From Sibylla Merian to Francis Alÿs: Exhibition curation
In addition to working with contemporary artists (such as Ragnar Kjartansson, Monica Bonvicini and Roman Signer), the cultural agency has completely processed several artists' estates,Including the estates of Rudolf Urech-Seon (1927-1999) and Urs Burki (1945-2017).Christian Herren has also processed the work of the painter Clara Porges (1879-1963) for the first time and organised the largest solo exhibition to date. Museum presentations and several artist's monographs have been produced as part of this work.
"I particularly like the way you move away from comparative studies and deconstruct the rigid narrative that art history has built around abstraction."
- Prof. Mark Turner, King's College, London
What artistic means and methods are available to find forms of representation for specific times and to question conventions? The exhibitions conceived by the cultural agency often try to break with convention and seek to foreground the moment of transgression of established boundaries. Human beings – central to the development and shaping of world views – are at the conceptual and dialogical centre of this work, but are always placed in a critical relationship with themselves, nature and science.
