Intermezzo, part 1 & 2 is a group show featuring pieces by Vincent Fournier, Franz Gertsch, Fabrice Gygi, Thomas Huber, Pierre Schwerzmann and Franz Erhard Walther.

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Skopia in Art Basel 2026

Booth E18 Hall 2.0

With works by Silvia Bächli, Pierre André Ferrand, Franz Gertsch, Fabrice Gygi, Thomas Huber, Alain Huck, Ulrich Meister, Leanne Picthall, Pierre Schwerzmann, Franz Erhard Walther

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Intermezzo is the new group show featuring pieces by Vincent Fournier and Franz Gertsch.

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Solo exhibition of Leanne Picthall at Museum Franz Gertsch.

The young painter Leanne Picthall (*1999) from Western Switzerland is showing her most recent oils on canvas in the Cabinet of the Museum Franz Gertsch. This is her first solo exhibition in a museum.

The works shown in the Cabinet provide an insight into the artist’s perception of people and animals, of relationships – represented with motifs from her life and the lives of those close to her, her environment. A new group of works (2025/26) is based on a video in which she interacts with her dog while wearing make-up that mimics its coat pattern. She translated a selection of stills from this film into paintings. The exhibition also includes some older works (2023/24).

The central themes in Leanne Picthall’s current work explore what it means to be an artist, to perform – to represent something, to act – both on a stage and in everyday life. And yet, these works based on snapshots, zoomed in details, or selfies the artist captured with her smartphone maintain a sense of playful ease and are open to interpretation – an impression that is underscored by the restrained colour palette with its muted shades of black, white, light blue, and green.

© Leanne Picthall
Photos : Jana Leu

Naturæ is a group show featuring pieces by: Silvia Bächli, Erik Bulatov, Jean Crotti, Franz Gertsch, Fabrice Gygi, Alex Hanimann, Alain Huck, Claudio Moser, Leanne Picthall and Melissa Steckbauer.

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We are pleased to showcase at the fair a group show on booth B28 as well as a solo show on booth B28s by Pierre André Ferrand.

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Following the passing of Erik Bulatov, we present Hommage, a tribute to the artist. On this occasion we will display paintings, some that were never shown at the gallery.

Exhibition views : Julien Gremaud
Artworks : Private collections, Switzerland

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We are pleased to present trêve, a solo show by Pierre Schwerzmann.

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We are pleased to present Musique douce. Disque rayé. Zut., a solo show by Gilles Furtwängler.

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Summer exhibition is a group show featuring pieces by: Silvia Bächli, Alexandre Bianchini, Erik Bulatov, Pierre André Ferrand, Franz Gertsch, Pierre Schwerzmann

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Art Basel 2025 – Hall 1.0

Skopia in Art Basel 2025

Booth E18 Hall 2.0

With works by Silvia Bächli, Erik Bulatov, Franz Gertsch, Alex Hanimann, Thomas Huber, Alain Huck, Leanne Picthall, Christoph Rütimann, Pierre Schwerzmann

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Solo exhibition of Alain Huck at the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts of Lausanne."

“Organized in close collaboration with Alain Huck, the exhibition offers a survey of nearly thirty years of creative output, from the early works on canvas to the most recent drawings, by way of
the monumental charcoal drawings that established Huck as a major presence.
The exhibition is articulated around the question of text and its relationship to the image, of language and its representation, of what can be said and what is left unspoken, of what is remembered and what makes history. Similarly, just as in the works themselves meanings emerge from the montage between text and image, from the overlaying of distinct images, and from the uncertainty of the image itself, the show is conceived in terms of associations.
Here the artist creates dialogues between works from very different periods and of varying kinds. Works from major series of drawings are displayed alongside others that use a variety of supports, including tarpaulins, jute sacks, plants, and neon lights, forging a nonchronological approach to the artist’s body of work to generate new meaning.”

Solo exhibition of Vincent Fournier at the Fondation Louis Moret in Martigny.

La prière n’étant que l’attention sous sa forme pure (Simone Weil, La Pesanteur et la Grâce)
Prayer being nothing but attention in its pure form (Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace)

The axes of symmetry and the construction lines of an academic drawing mark the beginning of creation. Within this lightly sketched space, the artist's thoughts unfold and his intuition takes shape as it interacts with the receptivity of the paper.

Vincent Fournier's work begins in this way, almost traditionally.

His art is born at the intersection between thought and instinct, between words and flesh: before it can be embodied, it needs to be reflected upon. It is a long process, with a dual temporality. The sagacity of the first gesture is tempered by the meditation of its unfolding. This can last several months, even several years, and sometimes just the blink of an eye. During these moments of grace, close to the completion of the work, the painter's gestures align fluidly and trace stripped-down forms from a burnt corner of paper, the crease of a crumpled sheet, or even a brown stain, stubborn like the trace of an old wound. The finished work breathes and devotes itself once again to contemplation.

Solo exhibition of Leanne Picthall at NEU!, Winterthur.

“A young woman grapples with her companion. They appear related. Her face is painted, the make-up mimicking the pattern of her animal’s fur. Having a dog by one’s side – a companion who expands life. It is a bond without conditions, yet one entangled in a structure of power.

