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Brigitte Kowanz
6 February to 10 May 2020
Media orientation: 4 February, 11 am / Opening: 5 February, 6 pm
Museum Haus Konstruktiv opens 2020 with a solo exhibition on Austrian artist Brigitte Kowanz (b. 1957 in Vienna, lives and works in Vienna). This retrospective show conveys how, since the 1980s, Kowanz has been making it possible to experience the medium of light as both a stand-alone phenomenon and an information carrier.
Otto Piene
6 February to 10 May 2020
Media orientation: 4 February, 11 am / Opening: 5 February, 6 pm
Light plays a central role in the oeuvre of the German artist Otto Piene (b. 1928 in Bad Laasphe, d. 2014 in Berlin), as do the elements fire and air. Alongside grid, smoke and fire paintings, Haus Konstruktiv is exhibiting light installations and so-called air sculptures.
Zurich Art Prize 2020: Amalia Pica
22 October 2020 to 10 January 2021
Media orientation: 20 October, 11 am / Opening: 21 October, 6 pm
It is a great pleasure for Museum Haus Konstruktiv and Zurich Insurance Group Ltd to announce the thirteenth winner of the internationally renowned Zurich Art Prize: In 2020, this art award goes to Argentine artist Amalia Pica.
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.
