»A Line Between the Morning Sun and the Evening Sun«

Häusler Contemporary Zürich is celebrating its 10 years anniversary! We are delighted that Giovanni Carmine, director of Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, will curate an exhibition for us on this special occasion. His presentation will combine the past with a possible future and focus on process-oriented strategies by putting artists from our program into dialogue with external positions.

For ten years now, Häusler Contemporary has been presenting international contemporary conceptual art in Zurich, focusing on developments in the 1960s/70s. We want to duly celebrate our jubilee and take the opportunity to look back as well as forward: What outline did our gallery program adopt in the past decade? Which artistic positions had major impact on our exhibition activities? Where and how do younger artists pursue our established artists’ approaches?

We are very pleased that Giovanni Carmine, director of Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, will attend to these questions and take them as a guideline to curate our anniversary exhibition. He writes about his concept: »The group show searches for parallelisms and convergences between the gallery’s program and my own way of exhibition making. Topics such as energy conversion, light, nature, and abstraction play an important role within this exchange, forming the ‘fil rouge’ between the two poles. The gallery program is the starting point and provides an excellent base for emphasizing further aspects and for localizing the specific tendencies in the work of a younger generation. The exhibition focuses on the artists’ role as researchers who consider process to be a major part of their work. At the same time, the show intends to be a solemn affair, centered around the work of great artistic positions.«

From our program, among others James Turrell and Bill Bollinger will be part of the exhibition, alongside guests such as Irene Kopelmann, Haroon Mirza, and Raphael Hefti. We look forward to an exciting dialogue between generations and to getting new impulses for the ten years to come!