Theodora Vischer in conversation with Annabelle Selldorf
21 January, 2024
Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
Theodora Vischer with Annabelle Selldorf
Photo: C. Raman Schlemmer
Annabelle Selldorf
Photo: C. Raman Schlemmer
Annabelle Selldorf, architect, living and working in New York, USA, principal of Selldorf Architects, in conversation with Theodora Vischer presented some of her current and completed projects. Ranging from museums to recycling facilities, and at scales from large to details, new constructions, to historic renovations, critical engagement, to exhibition design. Selldorf grew up in the vibrant Cologne art scene of the 1970s. In conversation, she explained her commissions on uplifting historic museum buildings such as the Frick Museum in New York City, the National Gallery, London, and new buildings such as the Sunset Park Material Recovery Facility, in Brooklyn, New York. Selldorf impresses with her spatial clarity and organizational rhythm. The conversation confirmed that her work cannot be reduced to a specific style, but rather explores in individual projects a wide range of architectural typologies.
The conversation was part of Fondation Beyeler’s conversation series “Women in Art”, supported by patronesses. Theodora Vischer is chief curator at Fondation Beyeler.
Jeff Wall
Exhibition until 21 April, 2024
Artist Talk, 28 January, 2024
Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
Martin Schwander, curator
Catalogue book, edited by Martin Schwander
Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2024
Le Figaro “Jeff Wall, l’homme invisible de Vancouver”
9 February, 2024
©Valerie Duponchelle, Le Figaro
Jeff Wall Talk at Fondation Beyeler on 28 January, 2024
Photo: C. Raman Schlemmer
Jeff Wall Talk at Fondation Beyeler on 28 January, 2024
Photo: C. Raman Schlemmer
Jeff Wall (*1946) says about his large photographs, “Each picture has been written without writing”. He describes his activity as “to write pictures”. And he talks about “the cosmic fascination of photographs”. In the 1980s a change of identity of photography occurred and Jeff Wall was very much part of this change in photography as art form.To him photography offers the challenge of the freedom of scale, allowing to view at the same time many details, in contrast to the “laborious quality of painting”, the creation of photography is technically effortless, to Wall “the effortless quality” of the medium photography. Until 2007 Jeff Wall presented his artworks often as large-scale transparencies in light boxes. With the advancement of digital printing technology, the technical parameters changed, and he excelled with this new digital printing method. The exhibition at Fondation Beyeler includes early and recent works, more than fifty works each with a distinctive story. The works are not chronologically installed but in the spacious galleries with daylight at Fondation Beyeler, Jeff Wall created groups, giving each space a character. Pastoral motives, with the human being at the centre, be it the anthropologist, the storyteller, imaginary characters, like the “Thinker” (see image), unpremeditated moments, his observations “of what happens in the world”. His cinematographic narratives originate from film, which he turns into slowness, still photography. Once completed, the pictures become autonomous images, then “the viewer writes the picture”, putting the viewer into “a mild dilemma”.
René Burri: In Deutschland
Kunsthalle Erfurt, Germany
until 11 February 2024
René Burri 1933 - 2014
Member of Magnum Photo
Images: René Burri visiting the Chapel of Ronchamp, France, designed by Le Corbusier. René Burri
photographed Le Corbusier during construction of the chapel in the 1950s. C. Raman
Schlemmer, who accompanied Claude and René Burri to Ronchamp on 8 September 2013,
has been visiting the chapel since his childhood.
The Chapel Notre-Dame du Haut of Ronchamp is listed on the UNESCO World Heritage Site
KIMSOOJA Unfolding Bottari
Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Humboldt Forum, Berlin, Germany
until 19 February 2024
Photo: © C. Raman Schlemmer next to KimSooja's artwork "To Breath: Mandala", 2010
Katharina Schmidt, director emerita + Elena Filipovic designated director, Kunstmuseum Basel
25 November 2023
Photo: © C. Raman Schlemmer
Theaster Gates «Wir sagen Danke» Josef Helfenstein
Kunstmuseum Basel
25 November 2023
Recording: © C. Raman Schlemmer
Charlemagne Palestine
"Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo"
Meredith Rosen Gallery
Opens 4 November 202311 East 80th Street
New York, USA
Wolfgang Laib
"...e vidi cose che ridire né sa né può…"
Galleria Lia Rumma
via Stilicone 19, Milan, Italy
25 October 2023 - 13 January 2024
Wolfgang Laib
"Passageway"
Villa e Collezione Panza
Varese, Italy
27 October 2023 - 25 February 2024
El Greco
Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
11 October 2023 - 11 February 2024
First El Greco (Domenikos Theotokópoulos) exhibition in Milan with rarely seen paintings
"Picasso Sculptor. Matter and Body"
Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain
29 September 2023 – 14 January 2024
Curated by Carmen Gimenez, this is the first exhibition of Pablo Picasso sculpture in Spain. The exhibition is part of the cycle of 50 exhibitions in the year of the 50th death anniversary of the artist, a French-Spanish collaboration. The exhibition originated at the Museo Picasso Malaga, Spain, 2023, supported by Picasso’s grandson Bernard Ruiz Picasso and his foundation.
Thomas Huber
"Lago Maggiore"
LAC
Piazza Bernardino Luini 6, Lugano, Switzerland
8 October 2023 – 28 January 2024
Lyonel Feininger
Schirn Kunsthalle
Römerberg, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
27 October 2023 – 18 February 2024
The first major retrospective of the artist in Germany in over 25 years!
Picasso El Greco
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland, 2022
Ed. Carmen Giménez, Josef Helfenstein
See catalogue of the exhibition:
Analivia Cordeiro "From Body to Code"
ZKM | center for art and media karlsruhe
28 January – 7 May, 2023
Considered a pioneer in both video art and computer-based video dance as well as an innovator in body art, the Brazilian artist, dancer, and choreographer Analivia Cordeiro (*1954) has been developing since the early 1970s a continuous and intense work exploring the relationships between body, movement, visual and audiovisual art as well as media art.
Ukraine
Working Room Asortymentna Kimnata
Artist Residency Programme in Western Ukraine
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