Galerie Peter Kilchmann

06/05/2026

GALERIE PETER KILCHMANN
cordially invites you to the opening of

ISH*TA CHAKRABORTY
East Is Everywhere

Friday, May 22, 6 - 8 pm

On the occasion of the opening, there will be a talk between the artist and Prof. Françoise Vergès, moderated by Peter Kilchmann, on May 22, 6:30 pm

Galerie Peter Kilchmann
11-13 rue des Arquebusiers
75003 Paris

Galerie Peter Kilchmann Paris is pleased to present East Is Everywhere, the first solo exhibition in France and the second with the gallery by Ish*ta Chakraborty (b. 1989, West Bengal, India; lives and works near Zürich, Switzerland).

On this occasion, the artist continues to develop her ongoing body of work, moving between archival colonial maps sourced from historical documents and reworked through self-portrait photographs taken beneath a white cloth, then hand-painted, and her botanical drawings, realised as canvas cut-outs mounted on Indian cotton sari fabric, a traditional floral textile worn by Indian women, presented either as works on paper or as suspended textile elements within the exhibition space. Extending these interrelated series, a monumental charcoal drawing on uncoated cotton, conceived as an immersive botanical fresco, spans an entire wall of one of the exhibition rooms, alongside new porcelain sculptures, some left unglazed and others hand-painted, developed from her experience in the Brazilian rainforest.

In recent years, Chakraborty’s inquiry has expanded toward the entanglement of existential and ecological questions. Her projects increasingly address climate migration, ecofeminism, and the shifting relations between the Global South and North in post-migrant societies.

The concept that "East is everywhere" in the context of colonialism and extraction refers to the proliferation of colonial power structures, resource exploitation, and the imposition of capitalist, "modern" ideologies across the globe, transcending traditional geographical boundaries. This viewpoint suggests that the dynamics of extraction—the exploitation of land, labour, and knowledge—operate universally, turning marginalized communities worldwide into modern-day "colonies". - Extract from Ish*ta Chakraborty's text on her show.

Ish*ta Chakraborty, I Recall the Forest Inside Me XX, 2026 (detail)
Hand coloured on Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemühle Agave Paper, 119.7 X 169.4 cm

28/04/2026

NOW REPRESENTING: MATTHIAS ODIN

Galerie Peter Kilchmann

is pleased to announce the representation of
Matthias Odin

The relationship to movement is omnipresent in my work, and I think also in my life but I feel that it is something inherent, a condition of being human: that vital impulse to move within an environment that itself changes around us, sometimes more, sometimes less, with varying intensity. What interests me is our porosity, to such fluctuation.

Matthias Odin

Matthias Odin was born in 1995 in Lyon, France and lives and works in Paris, France. While he engages with universal themes such as wandering, encounter, disorientation, self-construction, and adaptation, the work of Matthias Odin is deeply introspective. His practice revolves around assembling and transforming collected objects, which anchor reflections on relationships to spaces and perception. Experiences in marginalized and sometimes clandestine urban environments have profoundly shaped his reflections on the occupation of urban space and on the strategies individuals develop to inhabit it.

The physical gesture is central to his work: the body acts as the agent that constructs, assembles, and transforms surrounding objects, imbuing them with new relationships and meanings. Through this process of détournement, Odin has developed a distinctive material vocabulary: spheres and rubber balls he produces himself, ersatz IKEA-like objects, as well as concrete, steel, and glass. Together, they form a formal language that runs throughout his practice. Video, sound, and photography regularly extend and enrich his installations, creating immersive environments for the viewer.

A graduate of the Cergy School of Fine Arts in 2023, Matthias Odin has exhibited and collaborated with various institutions in France including the FRAC Île-de- France (Paris), where he presented a solo exhibition in 2025, as well as the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles (Paris) in the same year, the IAC (Villeurbanne) as part of the Lyon Biennale in 2024, and La Graineterie (Houilles) also in 2024.

