ExhibitionMarch 5, 2021
Living Abstraction, an exhibition by Sophie Taeuber-Arp
In 2021, the Kunstmuseum Basel dedicates the comprehensive retrospective Living Abstraction to Sophie Taeuber-Arp's oeuvre, in the first exhibition to present her work to large international audiences beyond German-speaking countries and produced in cooperation with the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Tate, London.
The Swiss artist Sophie Taeuber-Art (1889-1943) was a pioneer of Abstraction. With an air of playful ease, her interdisciplinary creations dismantled longstanding barriers between art and life. Fusing the experimentalism of the avant-garde circles in which she moved in Zurich and Paris with her technical training and experience as a lecturer of applied art, she devised a form of Abstraction brought to—indeed, integrated into virtually all domains of—life by expert craftsmanship.
The captivating survey allows visitors to experience the evolution of her work from her beginnings in applied art to her Strasbourg years' architecture-related projects and the abstract paintings of her time in Paris. In 1937, Taeuber-Arp contributed numerous works to Konstruktivisten, an exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel that significantly boosted the development and dissemination of Abstraction. She figures prominently in Basel's art history because several important collectors of her work called it the city home.
Living Abstraction curated by Dr. Eva Reifert, Anne Umland, Natalia Sidlina, and Walburga Krupp will be on view from Mach 20 to June 20, 2021. For more information, visit: https://kunstmuseumbasel.ch/en/exhibitions/2021/sophie-taeuber-arp
The Swiss artist Sophie Taeuber-Art (1889-1943) was a pioneer of Abstraction. With an air of playful ease, her interdisciplinary creations dismantled longstanding barriers between art and life. Fusing the experimentalism of the avant-garde circles in which she moved in Zurich and Paris with her technical training and experience as a lecturer of applied art, she devised a form of Abstraction brought to—indeed, integrated into virtually all domains of—life by expert craftsmanship.
The captivating survey allows visitors to experience the evolution of her work from her beginnings in applied art to her Strasbourg years' architecture-related projects and the abstract paintings of her time in Paris. In 1937, Taeuber-Arp contributed numerous works to Konstruktivisten, an exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel that significantly boosted the development and dissemination of Abstraction. She figures prominently in Basel's art history because several important collectors of her work called it the city home.
Living Abstraction curated by Dr. Eva Reifert, Anne Umland, Natalia Sidlina, and Walburga Krupp will be on view from Mach 20 to June 20, 2021. For more information, visit: https://kunstmuseumbasel.ch/en/exhibitions/2021/sophie-taeuber-arp
