Swiss artist Roman Signer (born 1938) has been a key figure in the Swiss art world for the last thirty years, and is one of the most important contemporary artists on the international scene. Following his most recent exhibitions, including a broad…
Pole vaulting in the chapel, bicycling in the laundromat, sky diving in the elevator shaft – such seemingly surrealist combinations of spaces and unexpected uses were outlined by architect Bernard Tschumi as early as 1983. The Löwenbräu building in Zurich is a…
The American Gordon Matta-Clark (1943–1978), son of surrealist painter Roberto Matta, grew up in New York and Paris, and graduated as an architect in the 1960s. At the Cornell School of Architecture he got to know artists like Chris Burden and Dennis…
Californian Raymond Pettibon (born in 1957 in Tucson, Arizona) is represented in the current exhibition with his illustrative pen-and-ink drawings. Together with large-scale wall drawings, the sheets, pinned unpretentiously onto the wall, form a larger installative work. A new element is the…
In a short creative period of around 15 years, the artist Palermo (1943 – 1977) left behind a body of works that has remained current to this day in its presence and intensity. (Born as Peter Heisterkamp in Leipzig, he adopted the…
After recent exhibitions in the Kunsthalle Bremen (A Few Free Years) and at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg (A Perfect World, catalogue announced), Jason Rhoades, the tireless constructor of exuberant, room-filling installations, will be making a stop in the Galerie Hauser & Wirth. The…
Diana Thater (born 1962), a video artist of the younger generation, lives and works in Los Angeles. Since 1991 she has attracted attention with her installations, among others, in solo exhibitions with Witte de With and David Zwirner. Diana Thater has made…
Louise Bourgeois (b. 1911), the grande dame of late Modernism, lives and works in New York. Raised in Paris, she studied mathematics at the Sorbonne before moving to the USA with her husband in 1938. This relocation also marked the beginning of…
