(Self) Portraits

Parkett is pleased to announce (Self) Portraits, a survey exhibition of over ninety portraits and self-portraits made by artists especially for Parkett in the last three decades. On view at Parkett’s Zurich Space, the artists included in this retrospective expand, challenge, transform, and push forward the traditional parameters of the portrait and self-portrait. The show and its theme provide a new perspective on Parkett’s 33 years of direct collaborations with 270 artists from around the world.

For as long as people have been making art, they have been portraying themselves and others. The artists included in this exhibition employ a wide array of techniques, media, and methods, including printmaking, photography, collage, and sculpture, among others. Works on view range from portraits by Andy Warhol, Marlene Dumas, and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, to self-portraits by Martin Kippenberger, Gillian Wearing, and Ed Atkins. Also on view are non-traditional, symbolic and indirect portraits including among others a small-scale sculptural sound work by Laurie Anderson, Douglas Gordon’s bite into a sheet of plain white paper, and Rirkrit Tiravanija’s edition of the artist’s own Ray Ban glasses with engraved poetic phrases. Through the use of both traditional and conceptual representation, the works explore the subjective, emotional, physical, or political identities of their subjects.

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Featuring works by: Pawel Althamer, Laurie Anderson, Ed Atkins, John Baldessari, Stephan Balkenhol, Georg Baselitz, Alighiero e Boetti, Christian Boltanski, Kerstin Brätsch and DAS INSTITUT, Glenn Brown, Sophie Calle, Maurizio Cattelan, Chuck Close, John Currin, Martin Disler, Nathalie Djurberg, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Nicole Eisenman, Tracey Emin, Omer Fast, Urs Fischer, Eric Fischl, Günther Förg, Katharina Fritsch, Ellen Gallagher, Adrian Ghenie, Gilbert & George, Robert Gober, Douglas Gordon, Dan Graham, Rodney Graham, Mark Grotjahn, Rachel Harrison, Camille Henrot, Jenny Holzer, Gary Hume, Christian Jankowski, Alex Katz, Mike Kelley, Jon Kessler, Karen Kilimnik, Martin Kippenberger, Jeff Koons, Maria Lassnig, Liu Xiaodong, Sarah Lucas, Christian Marclay, Paul McCarthy, Lucy McKenzie, Marilyn Minter, Tracey Moffatt, Mariko Mori, Juan Muñoz, Bruce Nauman, Olaf Nicolai, Albert Oehlen, Paulina Olowska, Tony Oursler, Nicolas Party, Mai-Thu Perret, Elizabeth Peyton, Richard Phillips, Sigmar Polke, Richard Prince, R.H. Quaytman, Markus Raetz, Charles Ray, Jason Rhoades, Pipilotti Rist, Dana Schutz, Wael Shawky, Cindy Sherman, Dayanita Singh, Frances Stark, Rudolf Stingel, Beat Streuli, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Fred Tomaselli, Rosemarie Trockel, Luc Tuymans, Charline von Heyl, Kara Walker, Kelley Walker, Jeff Wall, Andy Warhol, John Waters, Gillian Wearing, Lawrence Weiner, Andro Wekua, John Wesley, Jordan Wolfson, Xu Zhen, Yang Fudong, and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.