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Ser Serpas Group show Kevin Space, Vienna 22 October - 06 December 2020
Ser Serpas: CORPOREALITY - when can a body be said to exist
Ser Serpas Group Show CUADRO22, Chur 07 November - 08 December 2020 Mit dem Ausstellungsprojekt „Corporeality“ in der Galerie Cuadro22 wollen wir Fragestellungen, Themen und persönliche Geschichten rund um die vielschichtige Thematik der Körperlichkeit aufgreifen. In einer Zeit der Digitalisierung und der Flucht in virtuelle Welten soll den kapitalistischen Drängen und jener implizierten Schnelllebigkeit unserer Gesellschaft entgegengetreten werden, um sogleich den Fokus auf das Physische – das, was direkt vor uns liegt – zurückzuführen. Dies scheint uns heute näher als je zuvor. Denn während langer Isolation sind wir zur Reflexion gezwungen – der Blick auf den eigenen Körper und das Selbst ist unumgänglich.
Simone Fattal
Simone Fattal Solo show Palais Idéal du Facteur Cheval, Hauterives September 2020 Image: Simone Fattal Kouros, 2006 Glazed Stoenware 48.5 x 15 x 7 cm (19 1/8 x 5 7/8 x 2 3/4 in)
Pamela Rosenkranz: WE HYBRIDS!
Pamela Rosenkranz Group show Istituto Svizzero, Roma 16 October 2020 - 31 January 2021 The group exhibition brings together six young artists from Switzerland who address the idea of hybridism through different media and narrative models. Pamela Rosenkranz (*1979/Altdorf, lives and works in Zurich and Steinhausen) shows three new paintings from the series “Sexual Power”, for which she consumes the synthetically produced substance Viagra while painting and mutates into a hybrid-like being by mixing her own human abilities with an artificially produced substance. Image: Pamela Rosenkranz Sexual Power (Viagra Painting, Feeling Green), 2020 Acrylic on aluminium 210 x 150 cm ( 82 5/8 x 59 1/8 in ) Photo credits: Flavio Karrer
Ser Serpas: Notes on Entropy
Ser Serpas Group Show Arcadia Missa, London 09 October - 18 December 2020 With Jamika Ajalon, Renata Boero, Jesse Darling, Alina Perez, Ser Serpas, Cameron Spratley, Frieda Toranzo Jaeger Image: Ser Serpas Notes on Entropy Installation View Arcadia Missa, London, 2020 Photo credits: Tim Bowditch
David Hominal: Crazy, Cruel and Full of Love: Works from the Contemporary Art Collection
David Hominal Group show Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern 12 September - 14 February 2021
Vivian Suter: Bonzo's Dream
Vivian Suter Bonzo's Dream Brücke-Museum, Berlin 13 September 2020 - 14 February 2021 Mit der Einladung der argentinisch-schweizerischen Künstlerin Vivian Suter (geb. 1949 in Buenos Aires, lebt und arbeitet in Panajachel, Guatemala) tritt die Sammlung des Brücke-Museums zum ersten Mal in den direkten Dialog mit einer zeitgenössischen Position. In einem raumgreifenden Arrangement stellt Suter ihre freihängenden Leinwände den Gemälden, grafischen Werken und kunsthandwerklichen Arbeiten der Künstlergruppe Brücke gegenüber. Diese subjektive, intuitive und erzählerische Auswahl trifft die Künstlerin. Auch eine Reihe von kleinformatigen Collagen der Künstlerin Elisabeth Wild (geb. 1922 in Wien; gest. 2020 in Panajachel, Guatemala), Vivian Suters Mutter, werden zu sehen sein. In der Begegnung der historischen Position der Brücke mit der Ausstellungspräsentation Suters entfaltet sich die künstlerische Auseinandersetzung mit der Natur durch unterschiedliche Mittel und im Kontext eines erweiterten Malereibegriffs. Image: Vivian Suter Photo credit: Flavio Karrer
Pamela Rosenkranz: PUSH THE LIMITS
Pamela Rosenkranz Group show Fondazione Merz, Turin 07 September 2020 - 31 January 2021 PUSHTHE LIMITS is a project that investigates how art takes itself to the limit to move the horizon of thinking, perception and speech ever further in order to introduce new elements; to say yes or no when “normality” falters; to highlight what is proposed in the present and to prevent a situation of merely treading water. The artists we have invited and who have generously accompanied us even during the lockdown period take this opportunity to reaffirm the urgency of unleashing the infinity of possibles. Image: Pamela Rosenkranz Amazon Spirits (Green Blood), 2018 Chair, cardboard box, transparent foil, LED projector, Amazon Echo smart speaker, sound Photo credit: Marc Asekhame
