Past
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Elza Sile
Baby Love Apr 12 - May 24, 2025 We are proud to present the third solo exhibition by Latvian-born, Zurich-based artist Elza Sile. The exhibition is about a post/pre-art situation, imagining how an art practice might emerge after a collapse of the institutionalized and hierarchical art world. As heterogeneous as the objects in the exhibition are, they all... Read more -
CFA Milano | Young-jun Tak
Twelve, Twelve, Twelve Apr 1 - May 5, 2025 'Stressful Growth' presents twelve sets of Young-jun Tak’s painting series Stressful Painting (2017–2018) and ceramic sculptures (2024). The former, a year-long project, is Tak’s monthly log of the stress caused by social media use. From March 2017 till March 2018, the artist recorded his stress level, ranging from one to... Read more -
Trudi Demut
Fallen from Heaven Feb 1 - Mar 22, 2025 Otto Müller said of her that she had 'fallen from heaven with learning'. The daughter of a locksmith at SBB, initially completed a commercial apprenticeship. She used a stay in England as an au pair in 1947-48 to attend an evening sculpture class at the Kingston School of Art in... Read more -
CONDO LONDON 2025
Hosted by The Approach Jan 17 - Feb 15, 2025 For over thirty years Renée Levi has been questioning the medium of painting, she investigates colour, the application of paint, it’s body and it’s space on various image carriers as well as installations. Levi was born in 1960, in Istanbul and grew up in Aargau. Today she lives and works... Read more -
Keem Jiyoung
Breath of the Month Nov 16, 2024 - Jan 18, 2025 Since the Sewol ferry tragedy in 2014, Keem has been delving into socio-political defects of the current world that contemporary disasters bring to light. As an attempt to perceive the contemporary era in a historical sense, Keem’s work focuses on social incidents and evokes a sense of connection between individuals... Read more -
SOPHIE REINHOLD
I STARTED A JOKE Aug 31 - Nov 2, 2024 This confession kicks off the eponymous song by alternative rock band Faith No More, a cover of the Bee Gees original from 1968. What for some is just a simple three-verse song is for others a song about “Jesus on the cross from the Devil’s point of view,” as posted... Read more -
PEDRO WIRZ
Substance Shifts Jun 7 - Jul 20, 2024 Wirz proposes a paradigm shift that goes beyond just starting anew; with the exhibition, he suggests a fundamental change in society based on everyday materiality and reimagining material cycles, offering a different perspective on addressing seemingly stuck ideas related to our current environmental problems and climate crisis. The dialogue with... Read more -
Young-jun Tak
Pain Is Left After the Bite Jun 7 - Jul 20, 2024 In his sculptures, installations, and videos, Tak examines human belief systems and their impact on societal and cultural structures. This exhibition investigates the power of pivotal absence in narratives and our self-efficacy on filling up the gap according to our likings, as this fundamental social cognitive function affects every detail... Read more -
SARAH BRAHIM, DAVID LINDSAY, SOPHIE REINHOLD
Elegiac Apr 6 - May 11, 2024 We are proud to present a group exhibition with Sarah Brahim, David Lindsay and Sophie Reinhold. The presentation will be accompanied by a poem by David Lindsay titled Elegiac . Combining video, installation, performance, photography, textiles, and sound, Sarah Brahim’s immersive and inclusive work uses the body as medium, inviting... Read more -
Sanna Helena Berger
Nicht-nur-Spekulativ Apr 6 - May 11, 2024 We are thrilled to present the first solo presentation in Switzerland with Sanna Helena Berger. In Nicht-nur-Spekulativ, Berger creates an exhibition articulating two conditions, zwischen Haben und Sehen. Exploring standard formats, display concepts and containers, thematising the exhibition format itself as collaborator, Berger takes a forking path. Referencing modernist minimalism... Read more -
EMMA MCMILLAN
