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 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

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 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.

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

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

Solo exhibition of Franz Gertsch at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg from December 13th, 2024 to May 4th, 2025.

This retrospective exhibition was realized by the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark, in close collaboration with the artist, who sadly passed away in December 2022, and his family, as well as with substantial support from the Franz Gertsch Museum in Burgdorf. It provides a comprehensive overview of Gertsch’s versatile and impressive body of work, highlighting important milestones and recurring themes through selected works. On display are monumental group pictures, portraits, oversized views of nature, and landscapes from more than 60 years of artistic creation. A selection of the artist’s large-scale woodcuts will accompany and complement the paintings.

Emilien Leroy’s outdoor exhibition “Notre-Dame-des-Dunes” at the FRAC Grand-Large and La Plate-Forme, Dunkirk.

Franz Gertsch’s outdoor exhibition at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.

Silvia Bächli’s outdoor exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Winterthur

Silvia Bächli’s outdoor exhibition at the Centro Botin, Santander

Francis Baudevin’s outdoor exhibition “C’est comme une carte à jouer” at the FRAC Normandie

Franz Gertsch’s outdoor exhibition at the Museum Franz Gertsch.

Franz Erhard Walther’s outdoor exhibition at the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn

Solo exhibition of Jérémy Chevalier at Halle Nord. He presented a video “Filled Recording (sillon)”. It was displayed 24/7 from March 7th until March 30th, 2024.

Thomas Huber’s outdoor exhibition at the MASI Lugano.

Alex Hanimann’s outdoor exhibition at the Photography Museum in Braunschweig.

Franz Erhard Walther : performances from September 10th until October 15th 2023.

Franz Erhard Walther : Work block from the Kienzle Art Foundation at Kunstmuseum Winterthur from June 3rd until December 3rd.

Francis Baudevin’s solo exhibition at the Pasquart Art Center, Bienne.

Jean-Luc Manz’s solo exhibition at the Kunsthaus Grenchen.

VILLA is an exhibition space in Fulda dedicated to the presentation of early works by Franz Erhard Walther. This space, devoted to the permanent show of the Seng collection, brings together significant and seminal works by the artist from the 1950s and 1960s.

Christoph Rütimann’s solo exhibition at the Abbatiale Bellelay.

Franz Erhard Walther solo exhibition at Haus der Kunst, Munich.

Alex Hanimann’s outdoor exhibition at the FRAC Dunkerque.

Silvia Bächli’s outdoor exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler.

Thomas Huber’s outdoor exhibition at the Kunst Museum Bonn.

Franz Gertsch’s outdoor exhibition at the Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse.