Hermanos Gutiérrez - Esperanza

Korakrit Arunanondchai’s ‘Songs for dying / Song for living’

The exhibition, presenting the works of Bangkok-raised artist Korakrit Arunanondchai, was co-produced by Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zurich and Kunstverein in Hamburg. While the video installation 'Songs for living' bathes you in blue-toned daylight, the video installation 'Songs for dying' covers you in darkness amidst a room covered with earth. In the middle room you are surrounded by an incredibly large painting that spans three walls showing a gathering of bodies and a giant bird in flames. Music and sound play a big role for the exhibition. As a whole, the experience is very immersive.

Brigitte Kowanz - Lost under the Surface

Das Museum Haus Konstruktiv honors the Austrian artist Brigitte Kowanz with an extensive solo exhibition. The retrospective show shows how Kowanz has been making the medium of light tangible as an independent phenomenon and as an information carrier since the 1980s.

Olafur Eliasson: Symbiotic Seeing

The Kunsthaus in Zürich, Switzerland curated by Mirjam Varadinis showcases a solo exhibition by Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson. It “addresses a key issue of our age: the relationship and interplay between human and non-human actors on Earth. Eliasson tackles themes such as coexistence and symbiosis and aims to bring about a fundamental shift of perspective. The exhibition invites us not only to reflect on climate change – as a consequence of human action – but also to comprehend the human being as part of a larger system. The socially and environmentally committed artist, who was appointed Goodwill Ambassador for climate action and the Sustainable Development Goals by the UN in September 2019, proposes an idea of the world based on coexistence and collaboration rather than competition.

Ernesto Neto: GaiaMotherTree

The Fondation Beyeler funded Brazilian artist, Ernesto Neto to install GaiaMotherTree (2018) at Zürich's Main Train Station. GaiaMotherTree is a monumental sculpture made of brightly colored hand-knotted cotton strips. It resembles a tall tree and extends right up to the ceiling of the station concourse, which is twenty meters high. Ernesto Neto's GaiaMotherTree is not only a sculpture, but also a walk-in structure that functions as a meeting place and a venue for interaction and meditation.

Daniel Gordon: Hand, Select & Invert Layer

The gallery BolteLang in Zürich opens the gallery season with an exhibition of new works by the Brooklyn-based artist Daniel Gordon. Daniel Gordon is known for his colourful, patterned photographs, portraits, still lifes­, and photographic abstractions printed on canvas: so-called Screen Selections. In his first solo exhibition at BolteLang entitled Hand, Select & Invert Layer, Gordon will present a site-specific wallpaper installation alongside new still lifes and screen selections.