Sylvie Fleury: Evelyne Axell: Body Double
Sylvie Fleury Group show with Special Participation of Sylvie Fleury Muzeum Susch, Susch 01 August - 06 December 2020 Curated by Anke Kempkes and Krzysztof Kościuczuk Muzeum Susch presents Body Double, a retrospective exhibition of the Belgian Pop-Surrealist Evelyne Axell (1935-1972). With her original feminist approach in the 1960s Axell became one of the pioneers of Pop Art in Europe. Her distinct body of work is populated by an all-female universe, transcending the established iconography of Pop Art at the time and reclaiming the discourse of women’s sexuality. As a special contribution, the exhibition features the prominent installation Marcel et Robert (2009) by Swiss artist Sylvie Fleury, entering into a cross-generational iconographic dialogue with Axell’s work. The rotating disk forming the base of Fleury’s work is designed as a giant Pop-coloured target mirroring the concentric composition in Axell’s painting The Wall of Sound (1966). Image: Sylvie Fleury André et Robert (mint pearl and aubergine), 2019 Mini skirt and mannequin legs 110 x 40 x 55 cm 43 1/4 x 15 3/4 x 21 5/8 in Photo credit: Flavio Karrer
Pamela Rosenkranz: Alles echt!
Pamela Rosenkranz Group show Kunstmuseum Luzern 29 February - 22 November 2020 Das Thema der Imitation und Kopie ist so alt, wie die Kunst selbst. Von der Antike bis ins 19. Jahrhundert strebte die Kunst eine möglichst genaue Imitation der äusseren Natur an. Seit der Moderne macht sich die Kunst immer mehr selbst zum Thema. Kunst als Referenz oder Zitat ist seit Marcel Duchamps berühmtem Readymade eine künstlerische Strategie. Im Akkord arbeiten Meisterfälscher für reiche Sammlerinnen und Auftraggeber, die doch lieber einen kopierten «Leonardo Da Vinci» zu Hause hängen haben, als ein Original einer weniger bekannten Künstlerin. Denn 70 Jahre nach dem Tod des Urhebers ist das Erstellen einer Kopie legal. Übrigens verfügt auch das Kunstmuseum Luzern über die wohl meist kopierte Ikone der Kunstgeschichte überhaupt: eine hauseigene Mona Lisa. Diesen Phänomenen der Imitation, Nachahmung, Kopie und Wiederholung soll im Kontext der Sammlungspräsentation nachgespürt werden. Zusätzliche Leihgaben ergänzen und vertiefen die Auslegeordnung. Image: Pamela Rosenkranz Alien Blue Window, 2018 Lighttex, LED, anodized frame, remote control 100 x 30 cm (39 3/8 x 11 3/4 in) Photo credits: Stefan Altenburger
Vivian Suter: Desert X 2021
Vivian Suter Group Show Coachella Valley, CA, USA 06 February - 11 April 2021 The third edition of Desert X in the Coachella Valley will be curated by César García-Alvarez and Neville Wakefield. García-Alvarez joins returning Artistic Director Neville Wakefield for the third edition of the international art exhibition that will activate California's desert landscape through site-responsive installations by renowned international contemporary artists. Image:
Meret Oppenheim, Carissa Rodriguez: The Flames. The Living Art of Ceramics"
Meret Oppenheim / Carrissa Rodriguez Group show Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, Paris Curated by Anne Dressen 26 March - 15 August 2021 This exhibition will explore ceramics within its intrinsic relations to art but also, more broadly, to humanity. Ceramics is one of the oldest form of human artistic expression. It has been utilized in the production and reproduction of idols, architecture, and food, employing minerals that precede mankind. Many religions and myths regarding the creation of man are believed to have originated from mud. Ceramics—halfway between handicraft, art, and design—is a universal form that forces us toreconsider the categories that usually hierarchize the arts. It is a medium that integrates sculptural, pictorial, utilitarian, craft,industrial, and amateur dimensions. It is also aprocess based practice that can be seen through the lens of relational aesthetics and performative arts Image: Carissa Rodriguez La Collectionneuse, 2015 16.5 x 12 cm
