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Past Exbitions: 2015

Future Present

Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation
Contemporary Art from Classic Modernism to the Present Day

13 June 2015 – 31 January 2016

The Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation presents in 2015 a selection of works from the collection in an exhibition entitled “Contemporary Art from Classic Modernism to the Present Day”.

For the first time in over 30 years Schaulager is presenting an extensive overview of works from the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation. Ever since it was established in 1933, the Foundation has been devoted to the collection and presentation of contemporary art. The current exhibition FUTURE PRESENT, covering over 5000 m², will be on view not only in Schaulager’s unique galleries but in other rooms on the premises as well. Works from the Foundation are also permanently installed in public spaces in and around Basel.


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Including a wide range of media from paintings, sculptures and drawings to installations, photography and video, FUTURE PRESENT allows visitors to take a journey through a century of art history from classic modernism to the present day. Early classic modernism is represented by such artists as Max Ernst, Hans Arp and Joan Miró as well as Salvador Dalí’s famous Burning Giraffe and Robert Delaunay’s Eiffel Tower. Joseph Beuys’s iconic installation Schneefall (Snowfall) and major pieces by Bruce Nauman are among the many works of mid-20th century art that will be on view. Moreover, works by Jeff Wall, Katharina Fritsch, Robert Gober, Tacita Dean, David Claerbout, Thomas Demand, Elizabeth Peyton, Peter Fischli and David Weiss and many others testify to outstanding developments in contemporary art over the past few decades.

Highlights

Robert Delaunay, La Tour Eiffel, 1910–1911, photo: Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, Martin P. Bühler

Piet Mondrian, TABLEAU 3, mit Orange-Rot, Gelb, Schwarz, Blau, und Grau, 1921, poto: Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, Martin P. Bühler

Pablo Picasso, Verre, bouteille et paquet de tabac, 1922, © 2015, ProLitteris, photo: Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, Martin P. Bühler

Max Ernst, La roue du soleil (Grande marine), 1926, © 2015, ProLitteris, photo: Bisig & Bayer, Basel

Floris Jespers, Sur un gouffre rouge un désir tremble, 1926, © 2015, ProLitteris, photo: Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, Martin P. Bühler

Hans Arp, Configuration (Nombril, chemise et tête), 1927/1928, © 2015, ProLitteris, Zurich, photo: Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, Martin P. Bühler

Max Ernst, La révolte des colombes, 1927, © 2015, ProLitteris, Zurich, photo: Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, Martin P. Bühler

Richard Artschwager, Step ’n’ See II, 1966–1979, © 2015, ProLitteris, Zurich, photo: Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, Martin P. Bühler

Dieter Roth, Das Meer, 1. Teil, 1968, © Dieter Roth Estate, photo: Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, Martin P. Bühler

Andy Warhol, Maja [Maja Sacher-Stehlin], 1980, © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / 2015, ProLitteris, Zurich

Jean-Frédéric Schnyder, Wanderung 1-119/35, 16.4.92, © Jean-Frédéric Schnyder, photo: Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, Martin P. Bühler

Bruce Nauman, Plaster Steps, 1997–1998, © Bruce Nauman / 2015, ProLitteris, Zurich, photo: Michael Tropea, Courtesy Donald Young Gallery, Chicago

Elizabeth Peyton, Swan (Leonardo di Caprio), 1998, © Elizabeth Peyton, photo: Bisig & Bayer, Basel

Katharina Fritsch, Oktopus, 2006/2009, © 2015, ProLitteris, photo: Ivo Faber © 2015, ProLitteris, Zurich

Steve McQueen, Static, 2009, © Steve McQueen

Jeff Wall, Boy falls from tree, 2010, © Jeff Wall

Thomas Demand, Daily # 15, 2011, © 2015, ProLitteris, Zurich

David Claerbout, Oil workers (from the Shell company of Nigeria) returning home from work, caught in torrential rain, 2013, © 2015, ProLitteris, Zurich


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Downloads

  • Exhibition Leaflet(pdf, 2.8 MB)
  • Exhibition Guide (1)(pdf, 1.77 MB)
  • Exhibition Guide (2)(pdf, 1.77 MB)

Catalogue

When the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation published its last catalogue of the collection in 1991, there were 322 entries in the list of works. Today the collection comprises over 1,000 works and reads like a cross-section of the history of art and artistic thinking in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

On the occasion of the exhibition FUTURE PRESENT the new catalogue Future Present: The Collection of the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation takes stock of the present and provides a comprehensive insight into this vast treasure trove of artistic responses to the world since the 1920s.

The catalogue of the collection details paintings, sculptures, drawings, installations, photographs and video works owned by the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation. The illustrated list of works is preceded by over eighty descriptions of works and biographies of all the artists represented in the collection. A conversation between the art historian Catherine Hürzeler and the President of the Foundation, Maja Oeri, adds a personal dimension to the Foundation’s commitment to contemporary art. Ralph Ubl, Professor of Modern Art at the University of Basel, portrays the Foundation’s collecting activities against an art-historical backdrop. Finally, this richly illustrated publication is rounded off with useful pointers to further reading.


FUTURE PRESENT. The Collection of the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation
Published by the Laurenz Foundation, Schaulager Basel

776 pages, 19 × 27 cm, more than 1,000 illustrations in colour, hardback
Available in English and German
1st edition 2015


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Credits
Peter Fischli / David Weiss, Table, 1992—1993, table and objects, polyurethane, carved and painted (detail), Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, on permanent loan to the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, © Peter Fischli / David Weiss, photo: Tom Bisig

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