Kathleen Bühler

Kunstmuseum Bern

Between 1982 and 2013, the Kunst Heute (Art Today) Foundation assembled a distinguished collection of the works of young contemporary Swiss artists. Pipilotti Rist, Fischli/Weiss and Thomas Hirschhorn are just some of the names to be found in the collection. After over 30 years of activity, the Foundation ceased its work at the end of 2013 and the collection is now housed in the Museum of Fine Arts Bern. This catalogue is published as the third volume in a series entitled 'Die Sammlung Gegenwartskunst (The Contemporary Art Collection) to accompany the scheduled exhibition, which investigates forms of artistic positioning and self-referentiality in a quintessentually globalised world.

The Collection of Contemporary Art

Art Today/Kunst Heute

Autobiografie als Performance. Die Experimentalfilme Carolee Schneemanns

Banca della Svizzera italiana

This book is built upon the BSI collection of almost 1,000 works which focuses on Swiss artists. It demonstrates the diversity and inventiveness of artists of their region. Artists in the extensive collection include: Jean Tinguely, Andreas Hoffer, Daniel Spoerri and Roman Signer amongst many others. The book is published by BSI (Banca della Svizzera Italiana), as part of the BSI Art Collection series.

Collection of Swiss art in five chapters

Marta Dziewanska

Éric de Chassey

Paul B. Preciado

Élisabeth Lebovici

Adam Szymczyk

Fernando López Garcia

Anna Ara

Natalia Sielewicz

Rita Segato

Jakub Momro

A rebel and feminist, the Switzerland-born Miriam Cahn is one of the major artists of her generation. Widely known for her drawings and paintings, she also experiments with photography, moving images, sculptures, and performance art. Cahn’s diverse body of work is disturbing and dreamlike, filled with striking human figures pulsing with an energy both passionate and violent. These pieces, along with Cahn’s reflections on artistic expression, have always responded to her contemporary moment. In the 1980s, her work addressed the feminist, peace, and environmental movements, while the work she produced in the 1990s and early 2000s contains allusions to the war in the former Yugoslavia, the conflict in the Middle East, and the September 11 terrorist attacks. Her recent production tackles ever-evolving political conflicts, engaging with the European refugee crisis and the “#metoo” movement. Miriam Cahn: I as Human examines different facets of the artist’s prolific and troubling oeuvre, featuring contributions from art historians, critics, and philosophers including Kathleen Bühler, Paul B. Preciado, Elisabeth Lebovici, Adam Szymczyk, Natalia Sielewicz and .

I AS HUMAN

MIRIAM CAHN

From the editor?s introduction: ??MIRIAM CAHN: I AS HUMAN? looks at this oeuvre from several vantage points. Kathleen Bühler and Adam Szymczyk view it from the biographical perspective, as we are all entangled?consciously or not?in various broader or narrower historical planes. Natalia Sielewicz, while reading the images and looking at the texts, attentively observes the strategies and stakes of the works of an artist: a woman who in her art ruptures the notions of stable subjectivity, who inhabits the shifting perspectives of ?I?. Based on her research on patriarchal violence, anthropologist and feminist Rita Segato looks at wounded women?s bodies in Cahn?s oeuvre and invites us to rethink the idea of minoritarian politics. Jakub Momro movingly writes about the shock of an encounter, seeing as experience, image-thought, and Cahn?s work in the context of the intensities that create it/that it creates. Éric de Chassey, on the other hand, writes about the tension between figuration and abstraction: the mixture of distance, immediacy and truth; about performativity; and about the deeply political dimension of Cahn?s work. The artist herself comments on these issues with eloquence and conviction in a conversation with Patricia Falguières, Élisabeth Lebovici, and Natasa Petresin-Bachelez [?].?00Exhibition: Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland (22.02. - 16.06.2019) / Haus der Kunst, München, Germany (12.07.- 27.10.2019) / Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland (29.11.2019 - 23.02.2020).

I as Human

Miriam Cahn

Kathleen Bühler

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