ZHdK Fine Art Students Respond to ‘Uman. A Fantastic Woman’ in Zurich
Image: ‘Uman. A Fantastic Woman’ Performance by ZHdK Fine Art Students, Hauser & Wirth, Limmatstrasse, 2025. All photos: Luca Andrea Donati
ZHdK Fine Art Students Respond to ‘Uman. A Fantastic Woman’ in Zurich
Following an open call by ZHdK – Zurich University of the Arts, MA and BA students, as well as mid-career academic staff and junior researchers from the Department of Fine Arts, responded to Uman’s exhibition in a performative presentation. The event brought together an incredible mix of young people, students, and friends, with roughly 200 participants joining us for an inspiring evening.
In response to the exhibition and as part of the Löwenbräu Open House, the evening celebrated four captivating performances:
Lelah Neary (b. 2002), Goblin Mode, 2025
Claas Krause (b. 1990) & Salmo Suyo (b. 1989), Your Voice, 2025
Idunn Christophersen (b. 1998), Slipping through, 2025
Xun Gong (b. 1998), Play Tic-Tac-Toe with myself, 2025
Video: Simeon Wälti
About the exhibition
For her second exhibition with the gallery and her first solo show in Switzerland, Uman presents all new paintings and works on paper at the gallery’s Zurich location on Limmatstrasse in partnership with Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York NY. Working in Upstate New York, Uman’s new paintings reflect her reverence for the natural world. Fluidly navigating in-between realms to explore both the physical and spiritual, the artist intertwines abstraction, figuration and meditative patterning. Expanding on this unique visual language, Uman’s new body of work also explores ideas of color field painting. With some works suspended from the ceiling and a site-specific wall mural that will transform part of the gallery space, Uman invites the viewer to be immersed in her lavishly detailed and opulently colored worlds, replete with gesture, geometry and evocations of the sublime.
