Bechtler Stiftung
Museum For Contemporary Art
The Bechtler Stiftung is a museum for contemporary art in Uster which houses The 2000 Sculpture by Walter de Maria and the video installation I Couldn’t Agree With You More by Pipilotti Rist. Parallel to the two permanent installations, the Bechtler Stiftung shows temporary exhibitions with works by contemporary artists from Switzerland and abroad twice a year and offers guided tours and an art mediation programme.
Directly behind the museum building is the Zellweger Park, which is freely accessible and where important works of international and Swiss contemporary art can be discovered.
Hans Danuser, Erosion III 2000-2005
Bechtler Stiftung
Museum For Contemporary Art
The Bechtler Stiftung is a museum for contemporary art in Uster which houses The 2000 Sculpture by Walter de Maria and the video installation I Couldn’t Agree With You More by Pipilotti Rist. Parallel to the two permanent installations, the Bechtler Stiftung shows temporary exhibitions with works by contemporary artists from Switzerland and abroad twice a year and offers guided tours and an art mediation programme.
Directly behind the museum building is the Zellweger Park, which is freely accessible and where important works of international and Swiss contemporary art can be discovered.
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Hans Danuser, Erosion III 2000-2005
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peter campus: Three TransitionsOct 27 – Dec 16, 2023Created in 1973, the video work Three Transitions was produced at Boston’s WGBH-TV public television station through their “New Television Workshop” fellowship program. Since its initial presentation at Bykert Gallery that same year, Three Transitions has been exhibited at numerous institutions, (more…)
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Luigi Ghirri: A Foot in Eden and Other LooksApr 28, 2023 – Feb 25, 2024The exhibition offers a broad reflection on the natural element by bringing together three experiences that take place around the same time and in which photography, drawing and graphics act as privileged devices in relocating nature within our perceptive horizon in which often occupies a secondary, background role. (more…)
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Alec SothPhotographerAlec Soth’s work is rooted in the distinctly American tradition of ‘on-the-road photography’ developed by Walker Evans, Robert Frank, and Stephen Shore. From Huckleberry Finn to Easy Rider there seems to be a uniquely American desire to travel and chronicle the adventures that consequently ensue. (more…)
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Joel Sternfeld: American ProspectsSep 28, 2023 – Jan 21, 2024Joel Sternfeld numbers among the most important protagonists of the New Color Photography movement, which discovered color for art photography in the 1970s. Sternfeld has spent years traveling around the United States as a critical observer, documenting the country and its inhabitants in all their idiosyncrasies and contradictions. (more…)
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KAFKA: 1924Oct 26, 2023 – Feb 11, 2024To mark the 100th anniversary of the death of Franz Kafka, the Museum VILLA STUCK pays tribute to the writer’s unending relevance and extraordinary power with a large-scale exhibition featuring contemporary artists. In addition to shaping generations of writers throughout the world, Kafka’s work has had an impact on numerous other fields of art (more…)
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Helen Cammock: I Will Keep My SoulPublicationConvening polyphonous voices from past and present, I Will Keep My Soul is an orchestral layering of photography, historical documents, poetry and interviews, all rooted in the social history, geography and community of New Orleans. In this prismatic artist’s book, UK-based artist Helen Cammock traverses the city, rendering her observations and encounters into reverberant texts and percipient photographic images that tender the city’s invisible histories. (more…)
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FotografiskaPhotography CenterFotografiska is an international meeting place where everything revolves around photography. Located in the heart of Stockholm, with additional locations in New York, London and Tallinn (more…)
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Lyonel Feininger: RetrospectiveOct 27, 2023 – Feb 18, 2024The German-American artist Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956) is a classic name in modern art. The SCHIRN is dedicating the first major retrospective in Germany in over twenty-five years to this important painter and graphic artist, portraying a comprehensive and surprising overview of his creative work. Feininger is famous for his paintings of buildings, crystalline architectures in unmistakable monumentality, and harmonious colors. (more…)
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Adrianna Ault: LeveePublicationAdrianna Ault was raised in New Orleans where a 350 mile levee system controls and holds back flood waters. This project began as Ault attempted to better understand the landscape surrounding the city, but evolved over the course of 5-years to encompass her changing family, journeys they took and the processing of grief. The levee became a metaphor for the barriers built in an attempt to ward off inevitable decline, and the onslaught of time and nature. (more…)
