Sold! Obere Letten

Obere Letten, by Alina Döring has sold on ConnectingArt. Check out her other artworks here: https://connectingart.ch/artists/alina-doering/

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Hodler’s Lumberjack

Is Hodler’s Lumberjack similar to Van Gogh’s Sunflowers? In the sense that multiple versions were painted and it is loved by many then it can certainly be considered to be. The KmL has an exhibition of paintings and drawings of the subject, which was originally conceived as part of a

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Scary Monsters, Super Creeps

Cue David Bowie (and if you’re not old enough to remember him, head over to Spotify and check him out now).  Schattenmonster & andere Verwandlungen is the actual title of this exhibition in Winterthur, but I’m not one to let accuracy get in the way of a good headline.  “Mountains,

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Goya @Fond_Beyeler

An exhibition at the Beyeler is always a wonderful thing, and their tribute to the Spanish artist Goya, is no excption. Featuring 70 of his paintings and 100 drawings/sketches, there’s enough to interest everyone. Viewings are by timeslot. Book in advance. Where: Beyeler, BaselWhen: Until 23 January 2022

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Camille Pissarro – The Studio of Modernism

Pissaro is one of those Impressionists that it’s all too easy to forget about, but in Basel’s Kunstmuseum he’s been high on their list for a long time. In fact the first impressionist picture they ever acquired (back in 1912)  was his Un coin de l’Hermitage, Pontoise. Since then they’ve

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Art as Connection

A bit of an obvious one for us. Like ConnectingArt, this exhibition is a reaction to the upheavals resulting from the coronavirus pandemic, Art as Connection takes the form of an experimental and open exhibition based on a collective development process. Where: Aargauer Kunsthaus When: until 09.01.2022

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Art Club 2000

Sounds like the sort of exhibition where you’d expect to meet Jarvis Cocker, and who knows, you just might. Covering Selected works, 1992-1999 this semi-retrospective covers works by ArtClub 2000, seven undergaduates who studied at Coopers Union in NYC. In summary, “Art Club2000, with its precocity, became a unique clash

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Albert Oehlen – Lugano

Big paintings by me with small paintings by others. Got to love the title of this exhibition, which aims to show Albert Oehlin simultaneously as Creator, Collector and Curator (The 3Cs?). Born in Krefeld, Germany, Oehlen studied in Hamburg from 1978 to 1981, becaming a prominent figure of the Berlin

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Landscapes – Bellinzona

Comparing landscapes. Art, nature and society in Switzerland 1850-1920 Switzerland is known for its natural beauty, so it’s not surprising that a large number of artists have produced works dedicated to capturing it. A new exhibition in Bellinzona covers a period of change for Switzerland, at a time when urbanisation

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The 2000 Sculpture

The 2000 Sculpture can be seen at the Kunsthaus Zürich. By Walter De Maria, it is considered to be a “space-filling installation”. Specifically it is a 500sqm space filled with 2,000 white plaster rods – 50 cm by approx 12 cm high. The  elements have either five, seven or nine

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Tony Conrad – Mamco

Quite surprised by this one. I still listen to some of Conrad’s drone music, typically his collaboration with Faust, Outside the Dream Syndicate. (According to Wikipedia, this is considered a classic of minimalist and drone music).   But back to the art. The MAMCO exhibition sets out to “retrace his

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ArtTalents

Come and meet up with Tamara Krieger at the ArtTalents.ch Kunstmarkt on Sunday 24 October. The market is open between 11:00 and 17:00 at Tanzwerk 101 Zürich, not far from Hardbrücke. Don’t forget your Covid certificate and ID.

