In her current show entitled The Evidence of Things Not Seen at the Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart, North American artist Carrie Mae Weems, born in 1953, asks us to join her in exploring blind spots in (contemporary) history. For some 40 years she has been probing prevailing historical accounts of events and exposing the ways in which these are constructed and projected in politics, science, art, the mass media, photography and architecture.
This is the artist's first exhibition in Switzerland in almost two decades. Wall, who has made a significant contribution to establishing photography as an independent visual medium since the late 1970s, is considered the founder of “staged photography”. The Canadian usually generates large-format, multi-layered and subtly composed photographs from a large number of individual shots, which are often inspired by everyday scenes or inspired by models from art history, and appear like composed film stills.
For the first time in Switzerland, an exhibition is devoted to the Egyptian artist Hamed Abdalla (1917–1985), pioneer of modern Egyptian art, who lived in Europe from the 1950s. He engaged intensively with Paul Klee and experimented with various techniques, with Arabic calligraphy forming a central starting point. As an artist of the Hurufiyya movement, which developed new artistic possibilities out of the Arabic alphabet, he invented his own ‘creative words’ by combining abstraction and human forms.
In this exhibition, the Kunsthaus Zurich asks about the current relevance of Ferdinand Hodler, known as the “national artist”. “Apropos Hodler” contrasts one-sided interpretations with the formal, cultural and political work of this painter in all its diversity and attempts to see the old and the familiar in a new way. Works by over 30 contemporary artists come together with around 60 paintings by the Swiss icon.
This exhibition marks an exceptional opportunity to educate scholars, students, and art lovers on Pōders little-known work. Taking its title from one of Põder’s sculptures, Anu Põder: Space for My Body (1995) brings together more than forty works, dating from 1978 to 2012, that have rarely left Estonia.
The Brilliant Women exhibition presents around 100 works by successful court painters, teachers, entrepreneurs and publishers from the 16th to 18th centuries, shedding light on these three centuries from a new perspective.They portrayed the crowned and noble, had their own workshops, trained people, but were mostly forgotten: women artists.
When Dan Flavin attached a standard fluorescent tube to the wall of his studio at a 45 degree angle in 1963 - and promptly declared it art - it was a radical act. He became known for his work with industrially manufactured fluorescent tubes. In doing so, he created a new art form and made history. This exhibition focuses on his works that are dedicated to other artists or events.
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