Haruspex Feb 3 - Mar 16, 2024 Before Christianity became the dominant religion of Rome, among the many pagan rituals that governed that time was haruspicy, a form of divination that sought answers in the entrails of sacrificed animals. The diviner, or haruspex, would foretell the future and commune with the gods by reading details encoded in... Read more -
MONIKA EMMANUELLE KAZI
Homes less, home spells Feb 3 - Mar 16, 2024 When we return to our apartment after several weeks of travel, our three-month-old baby looks around, wide eyed, examines the objects in the living room, and responds attentively to all the familiar noises: the closet door, the noise of wheels when his little bed is rolled over the parquet floor,... Read more -
Heroic Protagonists
Group Exhibition Dec 8, 2023 - Jan 20, 2024 We are thrilled to present the exhibition, Heroic Protagonists . The artists included are brave and determined to create works, which are idiosyncratic, sensuous, and evocative. Moreover, they have the ability to alter perception, as they question the link between art, the environment and personal experience. SANNA HELENA BERGER PAUL... Read more -
Cassidy Toner
Almost Xerox Oct 27 - Dec 2, 2023 We are thrilled to present the third solo exhibition by Cassidy Toner. Humour is scarce in the arts, but with Cassidy, it almost becomes its own medium as well as a weapon. Through her work, she explores comic tropes and genres as a strategy to reflect back on the art... Read more -
Lou Cohen
NOT A COMEDY Oct 27 - Dec 2, 2023 “Who is this who without being dead goes through the kingdom of the dead?” These words from the Divine Comedy are not included in the video by Lou Cohen, who nevertheless chose certain passages offered as a pretext for a strange group of shadows, struggling with failure, standing still and... Read more -
Renée Levi
Maude Sep 1 - Oct 14, 2023 Maude , Renée Levi’s second exhibition at the gallery, marks the first time the artist shows works she considers “precarious”. Emancipating from her signature scribbles and color-block compositions on more than large-scale canvases, Renée Levi produced a series of new works of small and large formats that seem to reflect... Read more -
Elza Sile
Kitten at Rämistrasse (Snake's bedroom) Apr 13 - May 27, 2023 We are excited to inaugurate our new gallery space at Rämistrasse 5 with two solo exhibitions by Elza Sile and Pedro Wirz. The exhibitions are not only framed by the new gallery’s location in the city, but also by the architectural space in a state of transformation. Our new space,... Read more -
Pedro Wirz
Entropy Crib Apr 13 - May 27, 2023 We are excited to inaugurate our new gallery space at Rämistrasse 5 with two solo exhibitions by Elza Sile and Pedro Wirz. The exhibitions are not only framed by the new gallery’s location in the city, but also by the architectural space in a state of transformation. Our new space,... Read more -
Sophie Reinhold
Mercedes Benz Nov 11, 2022 - Jan 21, 2023 Groups of works might be made for exhibitions, but they must hold up on their own. That tension between the individual and the codependent can be lost over time or held tight at a painting's heart. These ten works were made for a specific place sometime a year ago. With... Read more -
CASSIDY TONER
Subverting expectations with bad humor and mediocre output Sep 9 - Oct 22, 2022 bad humor and mediocre output Read more -
PAUL FÄGERSKIÖLD
Longue Durée Jun 10 - Jul 23, 2022 In Marvel/Disney’s new streaming show, ‘Moonknight’, an Egyptian god rapidly rewinds the sky a few thousand years, so that the location of treasure may be triangulated. That humanity has had the ability to compute this less dramatically for a while seems to have been forgotten. When it comes to the... Read more -
CEYLAN ÖZTRÜK
Self-specular, a moment Apr 28 - May 28, 2022 Looking at Ceylan Öztrük’s most recent body of work is impossible: the transparency, translucency, and the reflectivity of the materials dispose of any sense of a separation of the object, of the work and the subject of the viewer and things blend, melt, confuse, exaggerate. The attributed physical qualities of... Read more -