In 2026, he inaugurated his first solo exhibition in a gallery with the Galerie Peter Kilchmann. In addition, he has been involved in several independent projects in recent years with Thundercage, YGRÈVES (a collective he co-founded), Pauline Perplexe, and a collaboration with the FRAC Corsica. Abroad, he has exhibited at the Palazzo San Giuseppe (Bari, IT), the Keiv Gallery and Okay Space (Athens, GR), the Moderna Museet (Stockholm, SE), and the Working Title Gallery (Amsterdam, NL).

Artist portrait: Raphaël Massart

16/04/2026

MARION BARUCH
Quel che rimane del cielo
presented in collaboration with

Working with textile as both medium and language, Baruch transforms discarded fabric remnants into suspended compositions that move between painting and sculpture, presence and absence. Her latest works—delicate yet powerful—invite viewers to navigate space through fragments, voids, and shifting perspectives.

“What Remains of the Sky” evokes both the celestial and the human, opening poetic reflections on material, memory, and transformation.

On view at Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zahnradstrasse 21, 8005 Zürich Until 30 May, 2026

''Marion Baruch: Quel che rimane del cielo, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich/Paris Photos: Sebastian Schaub

16/04/2026

Now Open:

FIND US ON LEVEL 2
April 16–19, 2026
Allianz MiCo, South Wing
Milan, Italy

Booth — Level 2
Section: Established Anthology

Please note:
There is another booth with the same number
(C05) on Level 0.
Our gallery is located on Level 2 (in the Established Anthology section).

With works by:
Francis Alÿs
Yael Bartana
Marion Baruch
Monica Bonvicini
Ish*ta Chakraborty
Zilla Leutenegger
Adrian Paci
Grace Schwindt

26/03/2026

Amol K Patil

Zahnradstrasse 21, Zurich
Until 23 May, 2026

Photo: Sebastian Schaub

26/03/2026

UWE WITTWER

11-13 rue des Arquebusiers, Paris
Until May 9, 2026

18/03/2026

We are proud to announce the major exhibition of

GRACE SCHWINDT
A Boxer's Dream

Opening: Friday, March 20, 4 - 8 pm

TANK Shanghai
2380 Longteng Avenue
Shanghai, China

Grace Schwindt
A Boxer's Dream
March 21 - July 5, 2026

Grace Schwindt’s exhibition A Boxer’s Dream, presented at Tank Shanghai Museum, unfolds as an ambitious project occupying a significant portion of the museum’s galleries. Conceived as a highly immersive environment, the exhibition invites visitors to reflect on the complex and deeply entangled relationships between humans and the natural world.

Moving away from anthropocentric perspectives, Schwindt foregrounds a shared vulnerability between species and proposes forms of encounter grounded in presence, reciprocity, and care. Emphasizing the importance of deep listening and direct touch, the artist challenges models of understanding that rely on explanation or domination, instead opening spaces for more attentive and embodied ways of relating to others.

Engagement with history through plants and animals has become a central strategy in Schwindt’s practice. Through these living agents, she investigates the inextricable bond between humans and nature—one that is both fundamental and fragile, and urgently in need of protection.

Plant elements intertwine on different levels and mediums, evoking processes of transformation and underscoring a complex relationship with nature in which flowers and plants become active protagonists.The exhibition further draws inspiration from the birds of Shanghai and its wider surroundings, whether migratory or permanent residents. Their sounds will be woven into musical compositions performed in the newly created films and live during the opening, extending the exhibition’s exploration of listening, coexistence, and shared environments.

To examine these relationships, Schwindt employs the framework of a boxing match to explore notions of proximity, touch, and conflict. A boxing ring forms the sculptural core of the exhibition, positioned at its center. An orchestration of blue, red, and white light evokes the atmosphere of a live sporting event, drawing visitors into a dramatic spatial experience. Yet rather than focusing on the spectacle of combat, Schwindt turns her attention to the moments in between: the preparations, the pauses, the intervals, and the aftermath. In the fleeting moments when boxers come into close contact, gestures of care and tenderness emerge—revealing vulnerability within confrontation and suggesting new ways of thinking about coexistence.

