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MAI 36 GALERIE

Mai 36 Galerie focuses on trading and presenting international contemporary art (painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, video, film and installation).

Our exhibition program is directed at the works of artists preoccupied with the fundamental questions of art, beginning with significant statements of art after 1945, their roots going back to the sixties and seventies (especially Pop-Art, Minimal-Art and Conceptual-Art). We are mainly interested in artists engaged in unearthing art-immanent themes such as the perception of art, art as a form of c

ommunication, art as a system, as well as art questioning the importance and function of art in our society: the outlooks of individual artists stimulating and encouraging reflections on the experiences and perceptions of our age. We are intent on working in close collaboration with the artists and presenting their works continuously in individual exhibitions, publications and at the international art fairs of Basel, Madrid, London, New York and Miami Beach. We hold about six exhibitions a year, presenting both national and international artists and hope to surprise the cultural scene of Zurich with a number of interesting projects. Mai 36 Galerie sees itself as an address for both known and unknown artists and wants to encourage the exchange of individual exhibitions between an autonomous group of international galleries.

04/06/2026

On the occasion of Zurich Art Weekend, Mai 36 Galerie is delighted to present new paintings by Cuban-born, Madrid-based artist Michel Pérez Pollo, in his fourth solo exhibition with the gallery.⁠
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Opening:⁠
Friday, June 12, 6-9 PM⁠
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Gallery Breakfast⁠
Sunday, June 14, 11 AM⁠
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Michel Pérez Pollo (born 1981 in Manzanillo, Cuba) studied at the Escuela Profesional de Artes Plásticas in Holguín and at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana. Recent solo shows include Timothy Taylor, New York, (2025) Timothy Taylor, London (2023), the Brownstone Foundation in Paris, France (2021) and the National Gallery of Fine Arts in Havana, Cuba (2018). His work is held in public and private collections worldwide, including the Museo de Bellas Artes, Havana; the Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio; the Centro Tomás y Valiente, Madrid; the Uli Sigg Collection, Switzerland; the Centro Espacio Arte, Panama City; El Espacio 23, Miami; the Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany; and the Brownstone Foundation, Paris.⁠

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Michel Pérez Pollo⁠
Double Elsewhere, 2026⁠
signed and dated verso⁠
oil on linen⁠
200 x 200 cm⁠
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Portrait Michel Pérez Pollo. Photo Credits: America Studio⁠
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03/06/2026

On the occasion of Zurich Art Weekend, Mai 36 Galerie is proud to present 𝐵𝑒𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝐻𝑒𝓇𝑒, the second solo exhibition by Irma Blank.

Opening:
Friday, June 12, 6-9 PM

Gallery Breakfast
Sunday, June 14, 11 AM

Irma Blank was born in Northern Germany (Celle) in 1934 and passed away in 2023 in Milan, at the age of eighty-eight. Passionate about literature and language, she moved to Sicily in 1955 after meeting her Italian husband — a move that uprooted her and became the foundation of her work.

What unfolds over 50 years of Irma Blank’s practice is a kind of universal writing, that belongs to no single language and therefore, in a sense, to all of them. Her works are both spiritual expression and physical experience. Blank’s notations are ultimately a means of recording and at the same time result from existential connection between life and work.

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Detail of Radical Writings, Dal libro totale, 1984 by Irma Blank.

Irma Blank
Horizont n.16, 2007
signed and dated verso
ballpoint pen on polyester, diptych
each 10 x 96 cm

©️ Courtesy of the Irma Blank Estate, P420 Bologna and Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich

Irma Blank in her studio in Milan, 1973. Photo: Gian Sinigaglia

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30/05/2026

Last Day: Raphael Hefti

Join us today, Saturday the 30th, for the final day of our current exhibition by Raphael Hefti at the gallery. On view until 5 PM.

“Salutary Failures” might be the most concise way to describe both the artist’s work as well as the philosophy that grounds it, which centrally revolves around a preoccupation with “failing” (errors, mishaps, mistakes) as a blessing in disguise – as a recipe, indeed a precondition, for making art.

At a time of dramatically diminished tolerance for the experimental mindset in society at large, remains radically devoted to art-making as a process of learning that is always also an adventure in unlearning.

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Installation views, Raphael Hefti, Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, 2026. Photo: Conradin Frei & Nils Sandmeier.
Courtesy the artist and Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich

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28/05/2026

Robert Mapplethorpe – “Le forme della bellezza” opens today at Museo dell’Ara Pacis, Rome.

The retrospective, curated by Denis Curti, is the third and final chapter of a larger trilogy that began in Venice and Milan and continues in Rome. Each exhibition explores a distinct path of study and research, focusing on a different aspect of Mapplethorpe’s work.

The Rome presentation examines the concept of beauty through ideas of absolute perfection and formal rigor.

On View:
29.05.2026 – 04.10.2026

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Michael Roth, 1983 ©️ Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation.
Used by Permission.

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27/05/2026

Paul Boesch Art Prize 2026 awarded to Raphael Hefti

Raphael Hefti (*1978, Biel/Bienne Switzerland) has been awarded the Paul Boesch Art Prize 2026, which honours the work of a Swiss artist in the field of visual arts. The prize ceremony will take place on Tuesday, August 25, 2026, at the Kunstmuseum Bern.

