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Concepts of the All-Over
Artists
Carlos Bunga, Martin Creed, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Ana Montiel, Christine Streuli, Esther Stocker, Fritz Glarner
Press release
In Concepts of the All-Over, Museum Haus Konstruktiv is presenting a magnificent group show that celebrates the combining of colors, shapes, light and architecture. As the final exhibition to be held in the ewz Unterwerk Selnau building before the museum moves to the Löwenbräukunst site in spring 2025, it is also a homage to the historical industrial structure that has been our home for over two decades. Visitors will be able to experience large-scale works by Carlos Bunga, Martin Creed, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Fritz Glarner, Ana Montiel, Christine Streuli and Esther Stocker.
In art, the term ‘all-over’ describes the (painterly) principle of a more-or-less uniform composition that is dispersed across the whole surface of an image carrier and can potentially be continued beyond its boundaries. With regard to the almost 40-year history of Haus Konstruktiv though, ‘all over’ also refers to the end of a chapter: the museum’s imminent departure from its current location beside the River Sihl. With the exhibition title Concepts of the All-Over, we are deliberately playing with this double meaning. It’s about all-over artworks… and it’s all over!
The conceptual starting point for this group show is the Rockefeller Dining Room created by Fritz Glarner in 1963/64. On permanent display since our museum moved into the Unterwerk Selnau building in 2001, this walk-through abstract geometric artwork, with which Glarner extended his concept of ‘relational painting’ to encompass an entire room, constitutes the centerpiece of the in-house collection. In loose reference to Glarner’s unique work, the other artists presented in the exhibition, most of whom are contemporary, allow the museum architecture itself to become an image carrier. A rich variety of shapes, structures and programs, with different aesthetics and forms of play, are applied to walls, ceilings and floors. Color, light or industrially manufactured materials give rise to impressive spaces that invite the public to immerse themselves and linger.
- Through
- 31 December 2025
- Venue
- Museum Haus Konstruktiv
- Address
- Selnaustrasse 25
8001 Zurich
- Hours
- Tue, Thu-Sun: 11:00-17:00, Mon, Wed: closed