Grace Schwindt, Balance, 2024, Oil, watercolour, ink and pencil on linen, 140 x 125 x 3.5 cm

11/03/2026

Join us at the opening in Bellinzona
and discover with us the remarkable show

Zilla Leutenegger
CASA MIA
Opening: Friday, March 13
6 - 9 pm

MUSEO VILLA DEI CEDRI
Piazza San Biagio 9
CH - 6500 Bellinzona

Zilla Leutenegger
Casa mia

March 14 - August 2, 2026
Opening, Friday March 13, 6 - 9 pm

Museo Villa dei Cedri
Bellinzona

What if the museum were an intimate theatre in which yesterday’s lives meet up with today’s?

The exhibition «Zilla Leutenegger. Casa mia» turns the Villa dei Cedri into a vibrant stage blending irony and poetry. Between wall drawings, projected shadow play and modernist furniture, the artist invites us to rethink the post-war world of daily routine and our present relationship to private life. Visitors are immersed at the very heart of an experience in which drawing – in its many different forms – becomes a privileged instrument to explore history, architecture and contemporary artistic creation.

E se il museo diventasse un teatro intimo, in cui le vite del passato s’intrecciano con quelle di oggi?

La mostra «Zilla Leutenegger. Casa mia» trasforma, con ironia e poesia, la Villa dei Cedri in uno scenario vivente. Tra disegni murali, giochi di ombre proiettate e arredi modernisti, l’artista invita a ripensare l’universo domestico del dopoguerra e il nostro approccio contemporaneo alla sfera privata. I visitatori si
ritrovano immersi nel cuore di un’esperienza in cui il disegno – nelle sue molteplici forme – diventa lo strumento privilegiato per esplorare la storia, l’architettura e la creazione artistica attuale.

On the same evening, Alex Hanimann’s exhibition Human Nature will open.

Guided visits
Sunday March 15, at 2:30 pm
Sunday, Mai 21, at 2:30 pm
Sunday, June 21, at 2:30 pm
Saturday, August 1, 2:00 pm

Limited places available; registration recommended.

Zilla Leutenegger,Waterspilling, 2026, single channel video, color, sound, 2 min., loop, Ed. of 5 (+ 1 AP)

10/03/2026

05/03/2026

We are pleased to announce the most anticipated show

MARC BAUER

Fear Rage Desire Still Standing

curated by Anita Haldemann

Kunstmuseum Basel
Opening Friday, March 6, 6.30 pm
March 7, 2026 - May 2, 2027

Fear Rage Desire Still Standing
curated by Anita Haldemann
Kunstmuseum Basel
NEUBAU, connecting wing
March 7, 2026 - May 2, 2027

Press Release
The Kunstmuseum Basel presents a project by the internationally renowned Swiss artist Marc Bauer (b. 1975). Bauer’s drawings grapple with history, memory, gender, and identity from a q***r perspective. Titled Marc Bauer. Fear Rage Desire, Still Standing, the presentation intertwines motifs from art history, from artists such as Hieronymus Bosch (ca. 1450-1516) and Nasta Rojc (1883-1964), with photographs from the internet and archival material. Bauer’s work focuses on the construction of masculinity and the violence it unleashes in society and—that is the central theme in this project—against q***r people in particular. Tracing a long arc from history to the present, he reveals how deeply entrenched such violence is in social structures.
Bauer’s works are based on extensive research: he reads academic literature, delves into archives, and talks to scholars and experts. One of his interlocutors has been Jonathan D. Katz, who organized, researched, and curated the exhibition The First Homosexuals. He then selects images and writings from a variety of sources, which he translates into a very personal and exceptionally fascinating visual universe that is laced with ambiguity and provokes searching reflections.
Created right on the museum’s walls, Bauer’s mural drawings are destroyed after the end of an exhibition. Visitors are invited to watch him at work on site starting March 4, 2026. The artist will return on two occasions to rework the wall drawings (May 12–17 and November 3–7, 2026). The presentation combines the murals with drawings on canvas and paper and a soundtrack composed by the Berlin-based artists Sin Maldita (Tim Roth) and Philipp Hülsenbeck for a multimedia installation.
Bauer was invited to create this work on occasion of the exhibition The First Homosexuals. The Birth of New Identities 1869- 1939, which is on view at the Neubau from March 7 until August 2, 2026.

Marc Bauer, Manifesto, 2026, oil and charcoal on canvas, 287 x 360 cm