Raphael Hefti is among the most internationally recognised Swiss artists of his generation. At the core of his practice is an engagement with industrial materials and manufacturing processes, which he deliberately alters and transfers into an artistic context. Built through close relationships with specialised skilled workers, his works emerge from processes of exchange, trust, and shared experimentation, redefining the boundaries between art, craftsmanship, and industry.

His works often emerge through interventions into existing production methods: materials are overstretched, chemical processes intentionally misdirected, or industrial procedures manipulated. The resulting objects and installations are characterised by a distinctive aesthetic language shaped equally by precision and unpredictability. Hefti’s works reveal hidden structures and forces while simultaneously addressing questions of control, chance, and materiality.

After completing an apprenticeship as an electronics technician, Hefti turned to art in 1998 and studied at ECAL in Lausanne and the Slade School of Fine Art in London. His artistic trajectory has led from early experiments at Kunsthaus Glarus to international institutions such as Camden Art Centre in London and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, culminating in his largest institutional survey exhibition to date at Kunsthalle Basel. Through his consistent, radical, and innovative practice, Raphael Hefti has established a highly distinctive artistic language.

The Paul Boesch Art Prize is both the youngest and one of the most highly endowed art prizes in Switzerland. Since 2016, it has been awarded annually to honour the work of a Swiss artist in the field of visual arts.

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Portrait Raphael Hefti: Credits Oscar Foster Kane

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24/05/2026

Sunday voting by Raphael Hefti.⁠
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⁠Last week to visit our current exhibition by Raphael Hefti. On view through Saturday, May 30.

“Hefti’s current exhibition at Mai 36 is perhaps his most aesthetically adventurous and confidently “artful” to date – a function of the greater freedom with which the artist has resolved to approach both method and material. (It is potentially also, in its oblique allusions to “places the artist has been”, his most personal – yet simultaneously cosmic in aspiration.)”

Words by Dieter Roelstraete.
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Raphael Hefti⁠
Sunday voting, 2026⁠
cast aluminium⁠
57 x 64 x 46 cm⁠
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Installation views, Raphael Hefti, Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, 2026.⁠ Courtesy the artist and Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich⁠
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Photo Credits: Conradin Frei
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20/05/2026

On View: Manfred Pernice “emoZone”

Naples, IT

12.03.– 04.07.2026

“emoZone” is the first institutional exhibition in Italy by Manfred Pernice. In the halls of Fondazione Morra Greco’s Palazzo Caracciolo di Avellino, a selection of works from the Foundation’s collection is presented together for the first time.

A new site-specific project – conceived in dialogue with elements of the military architecture of Castel Sant’Elmo – extends across the entire of the exhibition space.

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Installation Views: Manfred Pernice “emoZone” at Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, Italy.
Copyright the Artist & Courtesy of Fondazione Morra Greco

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19/05/2026

Sternstaubgewürfel—Starmix by Raphael Hefti at the University Children’s Hospital in Zurich, designed by Herzog & de Meuron.

“Sternstaubgewürfel—Starmix” 2024, consists in noble gases created during the Big Bang have traveled through space as stardust, become part of our atmosphere, and are now mixed into 150 glass tubes. These slices of the sun glow at one of the most touching places on Earth: University Children’s Hospital Zurich of the Eleonoren Foundation.

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Film: Dominik Gehring & Tobias Kaufmann

Raphael Hefti
Sternstaubgewürfel—Starmix (2024)
Natural noble gases, filled in 150 tubes made of silicate glass.
12 m × 0,5 m

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16/05/2026

“Les mains sales” by Raphael Hefti.

Raphael Hefti has referred to these aluminum paintings, “Les mains sales” (the dirty hands of trial and error), as vessels. They were made in a purpose-built foundry located inside the artist’s studio, cutting out the middlemen who in the recent past have often been so pivotal to the realizing of his visions. They are a species of “homework”, in other words, simultaneously tentative and daring – and a reminder, in their way, of the necessarily private nature of so many discoveries made.

Excerpt from the Text by Dieter Roelstraete.

The exhibition by Raphael Hefti is on view through Mai 30.

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Raphael Hefti
Les mains sales I, 2026
cast aluminium
170 x 98 x 10 cm

Raphael Hefti
Les mains sales IV, 2026
cast aluminium
60 x 47 x 10 cm

Raphael Hefti
Les mains sales III, 2026
cast aluminium
99 x 72 x 10 cm

Installation views, Raphael Hefti, Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, 2026.
Courtesy the artist and Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich

Photo: Conradin Frei & Nils Sandmeier.

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14/05/2026

Opening next week: Magali Reus’s solo exhibition “Salt” at Kunstverein Freiburg.

Artist Reception: Friday 22 May, 7 pm.

What draws us to certain things? How are we lured and captured by objects? Dutch artist Magali Reus’s recent sculptures engage mechanisms of seduction and deception to explore wider economies of attention and desire. Constructed using a myriad of fabrication languages – from handicraft to mass production – these works create their own ecology of materials. Their silhouettes conjure familiar forms, yet they remain indeterminate in both identity and function.

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Portrait Magali Reus - Studio Gerrit Schreurs

Magali Reus
Streamers (Sprout), 2025
with certificate
Sprayed polyester; sprayed, sanded and waxed polyester; acrylic resin; screen-printed card; pigments; sprayed aluminium tubing; polished graphite-coated CNC’d MDF; sanded and patinated laser-cut brass; brass bolts and rivets; laser-cut steel, cast concrete; MDF; paint
161.5 x 68 x 52 cm
Photo Credits: Eva Herzog.

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