

forthcoming:
Justin Matherly: Pathos the pathetic
25 Jan - 14 Mar 2020

Zahnradstrasse 21, CH-8005

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

not open today
Matherly shows new works that continue his contemporary reflections on antiquity, as well as on modern philosophy
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, RämistrasseZürich

forthcoming:
Valentin Carron
25 Jan - 29 Feb 2020

Rämistrasse 33, CH-8001

Tue-Fri 10am-6.30pm, Sat 11am-5pm

the inaugural exhibition at Rämistrasse 33 presents new and significant sculptures and wall-based works by the Swiss artist
Fondation BeyelerBasel, Public

museum of modern and contemporary art
GagosianBasel

no current exhibition
GagosianGeneva

forthcoming:
Olivier Mosset
29 Jan - 3 Apr 2020

19 place de Longemalle, 1204

Mon-Fri 10am-6pm

not open today
Galerie Gmurzynska ZugZug

no current exhibition
Galerie Gmurzynska Zürich, ParadeplatzZürich

no current exhibition
Galerie Gmurzynska Zürich, TalstrasseZürich

no current exhibition
Hauser & WirthSt. Moritz

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

just opened
Zhang Enli: New Paintings
17 Jan - 29 Feb 2020

Limmatstrasse 270, CH-8005

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

not open today
a series of paintings that reflect on the artist’s progression to looser and freer brushwork, expressing his own emotive intuition
Hauser & WirthZürich

just opened
David Zink Yi: Rare Earths
17 Jan - 29 Feb 2020

Limmatstrasse 270, CH-8005

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

not open today
rooted in process-based abstraction and the alchemic possibilities of the artist’s materials, the exhibited bodies of works represent a point of departure from previous ceramic sculptural pieces as the artist’s new aesthetic diverges from figuration
Kogan AmaroZürich

Isabelle Borges: Textures of Reality
11 Jan - 28 Mar 2020

Löwenbräukunst, Limmatstrasse 270, 8005

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

not open today
Borges explores patterns and structures she encounters in the visible world - her main focus is on the geometry of the spaces between things and the resulting spatial dynamics
Kogan AmaroZürich

Sérvulo Esmeraldo: Jouer avec le cercle
11 Jan - 28 Mar 2020

Löwenbräukunst, Limmatstrasse 270, 8005

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

not open today
curated by Ricardo Resende, the ensemble assembled reunites works from the period the Brazilian engraver and draftsman lived in Europe
Kunstmuseum BaselBasel, Public

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

Contratiempo
14 Dec 2019 - 29 Feb 2020

Picassoplatz 4, CH - 4052

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

not open today
shown for the first time, paintings by Cris Faria x Johannes Gees, together with series of work by each artist including painting, sculpture, c-print, installation and projection
Lullin + FerrariZürich

Narration and Performance
7 Dec 2019 - 29 Feb 2020

Limmatstrasse 214, CH-8005

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

not open today
Mai 36 GalerieZürich

forthcoming:
Jacobo Castellano: Combing Grounds
24 Jan - 14 Mar 2020

Rämistrasse 37, CH-8001 Zürich

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

not open today
Jacobo’s recent work is based on two premises: an outstanding treatment of wood and an ability to select found objects that may convey narratives with enormous precision
Mai 36 GalerieZürich

forthcoming:
Peter Hujar & Paul Thek
24 Jan - 14 Mar 2020

Rämistrasse 37, CH-8001 Zürich

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

not open today
a joint exhibition with rare vintage prints by Hujar and works by Thek
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

Ena Swansea: New Paintings
28 Dec 2019 - 1 Feb 2020

Via Serlas 35, CH-7500

not open today
a series of new paintings that blur the distinction between abstraction and figuration

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