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Robin Rhode
Zurich Art Prize 2018
25 October to 13 January 2019
Media orientation: 23 October, 11 am
The Zurich Art Prize goes 2018 to Robin Rhode (b. 1976 in Cape Town, lives in Berlin). His oeuvre is characterized by a combination of street art, painting, performance, film and photography, whereby drawing often forms the basis. Rhodes latest works contain references to modernism, play with the vocabulary of constructivism and incorporate notions from color theory.
Museum of Desires
Zurich Concretists from Swiss Collections
25 October to 13 January 2019
Media orientation: 23 October, 11 am
Under the title Museum of Desires, which is already well-known in the artworld, Museum Haus Konstruktiv presents a wish list of Zurich Concretists’ works for the in-house collection.
Helga Philipp
25 October to 13 January 2019
Media orientation: 23 October, 11 am
Austrian artist Helga Philipp (1939–2002) will be honored in an overview show. With her oeuvre, situated in the realm of kinetic art and op art, she made a key pioneering contribution to constructivist trends in Austria.
Concrete Contemporary
7 February to 5 May 2019
Media orientation: 5 February, 11 am / Opening: 6 February, 6 pm
Taking the question of the extent to which contemporary art production latches onto our art-historical heritage as a starting point, Museum Haus Konstruktiv presents a large-scale group exhibition that has the nature of a statement. On all four floors of Museum Haus Konstruktiv, works by over 30 artists from Switzerland and abroad are on display.
Zurich Art Prize 2019: Leonor Antunes
31 October 2019 to 12 January 2020
Media orientation: 29 October, 11 am / Opening: 30 October, 6 pm
In 2019, the Zurich Art Prize goes to Portuguese artist Leonor Antunes (b. 1972 in Lisbon, lives and works in Berlin). Antunes is known for her large-scale installations, in which she refers to themes and artists from the domains of 20th-century architecture, design and art.
Fritz Glarner’s “Rockefeller Dining Room” revisited by Alfredo Häberli
Permanent Presentation from the collection
The famous designer Alfredo Häberli was invited to conceive a new interior design for Fritz Glarner’s permanently exhibited Rockefeller Dining Room (1963/64), so as to make it possible to experience Glarner’s room-specific work in the context of a dining room once again.
Museum Haus Konstruktiv
Museum Haus Konstruktiv is located in the Heart of Zurich, in one of the finest industrial buildings: the former electrical substation Selnau. The museum is the leading institution for constructivist, concrete, and conceptual art in Switzerland, and is highly regarded internationally.