Ser Serpas: Untitled, 2020
Ser Serpas Group show Punta della Dogana, Venice 11 July - 13 December 2020 Punta della Dogana presents the exhibition ‘Untitled, 2020’, conceived and curated by Caroline Bourgeois, Muna El Fituri and the artist Thomas Houseago. Five years after ‘Slip of the Tongue’, conceived by Danh Vo and Caroline Bourgeois and presented at Punta della Dogana in 2015, this is the second time that an artist of the Pinault Collection has been invited to present his personal view of the collection. Conceived especially for the spaces of Punta della Dogana, ‘Untitled, 2020’ is organised into themes and presents the works of more than 60 artists held by the Pinault Collection, international museums and private collections. Accompanied by a wealth of references and quotes and ranging from the twentieth century through to the present day, the works set up a dialogue that triggers emotional, sensory, visual and tactile connections. Covering a broad range of expressive media, from sculpture to video, and painting to photography, the works on view revolve around the recreation of Thomas Houseago’s studio in Tadao Ando’s cube room, in the heart of Punta della Dogana. In this space, the artist makes available to visitors his library and the sources of his inspiration through a site-specific installation. Image: Ser Serpas Untitled, 2019 Oil on canvas 32 x 37 cm (12 5/8 x 14 5/8 in)
Simone Fattal: Artifices Instables: Histoires de céramiques
Simone Fattal Group Show Nouveau Musée National de Monaco - Villa Sauber, Monaco 23 September 2020 - 31 January 2021 Artifices Instables: Histoires de céramiques Image: Simone Fattal Wounded Woman, 2013 Wood kiln fired stoneware 14 × 24 × 8 cm( 5 1/2 × 9 7/16 × 3 1/8) Photo credit: François Fernandez
Sylvie Fleury: Skulptur in der Schweizer Kunst von 1945 bis heute
Sylvie Fleury Group show Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau 12 Juni - 26 September 2021
Vivian Suter
Vivian Suter Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid 24 June 2021 - 10 January 2022 The artist Vivian Suter (Buenos Aires, 1949) will be the protagonist at the Palacio de Velázquez in Retiro Park at the end of 2020. In 1983, she took up permanent residence in the heart of the Guatemalan jungle, and there, from her studio in Panajachel, her work evolved toward an increasingly close exchange with the natural environment, rendered on vivid and colorful canvases that relinquish the frame. Image: Vivian Suter, Nisyros (Vivian’s bed), 2016–17 Various materials Installation view Glass Pavilions on Kurt-Schumacher-Strasse, Kassel, Documenta 14 Photo credits: Fred Dott
Vivian Suter / Elisabeth Wild : 2021
Vivian Suter and Elisabeth Wild Art on the Underground, London June 2021 In 2020 Art on the Underground will present major site-specific commissions by Lucy McKenzie, Vivian Suter, and Helen Johnson alongside two Pocket Tube map covers by Elisabeth Wild and Phyllida Barlow. 2020 marks Art on the Underground’s 20th anniversary, a key milestone celebrating its history of working with prominent contemporary artists as a leading commissioner of public art. Vivian Suter will create her first public commission in the UK comprised of over 120 new paintings at Stratford station. For the spring pocket Tube map, Elisabeth Wild will create a new collage inspired by London Underground architecture in colours that recall the luscious landscape of her home in Guatemala. Image: Vivian Suter Portrait Photo credits: Flavio Karrer
Vivian Suter
Vivian Suter Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art, Middelburg (NL) September 2021 Image: Vivian Suter Untitled, 2019 Acrylic on canvas 235 x 179 cm (92/1/2 x 70 1/2 in) Photo credits: Flavio Karrer
