Museum Exhibitions
Josephsohn as seen by Albert Oehlen Solo show at the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris . (This link opens in a new tab).
11 October 2024—16 February 2025
Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, Paris, France
For this first retrospective in France devoted to Swiss sculptor Hans Josephsohn (1920–2012), the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris has entrusted the curatorship to artist Albert Oehlen, who offers a free-wheeling exploration of the artist's work. Born in 1954, Albert Oehlen is a major artist and contributor to the revival of German painting in the 1980s. An exhibition of his work was held at the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris in 2009. A great admirer of Hans Josephsohn, Oehlen discovered his work at the Kesselhaus Josephsohn in St Gallen, in Switzerland, where he lives. Both an exhibition and conservation venue dedicated to the sculptor's work, the Kesselhaus which have provided most of the sculptures loaned for this exhibition. Out of his examination of Josephsohn's creative process – interaction with materials, the role of gesture, detail and tireless research – and its resonance with his own explorations, Oehlen draws a spirited experience of the oeuvre. Hans Josephsohn's work fascinates other artists with the sheer power of its visual language. Peter Fischli and David Weiss were among his early supporters, and in 2007 Ugo Rondinone included several of his reclining nudes in his exhibition The Third Mind, at the Palais de Tokyo.
