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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.

Archistories – Staatliche Kunsthalle, D – Karlsruhe

Nov 29, 2025 – Apr 12, 2026

The special exhibition Archistories: Architecture in Art brings together around 100 works by 70 artists from five centuries that reflect on buildings and construction in different ways. Sometimes playful, sometimes humorous, sometimes socially critical, the works on display deal with the realities of life, past times, or fantastical spaces. They all show how we shape our world or could shape it in the future. In doing so, the exhibition explores aesthetic, political, social, and ecological questions.

Paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures from the Kunsthalle’s collection are complemented by video works, photographs, and installations by contemporary artists. Archistories thus provides a comprehensive insight into the history of architecture from the 17th century to the present day and makes it clear that architecture always tells stories and recounts history.

An extensive catalog accompanying the exhibition is now available for €48 in the Kunsthalle’s online shop.

Zwischen Land und See -Stiftung Righini / Fries, CH – Zurich

Nov 29, 2025 – Feb 28, 2026

Zwischen Land und See.Wassermotive bei der Künstlerfamilie Righini-Fries & Gästen: Judith Albert, Letizia Enderli, Patrick Rohner

Sie teilten die Faszination für das Naturelement Wasser und seine Erscheinungsformen: Alle drei Generationen der Künstlerfamilie Righini-Fries malten Seestücke, Strandszenen und Hafenbilder, setzten dabei aber jeweils eigene Akzente. Sigismund Righini studierte die Blautöne und das Ineinandergreifen von Wasser und Himmel. In seinen kleinformatigen Meeresstudien ziehen sich die Wasserflächen in Form eines All-Over-Effekts bis an den Horizont. Sein Schwiegersohn Willy Fries widmete sich den Spiegelungen und Lichtveränderungen im Wasser, malte aber auch fröhlich-heitere Badeszenen. Dessen Tochter Hanny Fries wiederum hatte eine Vorliebe für unscheinbare Randgebiete und beobachtete gerne die Übergänge zwischen Land und See. In ihrer Malerei stehen Ufer, Brücken, Strände und Häfen im Vordergrund, weniger das Wasser an sich.

Neben diesen drei gegenständlichen Positionen des 20. Jahrhunderts werden in der Ausstellung Werke von drei zeitgenössischen Kunstschaffenden präsentiert, die sich in ihrer Arbeit mit der Ressource Wasser auseinandersetzen. Judith Albert zeigt ihre tänzelnd-perlende Videoarbeit «Letters on the Water», Letizia Enderli eine Serie poetischer Brunnenfotografien und Patrick Rohner seine wellenbewegten «Wasserzeichnungen».

Die Ausstellung vereint unterschiedliche Ansätze und Techniken, die die Vielgestaltigkeit des Motivs «Wasser» in der Kunst veranschaulichen. Die optischen Eigenschaften der Lichtreflexion und der schillernden Farben sowie die Bedeutung des Wassers als Lebensader der Menschen machen das Thema für Kunstschaffende gestern und heute zu einer Quelle der Inspiration.

Mit Werken von: Sigismund Righini, Willy Fries, Hanny Fries & Judith Albert, Letizia Enderli, Patrick Rohner

Kuratorin: Susanna Tschui
Œil extérieur : Guido Magnaguagno

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.