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Galerie Peter Kilchmann

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Galerie Peter Kilchmann

Galerie Peter Kilchmann was founded in 1992 in Zurich, Switzerland. The gallery is currently located

19/06/2026

ISH*TA CHAKRAVORTY
11-13 rue des Arquebusiers, Paris
Until July 25, 2026

Photo:HAFID LHACHMI

16/06/2026

Art Basel
Basel

OPENING TODAY

June 16 - 21, 2026
Messe Basel
Messeplatz 10
4058 Basel
Switzerland

Galleries Sector, Hall 2.1
Booth

With works by:
Francis Alÿs
Yael Bartana
Marion Baruch
Hernan Bas
Marc Bauer
Travis Boyer
Vlassis Caniaris
Ish*ta Chakraborty
Andy Denzler
Andriu Deplazes
Valérie Favre
Fernanda Gomes
Christoph Hänsli
Leiko Ikemura
Zilla Leutenegger
Teresa Margolles
Eva Nielsen
Adrian Paci
Amol K Patil
Bernd Ribbeck
Dagoberto Rodríguez
Paul Mpagi Sepuya
Shirana Shahbazi
Tobias Spichtig
Christine Streuli
Didier William
Uwe Wittwer

PARCOURS SECTOR
AMOL K PATIL
Residues of Voice

Volkshaus Basel (old cellar)
Rebgasse 12-14
4058 Basel

08/06/2026

cordially invites you to the opening of

FRANCIS ALŸS
Handspiele

Saturday, June 13, 5 - 8 pm
The artist will be present

Galerie Peter Kilchmann
Rämistrasse 33
8001 Zurich

Galerie Peter Kilchmann is pleased to present Handspiele (Hand Games), Francis Alÿs’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery and the first dedicated specifically to his animations. The exhibition brings together seven new animations alongside paintings, drawings, installations, and a comprehensive presentation of publications spanning the artist’s career.

Closely connected to Alÿs’s celebrated Children’s Games series (1999–present), Handspiele focuses on one of the most elementary and universally shared forms of play: hand games. Created through hundreds of hand-drawn pencil images, the animations distill familiar gestures into carefully choreographed movements of hands, exploring play as a form of communication, interaction, and social exchange. While the Children’s Games videos document children at play in public spaces around the world, the animations isolate these actions and reduce them to their most fundamental gestures.

Francis Alÿs (b. 1959, Antwerp, Belgium) lives and works in Mexico City. His work has been presented at international institutions such as the Barbican Centre (London, UK), Tate Modern (London, UK), MoMA (New York, USA), and in major international exhibitions, including Documenta and the Venice Biennale. In 2022, he represented Belgium at the 59th Venice Biennale with The Nature of the Game, a large-scale presentation of his ongoing Children’s Games project.

By bringing together recent animations alongside recent works on canvas, Handspiele offers a focused overview of recurring themes in Alÿs’s practice and highlights the central role that play has occupied throughout his work.

The exhibition is on view through July 24, 2026.

Francis Alÿs, Thumb War, 2023 - 2024, in collaboration with Emilio Rivera
Single-channel animated video, 30 min, b/w, no sound.
Ed. 1/3 (+ 1 AP)

04/06/2026

cordially invites you to the opening of

MARC BAUER
Side by Side

Friday, June 12, 5 - 8 pm

Galerie Peter Kilchmann
Zahnradstr. 21
8005 Zurich

WALKTHROUGH WITH MARC BAUER AND ANITA HALDEMANN

Sunday, June 14, 2 pm

Marc Bauer and Anita Haldemann (Deputy Director & Head of Department of Prints and Drawings at Kunstmuseum Basel), will lead a walkthrough of Side to Side at Galerie Peter Kilchmann.

Galerie Peter Kilchmann is pleased to present Side by Side, a new solo exhibition by Swiss artist Marc Bauer. Bringing together new works on paper and canvas, wall paintings, and a specially commissioned soundtrack, the exhibition explores friendship, intimacy, desire, and q***r life through a dialogue between historical archives and contemporary experience.

Closely connected to Bauer’s current solo presentation Fear Rage Desire, Still Standing at Kunstmuseum Basel, Side by Side draws on archival material from Der Kreis—the influential Zurich-based magazine and cultural association that played a central role in the international movement for homosexual emancipation—as well as literary references and personal imagery. Through these sources, Bauer examines how experiences of friendship, community, and belonging are shaped across time.

Throughout the different rooms, portraits, scenes of friendship, intimate studies of hands, and references to q***r club culture appear alongside archival and literary material. New wall paintings created in collaboration with Samuel Obst and a soundtrack developed by Berlin-based artists Sin Maldita (Tim Roth) and Philipp Hülsenbeck extend the show beyond the frame of the drawing, creating an immersive environment that reflects on the social and cultural spaces in which q***r identities have been formed and expressed.

The exhibition is on view through July 24, 2026.

Marc Bauer, Solace and Joy (Burgundy), 2026
Pencil and watercolor on paper, 70 x 100 cm
(27 1⁄2 x 39 1⁄4 in.)

06/05/2026

GALERIE PETER KILCHMANN
cordially invites you to the opening of

ISH*TA CHAKRABORTY
East Is Everywhere

Friday, May 22, 6 - 8 pm

On the occasion of the opening, there will be a talk between the artist and Prof. Françoise Vergès, moderated by Peter Kilchmann, on May 22, 6:30 pm

Galerie Peter Kilchmann
11-13 rue des Arquebusiers
75003 Paris

Galerie Peter Kilchmann Paris is pleased to present East Is Everywhere, the first solo exhibition in France and the second with the gallery by Ish*ta Chakraborty (b. 1989, West Bengal, India; lives and works near Zürich, Switzerland).

