ZURICH.- Häusler Contemporary Zürich is celebrating its 10 years anniversary. Giovanni Carmine, director of Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, has curated an exhibition for the gallery on this special occasion. His presentation combines the past with a possible future and focuses on process-oriented strategies by putting artists from the gallery's program into dialogue with external positions.

For ten years now, Häusler Contemporary has been presenting international contemporary conceptual art in Zurich, focusing on developments in the 1960s/70s. The gallery wants to duly celebrate this jubilee and takes the opportunity to look back as well as forward: What outline did the gallery program adopt in the past decade? Which artistic positions had major impact on the gallery's exhibition activities? Where and how do younger artists pursue the gallery's established artists’ approaches?

Giovanni Carmine attended to these questions and takes them as a guideline to curate the anniversary exhibition. He writes about his concept: «The group show searches for parallelisms and convergences between the gallery’s program and my own way of exhibition making. Topics such as energy conversion, light, nature, and abstraction play an important role within this exchange, forming the ‘fil rouge’ between the two poles. The gallery program is the starting point and provides an excellent base for emphasizing further aspects and for localizing the specific tendencies in the work of a younger generation. The exhibition focuses on the artists’ role as researchers who consider process to be a major part of their work. At the same time, the show intends to be a solemn affair, centered around the work of great artistic positions.»

From the program, among others James Turrell and Bill Bollinger are part of the exhibition, alongside guests such as Irene Kopelmann, Haroon Mirza, and Raphael Hefti.