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MAI 36 GALERIE

Mai 36 Galerie focuses on trading and presenting international contemporary art (painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, video, film and installation).

Our exhibition program is directed at the works of artists preoccupied with the fundamental questions of art, beginning with significant statements of art after 1945, their roots going back to the sixties and seventies (especially Pop-Art, Minimal-Art and Conceptual-Art). We are mainly interested in artists engaged in unearthing art-immanent themes such as the perception of art, art as a form of c

ommunication, art as a system, as well as art questioning the importance and function of art in our society: the outlooks of individual artists stimulating and encouraging reflections on the experiences and perceptions of our age. We are intent on working in close collaboration with the artists and presenting their works continuously in individual exhibitions, publications and at the international art fairs of Basel, Madrid, London, New York and Miami Beach. We hold about six exhibitions a year, presenting both national and international artists and hope to surprise the cultural scene of Zurich with a number of interesting projects. Mai 36 Galerie sees itself as an address for both known and unknown artists and wants to encourage the exchange of individual exhibitions between an autonomous group of international galleries.

17/06/2026

Now Open: Art Basel ⁠2026
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Booth B12 (Hall 2.0)⁠
16-21 June⁠
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John Baldessari⁠ John Baldessari Family Foundation⁠
Stephan Balkenhol⁠
Jacopo Benassi⁠ Jacopo Benassi⁠
Irma Blank ⁠
Pia Fries⁠ Pia Fries⁠
Luigi Ghirri⁠ Fondazione Luigi Ghirri⁠
Raphael Hefti⁠ Raphael Hefti⁠
General Idea⁠ General Idea⁠
Poppy Jones⁠ Poppy Jones⁠
Kentaro Kawabata⁠ Kentaro Kawabata⁠
Gowoon Lee⁠ ⁠
Robert Mapplethorpe⁠ Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation⁠
Jorge Méndez Blake⁠ Estudio Jorge Méndez Blake⁠
Matt Mullican⁠
Michel Pérez Pollo⁠ Michel Perez⁠
Magnus Plessen⁠ ⁠
Pedro Cabrita Reis⁠ Pedro Cabrita Reis⁠
Magali Reus⁠ ⁠
Glen Rubsamen⁠ glenrubsamen⁠
Thomas Ruff⁠ ⁠
Maia Ruth Lee⁠ maia ruth lee⁠
Markus Saile⁠ Markus Saile⁠
Albrecht Schnider⁠
Sōfū Teshigahara⁠
Jack Warne⁠ Jack Warne⁠
Leon Xu⁠ Leon Xu⁠
Rémy Zaugg⁠
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Kabinett: Peter Hujar & Paul Thek⁠
Peter Hujar Archive Paul Thek⁠
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Booth Views: Mai 36 Galerie Art Basel 2026. Photo Credits: Andrea Rossetti.⁠
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16/06/2026

Revealed at Art Basel in Basel today!⁠
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As part of Basel Exclusive, we are pleased to present Poppy Jones⁠, Parade, 2026, unveiled today during the opening of the fair.⁠
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Discover the work at booth B12.⁠
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🇨🇭 Art Basel in Basel ⁠
Public days: June 18–21 ⁠
📍 Messeplatz, Basel⁠
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Poppy Jones⁠
Parade, 2026⁠
signed and dated verso⁠
oil and watercolour on suede⁠
soldered aluminium frame⁠
41.5 x 59 cm⁠
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15/06/2026

Thank you all for joining us last weekend for the opening of Michel Perez and during Zurich Art Weekend⁠ ✨
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It was truly wonderful to see so many of you there.⁠
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See you in Basel.⁠
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13/06/2026

On View: Michel Pérez Pollo – Double Gaze Zurich Art Weekend
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Gallery Breakfast⁠
Sunday, June 14, 11 AM⁠
Rämistrasse 37
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In “Double Gaze”, Michel Perez proposes a game of resistance – one that challenges the viewer to seek out similarities and differences, tricks and devices, errors and accuracies, the fractal and imaginary possibilities of a matter that unfolds before us into two. Like twin souls that bifurcate, like the very beginning of a human embryo, when a single cell divides into two, and so on..⁠
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Excerpt from the Text by Omar Pascual Castillo.

