Marc Bauer: Fear Rage Desire, Still Standing

Four canvases hang from the ceiling in back-to-back pairs. For one, Them, Marc Bauer started from a press photo of Donald Trump's January 2025 inauguration and smeared paint across the faces of the tech bosses beside him. On its back, Manifesto quotes Valerie Solanas's SCUM Manifesto.

The show fills the connecting wing between the Hauptbau and the Neubau, much of it drawn in charcoal and pastel straight onto the walls. You walk along a row of small pencil drawings that tell Bauer's own story: a boy in profile, Babar, a surgeon uncle. Beside them, huge wall drawings rework Caravaggio's Doubting Thomas and Gentileschi's Judith and Holofernes, with a soundtrack referencing music that matters to the queer movement.

Its subject is violence against queer people, and one case holds drawings after hate mail from the Swiss Gay Archives. Bauer added to the walls in May and November, in front of visitors, and they will be painted over in 2027. It runs until 2 May 2027, and Wednesdays run to 8pm.