Coinciding with Zurich Art Weekend 2026, join us for an exhibition walkthrough with Alison Gingeras, Curator at Large at Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, to celebrate the centenary of the Polish artist Alina Szapocznikow’s birth with an autobiographical exhibition at our gallery on Bahnhofstrasse .

Alina Szapocznikow
Autobiography in Fragments
11 June – 5 September
Zurich, Bahnhofstrasse

Guided Tour with Alison Gingeras
Sunday 14 June
12 – 2 pm

Bahnhofstrasse 1
8001 Zürich

This event is free.
Kindly RSVP by 11 June to paulavanderlinden@hauserwirth.com

About Alina Szapocznikow
Born in Poland to a Jewish family in 1926, Alina Szapocznikow survived internment in concentration camps during the Holocaust as a teenager. Immediately after the Second World War, she moved first to Prague and then to Paris, studying sculpture at the École des Beaux Arts. In 1951, suffering from tuberculosis, she was forced to return to Poland, where she expanded her practice. When the Polish government loosened controls over creative expression following Joseph Stalin’s death in 1953, Szapocznikow moved into figurative abstraction. By the 1960s, she was radically re-conceptualizing sculpture as a record not only of her memory but also of her own body.

About Alison Gingeras
Alison Gingeras is an American curator and art writer based in New York City and Warsaw. She has held positions at numerous institutions including the Guggenheim Museum, the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Palazzo Grassi and is now the Curator at Large at Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.

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