Markus Weggenmann
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LW 581, 2025 • high-load distemper on cotton, 120 x 100 cm -
LW 580, 2025 • high-load distemper on cotton, 160 x 130 cm -
LW 579, 2025 • high-load distemper on cotton, 80 x 50 cm -
LW 577, 2025 • high-load distemper on cotton, 50 x 40 cm -
LW 552, 2024 • high-load distemper on cotton, 160 x 130 cm -
LW 551, 2024 • high-load distemper on cotton, 80 x 50 cm -
LW 512, 2024 • high-load distemper on cotton, 190 x 210 cm -
Solo mit Viel, 2022 • exhibition view at Villa Renata, Basel (CH) -
Solo mit Viel, 2022 • exhibition view at Villa Renata, Basel (CH) -
Works on Paper - From the Collection, 2021 • exhibition view at Haus Konstruktiv (CH) -
Ein Bild schreit nach dem nächsten!, 2020/21 • exhibition view at Kunstmuseum Appenzell (CH) -
Ein Bild schreit nach dem nächsten!, 2020/21 • exhibition view at Kunstmuseum Appenzell (CH) -
Ein Bild schreit nach dem nächsten!, 2020/21 • exhibition view at Kunstmuseum Appenzell (CH) -
Ein Bild schreit nach dem nächsten!, 2020/21 • exhibition view at Kunstmuseum Appenzell (CH) -
RESET. Museum. Collection. Future., 2021 • exhibition view at Haus Konstruktiv (CH) -
Swiss Art Awards, 2018 • exhibition view at Swiss Art Awards, Basel (CH) -
Regionale 19 Liquid Planet: Abstrakte painting today, 2018 • exhibition view at Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel (CH)
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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.
Gallery Exhibitions
gasping for breath
Jun 8 – Jul 27, 2024
Malerei
Nov 11 – Dec 23, 2023
it is, it isn’t
Jun 4 – Jul 23, 2022
Sommervögel
Jun 12 – Jul 24, 2021
curated by David Hürlimann
Parallel ≠21 «Works on paper»
Aug 29 – Oct 17, 2020
XXX die II.
Jun 27 – Aug 15, 2020
XXX die I.
Jan 11 – Feb 29, 2020
flirting with sculptures
Aug 31 – Oct 12, 2019
Opening: Aug 30, 2019, 6 pm
Single, but happy
Jun 8 – Jul 20, 2019
Savoir-faire & laisser-faire
Oct 27 – Dec 22, 2018
…and more paintings…
Jun 10 – Jul 22, 2017
Tango Them Basel
Jun 11 – Jul 23, 2016
La Confusion des Genres
Nov 28, 2015 – Jan 9, 2016
mostly paintings on paper
Mar 7 – Apr 18, 2015
Gans und Calvados
Dec 7, 2013 – Jan 11, 2014
For Example Painting
Jun 9 – Jul 21, 2012
Im Hasenbart
Jan 14 – Mar 3, 2012
Group Show (Adieu Gessnerallee!)
Jan 15 – Mar 12, 2011
Accrochage
Oct 24 – Dec 19, 2009
Room 3
with tangerine trees and marmelade skies
Mar 7 – Apr 11, 2009
die Siebte
Mar 11 – Apr 22, 2006
Bilder der Malerei
Jun 5 – Jul 24, 2004
Besuch einer Landschaft vor dem Winter – 2.Teil
May 31 – Jul 19, 2003
Spieglein, Spieglein an der Wand
Jun 1 – Jul 20, 2002
Durchquerung der Alpen in der Nacht (Lackbilder)
Mar 4 – Apr 8, 2000
Direkt auf die Wand, Malerei V
Jan 9 – Feb 20, 1999
Sensation der Farbe
Jan 10 – Feb 21, 1998
Malerei (Streifenfrei)
Aug 27 – Oct 18, 1997
Aug 27 – Oct 22, 1994
Blau
Oct 3 – Nov 7, 1992
Malerei
Apr 25 – May 30, 1992
Sommeraccrochage
Jul 27 – Aug 10, 1991
Aug 31 – Oct 20, 1990