Notes related to Switzerland

Koyo Kouoh, the renowned Cameroonian-Swiss curator and a key figure in contemporary African art, has died at the age of 58. Since 2019, she had served as executive director and chief curator of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town, which confirmed her passing. The Venice Biennale expressed deep sorrow over the loss and highlighted her intellectual and human legacy.

The Naming Natures: Natural History and Colonial Legacy art-science exhibition, supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, takes a critical look at natural history collections from colonial settings, combining scientific, historical, and museographic approaches.

The Venice Biennale 2024 offers an exceptional platform for examining the challenges and opportunities facing the future. The pavilions of Japan, Germany, Switzerland and Hungary trace different forms of looking at and thinking about the world to come, projecting visions of the environment, equilibrium, adaptation, world order and, of course, collective memory.

The Venice Bienanale’s Swiss Pavilion presents Super Superior Civilizations: an exhibition with the sixth and seventh chapters of Guerreiro do Divino Amor’s monumental “Superfictional World Atlas” saga: The Miracle of Helvetia and Roma Talismano. Curated by: Andrea Bellini.

For the third consecutive year, the Berne-based non-profit organisation art+château its next exhibition of contemporary art in an historic castle. Open until September 25^th, Beyond Baroque is curated by Dr. Valentina Locatelli, with the assistance of Giulia Busetti.

Memory of a Telluric Movement is the title of this exhibition at Museum Haus Konstruktiv. It presents a comprehensive solo exhibition to Mexican artist Jose Dávila (b. 1974 in Guadalajara, Mexico, where he lives and works). Curated by Sabine Schaschl and on view until September 11^th.

Internationally recognized for creating works that are thoughtful, bewildering, and play­ful, Urs Fischer works across sculpture, photography, drawing, painting, and publishing, employing a variety of materials and processes that resist easy classification.

Organized by Human Rights Art Initiative and art+château, this photographic exhibition in Zurich features artist and human rights activist Marcelo Brodsky (b. 1954, Buenos Aires, Argentina) along with video works and a performance by Ko Latt, Yadanar Win, Lily and Zoncy, who represent the new generation of Burmese artists and whose work reveal elements of Myanmar’s social, political, and cultural narrative. Curated by Giulia Busetti and Dr. Valentina Locatelli.

In 2022, the Fondation Beyeler's exhibition programme takes place under the banner of its 25th anniversary. It launches with a major retrospective on Georgia O'Keeffe, followed by the summer exhibition "Mondrian".

Geneva-based gallery Espace Muraille presents Eamon Ore-Giron: Auto-Tune, the first-ever show of the Los Angeles-based artist in continental Europe. Curated by Valentina Locatelli and developed in close collaboration with the artist, the exhibition gathers eighteen paintings from his ongoing series Infinite Regress, conceived especially for the exhibition in Geneva, and two loom-woven tapestries created in collaboration with the Taller Mexicano de Gobelinos in Guadalajara, Mexico

In collaboration with Jimena Pérez Salerno, the Argentine artist carried out a performance in the river which she later translated to la_cápsula’s gallery space in Zurich, Switzerland.