Last Tango, Sihlquai 274, Zürich (2026)

12/07/2024

🍂LAST DAYS 🍂

«ICH WARTE AUF EIN GEWITTER»
Pascale Birchler currently on view until 13.07.24
Sound by Dimitri Howald

Pascale Birchler invites us to a new relationship with time, a slowing down that rouses us into some kind of suspension, a deliberate lag to make space for
reflection. In unison with this thought is how Birchler perceptively works with space in an all-encompassing manner. «ICH WARTE AUF EIN GEWITTER» is
treated as a tableaux. Sculpture, painting, installation and sound are interwoven in what becomes an unfolding of a plot, one that is non-linear, relating to the outside and inside, intimate yet also evasive. A recent development in her work is the
inclusion of sound and in this instance, she has collaborated with composer and musician Dimitri Howald.

To read more please visit our website

📸 Kilian Bannwart

1 Pascale Birchler, Still Untitled (detail), 2024, iron, modelling clay, glaze, pigments, textile, grass, wood and glass, ca. 215 × 85 × 200 cm

2 «ICH WARTE AUF EIN GEWITTER», Installation view

3 «ICH WARTE AUF EIN GEWITTER», Installation view

4 Pascale Birchler, Still Untitledm 2024,

5 16 Pascale Birchler, Still Untitled (detail), 2024

6 Pascale Birchler, Still Untitled, 2024

7 Pascale Birchler, Liebe Evelyne (Dear Evelyne), 2023,

8 «ICH WARTE AUF EIN GEWITTER», Installation view

Supported by Kanton Zug, Stadt Zürich Kultur, Kanton Zürich Kulturförderung Swisslos, LOS Lesbenorganisation Schweiz, Pink Cross, TGNS Transgender Network Switzerland, Dr. Georg u. Josi Guggenheim Stiftung, Landis & Gyr Stiftung, Else v. Sick Stiftung

20/06/2024

What an action-packed few weeks it has been!🎉 A special shoutout to those who attended our walkthrough during Zurich Art Weekend with Pascale Birchler, Linda Jensen, and Arianna Gellini. We also enjoyed having you at the Art Walk West which happened end of May.

«ICH WARTE AUF EIN GEWITTER»
Pascale Birchler - Sound by Dimitri Howald
24.05.24 – 13.07.24

Enchanted by the ambivalence of fragility and strength, Birchler perceptively works with space. The sensory languages of sculpture, painting, installation and sound are interwoven in what becomes an unfolding of a plot, one that relates to the confines of the outside and inside, one that is intimate yet also evasive, like a hauntingly beautiful chord stuck in your mind.

Supported by Kanton Zug, Stadt Zürich Kultur, Kanton Zürich Kulturförderung Swisslos, LOS Lesbenorganisation Schweiz, Pink Cross, TGNS Transgender Network Switzerland, Dr. Georg u. Josi Guggenheim Stiftung, Landis & Gyr Stiftung, Else v. Sick Stiftung

06/06/2024

🥕🐄🌾Coming up: Oz Oderbolz at Basel Social Club! Last Tango, invited as one of the non-commercial interventions, is pleased to present the work of Oz Oderbolz. BSC is going fully outdoors this year, on the verge of the city, where the land is farmed to produce what we consume. It’s not a wild forest; it is land that is worked, following natural cycles, with animals living there as well. This year’s BSC edition is most definitely a nice getaway from the hustle and bustle of the enclosed fair grounds! Basel Social Club embarks on its third iteration in yet a new location from June 9–16, 2024.

The works by Oz Oderbolz resonate with the surroundings, fittingly related to farming and countryside aesthetics, the politics of labour, building upon the imaginations of what constitutes contemporary rural life and how it can be queerly re-imagined. Two works by Oz Oderbolz will be on view: Dick Hammer (2023) and Kreiselheuer Pöttinger (typ zk44 / 6527-1321) (2023).
For inquiries please contact Linda Jensen at [email protected]

Please see our website for more infos

Oderbolz is also currently featured in the exhibition Country Offside at Ausstellungsraum Klingenthal curated by Violeta Mansilla

Basel Social Club Opening Hours
9 – 15 June 11:00 – 23:00 
16 June 11:00 – 15:00

1 Oz Oderbolz installing at BSC
2 Oz Oderbolz, Dick Hammer (detail), Image by Kilian Bannwart
3 Oz Oderbolz, Dick Hammer, Image by Kilian Bannwart
4 Oz Oderbolz, Kreiselheuer Pöttinger (typ zk44 / 6527-1321)
5 Oz Oderbolz, Kreiselheuer Pöttinger (typ zk44 / 6527-1321)
6 Manual Kreisel Pöttinger (typ zk44 / 6527-1321)
7 Manual Kreisel Pöttinger (typ zk44 / 6527-1321)
8 Image by Oz Oderbolz
9 Image by Oz Oderbolz

Text on the Kreiselheuer Pöttinger (typ zk44 / 6527-1321) by Simon W. Marin and more about the work Dick Hammer that was shown at Last Tango online.

