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Urban Zellweger

URBAN ZELLWEGER

Hauser & Wirth Invite(s) Hauser & Wirth 9–23 May 2025 Zürich, Limmatstrasse
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Organized with Olivier Renaud-Clément, Hauser & Wirth Invite(s) launched in Paris in February 2025 and now comes to Zurich for the first time with a solo exhibition by Swiss artist Urban Zellweger, presented in collaboration with Karma International and Galerie Oskar Weiss and accompanied by a new text by Eleonora Bitterli. Hauser & Wirth Invite(s) is a new initiative for hosting fellow artists, galleries and writers, offering wider visibility of their work and ideas and engaging with the city’s vibrant creative community. In his work, Urban Zellweger deals with the transitions between figurative and abstract elements. Bodies and figures combine, merge into one another, are painted over, or dissolve into the background. While mundane events and biographical occurrences inform Zellweger’s visual lexicon, they are hardly recognizable as such. Normality is distorted with surreal wit, and yet everything appears perfectly calm.

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Hauser & Wirth was founded in 1992 in Zurich by Iwan Wirth, Manuela Wirth and Ursula Hauser, who were joined in 2000 by Partner and Vice President Marc Payot. A family business with a global outlook, Hauser & Wirth has expanded over the past 26 years to include outposts in Hong Kong, London, New York, Los Angeles, Somerset and Gstaad. The gallery represents over 70 artists and estates who have been instrumental in shaping its identity over the past quarter century, and who are the inspiration for Hauser & Wirth’s diverse range of activities that engage with art, education, conservation and sustainability.

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Limmatstrasse 270
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Zurich Limmatstrasse 270
Hauser Wirth contemporary art gallery in Zurich Limmatstrasse Zurich Switzerland
Hauser & Wirth
Limmatstrasse 270, Zurich, Switzerland
+41 444 468 050
http://www.hauserwirth.com

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Sat, 11am - 5pm
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