Schwitters. Border crosser of the avant-garde

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  • Date

    20. March - 21. June 2026

    Sun, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat 10:00 - 17:00

  • Contact

    Zentrum Paul Klee
    Monument im Fruchtland 3
    Postfach
    3006 Bern
    Phone  +41 (0)31 359 01 01
    zpk.org

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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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  • 20 June 2026
  • 21 June 2026

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Zentrum Paul Klee
Monument im Fruchtland 3
Postfach
3006  Bern
Switzerland

Phone  +41 (0)31 359 01 01
Fax +41 (0)31 359 01 02
info@zpk.org
zpk.org

Date

20. March - 21. June 2026

Sun, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat 10:00 - 17:00

Contact

Zentrum Paul Klee
Monument im Fruchtland 3
Postfach
3006 Bern
Phone  +41 (0)31 359 01 01
zpk.org

Check Availability

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