MONIKA EMMANUELLE KAZI
Room with a View Feb 25 - Apr 2, 2022 Room with a View marks the occasion of Monika Emmanuelle Kazi’s first solo exhibition in Zurich. To list the shows contents in the most basic terms, we have window frames, postcards, metal rings with chains, evaporated water, mirrors and light. They are undeniably present in the space with the viewer.... Read more -
LENA MARIA THÜRING
Liquid Connections Part III: Water, Other, Matter Nov 26, 2021 - Jan 22, 2022 We are proud to present a solo show by Lena Maria Thüring. Known for her videos and installations, which reflect on socio-political conditions and their effects on society, she interrogates social structures, memory, gender, identity, as well as language. Liquid Connections is a project, that has evolved over several exhibitions,... Read more -
RENÉE LEVI
GINNY Sep 17 - Oct 30, 2021 For over thirty years Renée Levi (*1960 in Istanbul, lives and works in Basel) has been questioning the medium of painting. She investigates colour, the application of paint, its body, and its space on various image carriers as well as installations. While doing so, she always proceeds intuitively in her... Read more -
URSULA HODEL, CEZARY BODZIANOWSKI, EVA BERESIN, CASSIDY TONER
Thanks for the Sour Persimmons May 8 - Jun 19, 2021 We are proud to announce a group exhibition by Swiss-born, Zurich-based, Ursula Hodel; Polish-born, Lodz-based, Cezary Bodzianowski; Hungarian-born, Vienna-based, Eva Beresin and American-born, Basel-based, Cassidy Toner. All of the artists invited to this exhibition blur the lines between reality and unreality. Never fully embracing either, but instead playfully straddling the... Read more -
ELZA SILE
kitten in a fridge Mar 5 - Apr 24, 2021 We are proud to present the first solo exhibition by Riga-born, Zurich-based artist Elza Sile, whose work constitutes one of the most original contributions to painting and installation art in recent years. The title of the exhibition; “kitten in a fridge” alludes to “Schrödinger’s cat” and the thought experiment that... Read more -
PEDRO WIRZ
Tooth of a Giant Nov 24, 2020 - Jan 30, 2021 PHILIPPZOLLINGER is proud to present Tooth of a Giant, the second solo exhibition by Swiss-Brazilian artist Pedro Wirz. The exhibition introduces a setting with recent sculptures and wall-objects, drawing reference from cultural history, science, craft as well as folklore. The exhibition title is drawn from a description given to an... Read more -
SOPHIE REINHOLD
Y Sep 12 - Oct 31, 2020 For the exhibition titled “Y”, Berlin-based artist, Sophie Reinhold, created a new body of work, which was inspired during a journey through Switzerland, from Zurich to Zuoz. In her typically humorous and satirical manner the artist responded to her surroundings, creating subversive narratives of historical, social and moral themes. There... Read more -
CASSIDY TONER
Unstable 4th Wall Nov 2 - Dec 14, 2019 We are proud to present a solo show by Baltimore-born, Basel-based artist Cassidy Toner. The exhibition Unstable 4th Wall introduces a setting with a series of recent sculptures and kinetic objects. The title refers to the imaginary wall on stage, separating the actors from the audience. Whilst, the audience can... Read more -
ETHAN COOK
Sets Jun 8 - Jul 13, 2019 We are proud to present a solo show by the New York-based artist Ethan Cook. For the first time he combines painted, ready-made canvases, with hand-woven canvases, made from pre-colored cotton threads. This development marks a significant step in the artist’s practice, based on rules and systems. Cook’s reduced visual... Read more -
PEDRO WIRZ
Wiþ Ymbe Feb 16 - Mar 17, 2019 We are proud to present a solo show by the Swiss-Brazilian artist Pedro Wirz, whose work constitutes one of the most original contributions to sculpture in recent years. Installed at Stalletta, a 17th century, raw and archaic barn, the exhibition comprises of both earlier and recent work, in the form... Read more