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Exhibition View: Michel Pérez Pollo – Double Gaze at Mai 36 Galerie, 2026.⁠
Photo Credits: Peter Baracchi⁠
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11/06/2026

Opening Tomorrow: Zurich Art Weekend
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Irma Blank
“Being Here”

Michel Perez Pollo
“Double Gaze”

Showroom
“Homage to General Idea”

📍Opening
Friday, June 12, 6-9 PM
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📍Gallery Breakfast⁠
Sunday, June 14, 11 AM⁠
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⏱️Weekend Opening Hours
Fri, June 12, 11:00 – 21:00
Sat, June 13, 11:00 – 20:00
Sun, June 14, 11:00 – 18:00

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Irma Blank
Radical Writings, Abecedarium 8-4-91, 1991
signed and dated verso
oil on canvas
208 x 60 cm

©️ Courtesy of the Irma Blank Estate, P420 Bologna and Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich

Detail of Double Misreading, 2026 by Michel Perez

Exhibition View, Homage to General Idea, Mai 36 Galerie. Photo Credits: Peter Baracchi
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11/06/2026

Opening Tomorrow: Zurich Art Weekend
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Irma Blank
“Being Here”

Michel Perez Pollo
“Double Gaze”

Showroom
“Homage to General Idea”

📍Opening
Friday, June 12, 6-9 PM
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📍Gallery Breakfast⁠
Sunday, June 14, 11 AM⁠
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⏱️Weekend Opening Hours
Fri, June 12, 11:00 – 21:00
Sat, June 13, 11:00 – 20:00
Sun, June 14, 11:00 – 18:00

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Irma Blank
Radical Writings, Schriftzug=Atemzug, 29-5-1988, 1988
signed and dated verso
acrylic on canvas,
200 x 200 cm

Michel Perez
Double Elsewhere, 2026
signed and dated verso
oil on linen
200 x 200 cm

Exhibition View, Homage to General Idea, Mai 36 Galerie. Photo Credits: Peter Baracchi
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10/06/2026

Our Artists at Unlimited: Maia Ruth Lee, Peter Hujar, and Thomas Ruff are presenting projects Art Basel Unlimited Sector.

Opening Monday, June 15.

Maia Ruth Lee |
Peter Hujar | and
Thomas Ruff |

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1. Portrait of by for 2026

2. Human Life in Motion , Maia Ruth Lee, exhibition view, Primary (2025). Exhibition contributors: Maia Ruth Lee, Olivia Oyamada, Sofia Yala, Jade Foster, Raghavi Chinnadurai, Palani Studios/People’s Archive of Rural India; Marwa Soliman, Hanan Shaikh, Maha Hadid, Shahlaa Al-Battawi, and Azza Elkareh from Heya Nottingham. Courtesy of the artist and Primary, Nottingham. Photo by Reece Straw

3.Peter Hujar, Self Portrait Lying Down, 1975 ©️ The Peter Hujar Archive

4. Peter Hujar, Drag Queen with Tattooed Thigh, 1978 ©️ The Peter Hujar Archive

5. by for .global 2025

6. Thomas Ruff, ny 01, 2004, Chromogenic color, 256 x 188 cm Edition: 3 + AP.

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09/06/2026

Art Basel Kabinett: Peter Hujar and Paul Thek

Booth B12 (Hall 2.0)
June 16-21

Peter Hujar and Paul Thek met on a road trip to Key West, Florida, in 1956 and remained deeply connected for 20 years. Their relationship was mythical and romantic, resisting easy categorization – a friendship and a love affair, a creative entanglement, marked as much by tension and rupture as by tenderness. They arrived in New York together and began making work that would resist every dominant current of its time: Thek with his wax sculptures, liturgical paintings, and works on newspaper whose fragile surfaces accumulated marks and images against the noise of the daily news; Hujar with his portraits, capturing his subjects with astonishing intimacy and vulnerability. In 1963, they traveled to Palermo and descended into the Capuchin Catacombs, in a visit that illuminated their own contemplation of mortality. The trip marked a defining moment in their practices. Both artists died of Aids within a year of each other, leaving behind bodies of work the world is still catching up with.

