Museum Haus Konstruktiv is the leading institution for constructivist, concrete, and conceptual art in Switzerland, and is highly regarded internationally. This art form, characterized by the accomplishments of the Zurich Concretists surrounding Max Bill, Richard Paul Lohse, Camille Graeser, and Verena Loewensberg from the 1930s to 1950s, is now so essential to the landscape of modernism, that it is no longer possible to imagine this landscape without it. We have made it our task to keep this art-historical heritage alive and to link it to contemporary art. One of our objectives is to demonstrate the interfaces that connect the legacy of constructivist-concrete art with the international art scene – and the past with the present.
The art-historical background comprises Russian constructivism and the constructivist-concrete stimuli of 1920s and 1930s Western Europe, including the Bauhaus, but also kinetic art, op art and 1960s American minimal art, as well as 1960s conceptual art, which arose from the tendency toward reduction that all of the above have in common.
Juerg Staeuble
Museum Haus Konstruktiv is the leading institution for constructivist, concrete, and conceptual art in Switzerland, and is highly regarded internationally. This art form, characterized by the accomplishments of the Zurich Concretists surrounding Max Bill, Richard Paul Lohse, Camille Graeser, and Verena Loewensberg from the 1930s to 1950s, is now so essential to the landscape of modernism, that it is no longer possible to imagine this landscape without it. We have made it our task to keep this art-historical heritage alive and to link it to contemporary art. One of our objectives is to demonstrate the interfaces that connect the legacy of constructivist-concrete art with the international art scene – and the past with the present.
The art-historical background comprises Russian constructivism and the constructivist-concrete stimuli of 1920s and 1930s Western Europe, including the Bauhaus, but also kinetic art, op art and 1960s American minimal art, as well as 1960s conceptual art, which arose from the tendency toward reduction that all of the above have in common.
Juerg Staeuble
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Urban Art Biennale 2026May 15 – Nov 15, 2026The URBAN ART BIENNALE is one of the world’s largest exhibitions of this anarchic art form, which transcends conventional ‘white cube’ aesthetics. Since 2011, every two years, the entire site of the Völklinger Hütte enters into dialog with this art form...
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The Assault of IllusionMar 18 – Sep 27, 2026The Assault of Illusion presents a reading of art as a tool for producing illusions and deceptions and explores how this, throughout its history, has progressively shaped both our desire and what we understand as “reality”.
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Fondation BeyelerMuseum / Riehen, SwitzerlandThe Fondation Beyeler is a museum of modern and contemporary art open 365 days a year. Its exhibitions of renowned artists of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries have brought the museum international recognition and established it as Switzerland’s most popular art museum.
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Fondazione Arte CRT: The ProgramThrough 2027Since 2000, the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT has been building a collection of modern and contemporary art for the benefit of the Piedmont community and its museum network, with acquisitions for GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino and Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea.
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Christina Kubisch. The Emergence of SoundMay 24 – Sep 20, 2026For more than five decades, sound artist and composer Christina Kubisch (born in 1948 in Bremen) has been making artworks at the intersection of visual art and music, combining composition, installation, performance, drawing, video, and electronic music.
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Museo MadreContemporary Art Museum / NaplesIn the historical heart of Naples, the three floors of the 19th-century Palazzo Donnaregina host the Madre Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina: 7,200 m2 of exhibition space, with site-specific installations, as well as works from the permanent collection and temporary exhibitions.
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Art Week Tokyo 2026November 4–8, 2026
Art Week Tokyo 2026 expands its activation of the city’s diverse array of museums and art spaces. New institutional highlights include Nam June Paik: The 20th Anniversary of His Passing at Watari-um…
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CameraItalian Center for PhotographyA project of international scope, undertaken in the autumn of 2015 with a range of private partnerships, CAMERA aims to reinforce its connection with the territorial system ever more: a unique hub dedicated to photography...
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I Want To See A Lighthouseby Gary Briechle
Gary Briechle’s practice is disciplined, almost monastic. Every day roving around Rockland, Maine in an SUV loaded with chemicals, looking at the same mundane scenes and subjects, but expecting different results.
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George Watson: The ChoiceJul 4 – Oct 11, 2026In this installation artist George Watson brings together a series of seemingly divergent references – to the farm, the villa, and 19th-century English literature. Recurring elements across the artist’s practice, here they are positioned within a larger narrative...
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Julie Bullard / Nadia Lee Cohen & Martin ParrPublication
Julie Bullard, a work of photographic fiction by Nadia Lee Cohen and Martin Parr. The book is designed as a late-seventies photo album, closely modelled on an example acquired from eBay, complete with faux leather spongy board covers…
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Panorama: Dreams and PlacesFeb 19 – Oct 18, 2026Aiming to present a thematic narrative on contemporary photography and lens-based art in Türkiye, “Panorama: Dreams and Places” brings together a comprehensive selection of works produced since the 2010s by 18 artists from different generations.
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2027 Brooks International Fellowship ProgrammeDeadline: October 21, 2026
Tate, in collaboration with Delfina Foundation, invites applications for the Brooks International Fellowship Programme 2027. Now in its thirteenth year, the programme will enable practitioners to work with Tate…
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Sean Scully, 48Apr 18, 2026 – Dec 24, 2028LongHouse welcomes the world-renowned Irish American artist Sean Scully into the garden with his colored stack entitled 48, 2024, a work that epitomizes his deliberate use of stripes and color, with gestures toward land, sea, and sky.
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Relic 4: Larry AchiampongOct 16 – Dec 12, 2026This autumn, Larry Achiampong will present his new film Relic 4 (2026) at KARST, revisiting the cinematic universe of the Relic Traveller project after a six-year hiatus. Exploring themes of fallen empire, class, and displacement...
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Arnold J. Kemp: Not One ThingJul 28 – Dec 6, 2026
Arnold J. Kemp: Not One Thing is the first institutional survey of work by the Chicago-based artist Arnold J. Kemp (b. 1968, Boston). The exhibition focuses on Kemp’s performative and material tendencies of masking, traced through various media.
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Shenzhen Art and Technology BiennaleMay 30, 2026 – Apr 30, 2027The inaugural edition of the Shenzhen Art and Technology Biennale (SATB) opens to the public from May 30, 2026, to April 30, 2027 at Shenzhen International Museum of Art (SIMoA). With its theme A Glimpse of the Infinite, this edition is directed by Zikang Zhang.
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Lise SarfatiPhotographerBorn in 1958 in Oran, Algeria Lise Sarfati lives and works between Paris and Los Angeles and is represented by Yossi Milo Gallery, NY, Rose Gallery, LA, La Galerie Particulière, Paris.
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