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House constructive

The Museum Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich is an exhibition house for constructive , concrete and conceptual art that aims to put it into a dialogue with contemporary art. Museum Haus Konstruktiv is supported by the Foundation for Constructive, Concrete and Conceptual Art.

The museum

The Museum Haus Konstruktiv is located in the center of Zurich between Paradeplatz and Stauffacher in a Zurich industrial building, the former Selnau substation. According to its own statements, the institution is the only one in Switzerland to cultivate constructive-concrete art, whose representatives include Max Bill , Camille Graeser , Verena Loewensberg and Richard Paul Lohse . Its own collection is shown on five floors and six to nine temporary exhibitions per year. The “Rockefeller Dining Room”, designed in 1963/64 by the Swiss artist Fritz Glarner for the couple, is a permanent installation and at the same time the heart of the collectionNelson A. Rockefeller was designed and executed in New York. It is an example of the principle of "relational painting" and a unique testimony to concrete room design.

Lectures, artist talks, guided tours, concerts and workshops for children, young people and adults will take place parallel to the exhibitions.

The museum has a shop and a small café with murals by Claudia Comte on the ground floor. In addition, the museum has a specialist library with a fixed focus on the top floor, which is open during the museum's opening times and can be visited free of charge without access to the exhibitions.

The story and the collection

The sponsor is the foundation for constructive, concrete and conceptual art. It was founded in 1986 by people from the Zurich movement for constructive and concrete art. From 1987 to 2001 the “house for constructive and concrete art” - as it was called back then - was located in Seefeld . In the spring of 2001 it then moved, renamed “Haus Konstruktiv”, to the building of the former ewz substation in Selnau. Before it was shut down in 1998, this plant had served as a converter station for around a hundred years . Today the building, which was combined between 1929 and 1932 by the then city architect Hermann Herter to form a single structure in the style of New Building , is a listed building. According to plans by the architects Roger Diener and Meier + Steinauer, a place for changing exhibitions and collections was created on five floors with a total of 1,200 square meters of exhibition space.

The collection of Museum Haus Konstruktiv currently has over 900 works from the 20th and 21st centuries donated by artists, their heirs and private collectors. The focus of the collection, which is based on the art-historical legacy of constructive-concrete and conceptual art, is on paintings, graphics and sculptures from the environment and the successors of the Zurich concrete figures Max Bill , Richard Paul Lohse , Camille Graeser and Verena Loewensberg .

Sabine Schaschl has been the museum's director since spring 2013.

Exhibitions (from 2013)

Exhibition catalogs (selection)

  • 2019: Sabine Schaschl (Ed.) Olivier Mosset , Snoeck-Verlag, Cologne ISBN 978-3-86442-295-9
  • 2019: Sabine Schaschl (Ed.) Alicja Kwade . LinienLand , publishing house for modern art, Vienna
  • 2019: Sabine Schaschl (Ed.) Konkrete Gegenwart , Verlag für moderne Kunst, Vienna
  • 2018: Sabine Schaschl (Ed.) Imi Knoebel. Good morning white kitten , Hatje Cantz, Berlin ISBN 978-3-7757-4486-7 .
  • 2017: Museum Haus Konstruktiv / Wilhelm-Hack-Museum (Ed.) Tomás Saraceno - Aerosolar Journeys , Verlag Walther König, Cologne
  • 2017: Sabine Schaschl (Ed.) Jürg Stäuble. Being more than a system , Hatje Cantz, Berlin ISBN 978-3-7757-4299-3 .
  • 2017: Sabine Schaschl (Ed.) Marlow Moss. A Forgotten Maverick , Hatje Cantz, Berlin ISBN 978-3-7757-4300-6 .
  • 2016: Sabine Schaschl (Ed.) Christian Herdeg. Lyrical Minimalism , Wienand, Cologne ISBN 978-3-86832-365-8 .
  • 2015: René Zechlin in collaboration. with Sabine Schaschl (Ed.) Bernd Ribbeck - Radiance and Ecstasy , Distance Verlag, Berlin. ISBN 978-3-95476-166-1 .
  • 2016: Sabine Schaschl (Ed.) Thinking outside the box. Haus Konstruktiv collection (1986-2016) and guest interventions , Verlag Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, ISBN 978-3-7757-4225-2
  • 2016: Sabine Schaschl (Ed.) Thinking outside the box. Haus Konstruktiv collection (1986-2016) and guest interventions , Verlag Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, ISBN 978-3-7757-4225-2
  • 2015: Sabine Schaschl (Ed.) Etel Adnan - La joie de vivre , Verlag Walther König, Cologne.
  • 2015: Sabine Schaschl (Ed.) William Kentridge - The Nose , Verlag Walther König, Cologne, ISBN 978-3-86335-771-9 .
  • 2014: Sabine Schaschl (Ed.) Logical Emotion - Contemporary Art from Japan , Snoeck, Cologne, ISBN 978-3-86442-107-5 .
  • 2014: Sabine Schaschl (Ed.) Florian Dombois - Angeschlagene Moderne , The Green Box, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-941644-68-7
  • 2014: Sabine Schaschl et al. (Ed.) Vera Molnár - (Dis) order. (Dés) Ordre , Kerber, Bielefeld, ISBN 978-3-86678-969-2 .
  • 2014: Sabine Schaschl (Ed.) Hans Jörg Glattfelder - What is the case , Wienand, Cologne, ISBN 978-3-86832-181-4 .
  • 2013: Sabine Schaschl (Ed.) Adrián Villar Rojas - Films Before Revolution , The Green Box, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-94164-463-2 .
  • 2011: Nelly Rudin . Open space . Kehrer, Heidelberg, ISBN 978-3-86828-273-3 .
  • 2011: Dorothea Strauss et al. Very concrete: the Haus Konstruktiv collection and the exhibition “very concrete” . Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, ISBN 978-3-7757-2840-9 .
  • 2009: Camille Graeser , from draft to image. Idea sketches and design drawings 1938-1978 . Wienand, Cologne, ISBN 978-3-87909-975-7 .
  • 2008: Joanne Greenbaum: Painting . Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, ISBN 978-3-7757-2180-6 .

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