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Paul Thek
Untitled (New Roses), ca. 1986
with certificate
marker and pastel on paper
50 x 42.4 x 3.2 cm
©️ Estate of Paul Thek, Courtesy Daniel Buchholz, Mai 36 Galerie and Pace Gallery

Peter Hujar
Palermo Catacombs #12 (Monk), 1963
signed, titled and dated verso in pencil by Stephen Koch, for the Peter Hujar Archive; archive and copyright stamp verso in ink
vintage gelatin silver print
38.3 x 38.1 cm
©️ The Peter Hujar Archive

Paul Thek
Pink Cross and Green Buds, 1975-1980
oil on canvas board with artist’s frame and picture light
30.5 x 41 cm
©️ Estate of Paul Thek, Courtesy Daniel Buchholz, Mai 36 Galerie and Pace Gallery

Peter Hujar
Cockette John Rothermel, 1971
verso in pencil by Stephen Koch, for the Peter Hujar Archive; archive and copyright stamp verso in ink
vintage gelatin silver print
37.5 x 37.5 cm
©️ The Peter Hujar Archive

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07/06/2026

Not everything can be seen in advance.

Introducing Basel Exclusive: a new initiative at ’s flagship show.

We invite you to discover exceptional artworks, only to be unveiled in person at the fair.

Join us at our Booth B12 (Hall 2.0)
🇨🇭Art Basel in Basel

VIP days: June 16–17
Public days: June 18–21

📍 Messeplatz, Basel

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06/06/2026

A glimpse of our presentation at this year’s Art Basel.⁠
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Booth B12 (Hall 2.0)⁠
16-21 June⁠
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John Baldessari⁠
Stephan Balkenhol⁠
Jacopo Benassi⁠
Irma Blank ⁠
Pia Fries⁠
Luigi Ghirri⁠
Raphael Hefti⁠
General Idea⁠
Poppy Jones⁠
Kentaro Kawabata⁠
Gowoon Lee⁠
Robert Mapplethorpe⁠
Jorge Méndez Blake⁠
Matt Mullican⁠
Michel Pérez Pollo⁠
Magnus Plessen⁠
Pedro Cabrita Reis⁠
Magali Reus⁠
Glen Rubsamen⁠
Thomas Ruff⁠
Maia Ruth Lee⁠
Markus Saile⁠
Albrecht Schnider⁠
Sōfū Teshigahara⁠
Jack Warne⁠
Leon Xu⁠
Rémy Zaugg⁠
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Kabinett: Peter Hujar & Paul Thek⁠

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Detail of Ethyl N**e (I), 1979 by Peter Hujar⁠. ©️ The Peter Hujar Archive
Detail of Horizon 1-3, 2026 by Maia Ruth Lee⁠
Detail of 16h 48m/-45°, 1990 by Thomas Ruff⁠
Detail of Paradies, 2026 by Magnus Plessen⁠
Detail of You thought I forgot about us, 2026 by Leon Xu⁠
Detail of Look At Me, 2017 by John Baldessari⁠. Courtesy Estate of John Baldessari ©️ 2024, Courtesy John Baldessari Family Foundation, Courtesy Sprüth Magers
Detail of Batista, 2025 by Kentaro Kawabata⁠
Detail of AIDS Sculpture (Red), 1991 / 2021 by General Idea
Detail of Character Assessment, 2026 by Gowoon Lee⁠
Detail of parapylon 4, 2019 by Pia Fries⁠
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Adresse

Rämistrasse 37
Zürich
8001

Öffnungszeiten

Dienstag	11:00 - 18:30
Mittwoch	11:00 - 18:30
Donnerstag	11:00 - 18:30
Freitag	11:00 - 18:30
Samstag	11:00 - 17:00

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+41442616880

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http://www.mai36.com/

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