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13/05/2024

Please join us for a talk and poetry reading by CAConrad on 25.05.24 at 14:00

CAConrad

Talk & Poetry Reading

25.05.24 at 14:00

Breathing, moving, living on the page, CAConrad’s exhilarating work is centred on the (Soma)tic ritual, their celebrated practice which draws on nature, crystals, meditation and interactions with strangers to create an ‚extreme present‘ of unfettered creativity from which poems can emerge.

In this upcoming session at Last Tango CAConrad gets us acquianted with the world of avain intelligence, the importance of creativity and resistance, amongst other things. 72 new poems have come to fruitition through writing with a (Soma)tic ritual practice involving the collaboration with animals. With keen persipacity CA starts to develop a special connection to various creatures, of which an amicable reciprocity begins to emerge.

Written with urgency, hope, anger and joy, the poems that result are an ode to survival in a world that humanity has poisoned, and a testament to a love that knows no by-laws.

Last Tango is excited to be releasing the fold-out Two Different Landscapes. It includes a brand new poem specially created for this occasion and an excerpt from Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return that has just been released. 

An edition of 100, it will be available for free. Donations are of course welcome. CAConrad will be happy to sign your copy!

Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return will be available for sale.

Last Tango would like to thank Landis & Gyr Stiftung and Pink Cross for their kind support for this project.
 
This event is in collaboration with Shedhalle. On 26.05.24 CAConrad will be conducting a workshop as part of The Institute for Embodied Creative Practices at Shedhalle.  Please see here for more information regarding registration and the program

For more info please visit our website

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1 CAConrad
2 excerpt from Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return
3 crow giving a gift

09/05/2024

Please join us for our next opening on 24.05.24! ⚡️🌪️🤎

Last Tango is pleased to present «ICH WARTE AUF EIN GEWITTER» a solo exhibition by Pascale Birchler. «ICH WARTE AUF EIN GEWITTER» will be treated as a tableaux. Enchanted by the ambivalence of fragility and strength, Birchler perceptively works with space. The sensory languages of sculpture, painting, installation and sound are interwoven in what becomes an unfolding of a plot, one that relates to the confines of the outside and inside, one that is intimate yet also evasive, like a hauntingly beautiful chord stuck in your mind.

Pascale Birchler
Sound by Dimitri Howald
Opening: 24.05.24 at 18:00
24.05.24 – 13.07.24

Opening Hours During Zurich Art Weekend
07.06.24 – 09.06.24 From 11:00 to 18:00
Public Program during Zurich Art Weekend Walkthrough with artist Pascale Birchler and curators Linda Jensen and Arianna Gellini on 07.06.24 from 15:00

Art Walk West 30.05.24 (see details on our website)

📸 Pascale Birchler, photograph taken at the MET New York, 2023

Supported by Kanton Zug, Stadt Zürich Kultur, Kanton Zürich, Kulturförderung Swisslos, LOS Lesbenorganisation Schweiz, Pink Cross, TGNS Transgender Network Switzerland, Dr. Georg u. Josi Guggenheim Stiftung, Landis & Gyr Stiftung, Else v. Sick Stiftung

26/04/2024

Plan for the Worst, Hope for the Best Francesco Cagnin & Sam Porritt currently on view until 27.04.24 

“…Ein Lieblingssymbol der Signaletik ist der Pfeil. Ohne gross nachzudenken, leistendie Menschen seinem Imperativ Folge. Wenn Künstler mit diesem Zeichen arbeiten, sind schnell grundsätzliche Fragen im Spiel. Dies trifft in jedem Fall auf die karge Ausstellung zu, die Sam Porritt (*1979) und Francesco Cagnin (*1988) bei Last Tango eingerichtet haben: Kunst will hier nicht Konsumgut sein, sondern Anlass zum Nachdenken…”