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Juliette Roche – Besancon

A retrospective of Juliette Roche, a first since the 1960s, introduces  a little-known female artist: painter, designer and writer, who participated in the artistic avant-gardes of the early twentieth century. Little exposed during her lifetime, Juliette Roche mixed aesthetic influences in her beginnings. A student of Maurice Denis and Paul

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Hodler, Klimt and the Wiener Werkstätte

For the first time, an exhibition examines the history of the branch on Zurich’s Bahnhofstrasse through paintings, drawings, furniture, jewellery and designobjects. The exhibition focuses on works by Josef Hoffmann, Ferdinand Hodler and Gustav Klimt as well as the creations of Dagobert Peche. Where: Kunsthaus Zürich When:  Until 29.08.2021

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Jean Otth

Jean Otth was a pioneer of video art in Switzerland. He began exploring the visual potential of new technologies as early as the late sixties. He experimented with slides as projected, dematerialised images, television and its language, and the experimental, shifting nature of video. Entitled Spaces of Projection, the current

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été 2020

This summer MAMCO  starts an innovative approach for exhibitions. Based on the concept of an annual “special edition,” taken from the world of magazines or biennials, the aim is to bring together diverse practices connected by nothing except the fascination they exert on us. In this way, Natalie Czech, Vidya

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Last Chance – Olafur Eliasson

Olafur Eliasson “Life” Eliasson’s art invites viewers to explore future forms of coexistence by welcoming multiple perspectives; human and non-human alike. For his solo show at the Fondation Beyeler, the artist immerses the institution in a border-crossing investigation of our preconceptions of nature and culture. The collection explores the relationship

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Ty Waltinger

Ty Waltinger is a freelance Austrian artist. Since the early 1990s he has been engaged in artistic and scientific research into historical colour pigments. Among other things, Waltinger now has one of the most extensive collections of valuable and rare mineral pigments. From research and his collection of “natural pigments”

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War and (fake) Peace

How did Swiss artists react to the Second World War that surrounded their country? This exhibition at the Solothurn Kunstmuseum aims to provide at least some kind of answer. https://www.kunstmuseum-so.ch/krieg-und-falscher-frieden When: 02.03.2021 – 15.08.2021Where: Kunstmuseum Solothurn

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Dóra Maurer – Minimal Movements, Shifts

Haus Konstruktiv in Zürich is holding the first solo exhibition in a museum in Switzerland for the Hungarian Dóra Maurer. The retrospective solo show, which was realized in close collaboration with the artist, brings together prints, photographs, films and paintings that were created between 1970 and 2020. Maurer’s oeuvre is

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Giovanni Giacometti – The Large Panoramas

The exhibition’s point of departure is the four-part Engadin-Panorama by Giovanni Giacometti, which is once again at the Graubünden Art Museum as a permanent loan. It was Giovanni Segantini who involved the artist in the great panorama-project for the Paris World Exhibition of 1900, and after the failure of this

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Moment. Monument

A monument – from the Latin monere erinnern; monumentum Denk-mal – is an important “monument of great masses”, a man-made building or work of art. In a narrower sense, monument means a memorial or memorial and reminds us of a historical personality or a historical event. However, the monument always

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Lorenza Lunghi – Minuet of Manners

Minuet of Manners is a one-person exhibition by artist Lorenza Longhi. Her installation involves every element in the gallery, from the furniture to the hanging method as well as the paintings themselves. When surrounded by these elements, the visitor is invited to consider how they look at art – or indeed

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Who is Robin Gunningham?

Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based street artist, political activist, and film director whose real name and identity remain unconfirmed and the subject of speculation, although it is believed his real name is Robin Gunningham. Active since the 1990s, his satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti

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«AMBARABÀ CICCÌ COCCÒ»

The artistic practices of Alfredo Aceto and Denis Savary are as close as they are different. What they have in common is that they twist existing forms or imagine new ones across different media and charge them with unexpected meanings.

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Thomas Ruff: Tableaux chinois

Galerie Mai 36 presents selected works from Thomas Ruff’s most recent series tableaux chinois (2019-). Thomas Ruff lives and works in Düsseldorf and ranks among the world’s most important contemporary artists. Where: Mai 36 Gallerie When: Fri 11 Jun 2021 to Sat 7 Aug 2021

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Banksy in Basel

This exhibition is an imposing event that brings together more than 100 original works and objects by the British artist known as Banksy

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