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Pure Gegenwart – Kunstmuseum, D – Singen

Jan 25 – Apr 12, 2026

Opening: Jan 25, 2026, 11 am

Markus Weggenmann (born 1953) is a painter through and through. His paintings, executed with high-load distemper, are extraordinary interactions between highly reduced forms on the one hand and homogeneous flat colors on the other. The spectrum ranges from light-absorbing to light-emitting colors. He became known in the 1990s with his vibrant striped paintings, which were already on display at the Kunstmuseum Singen at that time.

In 2026, the Kunstmuseum Singen will once again be showing a retrospective of the German-Swiss artist’s work. The current series “LW” is reminiscent of landscape formations and mountain panoramas. At the moment of perception, these forms tip over into pure, autonomous, clearly contoured areas of color interspersed with white fields of energy. Weggenmann thus creates unsettling, floating pictorial spaces that simultaneously draw us into a state of profound calm. Some critics say they are reminiscent of works of German Romanticism.

New York Studio School, New York

Nov 14, 2025 – Jan 5, 2026

The New York Studio School is pleased to present Joseph Marioni: Artist’s Choice, a works on paper retrospective, curated by Karen Wilkin, featuring more than thirty works on paper that trace the evolution of a painter’s half-century engagement with color, surface, and perception.

Marioni’s little-known works on paper offer a glimpse into a lifelong exploration rather than a definitive statement or conclusion. They bear witness to his investigation of the presentation of color on a flat surface. Neither representational nor abstracted from nature, they resist the conventions of drawing or depiction.

These works reflect the same convictions as Marioni’s paintings, yet operate in a different register. Executed primarily in oil pastel on papers ranging from cold-press watercolor to black German etching paper, they emphasize the pigment’s materiality as it lies richly on the surface while also articulating structural relationships between colored elements within the flat plane.

Joseph Marioni: Artist’s Choice underscores two concerns central to his practice: the truth to materials—does the medium exist honestly as itself? and the philosophical function of light—how does our perception of color place us within the dance of illumination itself? These inquiries, grounded in both craft and contemplation, unite the artist’s works on paper and paintings through a shared pursuit: to make visible the living presence of color, which Marioni believed to be the irreducible quality

f painting.

Joseph Marioni: Artist’s Choice invites viewers to experience this sustained dialogue between material and light, surface and perception, questioning and seeing.

Joseph Marioni: Artist’s Choice. A Works on Paper Retrospective is on view from November 14, 2025 – January 5, 2026. There will be an opening reception on November 14, 2025 from 6–8 PM. 

On Wednesday November 19, Harry Cooper, Bonnie Leal, and Timothy Rub will join curator Karen Wilkin in a panel discussion on Joseph Marioni: Artist’s Choice at 6:30 PM. The lecture is free and open to the public, hosted in person at 8 W 8th Street and livestreamed on Zoom and YouTube Live.

Loving Shedhalle – Shedhalle, CH – Zürich

Oct 25, 2025 – Jan 11, 2026

Loving Shedhalle marks the 40th anniversary of Shedhalle in 2025 and reflects on its history, artistic and curatorial strategies, and social resonance. The endeavor examines what it takes to maintain an independent art space in the long term. At its core is an in-depth exploration of the concerns that have shaped this space in its respective historical situations The title reflects the idea of loving as an affective practice: concerns are deeply interwoven with emotions, beliefs and decisions. At Shedhalle, for example, strategies and formats have been developed that aim at agencies of the arts beyond art. Curated by a team of three (Michael Hiltbrunner, Carla Peca, Lucie Tuma), three sub-projects will be created for this occasion:

developed and curated by Michael Hiltbrunner, Carla Peca, Lucie Tuma

www.loving.shedhalle.ch

 

Nun, da Himmel und Erde und Winde ruhen – Helmhaus, CH – Zürich

Oct 3, 2025 – Jan 4, 2026

The title of this exhibition is borrowed from a poem, a sonnet by the early Renaissance Italian poet Francis Petrarch (born Francesco di Petracco). The Baroque Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi set the poem to music in 1638. Three and a half centuries later, Jordi Savall recorded that now famous motet together with his wife, the singer Montserrat Figueras. The Catalan gamba player and musicologist owes much of his reputation as a maestro of ancient music to our neighbouring city of Basel. What makes us remember such old music, such old poetry? The title of the exhibition speaks of things serene and far away, embedded in the night, even though both poem and music date from a period fraught with unrest and war. Perhaps that sense of peace is what we, too, are yearning for amid all the imponderables of the present, which after all is what prompted the exhibition.

curated by Simon Maurer

Art 35 Basel

Jun 16 – Jun 21, 2004

Art 35 Basel Unlimited

Jun 16 – Jun 21, 2004

Art 34 Basel

Jun 17 – Jun 23, 2003

Art 33 Basel

Jun 12 – Jun 17, 2002

Art 32 Basel

Jun 13 – Jun 18, 2001

Art Cologne 2000

Nov 5 – Nov 12, 2000

Art Cologne 1999

Nov 7 – Nov 14, 1999

Art 30 Basel

Jun 16 – Jun 21, 1999

Art Cologne 1998

Nov 8 – Nov 15, 1998

Art 29 Basel

Jun 10 – Jun 15, 1998

FIAC Paris 1997

Oct 1 – Oct 6, 1997

Art 28 Basel

Jun 11 – Jun 16, 1997

Art 27 Basel

Jun 12 – Jun 17, 1996

Art Cologne 1995

Nov 11 – Nov 19, 1995

Art 26 Basel

Jun 14 – Jun 19, 1995

Art Cologne 1994

Nov 10 – Nov 16, 1994

Art 25 Basel

Jun 15 – Jun 20, 1994

Four Honest Outlaws – Sala Ray Marioni Gordon

published by Michael Fried for the Yale University Press
In this strongly argued and characteristically original book, Michael Fried considers the work of four contemporary artists: video artist and photographer Anri Sala, sculptor Charles Ray, painter Joseph Marioni, and video artist and intervener in movies Douglas Gordon.
«Four Honest Outlaws» takes its title from a line in a Bob Dylan song, «To live outside the law you must be honest», meaning in this case that each of the four artists has found his own unsanctioned path to extraordinary accomplishment, in part by defying the ordinary norms and expectations of the contemporary art world.
Michael Fried will moderate a symposium «PAINTING NOW: A discussion taking off from the work of Joseph Marioni»,
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC (USA), December 10, 2011

The Archive in the Worm

Verlag für Moderne Kunst, with essays by Andrés Duprat, Carl Friedrich Schröer and Raimund Stecker.
Published on the occasion of the eightpart transcontinental exhibition in Argentina, Germany and Switzerland.
«Martín Mele lives in a foreign land, it’s uncertain how foreign, how distant or familiar it is. For he has lived abroad for some time, actually forever. …»

Aufsetzpunkt

published by modo Verlag on the occasion of the exhibition at Kunst(Zeug)Haus, Rapperswil-Jona from April 7 until June 19, 2011.
with essays by Invar-Torre Hollhaus and Daniela Hardmeier.