On display Jean Otth Limite E (Limit E), 1973 Jean Otth made his first video works in 1971 and showed them the following year at Galerie Impact in Lausanne (Action Film Vidéo) and at…
Anish Kapoor Untitled, 2002 Born in India to a cosmopolitan family, with an atheist father from a Hindu background and an Iraqi Jewish mother, Anish Kapoor initially planned to…
Marcel Broodthaers Tour de Babel (Tower of Babel), 1966 Marcel Broodthaers’s career was as prolific as it was brief, giving rise to books, films, photographs, sculptures, objects, drawings and installations, among others. His career…
Giuseppe Penone Svolgere la propria pelle (Pressione su carta)(Developing your own Skin [Pressure on Paper]), 1974 In the early 1970s, Giuseppe Penone, the youngest member of Arte povera, then just twenty-five, developed a series of works that literally involved him lying…
Thomas Huber Studio II, 1991 Thomas Huber studied at the Basel Kunstgewerbeschule, the Royal College of Art in London and the Düsseldorf Staatliche Kunstakademie He now lives and works in…
On display Geneviève Claisse Soleil des eaux (Sun of waters), 1965 Geneviève Claisse’s first steps in art in the latter half of the 1950s took her into geometric abstraction, exploring its most elementary possibilities over the…
Stephan Balkenhol Phoque I et II (Seal I and II), 1989 After visiting documenta 5 in 1972 while in his teens, Stephan Balkenhol decided to become a sculptor. He then studied at Hamburg Hochschule für Bildende…
Pierre Soulages Peinture 324 x 362 cm (Polyptyque J)(Painting 324 x 362 cm [Polyptych J]), 1987 Following a period of dark shapes standing out against pale backgrounds, Pierre Soulages’s work became increasingly dominated by black, creating powerful contrasts. In a 1990…
Bruce Nauman Partial Truth, 1997 One of Bruce Nauman’s best-known early works is a neon spiral incorporating the words The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths (1967),…
William Kentridge Lexicon, Paragraph I, 2017 William Kentridge grew up in a South Africa marked by the apartheid regime (1948–91). Having studied theatre as well as the fine arts, but also…
Jean-Luc Manz Les pleurs de cendres IV (Tears of Ashes IV), 1996 Jean-Luc Manz’s work follows a particular, indeed unique path through the geometrical abstraction movement that developed in and around Geneva and Lausanne from the 1980s…
On display Maria Helena Viera da Silva La ville suspendue (Hanging City), 1952 Maria Helena Vieira da Silva was a member of the Second Paris School, a loose group of post-war artists whose best-known members include Jean Bazaine,…
Alain Huck Kuroi Ame II, 2008 Kuroi Ame II is part of the Salons noirs series of huge charcoal works begun in 2006. Alain Huck explores great human tragedies in the…
On display Zao Wou-Ki Hommage à Edgar Varèse – 25.10.64(Homage to Edgar Varèse – 25.10.64), 1964 The Chinese-born artist Zao Wou-Ki was one of the leading figures of lyrical abstraction from the late 1950s on. He settled in France in 1948…
Anne-Julie Raccoursier Grace-Notes, 2005 Anne-Julie Raccoursier’s video work stands at the intersection of recorded live scenes and spectacularly staged images. She starts from real life, working on the images…
On display Leiko Ikemura Gelbe Figur mit drei Armen (Yellow Figure with Three Arms), 1996 Leiko Ikemura left her native Japan for Europe in 1972 and began developing her oeuvre after studying drawing at the Seville school for fine arts,…
On display John M Armleder Furniture Sculpture 189, 1988 In 1969, John M Armleder organised his first public event, the Ecart Happening Festival, in Geneva. This marked the creation of the Ecart group, part…
Miriam Cahn das klassische lieben – femmes (classic love – women), 1981 For Miriam Cahn, the body is more than just a tool; it is also her subject. It makes perfect sense to her to depict the…
Francine Simonin Composition, 1978 Francine Simonin works in painting, drawing and engraving. Her physical approach to her art differs according to the medium, but always displays the same sheer…
Renée Green Commemorative Toile, 1992 Renée Green collects words, images, narratives and sounds. She journeys back and forth between past and present, between real and imaginary spaces, between disciplines, layering…
Aloïse (Aloïse Corbaz, dite) Bonne année (Happy New Year), between 1951 and 1960 Aloïse did not see herself as an artist but as a scribe: ‘I copy what I hear’, she wrote. Interned in an asylum for more…
Rolf Iseli Blauer Homme du jonc (Blue Bulrush Man), 1976 Rolf Iseli first came to public attention in the mid-1950s for canvases in which pictorial technique and physical energy were themselves the object of the…
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