Bice Curiger Appointed Director of the 54th International Art Exhibition for 2011

VENICE.- The Board of the Biennale di Venezia, chaired by Paolo Baratta, has appointed Bice Curiger as Director of the Visual Arts Sector, with specific responsibility for curating the 54th International Art Exhibition to be held in 2011. A graduate of the University of Zurich, Bice Curiger is an art historian, critic and curator of exhibitions at an international level. Since 1993, she has been curator at the Zurich Kunsthaus, one of the most important museums in the world for [...]

The Work of Zurich Painter and Poet Salomon Gessner Presented at Kunsthaus Zürich

ZURICH.- In an exhibition entitled ‘Idyll in an Obstructed Landscape’, to run from 26 February until 16 May 2010, the Kunsthaus Zürich presents the work of Zurich painter and poet Salomon Gessner. The show reconstructs Gessner’s cabinet, which comprises 20 gouaches and watercolours and laid the cornerstone for the Kunsthaus collection in the first half of the 19th century. An additional 50 pieces from the museum’s own collection and on loan from owners domestic and foreign round out the survey [...]

Picasso Show Marks Kunsthaus Zurich’s 100th Birthday

ZURICH.- Kunsthaus Zurich, where Picasso had his first museum show in 1932, is celebrating its centenary with a special program including an exhibition showing how contemporaries received the Spanish artist’s work. The program kicks off on February 12 with a rare opportunity for the public to glimpse the world-renowned collection of controversial Zurich industrialist Emil Buehrle and culminates with a show marking the 150th anniversary of the birth of Carl Moser, the Jugendstil building’s architect. “We decided not to mark [...]