Participating galleries:

Aeroplastics Brussels | Aidan Moscow | Albion London | Aliceday Brussels | Andersen_S Copenhagen | Asbaek Projects Copenhagen | Aschenbach & Hofland Amsterdam | Baronian-Francey Brussels | Bärtschi Geneva | Bernier/Eliades Athens | Bitforms New York | Bjerggaard Copenhagen | Blancpain Geneve | Bodhi Art New Delhi | Box Brussels | Brolly Paris | Brown London | Buchmann Berlin - Lugano | Bugdahn und Kaimer Düsseldorf | Carreras Mugica Bilbao | Cerami Couillet | Chinese Contemporary New York | Conrads Düsseldorf - Berlin | Crown Brussels | Cueto Project New York | D&A Lab Brussels | De Brock Knokke | De Villepoix Paris | De Voldère New York | Deweer Otegem | Diaz Madrid | Espai2nou2 Barcelona | Faurschou Copenhagen | Fiat Paris | Fournier Paris | Galerie 1900-2000 Paris | Galleri K Oslo | Geukens & De Vil Knokke | Giroux Paris | Godin Paris | Grimm Amsterdam | Grusenmeyer Deurle | Gutharc Paris | Hécey Brussels | Hoet Bekaert Gent | Hufkens Brussels | Hussenot Paris | In Situ Aalst | Insam Vienna | Invernizzi Milano | Jamar Antwerpen | Janssen Brussels | JGM Paris | Karpio San José De Costa Rica | Kleindienst Leipzig | Koraalberg Antwerpen | Krinzinger Vienna | Kudlek van der Grinten Köln | La Citta Verona | Le Borgne Paris | Lee London | Leo Koenig New York | Les Filles du Calvaire Paris - Brussels | Lia Rumma Napoli - Milano | Loevenbruck Paris | Lorcan O’Neill Roma | Maes & Matthys Antwerpen | Maruani & Noirhomme Knokke | Mauroner Vienna Max Estrella Madrid | | Meert Brussels | Mennour Paris | Minini Brescia | Moser Geneve | Mulier Mulier Knokke | Nelson - Freeman Paris | Nicolai Wallner Copenhagen | Nosbaum & Reding Luxembourg | Obadia Paris | Papillon Paris | Paviot Paris | Photo & Contemporary Torino | Pieters Knokke | Polaris Paris | Praz-Delavallade Paris | Rech Brussels - Paris | Regina Moscow | Rein Paris | Rolt Amsterdam | Ronmandos Amsterdam | Rubenstein New York | Rubicon Dublin | Rumpff Haarlem | Ruzicska Salzburg | Schmidt Maczollek Cologne | Sels Düsseldorf | Senda Barcelona | André Simoens Knokke | Stephane Simoens Knokke | Soskine Madrid-New York | Sparta Chagny | Stolper London | Svestka Prague | Szwajcer Antwerpen | Tache-Levy Brussels | Tanit München | Tarasieve Paris | Taylor London | Templon Paris | Thoman Innsbruck | Transit Mechelen | Triangle Bleu Stavelot |Tucci Russo Torre Pellice | Upstairs Berlin | Vallois Paris | Van Laere Antwerpen | Vanhoegaerden Knokke | Vidal Paris | Vilenne Liège | XL Moscow | Zander Köln | Zürcher Paris | Zwarte Panter Antwerpen

YOUNG TALENT :
1/9 unosunove Roma | AD Gallery Athens | Adamski Aachen | ADN Galeria Barcelona | Alice Brussels | Amaro Lisboa | Apartment Athens | Arquebuse Geneva | Art Agents Hamburg | Bischoff/Weiss London | Cortes Lisboa | Cortex Athletico Bordeaux | De Bruijne Amsterdam | De March Milano | Dependance Brussels | Desimpel Brussels | F A Projects London | Figge Von Rosen Cologne | Lynch New York | Gazon Rouge Athens | Grimm München | Groeflin Maag Zürich | Hauff Stuttgart | Hustinx Liège | Klemm’s Berlin | Levy Brussels | Low Gstaad | Mertens Berlin | Metis_NL Amsterdam | Milliken Stockholm | Mitterrand + Sanz Zürich | Mogadishni Valby | Motive Amsterdam | Low Gstaad |Parker’s Box Brooklyn | Rokeby London | Salon 94 New York | Scharmann Cologne | Skuc Ljubljana | Sutton Lane London | The Agency London | Vilma Gold London | Wentrup Berlin | Zwart Huis Knokke

