"Three Perspectives and a Short Scenario: Liam Gillick"
2008-01-26 until 2008-03-30
Kunsthalle Zurich
Zurich, , CH

Kunsthalle Zurich begins their program in 2008 with a retrospective of works by the British artist Liam Gillick. This Zurich retrospective is embedded in a multipart exhibition project that links times and places, that chooses concepts and works from the oeuvre of the last twenty years and translates them into a form that does without any kind of work-accumulating survey. The attempt will be made to provide an insight into the artist’s highly diverse oeuvre via various exhibition formats, objects on exhibit and architectural interventions. One year separates the parallel exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Zurich (25 January to 30 March) and the one at Witte de With in Rotterdam (19 January to 24 March) from the opening of the retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, January 2009.

Between the exhibitions in Europe and the U.S., a new “scenario” will be produced, performed and filmed in the summer months of 2008 at the Kunstverein Munich. In this play the different protagonists and collaborations that have influenced the artist’s work will be studied and presented.

At the same time chapter sixth of the Kunsthalle's year-round project How to cook a Wolf will present works by John Dogg and Bernadette Corporation. With this last part of the exhibition project the aim is to exam the significance of ficticious and transitory grouping of artists and the strategies they aspire within the marketing environment.

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