Exhibition Walkthrough: ‘Nairy Baghramian. Modèle Vivant (Se ployant)’

On the occasion of the exhibition ‘Nairy Baghramian. Modèle vivant (Se ployant)’ at Hauser & Wirth Zurich, join us for a guided tour with art historian André Rottmann, in the presence of the artist.

Coinciding with Zurich Art Weekend, this event is public and registration is not required.

The tour will be held in English.

Following the tour, you are welcome to attend a walkthrough of ‘Philip Guston: Singularities’ immediately afterwards in our second floor gallery space, from 4 pm – 4.30 pm.

About Nairy Baghramian
Born in Isfahan, Baghramian had to flee post-revolutionary Iran as a teenager and has been living and working in Berlin since 1984. Nairy Baghramian’s work traverses the realms of sculpture, installation, photography and drawing with fearless experimentation, historical acuity and conceptual rigor. Particularly in her prime medium of sculpture, the artist employs an extensive repertoire of techniques, materials and forms to address the spatial, architectural, social, political and contextual conditions of contemporary art. Using an abstract vocabulary that often combines geometric shapes and organic matter, industrial process and gestural procedure, Baghramian’s abstract yet eminently allusive works subtly explore the ligatures between art and other fields of object production (most notably interior design, dance and theater) in order to evoke and address bodies of all variants in both their vulnerability and obstinacy. Through her innovative use of materials and manipulation of familiar forms, Baghramian’s work invites viewers to reconsider their sense of self, space, object and site.

About André Rottmann
The Berlin-based art historian has been Professor for Art and Media Theory at Europa-Universität Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany, since 2022. His writings on contemporary art have appeared in journals like OCTOBER, Grey Room, Artforum, Cahiers d’Art and Texte zur Kunst, among others, and in catalogues of major international museums and exhibitions (for example the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Migros Museum, Zurich, Kunstmuseum Basel, K21 Düsseldorf, Kunsthaus Bregenz or Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017). Upcoming publications include the book ‘Isa Genzken. Fuck the Bauhaus’ (Afterall One Works Series/The MIT Press, 2024), an essay on the art of Thomas Schütte (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2024) and the anthology ‘Pierre Huyghe. October File’ (The MIT Press, 2025). He has been an advisory board member of OCTOBER magazine since 2024. Since 2008 he has written and lectured on the work of Nairy Baghramian on numerous occasions and most recently contributed a comprehensive survey of her practice to the publication ‘Nairy Baghramian. Déformation professionelle’ (S.M.A.K. – Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent / Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 2018).

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