FIRST CALL :
Cosmic Paris | Duvekleemann Berlin | Fruit and Flower Deli New York | Ibid Projects London | Jozsa Brussels | Luxe New York | Andreiana Mihail Bucarest | Office Baroque Antwerpen | Pollazzon London | Rotwand Zürich | Shugoarts Tokyo | Upstream Amsterdam | Van Zomeren Amsterdam | Klara Wallner Berlin

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Press Release

Hannah Höch – All Beginnings are DADA!

Museum Tinguely, Basel: January 16 through May 4, 2008

The Museum Tinguely presents the first extensive survey in Switzerland dedicated to Hannah Höch (1889-1978), the sole woman member of the group Dada Berlin. The exhibition covers the period from her early Dada years during and immediately following the First World War through the 1920s, a fertile phase in her career during which Höch was in contact with numerous important avant-garde artists such as Kurt Schwitters, Hans Arp, Theo van Doesburg. She collaborated in part with them, producing masterly collages, profound yet ironical. During the 1930s and ‘40s, she worked in total retirement and secrecy – and her works contain a cryptic criticism of the National Socialist regime. Her late works, less known, in which she appears to anticipate Pop Art by her themes and colours, were her reaction to new scientific discoveries of the day. To close the exhibition, a section will be dedicated to Höch’s garden – a recurrent theme throughout the artist’s oeuvre.

Having exhibited in the course of the last years various important artists of the Dada movement, the Museum Tinguely is the ideal platform for a presentation of Hannah Höch’s work. But, as the constant defender of individualism, Höch is furthermore close to the kinetic artist Jean Tinguely and his source of inspiration, anarchism.

The exhibition was conceived in close collaboration with the Berlinische Galerie, seat of the Hannah Höch archives; it is organised in a chronological order and divided into five sections, opening with Höch’s large-scale photo-collage Lebensbild that the artist created in 1972/1973 so to speak as a sort of visual autobiography. The collage harks back to numerous important works that the visitor can encounter throughout the exhibition.

dada cordial: Höch, Hausmann and DADA Berlin

Hannah Höch was born in 1889, into a middle-class family in Gotha, where she spent her youth. She studied in Berlin under Emil Orlik at the Institute attached to the Museum of Applied Arts and financed her studies by working as a draughtswoman creating needlework patterns for the publisher Ullstein. In 1915, she met Raoul Hausmann, with whom she had relationship until 1922; the affair was a passionate one but for Höch also difficult as Hausmann, who had been married since 1908 to Elfriede Schaeffer, was not willing to leaving his wife and daughter. He attributed the difficulties of their affair to Höch’s “patriarchal-authoritarian” upbringing which had marked her and which, in his opinion, she had to overcome.

Though difficult for Höch in her private life, these years were extremely fruitful for her as an artist and the young woman was able to assert her position within the male circle of egocentric Berlin Dadaists – Hausmann, Johannes Baader, George Grosz, Richard Huelsenbeck and John Heartfield – through her masterly, though amusing-symbolical collages and objects. Thus, in the summer of 1920, she participated with works in the legendary “First International Dada Fair”.

Main works in this phase of her career such as the collage Dada-Rundschau as well as the two Dada-Puppen reveal Höch to be an alert and witty commentator of the political and social changes after the First World War.

Centre Pompidou 5 March to 2 June 2008

This March, the Centre Pompidou will be presenting the first extensive retrospective showcasing Louise Bourgeois’ work since the exhibition that the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris held in 1995. This retrospective has been organised with the London Tate Modern and will feature around 200 sculptures, paintings, drawings and engravings she produced between 1940 and 2007, with a special focus on the past decade and this 95-year-old artist’s knack for relentlessly rejuvenating her artistic language.

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Louise Bourgeois en 1990 avec sa sculpture en marbre Eye to Eye (1970). © ADAGP, Paris, 2008.
© Photo: Raimon Ramis, D.R.