Claudia Spinelli, Kunstbulletin, 4/2024 

1 Plan for the Worst, Hope for the Best, Installation view, 2024. Photo: Kilian Bannwart  

2 Plan for the Worst, Hope for the Best, Installation view, 2024. Photo: Kilian Bannwart  
 
3 Plan for the Worst, Hope for the Best, Installation view, 2024. Photo: Kilian Bannwart  
 
4 Plan for the Worst, Hope for the Best, Installation view, 2024. Photo: Kilian Bannwart  
 
5 Plan for the Worst, Hope for the Best, Installation view, 2024. Photo: Kilian Bannwart  
 
6 Left: Sam Porritt, Sphinx, 2024, Right: Sam Porritt, Lost Leader, 2023

Photos: Kilian Bannwart 
 
 

26/04/2024

Plan for the Worst, Hope for the Best Francesco Cagnin & Sam Porritt currently on view until 27.04.24 

“…Draw a line across the page then another and another, now vertically, again and again. A grid, perfect! A distributed space, a divided territory. Visually rhymes with spreadsheets and cages to be filled with numbers and captives. We are the best architects of our own confinement. Pincered by time and space, signed up to payment plans and rental agreements.Insurance: How to manage the uncertainty of life, snares us by stoking our fears. This or that might happen, terrifying alternate worlds hedged against by the steady drip of premium payments. Fear of loss, a devastatingly powerful motivator. Both insurance and the grid are the imposition of order on chaos...”
Text by Sam Porritt

1 Francesco Cagnin, The Sum is Magic (detail), 2024, Installation, Dimensions variable
 
2 Francesco Cagnin, The Sum is Magic (detail), 2024, Installation, Dimensions variable
 
3 Francesco Cagnin, The Sum is Magic, 2024, Installation, Dimensions variable
 
4 Francesco Cagnin, The Sum is Magic, 2024, Installation, Dimensions variable
 
5 Plan for the Worst, Hope for the Best, Installation view, 2024. Photo: Kilian Bannwart  
 
6 Plan for the Worst, Hope for the Best, Installation view, 2024. Photo: Kilian Bannwart  
 
Photos: Kilian Bannwart 
 
 

25/04/2024

Plan for the Worst, Hope for the Best Francesco Cagnin & Sam Porritt currently on view until 27.04.24 

“…What does it mean to stake a claim? How does (survival) anxiety affect behavior? What kinds of architectures of dread exist? How does fear and paranoia affect society? Herd mentality as a flight response as portrayed in Ionesco’s Rhinoceros and Bradburry’s Fahrenheit 451 seem like relevant sources to revisit in moments of crisis. Roland Barthes makes a point about finding a way to act amidst polarizing situations in his theory of the neutral. Writer Maggie Nelson paraphrases it well and thinks of a possible approach: “[that] in the face of dogmatism, the menacing pressure to take sides, offer novel responses: to flee, to escape, to demur, to shift or refuse terms, to disengage, to turn away…”

1 Sam Porritt, Sphinx, 2024
 
2 Sam Porritt, Sphinx (detail), 2024

3 Sam Porritt, Sphinx (detail), 2024
 
4 Sam Porritt, Sphinx (detail), 2024

5 Left: Francesco Cagnin, Schadenskizzen (III), 2024, Right: Sam Porritt, Sphinx, 2024

6 Plan for the Worst, Hope for the Best, Installation view, 2024

Photos: Kilian Bannwart 
 
 

25/04/2024

Plan for the Worst, Hope for the Best Francesco Cagnin & Sam Porritt currently on view until 27.04.24 

“…Cagnin is interested in doing so through an articulation on the privileged and safeguarded life, exploring word play, the grid, and the cause-and-effect scenarios of the “Schadenskizzen” advertisements by die Mobiliar. Porritt is ongoingly absorbed by the individual or collective will to engage and what it takes to raise a voice against all odds. Testing the limits of the sensical, Porritt has been examining the attention-grabbing potential of the graphical symbol of the arrow. Triggering thoughts on rationality, order and truth, the exhibition points our attention to language and logics of perception with the artists sensing and scrutinizing in each their own idiosyncratic ways…”

