Galerie Gmurzynska

23/06/2026

A long-standing contributor to The New York Times and The New York Times Magazine as a columnist, National Geographic, and The New Yorker, for which he has created over 30 covers, Niemann’s work has also appeared in Wired, Newsweek, and Zeit Magazin, among others.

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Christoph Niemann: Urban Horizons
On View: June 11 -
Paradeplatz 2, 8001 Zürich
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Christoph Niemann
Zürich, Grossmünster, 2025
Ink on paper
47.2 x 35.9 cm
18.58 x 14.13 inches
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Copyright Christoph Niemann 2026
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20/06/2026

To celebrate Kurt Schwitters birthday, we look back at one of our favorite collages by the pioneering artist.

Kurt Schwitters was a German artist, painter, poet, installation artist and graphic designer, who was highly influential in the Dadaist movement and also in Constructivism and Surrealism. Most famous for his collages called Merz, many people credit him for inventing the modern collage, and also performance art, installation art, and sound art. He was one of the most radical and important artistic pioneers of the 20th century.

Now on view at Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern Switzerland, “Schwitters: On the Fringes of the Avant-Garde” is showing the first comprehensive exhibition on Kurt Schwitters in Switzerland in over twenty years. Galerie Gmurzynska is proud to have loaned over 20 works to the exhibition, reflecting its over 50 decade interest in promoting Kurt Schwitters.

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Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948)
Ohne Titel (KWATTA), 1928
signed and dated on the lower left
Collage
6 5/8 x 4 7/8 inches
16.8 x 12.4 cm
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# Zurich

18/06/2026

The Femme-Cheval is a recurrent figure in the oeuvre of Wifredo Lam and this painting is the first ever of the 12 paintings. Lam developed the horse-headed female in 1941, the year of his return to his native country Cuba, after eighteen years in Europe and two forced exiles.

The impetus for Lam’s use of the human-horse face and the woman-horse figure comes from the influence of Picasso (in particular his 1935 graphic “Minotauromachie” suite), Surrealism and Afro-Cubanism. Through the horse-headed woman, Lam managed to transpose the power focus of Surrealism (and Picasso) from the male principle to the female.

The motif’s significance extends well beyond Lam’s own practice, finding renewed expression in contemporary fashion and design. Diotima founder and designer Rachel Scott collaborated with the Wifredo Lam estate and selected four paintings from Lam’s oeuvre, one of which is Lam’s Femme-Cheval (Horse-Woman).

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Wifredo Lam and Pablo Picasso
On View: April 23 - June 30
595 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10022
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Wifredo Lam
Femme-Cheval, 1948
Signed and dated lower center “Wifredo Lam / 1948” and signed lower left “Wifredo Lam”
oil on canvas
38 1/2 x 31 1/2 x 1 inches
97.8 x 80 x 2.5 cm
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Photos:
Wifredo Lam in his studio in Havana, 1947
Diotima, Autumn/Winter 2026 Line. New York Fashion Week, Designed by Rachel Scott, in collaboration with the Wifredo Lam Estate
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17/06/2026

16/06/2026

Now on view | Christoph Niemann

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Christoph Niemann: Urban Horizons
On View: June 12 - September 30
Paradeplatz 2, 8001 Zürich
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Christoph Niemann
Take the A Train, 2026
Acrylic on canvas
70 x 50 cm
27.56 x 19.69 inches
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Copyright Christoph Niemann 2026
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13/06/2026

When he painted the present work, Lam split his time between Albissola Mare and Paris. He was at the pinnacle of his international career. Typical motifs of this period are very large hands, often rendered in bright yellow, which also can be seen here. More and more, Lam turned away from the real world and developed his own fantastical, personal world of signs and symbols.

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Wifredo Lam and Pablo Picasso
On View: April 23 - June 30
595 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10022
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Wifredo Lam
Untitled, ca. 1966
oil on canvas
57 1/2 x 85 inches
146 x 216 cm
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09/06/2026

On July 12, 1918 in Paris, Pablo Picasso married the Russian ballet dancer Olga Khokhlova after more than a year of passionate courtship and honeymooning in the beautiful villa Mimoseraie. Over the course of Picasso and Olga‘s two-month honeymoon in Biarritz, the artist painted Olga, still resting her injured foot. These images range from traditional figural studies to nearly abstract representations.

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Wifredo Lam and Pablo Picasso
On View: April 23 - June 30
595 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10022
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Pablo Picasso
Danseuse avec la corne d’abondance, 1918
oil on stucco laid down on canvas mounted on board
51 1/8 x 33 7/8 inches
130 x 86 cm
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Photos:
Olga Khokhlova and Pablo Picasso at the villa La Mimoseraie in Biarritz, summer 1918
Man Ray, Chambre bleue, villa La Mimoseraie. 1926, Photography, 12 x 16 cm
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06/06/2026

Wifredo Lam’s large-scale 1969 work is a major painting from one of the most productive years at the pinnacle of his career, when he was an experienced artist who had absorbed European modernism, synthesized his influences, and integrated them with his Afro-Cuban heritage to achieve a singular vision. His style during this period is rich and layered; its psychological and spiritual depths are achieved with a striking, decisive linearity, and these large canvases contain abundant, haunted worlds alive with hybrid beings.

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Wifredo Lam and Pablo Picasso
On View: April 23 - June 30
595 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10022
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Wifredo Lam
Les Oiseaux blancs
1969
Oil on canvas
150 x 281 cm
59 x 110.63 inches
Signed and dated lower right “WiLam 69”
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Photo: Wifredo Lam in his studio in Albissola, 1963, with “Les oiseaux blancs” (1968) as a work in progress standing on the right side
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04/06/2026

Coming soon: “Christoph Niemann: Urban Horizons” in June.
More details to follow soon.

Internationally acclaimed illustrator, author and visual artist, Christoph Niemann will present his first solo exhibition at Galerie Gmurzynska, in collaboration with Diogenes Verlag. Born in 1970 in Waiblingen, Germany, Niemann studied graphic design at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart under Heinz Edelmann, completing his degree in 1997 before relocating to New York City.

After eleven years in New York, Niemann relocated to Berlin, where he continues to live and work. His practice has expanded well beyond editorial illustration to encompass animation, site-specific installation, interactive digital work, and fine art printmaking.

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Christoph Niemann: Urban Horizons
Paradeplatz 2, 8001 Zürich
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Christoph Niemann
Brooklyn Bridge, 2024
Silkscreen
118.9 x 84.1 cm
46.81 x 33.11 inches
Edition of 70
Signed, dated and numbered lower right “35/70 NIEMANN 2024”
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Copyright Christoph Niemann 2026
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02/06/2026

Between 1965-67, Picasso completed a series of paintings, drawings, and lithographs based on the theme of the mythical God Pan and scenes of Bacchanalia.

In the present work, the painter has been transformed into a flute player; the flute has replaced the paintbrush and music has replaced painting.

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Wifredo Lam and Pablo Picasso
On View: 23 April - End of June
595 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10022
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Pablo Picasso
Deux hommes nus et enfant assis, 1965
signed recto
oil on canvas
51 1/4 x 63 5/8 inches
130.2 x 161.6 cm
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Installation views: Galerie Gmurzynska, 2026
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