Ingvild Goetz

The work originally conceived by the artist couple Hubbard / Birchler for the Swiss Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale re-constructs the life story of the American artist Flora Mayo. Mayo had a romantic relationship in the 1920s with the Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti. While he is now one of the most famous artists of the twentieth century, her work was de-stroyed, and her life forgotten. Hubbard / Birchler reanimate Mayo’s compelling biography from a feminist perspective, combining reconstruction and documentation to create a multilayered form of narrative. The catalogue, produced for the current exhibition at the Sammlung Goetz, elucidates the research the artists engaged in and documents the installa-tion in an impressive manner

The Goetz Collection comprises numerous works by important artists. On the occasion of its 20-year anniversary the collection is opening its archives and showing selected works by Louise Bourgeois, Anselm Kiefer, Mária Bartuszová and George Segal, amongst others, in spaces specially set up for this purpose. They include sculptures, paintings, collages, watercolours and expansive installations from the 1940s to the present day.