ZURICH.- In 2006, after decades languishing in external warehouses, the vast majority of Alberto Giacometti’s plasters were relocated to Zurich. Technical and art-historical evaluation of the fragile works can now begin, an expensive and labour-in…
Kunsthaus Zürich Embarks on the Most Ambitious Evaluation and Restoration Project ever Attempted on the Oeuvre of Albert
ZURICH.- In 2006, after decades languishing in external warehouses, the vast majority of Alberto Giacometti’s plasters were relocated to Zurich. Technical and art-historical evaluation of the fragile works can now begin, an expensive and labour-inten…
Kunsthaus Zürich to Stage 15 Exhibitions in 2011 Season, Nahmad Family Collection is a Highlight
ZURICH.- The 2011 programme at the Kunsthaus Zürich is the most exciting yet. News of one highlight has already leaked out: the prestigious private collection of the Nahmad family is to receive its world premiere in Zurich. There will be a retrospecti…
Kunsthaus Zürich Revives First Museum Exhibition Devoted to Pablo Picasso
ZURICH.- From 15 October 2010 until 30 January 2011, the Kunsthaus Zürich will revive the first museum exhibition devoted to Pablo Picasso. Mounted at the Kunsthaus Zürich in 1932, the show was a crucial moment in the history of modern art. Picasso h…
First Museum Exhibition in Switzerland of Work by Eccentric Landscape Artist Carl Wilhelm Kolbe
ZURICH.- The Kunsthaus Zürich presents, through 28 November, Switzerland’s first museum exhibition of work by eccentric landscape artist Carl Wilhelm Kolbe (1759–1835). At the centre of the show are Kolbe’s landscape engravings featuring eno…
Kunsthaus Zürich to Show "Karl Moser: Art and Architecture"
ZURICH.- From 17 December 2010 to 27 February 2011 the Kunsthaus Zürich will present drawings, sketches, models and furniture by Karl Moser (1860-1936), its renowned architect. Revered in Switzerland as a ‘father of modernism’, Moser made ar…
The Kunsthaus Zürich shows a Retrospective Katharina Fritsch including Spatial Images
Zürich, Switzerland – The Kunsthaus Zürich will host a retrospective devoted to
the work of Katharina Fritsch, one of the most significant artists of our day.
The show will also include new pieces by the artist. Famed for her
large-scale scu…
Kunsthaus Zürich Presents Work by Georges Seurat One of the Fathers of Modern Art
ZURICH.- Under the heading ‘Figure in Space’, the
Kunsthaus Zürich presents work by one of the fathers of modern art, Georges
Seurat, from 2 October 2009 until 17 January 2010. A colleague of Paul Cézanne
and Vincent van Gogh’s, Seurat b…
Comprehensive Solo Exhibition for Katharina Fritsch at Hamburg’s Deichtorhallen
HAMBURG.- Since the artist’s inaugural exhibition
of the K 21 in Düsseldorf in 2001, Deichtorhallen are the first to present a
comprehensive solo exhibition of Katharina Fritsch (born in Essen, Germany in
1956). The work show, set up in c…
Kunsthaus Zürich Shows "Thomas Struth. Photographs 1978-2010"
ZURICH.- From 11 June to 12 September 2010 the Kunsthaus Zürich presents the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of work by Thomas Struth to date. The photographs on show, some 100 mostly large-format, were produced between 1978 and the present …