Artist: Marion Baruch

Galerie Peter Kilchmann, in collaboration with Sommer Contemporary Art, presents Quel che rimane del cielo, a solo exhibition of new works by Marion Baruch (b. 1929, Timișoara, Romania).

Working across more than six decades and multiple geographies, Baruch has developed a singular practice in which textile functions as both medium and language—“a living, pulsating material” through which social, economic and historical processes become visible.

The exhibition focuses on a wide selection of her recent works, developed since 2012 from discarded textile cut-offs remnants sourced from clothing manufacturers in northern Italy. Rather than altering the material, Baruch responds to forms already shaped by industrial cutting, suspending and composing them in space. These fragments—once destined for disposal—become delicate, evocative structures that oscillate between painting and sculpture, presence and absence.

The title Quel che rimane del cielo (“What Remains of the Sky”) evokes both the celestial and the human. As in the central installation, openings in the fabric appear like suspended fragments of the sky, inviting viewers to move through shifting perspectives of void and form.

Additional works, including early Piccolo teatro pieces and later works such as Eingang and Déchiqueté – Squarciato, trace Baruch’s ongoing exploration of space, language, and material, where meaning emerges in the interplay between fragments, gaps, and gestures.

Marion Baruch (b.1929, Timișoara, Romania) lives and works in Gallarate, Italy. She studied at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem and at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome.

Over the course of a long and multifaceted career, Baruch has explored a wide range of artistic practices, including painting, sculpture, conceptual work, and installation. Since 2012, she has focused on works created from cut-out fabric remnants, transforming discarded textiles into compositions that oscillate between sculpture, drawing, and pictorial installation.

Her work has been presented in major institutional exhibitions, including a retrospective at Museo Novecento, Florence, as well as solo exhibitions at Kunstmuseum Luzern, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, and Haus Lange / Kunstmuseen Krefeld.

Baruch’s work is held in significant public collections, including the Art Collection Roche, Basel; Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome; Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne; MAMCO, Geneva; Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich; MA*GA, Gallarate; MAM – Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris; Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Krefeld; les Abattoirs – FRAC Occitanie, Toulouse; and the Groninger Museum, Groningen.

Baruch remains a singular voice in contemporary art, whose rigorous yet poetic practice transforms everyday materials into works of striking presence and resonance.