Barbara Yelin: Word to Image

Aperçu : écrit avant l'ouverture de l'exposition

Barbara Yelin never draws two books the same way. The museum says her technique always follows the content: one book tells of a woman executed for serial murder in the early 19th century, another, Irmina, of a young woman offered a step up the social ladder under the Nazis. A recent one adapts the memoirs of Emmie Arbel, who survived three concentration camps as a child.

This is the Munich artist's first major solo show. It brings together original comic pages, stand-alone works and illustrations for magazines and children's books. Her subjects also include the actor Therese Giehse, who went from Brecht's stage to exile.

Tickets are CHF 14, or CHF 7 for students under 25. At the free opening on 27 November you can watch Yelin draw live on screen to electroacoustic music by Sina Fani Sani. The next evening she talks with curator Anette Gehrig (CHF 20, with a tour you register for), and Sunday tours cost CHF 5 on top of entry.