‘Artist & producer – from the idea to the object’

Join us for a panel conversation at Haus Max Bill in celebration of the exhibition ‘Judd, LeWitt & Bill – Made by Lehni’ at Hauser & Wirth Zurich, in collaboration with metal furniture prodcuer Lehni.

Please note that the talk will start promptly at 6:30 pm. Tickets are free, however advance booking is essential. Seats will be allocated on a first come, first serve basis.

Haus Bill
Rebhusstrasse 50
8126 Zumikon

Please RSVP by Friday 31 January to
ruthoehler@hauserwirth.com

Following the conversation, we invite you to attend an informal drinks reception.

Speakers
Angela Thomas, art historian
Martin Schwander, art historian & curator
Dieter Schwarz, curator & author

chaired by
Susanna Koeberle Faoro, design journalist

The panel conversation ‘Art & design in dialog - the producer a as creative partner’ highlights the dynamic relationship between art and design from the perspective of artists, curators and producers. The speakers will discuss examples such as the collaboration between Max Bill and Rudolf Lehni's sheet metal workshop in the early 20th Century through to later projects by internationally acclaimed artists like Sol LeWitt and Donald Judd with the now leading Swiss metal furniture manufacturer Lehni.

Donald Judd's unique furniture series, which is still exclusively produced by Lehni today, shows how closely art and design are interlinked. These partnerships not only strengthen the role of the producer as a creative partner but also as an important mediator in the creative process.

This panel conversation invites you to discover the developments from the 1930s to the 1980s and 1990s, to gain insights into artists' attitudes towards design and to explore the exciting interplay between art, design and production in the Swiss cultural landscape.

About Angela Thomas
Angela Thomas was the co-founder and editor of ‘kassandra,’ the first German-language feminist magazine for the visual arts (Berlin and Zurich, 1977/78). She met Max Bill in 1974 and married him in 1991. For twenty years she kept notes on their shared conversations, experiences and travels, as well as the exhibitions they curated together. After Max Bill’s death, she founded the max bill georges vantongerloo foundation, which she still chairs as president. In 1998 Angela Thomas married the director Erich Schmid; they live together in Max Bill’s house and studio in Zumikon near Zurich and collaborated on the film ‘Max Bill—das absolute Augenmass’ (2008).

About Martin Schwander
Martin Schwander is an art historian and curator. He is a curator at large for the Beyeler Foundation where he curated an exhibition on the work of Georg Baselitz in 2018. In 1991 he curated an exhibition on Luciano Fabro’s work at the Kunsthalle of Lucerne, where he was director from 1989 – 1997.

About Dieter Schwarz
Dieter Schwarz is a curator and writer. He has organized numerous exhibitions and contributed to publications on artists from early modernity to the present, including Pierre Bonnard, Sol LeWitt, Agnes Martin, Robert Ryman.

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Photographs will be taken at this event for use on the Hauser & Wirth website, social media and in other marketing materials.