Past exhibitions

Alice Pauli. Gallerist, Collector, Art Patron

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Paying homage to the gallerist and art patron Alice Pauli, this show hails the extraordinary career of a pioneer. Figures from the realm of international contemporary art, notable artists on the Swiss scene — the many names behind the features works are those that this exceptional woman had been eager to see brought together and showcased in a single venue.

Uriel Orlow. Forest Futurism

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For his show in the MCBA Espace Projet venue, Uriel Orlow is presenting a series of new works from a research project begun in Bolzano (Italy) which takes fossilised trees as its main subjects, in order to explore the extended time of climate change.

Surrealism. Le Grand Jeu

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This transhistorical show, the first thematic exhibition devoted to Surrealism at MCBA since 1987, examines the unprecedented relevance today of this major movement in the history of art. Surrealism, a young centenarian, hasn’t aged one bit.

Babi Badalov. Xenopoetri

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MCBA is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition in Switzerland devoted to the work of Babi Badalov. Both writing and drawing, the artist’s visual poetry explores the political and poetic possibilities of language.

Immersion.
The Origins: 1949-1969

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With fourteen immersive environments by a range of artists, from Lucio Fontana to Judy Chicago, Immersion. The Origins: 1949-1969 is the first exhibition to look at an emerging practice that was to become one of the major forms of expression starting in the 1990s.