Europe
dal 11/6/2015 al 5/9/2015
Segnalato da
Kader Attia
Marc Bauer
Arnold Böcklin
Herbert Brandl
Honoré Daumier
Fischli/Weiss
Dani Gal
Ferdinand Hodler
Thomas Imbach
Anna Jermolaewa
Ilya Kabakov
Nikita Kadan
Bouchra Khalili
Paul Klee
Daniel Knorr
Christian Philipp Muller
Nives Widauer
11/6/2015
Europe
Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich
The Future of History. The exhibition comprises some 100 works by 50 artists from all parts of the continent, in the media of painting, photography, video and installation.
What image represents Europe? The fall of the Berlin Wall, perhaps, and the unification of Eastern and Western Europe after four decades of division along ideological lines? The reconstruction and the economic miracle following the disaster of the Second World War? Universal human rights and a political consensus among Europeans based on freedom and democracy? Or football championships and the Eurovision Song Contest? Not since Antiquity has a single image stood for Europe, and any that purports to do so can only be a fragment. Europe is a multifaceted mosaic that, despite tensions beneath the surface, is no longer at risk of breaking apart.
In 1924 Ernst Ludwig Kirchner posed the question: ‘A unified Europe would be the end of wars and it will come, but when?’ This exhibition sets out to chart the various forms in which society’s ongoing desire for a peaceful Europe has been depicted through the history of ideas. It takes in atmospheric themes such as the delineation and dissolution of frontiers, landscape as a factor in the construction of identity, the development of democracy, labour and mobility.
The most comprehensive art exhibition on Europe in Switzerland since 1991 comprises some 100 works by 50 artists from all parts of the continent, in the media of painting, photography, video and installation. The artists represented include Kader Attia, Marc Bauer, Arnold Böcklin, Herbert Brandl, Honoré Daumier, Fischli/Weiss, Dani Gal, Ferdinand Hodler, Thomas Imbach, Anna Jermolaewa, Ilya Kabakov, Nikita Kadan, Bouchra Khalili, Paul Klee, Daniel Knorr, Christian Philipp Müller and Nives Widauer.
Image: Osman Bozkurt, Marks of Democracy / Portraits of the Voters, 2002, C-print, 10 works: each 40 x 60 cm, Deutsche Bank collection, photo: Martin Url, Frankfurt, © Osman Bozkurt
Press Contact: Kristin Steiner, kristin.steiner@kunsthaus.ch
Opening: Friday 13 June 2015
Kunsthaus Zurich
Heimplatz 1
Tue 10am to 6pm, Wed
Thu 10am to 8pm, Fri
Sun 10am to 6pm