1 Francesco Cagnin, Schadenskizzen (IV) (detail), 2024
 
2 Francesco Cagnin, Schadenskizzen (IV) (detail), 2024
 
3 Francesco Cagnin, Schadenskizzen (IV), 2024
 
4 Francesco Cagnin, Schadenskizzen (III) (detail), 2024
 
5 Francesco Cagnin, Schadenskizzen (III) (detail), 2024

6 Francesco Cagnin, Schadenskizzen (III), 2024
 
7 Left: Sam Porritt, Double Back, 2024 Right: Francesco Cagnin, Schadenskizzen (III), 2024
 
8 Plan for the Worst, Hope for the Best, Installation view, 2024
 
9 Plan for the Worst, Hope for the Best, Installation view, 2024

Photos: Kilian Bannwart 
 
 

22/04/2024

Plan for the Worst, Hope for the Best Francesco Cagnin & Sam Porritt currently on view until 27.04.24

“...Francesco Cagnins Beitrag an die Doppelschau ist eine Werkgruppe, deren Ausgangspunkt eine bekannte Werbekampagne der Mobiliar Versicherung ist: die Schadensskizzen. Das sind Strichzeichnungen auf Karopapier, mit denen der Konzern seit vielen Jahren auf seinen Plakaten im öffentlichen Raum präsent ist. Der Künstler zeigt jetzt aber keine Bälle, die Fensterscheiben zertrümmern, und auch keine Diebe mit schwarzer Maske und grossem Sack. Vielmehr lässt er von den Vorlagen fast nur noch die Pfeile stehen und überträgt statt des ordentlichen Karorasters unscharfe, schiefe und verzerrte Linien auf seine Leinwände. Gerade so, als hätte er mit verwackelter Kamera gearbeitet und die Vorlagen ohne Sorgfalt fotografiert ...“

Claudia Spinelli, Kunstbulletin, 4/2024

1 Francesco Cagnin, Schadenskizzen (II) (detail), 2024
 
2 Francesco Cagnin, Schadenskizzen (II) (detail), 2024
 
3 Francesco Cagnin, Schadenskizzen (II), 2024
 
4 Left: Francesco Cagnin, Schadenskizzen (II), 2024, Right: Francesco Cagnin, The Sum is Magic, 2024
 
5 Francesco Cagnin, Schadenskizzen (I) (detail), 2024
 
6 Francesco Cagnin, Schadenskizzen (I), 2024

7 Plan for the Worst, Hope for the Best, Installation view, 2024

Photos: Kilian Bannwart

08/04/2024

Plan for the Worst, Hope for the Best
Francesco Cagnin & Sam Porritt currently on view until 27.04.24

Porritt is ongoingly absorbed by the individual or collective will to engage and what it takes to raise a voice against all odds. Testing the limits of the sensical, Porritt has been examining the attention-grabbing potential of the graphical symbol of the arrow. Triggering thoughts on rationality, order and truth, the exhibition points our attention to language and
logics of perception with the artists sensing and scrutinizing in each their own
idiosyncratic ways.

1 Sam Porritt, Lost Leader (detail), 2023

2 Sam Porritt, Lost Leader, 2023

3 Sam Porritt, Double Back (detail), 2024

4 Sam Porritt, Double Back, 2024, Brush and Ink on Handmade Paper, Framed, 66 x 49.5 cm. Photo

5 Left: Sam Porritt, Double Back, 2024Right: Francesco Cagnin, Schadenskizzen (IV), 2024

6 Plan for the Worst, Hope for the Best, Installation view, 2024

Photos: Kilian Bannwart

26/02/2024

🌐Thanks for coming to our Opening!🌐

Francesco Cagnin & Sam Porritt on view until 27.04.24

Opening hours
Fridays from 15-18 and Saturdays from 12-18
We are also open by appointment.

Francesco Cagnin and Sam Porritt are bent on understanding meaning-making and investigating thought systems be it the sociology of culture (agency, ethics, everyday life) or topics related to semiotics (how meaning is created and how meaning is communicated). For the upcoming exhibition Cagnin is interested in doing so through an articulation on the privileged and safeguarded life, exploring word play, the grid, and the cause-and-effect scenarios of the “Schadenskizzen” advertisements by die Mobiliar. Porritt is ongoingly absorbed by the individual or collective will to engage and what it takes to raise a voice against all odds. Testing the limits of the sensical, Porritt has been examining the attention-grabbing potential of the graphical symbol of the arrow. Triggering thoughts on rationality, order and truth, the exhibition points our attention to language and logics of perception with the artists sensing and scrutinizing in each their own idiosyncratic ways

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