Schwitters. Border crosser of the avant-garde
Overview
Intro
The exhibition shows Schwitters' work from Dadaist collages and his reconstructed walk-in "Merzbau" in Hanover to naturalistic portraits and landscape paintings.
Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) is one of the most important representatives of the international art avant-garde of the interwar period. He was an unconventional border crosser who created an unmistakable synthesis of art, design and literature with his art.
At the heart of his work was the principle of collage as an attempt to create new contexts of meaning from the contradictory everyday reality of modern life and to counter the chaos of the world with a poetic order.
The exhibition shows Schwitters' multi-layered work, from Dadaist collages and his reconstructed walk-in "Merzbau" in Hanover to naturalistic portraits and landscape paintings. It sheds light on his creative resilience in exile and his role as an independent artist and writer between the currents of modernism. With Schwitters. Grenzgänger der Avantgarde, the Zentrum Paul Klee is presenting the first comprehensive exhibition on Kurt Schwitters in Switzerland for 20 years.
Curator: Martin Waldmeier
Curatorial assistance: Josephine Rechberg
In cooperation with the Sprengel Museum Hannover and the Kurt and Ernst Schwitters Foundation, Hannover
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Zentrum Paul Klee
Monument im Fruchtland 3 3000 Bern 031 359 01 01 info@zpk.org 031 359 01 02 |
| Event Homepage | https://www.zpk.org/de/ausstellung/schwitters |
| Price |
CHF 20.00 / 18.00 / 10.00 / 7.00
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Event dates
- středa 3. června 2026
- čtvrtek 4. června 2026
- pátek 5. června 2026
- sobota 6. června 2026
- neděle 7. června 2026
- úterý 9. června 2026
- středa 10. června 2026
- čtvrtek 11. června 2026
- pátek 12. června 2026
- sobota 13. června 2026
- neděle 14. června 2026
- úterý 16. června 2026
- středa 17. června 2026
- čtvrtek 18. června 2026
- pátek 19. června 2026
- sobota 20. června 2026
- neděle 21. června 2026
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Zentrum Paul Klee
Monument im Fruchtland 3
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