Hannes Schmid – Real Stories
The Swiss photographer, filmmaker, and painter Hannes Schmid was born in 1946 in Zurich. He is one of the great visual narrators of our time. Hannes Schmid is famous since the early 1990s for his iconic staging of the Marlboro cowboys and innovative fashion shots.
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Myths and Mysteries. Symbolism and Swiss Artists
When the first symbolist works were produced in 1890, Swiss artists such as Ferdinand Hodler, or Carlos Schwabe played a pivotal role. The show Myths and Mysteries is presenting masterpieces of the symbolist epoch over a space of 1000 square meters, with artworks from Switzerland as well as from neighboring European countries.
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Kunstmuseum Bern @ PROGR Uriel Orlow
Werke aus der Sammlung
Uriel Orlow ist bekannt für Installationen, welche auf ausgiebigen Recherchen zu spezifischen Orten und Ereignissen basieren. Seine Werke erkunden unterdrückte Erinnerungen und Traumas. So auch das Einkanalvideo «1942 (Poznan)».
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Opening The Butterflies' Ball and the Dogs' Party. Ernst Kreidolf and the Animals
Besides flora and foliage, animals with anthropomorphic traits inhabit Ernst Kreidolf’s illustrations. The Kunstmuseum Bern has a rich collection of his drawings of grasshoppers, butterflies, cats, or dogs in its storerooms, and many of them will be shown to the public for the first time in the exhibition Butterflies’ Ball and Dogs’ Party.
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Fascination for the Mysterious and the Enigmatic
Myths and Mysteries: Symbolism and Swiss Artists, 26.04. – 18.08.2013
Myths and Mysteries: Symbolism and Swiss Artists is the first exhibition ever to throw light on the pivotal role played by Swiss artists in the international context of symbolism, showing some 200 works, many of which are key masterpieces of the epoch. Great Swiss painters, sculptors, draftsmen, and photographers will be viewed in relation to symbolist artists from neighboring countries. One third of the exhibits are from the Kunstmuseum Bern Collection. They have been supplemented with loans from Swiss museums and eminent international collections. Thus the exhibition is able to offer a seldom and multi-faceted overview of symbolism.
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