No need for FOMO! Art Basel Week Roundup
This year it seemed that everyone arrived in Zurich during the days before Art Basel, although calling the event “Zurich…
Mitchell Anderson
Elevation 1049: Interstices, Gstaad
Zurich’s art scene was unseasonably busy, so I simply had to miss the first day of the fourth edition of…
Liz Larner "below above" Kunsthalle Zurich
On a clear moonless night, looking out from the shore, the horizon might disappear and the two great physical voids…
Zurich Art Weekend
The first full-fledged Zurich art weekend since 2019, with its bacchanalia of dinners and brunches, might have taken place during…
Steven Parrino Gagosian / Basel
For all the mythology that dogs the legacy of Steven Parrino, two decades after his death at the age of…
artgenève 10th Edition: Always On the Mark
The regional fair always receives unfair derision when compared with the Basels, Miamis, and Friezes on the art world’s dance…
“The Films of Guillaume Dustan (2000–2004)” Fri Art Kunsthalle / Fribourg
At the turn of the millennium, Guillaume Dustan was a spark plug of queer issues. His autofictional debut novel made…
Narcissus and Echo: The Singular Multiverse of Ebecho Muslimova
She reinvents herself as furniture, flora, or fauna; examines herself in any reflection she can find and dances the macabre;…
Lydia Ourahmane “Barzakh” Kunsthalle Basel
The correlation between one’s home situation and one’s life has been a tireless truism of this past year — and…
“Nour El Ain (نور العين)” Karma International / Zurich
Our heritages bind us, socially and emotionally, to our intimate desires. This engaging exhibition confronts themes of humanity’s thirst for…
Raphael Hefti “Salutary Failures” Kunsthalle Basel
Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park (1993), a morality tale about the wonders of technology at the end of the twentieth century,…
Shirana Shahbazi "Reality Show" Peter Kilchmann / Zurich
Lightly saturating Peter Kilchmann’s Zurich gallery with color-blocked walls, wallpapers, and framed images of varied sizes and types, Shirana Shahbazi’s…
“Potential Worlds 1: Planetary Memories” Migros Museum / Zurich
The environmental exhibition exploring humanity’s impact on the natural world has become something of a rite of passage for museums…
“Circular Flow. On the Economy of Inequality” Kunstmuseum / Basel
It’s a new decade. One continent just burned and another is sure to. We are either at the precipice of…
David Reed Häusler Contemporary / Zurich
David Reed’s works seem bizarre in our present moment, but what’s here cannot be dismissed, consistently compelling a deeper return.…