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Opening: Carey Young: ""Legal Fictions"

Opening August 30, 2013 06:00 pm – 07:00 pm
The Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst presents the first solo exhibition in Switzerland of works by Carey Young (b. 1970, lives and works in London). Since the late 1990s, Young has explored the relationships between the body, language, rhetoric, and systems of power in works that employ a broad range of media. The new exhibition series "Collection on Display" consists of three shows devoted to the functions and possibilities of space and the role of the interior in contemporary art. The first installment brings together works by Monica Bonvicini, Heidi Bucher, Tom Burr, Urs Fischer, Pamela Rosenkranz, Markus Schinwald, and Cathy Wilkes. The new exhibition series "Collection on Display" consists of three shows devoted to the functions and possibilities of space and the role of the interior in contemporary art. The first installment brings together works by Monica Bonvicini, Heidi Bucher, Tom Burr, Urs Fischer, Pamela Rosenkranz, Markus Schinwald, and Cathy Wilkes. 6:30 pm Heike Munder (Director, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst) and Raphael Gygax (Curator, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst) address the visitors. 6–8 pm Children's vernissage: Children are invited to engage with the exhibition in hands-on activities. The event is hosted by our Art Educator Brigit Meier.

8 pm Löwenbräukunst-Areal Summer Party with culinary delights and music by Blondes (US), I.U.D. (US), James Campbell (US), Jauss (CH), Italia 60 (CH).