"Ordering and Seduction" is the title of the forthcoming comprehensive exhibition project at Haus Konstruktiv  This international group exhibition centers on the thesis that the last few years have seen a new visual interest, especially among a younger generation of artists, in clarity, reduction and systematics. This decampment toward a transferal of personal experiential values as they were tested internationally, primarily in the 1990s, into the reducibility of exemplary valid structures, expands and enriches our perspective on Concrete and Constructive Art.

On the fourth floor we will create a cabinet situation with the four most historically important Zurich Concrete artists -

Max Bill, Richard Paul Lohse, Verena Loewensberg and Camille Graeser

that is to be read in context with the exhibition, "Ordering and Seduction," as both a contextual subtext (as a type of binding cue-giver), and as an acknowledgment of the internationally renowned importance of an enduring validity for these stances.  The comparative confrontation of their universal design approach with the pictorial and work orders of contemporary artists -

Thomas Baumann (A)
John Beech (UK)
Reto Boller (CH)
Daniel Buren (F)
Stephane Dafflon (CH)
Wade Guyton (USA)
Christian Herdeg (CH)
Jahangui (CH)
Sarah Morris (USA)
Olaf Nicolai (D)
Odili Donald Odita (Nigeria/USA)
Maya Roos (CH)
Tobias Rehberger (D)
Charles Sandison (UK)
Sarah Staton (USA)
Heimo Zobernig (A)

reveals many formal references as well as shifts of content. They are conceptions that are precise, yet charge the cool stringency of the early concrete artists with a more optional moment. They are compressions, structurings and reductions in which the relevance of this internationally conducted discourse is exemplarily reflected.

Dorothea Strauss
Kunstlerische Direktorin / Artistic director