Leanne Picthall works intuitively, yet with a palpable sense of intent. Her painting feels honest, almost eerie in its closeness. You sense something in these images: an intensity hidden in the everyday, the seemingly banal. This ambivalent sensation running through Picthall’s work is a tangle of conflicting emotions – feelings which, when experienced simultaneously, provoke discomfort. An internal conflict.”

© Leanne Picthall & NEU!
Photos : Brechtold Dinkelbrot

We are pleased to present Spring Break, a solo show by Alexandre Bianchini.

Born in 1966 in Geneva, where he lives and works.

 Alexandre Bianchini began his artistic studies in 1983 at the Geneva School of Decorative Arts. He remained there for three years. He continued his training at the Ecole supérieure d'arts visuels de Genève, graduating in 1991.
In 1994, he co-founded Forde, an independent contemporary art space in Geneva. He was involved in its management and artistic programming until 1996.

 Alexandre Bianchini likes to use the adjective “polymorphous” to define his artistic practice. Indeed, he does not confine himself to one artistic medium, be it painting, drawing, collage, photography or video; he uses them in parallel in a search for relevance between content and expression.

 Bianchini's paintings reject the illusionistic space offered by the surface of the canvas, asserting the flatness of their support; the compositions, conceived as close-ups, show only one element at a time, isolated from any context and worked with flat tints of color that confirm the pictorial field as a flat surface.

 Bianchini's language is not linear, and the relationship between the elements that make up his work is always plural. His installations compress many layers of meaning that never fully reveal themselves to the viewer.

 The artist delivers works that retain an element of the elusive and the insoluble. Extremely dense and kaleidoscopic, they multiply viewpoints without reconciling them. By this very fact, the artist shakes the viewer, making him doubt his own perception. In a way, Alexandre Bianchini's work reminds us of the relativity of every point of view and the narrowness of every belief.

-Courtesy Maryline Billod

Solo exhibition of Vincent Fournier at the Kunstmuseum Thurgau.

For the second time since 2020, the Kirchwingert vineyard at Ittingen Charterhouse is being transformed into an accessible ladder to heaven. The 185 steps leading up the vineyard will be fitted with sky-blue wooden planks. The result is an astonishing effect: just as the staircase rises steeply to the top of the hill, the painted steps seem to be added one by one, drawing a blue ribbon through the vines. The sky leans towards the earth. Heaven and earth unite.

During the initial construction of the Ittingen ladder to heaven, Vincent Fournier became aware of the writing “Scala claustralium” (The monks' ladder) by the Carthusian monk Guigo II (+1197) in 2020. The simplicity and depth of the monk's writing touched Fournier and flowed into his artistic work. He continued to develop the theme.

The works in the Kunstmuseum Thurgau, which can be seen in an originally preserved monk's cell, trace the artist's inner search. In this place, where monks have immersed themselves in silence for centuries, art, which itself comes from silence, finds its appropriate space and leads the viewer to their own meditation.

We are pleased to showcase at the fair a group show on booth B17.

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We are glad to announce a solo exhibition of Alex Hanimann at the Museo Villa dei Cedri in Bellinzona.

“For the very first time in a Swiss museum, the exhibition «Alex Hanimann. Human Nature» presents the complex photographic work that the artist has developed over the past twenty years. The cohesive and multiform use of imagery in our culture is directly reflected in his works. Hanimann embraces a wide range of topics and subjects whose form and representation draw their profound inspiration from the visual world around us. References to urban space or nature – with its mutability and constant state of flux – alternate with depictions of objects, places and persons.

The exhibition «Alex Hanimann. Human Nature» invites us to discover this rich visual expression and the depth of Hanimann’s artistic research, poised between objective reality and make-believe.

A collaboration with MACT/CACT Museo e Centro d'Arte Contemporanea Ticino”

MULTIPLES is a group show featuring pieces by: Carl Andre, Francis Baudevin, Daniel Buren, Franz Gertsch, Douglas Gordon, Alex Hanimann, Thomas Huber, Alain Huck, Jasper Johns, Ulrich Meister, Claudio Moser, Markus Raetz, Lawrence Weiner

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Franz Erhard Walther’s outdoor exhibition at Arter, Istanbul.

Conceived around concepts pivotal to Walther’s practice, the exhibition Attempt to be a Sculpture builds a dialogue between his early paper works such as Outline Drawings and Word Images, pillow shapes that use air as material, Work Drawings, Handpieces from the 1960s, and his later groups of works, including his Layer Drawings, Action Paths and Wall Formations, which fuse architecture and human proportions. It also features an extensive selection from his autobiographical work Dust of Stars, composed of drawings and handwritten texts that unfold memories and reflections across time and space. The iconic First Work Set, presented for the first time in its entirety in 1969 at MoMA in New York, introduces the crucial role of cloth, a malleable and wearable material, in the artist’s endeavour to challenge the objecthood of art and to shift the production of meaning from the object to the body in action. Coming down from its pedestal and conversing with architecture, sculpture departs from its customary stiffness and inertia to join the reality of human life. Never given / never finished, it comes to us anew, at various speeds, in the form of a collective endeavour that may (or may not) actualise countless possible shapes and states of being. - Arter

Exhibition views, Arter, 2025
Curator : Selen Ansen
Photos : Kayhan Kaygusuz

We are pleased to showcase at the fair a group show on booth B28 as well as a solo show on booth B28s by Leanne Picthall

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Silvia Bächli’s outdoor exhibition at the Museo Morandi, Bologna