18 August 2006 – 8 October 2006

‘Switzerland and Other Islands’ - an exhibition by the artist Aleksandra Mir

Aleksandra Mir is a Swedish citizen who was born in Poland and has spent the last 15 years in New York, where she studied art and anthropology. She has recently moved to Palermo, Sicily.
Since early in her artistic life she has taken a special interest in cartography as a tool for interrogating our received notions, addressing the subject in films, photographs and performances. In the early drawings series, ‘The World from Above’, Mir drew views of different places, starting with commercially produced maps. Favourite tourist destinations, such as the Tower of London, rubbed shoulders with the Gaza Strip and other political hotspots.

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Tuesday-Thursday 10 a.m. - 9 p.m., Friday-Sunday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., closed on Monday.

Description of the Museum

The Kunsthaus houses one of Switzerland’s most important collections. The most important collection of works by Alberto Giacometti has been on display in bright new rooms since June 2002. In other rooms there are exquisite Medieval sculptures and altar panels, exceptional Flemish and Italian Baroque painting, and the zenith of Swiss 19th and 20th century art represented by the best known works of artists such as Johann Heinrich Fuseli and Ferdinand Hodler.

The collection includes also the largest collection of works by Edvard Munch outside Norway, important paintings by Picasso and the Expressionists Kokoschka, Beckmann and Corinth. There is also a significant group of works by Claude Monet.

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