On this occasion, the artist continues to develop her ongoing body of work, moving between archival colonial maps sourced from historical documents and reworked through self-portrait photographs taken beneath a white cloth, then hand-painted, and her botanical drawings, realised as canvas cut-outs mounted on Indian cotton sari fabric, a traditional floral textile worn by Indian women, presented either as works on paper or as suspended textile elements within the exhibition space. Extending these interrelated series, a monumental charcoal drawing on uncoated cotton, conceived as an immersive botanical fresco, spans an entire wall of one of the exhibition rooms, alongside new porcelain sculptures, some left unglazed and others hand-painted, developed from her experience in the Brazilian rainforest.

In recent years, Chakraborty’s inquiry has expanded toward the entanglement of existential and ecological questions. Her projects increasingly address climate migration, ecofeminism, and the shifting relations between the Global South and North in post-migrant societies.

The concept that "East is everywhere" in the context of colonialism and extraction refers to the proliferation of colonial power structures, resource exploitation, and the imposition of capitalist, "modern" ideologies across the globe, transcending traditional geographical boundaries. This viewpoint suggests that the dynamics of extraction—the exploitation of land, labour, and knowledge—operate universally, turning marginalized communities worldwide into modern-day "colonies". - Extract from Ish*ta Chakraborty's text on her show.

Ish*ta Chakraborty, I Recall the Forest Inside Me XX, 2026 (detail)
Hand coloured on Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemühle Agave Paper, 119.7 X 169.4 cm

28/04/2026

NOW REPRESENTING: MATTHIAS ODIN

Galerie Peter Kilchmann

is pleased to announce the representation of
Matthias Odin

The relationship to movement is omnipresent in my work, and I think also in my life but I feel that it is something inherent, a condition of being human: that vital impulse to move within an environment that itself changes around us, sometimes more, sometimes less, with varying intensity. What interests me is our porosity, to such fluctuation.

Matthias Odin

Matthias Odin was born in 1995 in Lyon, France and lives and works in Paris, France. While he engages with universal themes such as wandering, encounter, disorientation, self-construction, and adaptation, the work of Matthias Odin is deeply introspective. His practice revolves around assembling and transforming collected objects, which anchor reflections on relationships to spaces and perception. Experiences in marginalized and sometimes clandestine urban environments have profoundly shaped his reflections on the occupation of urban space and on the strategies individuals develop to inhabit it.

The physical gesture is central to his work: the body acts as the agent that constructs, assembles, and transforms surrounding objects, imbuing them with new relationships and meanings. Through this process of détournement, Odin has developed a distinctive material vocabulary: spheres and rubber balls he produces himself, ersatz IKEA-like objects, as well as concrete, steel, and glass. Together, they form a formal language that runs throughout his practice. Video, sound, and photography regularly extend and enrich his installations, creating immersive environments for the viewer.

A graduate of the Cergy School of Fine Arts in 2023, Matthias Odin has exhibited and collaborated with various institutions in France including the FRAC Île-de- France (Paris), where he presented a solo exhibition in 2025, as well as the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles (Paris) in the same year, the IAC (Villeurbanne) as part of the Lyon Biennale in 2024, and La Graineterie (Houilles) also in 2024.

In 2026, he inaugurated his first solo exhibition in a gallery with the Galerie Peter Kilchmann. In addition, he has been involved in several independent projects in recent years with Thundercage, YGRÈVES (a collective he co-founded), Pauline Perplexe, and a collaboration with the FRAC Corsica. Abroad, he has exhibited at the Palazzo San Giuseppe (Bari, IT), the Keiv Gallery and Okay Space (Athens, GR), the Moderna Museet (Stockholm, SE), and the Working Title Gallery (Amsterdam, NL).

Artist portrait: Raphaël Massart

16/04/2026

MARION BARUCH
Quel che rimane del cielo
presented in collaboration with

Working with textile as both medium and language, Baruch transforms discarded fabric remnants into suspended compositions that move between painting and sculpture, presence and absence. Her latest works—delicate yet powerful—invite viewers to navigate space through fragments, voids, and shifting perspectives.

“What Remains of the Sky” evokes both the celestial and the human, opening poetic reflections on material, memory, and transformation.

On view at Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zahnradstrasse 21, 8005 Zürich Until 30 May, 2026

''Marion Baruch: Quel che rimane del cielo, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich/Paris Photos: Sebastian Schaub

16/04/2026

Now Open:

FIND US ON LEVEL 2
April 16–19, 2026
Allianz MiCo, South Wing
Milan, Italy

Booth — Level 2
Section: Established Anthology

Please note:
There is another booth with the same number
(C05) on Level 0.
Our gallery is located on Level 2 (in the Established Anthology section).

With works by:
Francis Alÿs
Yael Bartana
Marion Baruch
Monica Bonvicini
Ish*ta Chakraborty
Zilla Leutenegger
Adrian Paci
Grace Schwindt

26/03/2026

Amol K Patil

Zahnradstrasse 21, Zurich
Until 23 May, 2026

Photo: Sebastian Schaub

26/03/2026

UWE WITTWER

11-13 rue des Arquebusiers, Paris
Until May 9, 2026

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Zahnradstrasse 21
Zürich
8005

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Donnerstag	10:00 - 18:00
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