Coming soon exhibitions
Hendrik Kerstens, Bag, 2007
Credit: Hendrik Kerstens. Courtesy Galerie Nunc, Antwerp, Belgium
Andreas Blank, Untitled, 2011
Credit: Michael Lio
Iskender Yediler, ALDIPLUSLIDL, 1998
Credit: © Iskender Yediler
Lukas Julius Keijser, Gutes kann so billig sein, 2009
Credit: © Lukas Julius Keijser
Plastic bag from the 80's
Credit: Image © Michael Lio
Baptiste Debombourg and David Marin, Marx, 2013
Credit: Courtesy Galerie Patricia Dorfmann, Paris
Luzia Vogt, Sprüngli Brosche, 2009
Credit: © Luzia Vogt
Marie-Claire Baldenweg, Art Basel / Miami Beach, 2010
Credit: Marie-Claire Baldenweg
Oh, Plastiksack !
Credit: Image © Jörger Stauss and Gewerbemuseum Winterthur
View of the installation by Dodi Reifenberg
Credit: Image © Michael Lio
Would You Like A Bag With That?
Plastic bags in art and design
June 19 - October 6, 2013
Since around the 1960s, plastic bags have been part and parcel of our everyday life as consumers. As such, they have come to represent a high-stakes threat to the world environment, with a utility span measured in minutes and an estimated lifespan of over 400 years! Billions of plastic bags are produced around the world every year, accumulating in the environment and menacing the flora and faunas.
The exhibition considers the subject of plastic bags from several angles, through works by artists and various installations. It also traces the history of the graphics marking certain legendary bags recognizable to several generations. When artists resort to this medium for a particular installation, it is generally for purposes of condemning our consumer society.
A readapted and completed version of a show originally conceived by the Winterthur Gewerbemuseum in 2012.
Studio mischer’traxler, The Idea of a Tree, 2008
Alicia Ongay Perez, Inside Out, 2012
Studio Formafantasma, Moulding Tradition, 2009
Studio Formafantasma, Moulding Tradition, 2009
Studio mischer’traxler, The Idea of a Tree, 2008
Studio mischer’traxler, The Idea of a Tree, 2008
Tristan Kopp, prodUSER, 2012
Tuomas Markunpoika Tolvanen, Engineering Temporality, 2012
Mastering Design
Design Academy Eindhoven and Royal College of Art
October 31, 2013, to February 9, 2014
The mudac has made a habit of offering its spaces to recent graduates of the Swiss universities of art and design. The recent decision of Swiss federal authorities to discontinue their sponsorship for our presentation of the winners of the Swiss Federal Design Prizes every two years has incited us to open our doors to the latest generation of European creators, as a way of exploring recent trends beyond our national boundaries.
The Design Academy Eindhoven and the Royal College of Art have a highly innovative approach to design, and neither have any qualms about challenging the conventional functionality of objects. Therefore, both tend to come up with experimental and conceptual pieces imbued with humor and poetry. Hence, we have invited them to invest our exhibition rooms with a selection of projects by their students or recent graduates reflecting their preoccupations: sustainability, social issues, immigration, health, etc.
No Name Design
Franco Clivio
October 31, 2013, to February 9, 2014
For several decades now, Franco Clivio, a creator and lecturer, notably at the Zurich Schule für Gestaltung (School of Design) has, with a passion and a rare perspicacity, gone about collecting everyday objects usually considered commonplace and hardly spectacular. These he classes by functions, or into system typologies, materials or formal families; his collection is featured in a publication (Hidden Forms, Franco Clivio, Hans Hansen, Pierre Mandell, 2009). This exhibition, which he himself will be devising, features a significant selection of his discoveries.
These objects, often anonymously designed, pay homage to the ingenuity of craftsmen and engineers who provided solutions to a variety of problems. The show addresses issues linked to, for instance, an original and copies of it, to the model that enables a whole range of products to be developed, or else to the old but still current issue of the choice of materials-natural or artificial-and the techniques these bring into play. A generous presentation is foreseen in a playful, pedagogical and at times poetic vein.
