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The Body Within Abstraction
40th anniversary show on the body in abstract art, with Heidi Bucher, Kimsooja, Bruce Nauman, Chiharu Shiota, Franz West and others.
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In 1972 Heidi Bucher filmed four big foam forms, painted mother-of-pearl, as they lumbered out of the Pacific onto Venice Beach like sea creatures or sci-fi aliens. Those Bodyshells (replicas from 2024) are here, and on 18 December 2026 people wear them and set them moving again.
The show marks Haus Konstruktiv's 40th year and is the first to use all of its new east and west wings at Löwenbräukunst. Its point is that abstract art, the museum's home turf, starts from the body. Dóra Maurer's 1979 film Proportions, in which she measures her own body, is the starting point. At Bruce Nauman's Body Pressure you press yourself against a wall and notice where you touch it.
No reviews are out yet. For the full picture, go on 18 December, and cross the road to the shop window at Limmatstrasse 265, where the SAPA Foundation shows a project built on a William Forsythe dance piece.
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Heidi Bucher's body shells alongside Bruce Nauman, Kimsooja, Chiharu Shiota and Franz West. For its 40th anniversary, a museum built on squares and grids goes looking for the human body in abstract art.
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Heidi Bucher's Bodyshells
Four foam body coverings in mother-of-pearl paint, shown with the 1972 film of them crawling out of the sea at Venice Beach.
Bruce Nauman, Body Pressure
A wall with instructions: press your body against it and pay attention to every point of contact.
Steven Parrino, Push up, pull down
A black monochrome canvas stretched, crumpled and pushed until it nearly breaks, by an artist who also played in New York bands.
Chiharu Shiota, Endless connections
A thread installation that fills a whole room.
Dóra Maurer, Proportions
A 1979 film from the museum's collection in which the artist measures her own body, the show's starting point.
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- The Body Within AbstractionCourtesy of Museum Haus Konstruktiv
- Kunsthalle ZürichONAR / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Migros Museum für GegenwartskunstMigros Museum für Gegenwartskunst / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Toni-ArealChoinowski / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0