Agenda

Gardens reflect identities, dreams, and visions. Deeply rooted in their culture, they can unfold immense symbolic potential. The recent revival of horticulture has focused less on the garden as a romantic refuge than as a place where concepts of social justice, biodiversity, and sustainability can be tried and tested. Gardens have become places of the avant-garde.

The exhibition »Garden Futures« at the Vitra Design Museum is the first to explore the history and future of modern gardens. Where do today’s garden ideals come from? Will gardens help us achieve a liveable future for everyone?

The exhibition addresses these questions using various examples from design, everyday culture, and landscape architecture – from deckchairs to vertical urban farms, from contemporary community gardens to living buildings to gardens by designers and artists. The exhibition architecture will be designed by the Italian design duo Formafantasma.

From 24 February to 21 May 2023, the Kunsthaus Zürich presents the drawings of the Swiss artist Henry Fuseli (1741–1825). Fuseli (Johann Heinrich Füssli) was one of the most idiosyncratic, original and controversial artists in 18th-century Europe. His art’s emphatically individualistic and sensationalist character divided public opinion throughout his career.

The Kunsthaus Zürich has gathered together some 60 works offering a unique opportunity to experience this draughtsman at his most innovative and exciting, as the creator of a fascinating pictorial universe as provocative as it is challenging.

The exhibition (Fuseli. Fashion – Fetishism – Fantasy) is the outcome of a close collaboration with The Courtauld, London.

The Fondation Beyeler presents a selection of ten late paintings concerned with images of the artist and his models. These works, created in the last decade of Picasso’s career, attest to the artist’s productivity up to the end of his life.

In these paintings, Picasso explores the (self)-image of the artist, the creative act, and the image of the female body. Contemporary viewers, also raise questions regarding the representation of women in art today.

Picasso Celebration 1973-2023 marks the fiftieth anniversary of his death and places 2023 under the sign of the celebration of his work in France, Spain and other countries.

The Picasso Celebration 1973-2023 is initiated by the Musée national Picasso-Paris and Bernard Picasso, the artist’s grandson and president of the FABA and the Picasso Museum in Malaga. It is structured around some fifty exhibitions and events to be held in cultural institutions in Europe and North America.