Join us as we celebrate the opening of a selection of significant works by Swiss artist Franz Gertsch (1930 – 2022). Curated by Tobia Bezzola, the presentation offers an exemplary view of Gertsch’s rigorously precise and transcendent vision, bringing together a major painting from the artist’s Patti Smith series, as well as important large-scale and medium-format woodcuts.

About the artist
Swiss artist Franz Gertsch (1930 – 2022) is internationally known for his monumental photorealist paintings and woodcuts. Since his international breakthrough at documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972, he created a broad spectrum of paintings and woodcuts that received wide acclaim. Gertsch’s work explores the passage of time, perception and surface, and blurs the boundary between photography and painting. He represented Switzerland at the Venice Biennale in 1999. The major retrospective ‘Blow up’ was shown in 2024 first at the Louisiana Museum in Copenhagen and at the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg; in a slightly modified form it will be presented this year at the Museum Franz Gertsch in Burgdorf and at the Kunstmuseum Bern.