Where contemporary art and music meet: the Löwenbräukunst Areal in Zurich. On Thursday, the institutions there presented program items until autumn.
“The musicians will react to the artworks to a certain extent,” Anna-Maria Pfab, Marketing and Communications Officer at Hauser & Wirth, told Keystone-SDA on Thursday. Whether in the gallery premises in Zurich’s Löwenbräukunst Areal or externally – concerts are planned between the works of art. When exactly the first such event will take place is not yet certain.
The new collaboration was announced at a press event in the Löwenkunst Areal. All of the institutions located there, the Kunsthalle Zürich, Luma Westbau, Hauser & Wirth and the Migros Museum for Contemporary Art, provided information about their current exhibitions and those planned for autumn 2023.
The exhibition of works by the Belgian artist Berlinde De Bruyckere will open on Thursday evening with “A simple prophesy”. She immediately gave a personal tour of her exhibition and spoke, among other things, about the idea behind her new sculptures from the Arcangelo series, which are based on thinking about the shapes and roles of angels. Her show is “a powerful meditation on the fundamental human quest for transformation, transcendence and reconciliation in the light of mortality,” according to the press documents.
This coming Saturday, “The Visitors”, a low-threshold and very beneficial video installation by the Icelandic performance artist and musician Ragnar Kjartansson, will also open at the Migros Museum of Contemporary Art. Surrounded by screens, visitors can be emotionally guided by a polyphonic song played by numerous instruments. With the support of impressive images, the work makes the power of music particularly clear.
In addition, exhibitions by Pippa Garner (February 4 – May 14, Kunsthalle), Cindy Sherman (June 9 – September 23, Hauser & Wirth) and Arthur Jafa (June 9 – September 17, Luma Westbau) and numerous supporting events are planned.
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