1 junio 2008 – 17 agosto 2008

Samlung / Collection

The exhibition links recent collection acquisitions to older works of the migros museum für gegenwartskunst collection. This year it is celebrating its 30th year jubilee with, amongst others, works by Monica Bonvicini, Christoph Büchel, Maurizio Cattelan, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Dan Flavin, Gilbert & George, Douglas Gordon, Mark Leckey, Bruce Nauman, Cady Noland, Katharina Sieverding, Stephen Willats and Cathy Wilkes. The actual concern of the collection concept is to make contact with contemporary art production and direct it at a broad-minded public in a lively and vital environment. Purchases for the collection have arisen, for the most part, from works produced for exhibitions, or at the very least in working together with the artists involved. Thus, over a period of decades, various large-scale installation works have been acquired. In a quite unique way it makes it possible for the migros museum für gegenwartskunst, not just to collect suitable works from the art market, but to obtain installations that otherwise would have had little chance of being permanently maintained. The exhibition architecture is an extension of the display form Markus Schinwald implemented in his own exhibition. Schinwald, orients his spatial design around that of Friedrich Kiesler’s (1890–1965) spatial designs, in this way achieving not a mere arrangement of the works, but follows the concept through toward a holistic Correalism. This places the individual requirements of the people and the works in the foreground, and not the standardised forms. The exhibition display is determined by a «Trager and Leger System», which integrates the spectator into a spatial and temporal framework. Herein the spectator is made conscious once more of his/her role as «active see-er» («aktiver Sehender») enabling him/her to follow and develop his/her own analogies and narrative strands.
The exhibition is curated by Heike Munder. At the end of May a comprehensive exhibition catalogue will be published by JRP|Ringier, featuring text contributions by Nicolas Bourriaud, Dan Fox, Raphael Gygax, Tom Holert, Heike Munder, Philip Ursprung, Astrid Wege, Judith Welter, Jan Verwoert and Tirdad Zolghadr. This is to provide, for the first time, a complete inventory of the core form and substance of the collection.

dirección

migros museum Zürich
Limmatstrasse 270
8005 Zürich
fon +41 44 277 20 50
http://www.migrosmuseum.ch

horarios

Tuesday-Friday 12 p.m. - 6 p.m. ; Thursday - 8 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.; closed on Monday.

en el período de 10 dias
comienzo de exposiciones
finalizacion de exposiciones