Esther Shalev-Gerz White Out – Between Telling and Listening, 2002 Esther Shalev-Gerz was born in Lithuania, brought up in Israel, and now lives in Paris. Her art explores the construction of individual and collective memories.…
On display Gustave Buchet L’Esprit nouveau (The New Spirit), 1925/8 The titles of the opening chapters of Après le cubisme (After Cubism) [1918] reflect the questions of Amédée Ozenfant and Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (better known as…
Paul Klee Am Nil (On the Nile), 1939 Paul Klee spent four weeks travelling across Egypt, from Alexandria to Cairo and from Luxor to Aswan, from 17 December 1928 to 17 January 1929.…
On display Giovanni Giacometti Alberto che legge (Alberto Reading), c. 1915 This portrait shows the home in Stampa where Giovanni Giacometti spent the last four decades of his life. By the time Alberto, the first of…
Harun Farocki Vergleich über ein Drittes (Comparison via a Third), 2007 The work of filmmaker, video artist, and photographer Harun Farocki explores with rare incisiveness the question of the image, especially the documentary image and its…
Nalini Malani Unity in Diversity, 2003 Nalini Malani is a politically committed artist who sees her work as an active, eyewitness account of modern society. The work mimics a middle-class Indian…
Judith Albert Nu à l’écharpe orange (Nude with Orange Scarf), 2009 From the mid-1990s on, Judith Albert worked with moving images, exploring their potential for capturing subtle variations such as almost imperceptible changes in light, pose…
Emmanuelle Antille As Deep as Our Sleep, As Fast as Your Heart II, 2001 Emmanuelle Antille studied at the École supérieure des arts visuels in Geneva and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam and has been working in…
Stéphane Zaech Pearl Harbor (Madonna dell’Orto), 2007 Entering Stéphane Zaech’s imaginary realm and his studio are equally reassuring experiences. The visitor feels a sense of familiarity on seeing genres canonised by art…
Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen Les échappés de l’enfer II (Survivors of Hell), 1917 Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen was fifty-five years old when Germany declared war on France on 3 August 1914, ushering in the twentieth century’s litany of horrors. The…
On display Pauline Boudry, Renate Lorenz Normal Work, 2007 Born in Lausanne and based in Berlin since the late 1990s, Pauline Boudry has developed a practice that embraces film and video on the one…
Fabrice Gygi Crossblocks, 2001 Fabrice Gygi’s sculptures are inspired by barriers, sandbag walls, airbags, roadblocks, control towers, pylons and water cannons, all forms of street furniture that play a…
On display Albert Oehlen Ohne Titel (Untitled), 1981 Having trained at the Hamburg Hochschule für bildende Künste in the late 1970s, Albert Oehlen is part of the generation of artists who have focused…
Didier Rittener Bouc (Billy Goat), 2004 Didier Rittener designs his transfers, prints, sculptures and murals based on an archive of pencil drawings on A4 tracing paper. The drawings depict faces, animals,…
Jim Shaw The Goodman Image File and Study, 2002 After studying at the California Institute of the Arts alongside artists such as Mike Kelley, John Miller and Tony Oursler, Jim Shaw developed his own…
Olivier Mosset Pink Star, 1990 Olivier Mosset moved to New York in 1977 after more than ten years in Paris. In an artistic context influenced by its minimalist heritage, he…
Tony DeLap Tango Tangles II, 1966 In the 1960s, the American art scene was divided between the east and west coasts and underwent a profound shift in artistic practice, due in…
Robert Breer Jumelles (Twins), 1970 In 1952 Robert Breer started making films parallel to his practice of painting. The first of these, Form Phases I, shows his interest in movement…
Albrecht Schnider Ohne Titel (Untitled), 1989 Albrecht Schnider enjoyed critical acclaim in the mid-1980s for his icon-like portraits, whose austerity has often been compared to that of Félix Vallotton. This canvas,…
Niklaus Stoecklin Portrait de Tatjana Barbakoff (Portrait of Tatjana Barbakoff), 1929 In 1925, both the Swiss artist Niklaus Stoecklin and his Latvian subject Tatjana Barbakoff began their rise to international fame. Stoecklin was the only non-German…
Hendrik Voogd Campagne romaine sous un ciel d’orage (Roman Countryside under a Stormy Sky), c. 1800 Born in Amsterdam and trained at the city’s municipal art school, Hendrik Voogd spent all his career in Rome, where he settled at the age…
Markus Raetz CECI – CELA (THIS – THAT), 1992-1993 Markus Raetz has been interested in perception since the 1960s. He uses simple, ingenious tricks to design sculptures that are transformed by movement: either…
Alice Bailly Jeu d'éventail (Playing with a Fan) or Femme à l'éventail (Woman with a Fan), 1913 Alice Bailly studied in Geneva before moving to Paris in 1906, where she became an admirer of fauvism. Her work already showed signs of the…
On display Charles Gleyre La danse des bacchantes (The Dance of the Bacchants), 1849 An exclusively female affair, the bacchanal takes place under the implacable gaze of a hieratic priestess who is the guardian of the altar supporting the…
Félix Vallotton La chaste Suzanne (The Chaste Susanna), 1922 The act of seeing – from dazzlement to the risk of unhinging reason – is the guiding thread of the biblical story that Vallotton, now…
Christian Boltanski Réserve des Suisses morts (Reserve of Dead Swiss), 1990 Christian Boltanski was a painter before turning to photography and film. He is renowned for his installations that are part inventory, part archive, exploring our…
Bruce Nauman Raw Material « MMMM », 1990 Raw Material ‘MMMM’ is part of a series of six video installations in which Bruce Nauman combines the movement of the body and vocal exercises.…
