Kunsthaus Zürich Presents First Swiss Museum Retrospective of Vilhelm Hammershøi
Kunsthaus Zürich will present the exhibition 'Vilhelm Hammershøi. The Eye That Listens' from July 3 to October 25, 2026. This is the first comprehensive museum exhibition in Switzerland devoted to the Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864–1916). The show surveys his interiors, cityscapes, portraits and landscapes and places them in context with works by Jacobus Vrel, Adolph Menzel and Michaël Borremans. It is curated by Jonas Beyer and Sandra Gianfreda in cooperation with the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid.
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The presentation underscores Hammershøi’s affinity with music and his formal parallels with James McNeill Whistler and Giorgio Morandi, revealing a reduced approach to space, light and motif that continues to resonate with later artists. For curators and collectors the exhibition maps a cross-century lineage of 'silent' painting, offering a benchmark for assessing the artist’s place in European modernism. A German-English catalogue with essays by Ramón Andrés, Jonas Beyer, Sandra Gianfreda, Florian Illies, Clara Marcellán and Peter Nørgaard Larsen will be available at the opening.
- Artists: Vilhelm Hammershøi, Michaël Borremans, James McNeill Whistler, Giorgio Morandi
- People: Jonas Beyer, Sandra Gianfreda
- Museums: Kunsthaus Zürich, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
- Locations: Zurich
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