Sylvie FleuryExhibition History 1991–2023

Fashion, Glamour, Lifestyle! And when an art museum turns into a fashion show, then Sylvie Fleury is definitely a guest. For some twenty-five years the artist has been playing ironically with gender clichés and the stereotypes of consumer society. With “Shoplifters from Venus,” Kunst Museum Winterthur is presenting the first comprehensive solo exhibition of the Geneva artist to be seen in Switzerland for fifteen years, one in which she seeks a dialogue with modernism and takes pleasure in exposing its masculine imprint. The forthcoming accompanying book is more than merely an exhibition catalogue: it traces the development of her artistic work by way of all the artist’s solo exhibitions since the 1990s. Essays by Simon Baier, Konrad Bitterli and Elisabeth Bronfen illuminate selected aspects of her output, which over the years has lost nothing of its explosive content or its emancipatory force.

Exhibition:
Kunst Museum Winterthur, 3/6 – 20/8/2023