Schall und Rauch. Die wilden 20er

Zurich and the art of the 1920s

Like no other decade, the 1920s epitomise new beginnings and relapses. In no other period of the 20th century was people's desire for innovation probably as great as at that time. Urban visions were sketched out, cities grew at breakneck speed, traditional social role models were questioned and broken up, disadvantaged or oppressed minorities made their voices heard in culture and politics. A growing leisure industry joined the ranks of an everyday life that took the interests of workers into account. The high degree of innovation at this time was directly reflected in the joy of experimentation in the arts. Surprisingly, their products have lost none of their topicality. Unlike many exhibitions dedicated to the 1920s, the exhibition and book will not look at styles such as Bauhaus, Dada, New Objectivity and the design and architecture icons of Modernism separately, but rather place them in dialogue with each other, which will make the heterogeneity of styles of those pioneering years particularly clear. The focus is on Berlin, Paris, Vienna and Zurich, covering all media such as painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, film and collage. Less well-known positions, especially those of women, will also be offered a platform. Contemporary artists who explicitly deal with the formal language and themes of the 1920s build a bridge to the present day:
Josef Albers, Hans Arp, Kader Attia, Johannes Baargeld, Marc Bauer, Benito, Erwin Blumenfeld, Constantin Brancusi, André Breton, Marcel Breuer, Suse Byk, Coco Chanel, Serge Charchoune, Salvador Dalí, Adolf Dietrich, Otto Dix, Dodo, Kees van Dongen, Theo van Doesburg, Marcel Duchamp, Jean Dunand, Max Ernst, Theodore Lux Feininger, Hans Finsler, Barthel Gilles, Natalia Goncharova, George Grosz, Max Ernst Haefeli, Raoul Hausmann, Raphael Hefti, Heinrich Hoerle, René Herbst, Hannah Höch, Karl Hubbuch, Martin Imboden, Johannes Itten, Pierre Jeanneret, Rashid Johnson, Paul Joostens, Gemaine-Paule Jourmard, Grete Jürgens, Wassily Kandinsky, Elisabeth Karlinsky, Lajos Kassák, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Paul Klee, Frank Kupka, Rudolf von Laban, Michael Larianow, Le Corbusier, Fernand Léger, Lucien Lelong, Jacques Lipchitz, Jeanne Mammen, Elli Marcus, Fabian Marti, László Moholy-Nagy, Lucia Moholy, Piet Mondrian, Alexandra Navratil, Walter Niggli, Amédée Ozenfant, Trevor Paglen, Gret Palucca, Nicolas Party, Charlotte Perriand, Pablo Picasso, Paul Poiret, Ljubow Sergejewna Popowa, Man Ray, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Hans Richter, Gerrit T. Rietveld, Vitorelli Rita, Hans Robertson, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Jean-Lambert-Rucki, Charlotte Rudolph, Thomas Ruff, Christian Schad, Xanti Schawinsky, Oskar Schlemmer, Wilhelm Schnarrenberger, Georg Scholz, Max Ulrich Schopp, Kurt Schwitters, Shirana Shahbazi, Mario Sironi, Veronika Spierenburg, Anton Stankowski, Warwara Fjodorowna Stepanowa, Niklaus Stoecklin, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Marianne My Ullmann, Félix Vallotton, Madeleine Vionnet, Nikolai Wassilieff, Gustav Wunderwald, Frantisek Zelenka

Exhibition:
Kunsthaus Zurich, 3/7 - 11/10/2020