With Disobedient Constellations, the Rehmann Museum presents an exhibition that challenges the public. This unconventional show, featuring sculptures and objects from private collections, illuminates not only the deep passion, but sometimes also the loss, of its collectors.
Co-curator Nina Wakeford, artist and professor at Goldsmiths, University of London, and one of the co-initiators of the Swiss Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale, together with Michael Hiltbrunner, curator of the Rehmann Museum, and the collectors, has made a selection that defies convention. Together, they highlight the artworks from a feminist and queer perspective, which can be read as resistant and idiosyncratic.
This fresh and often unconventional perspective leads to the works of 27 renowned artists, including Monica Bonvicini, Walter De Maria, Rainer Fetting, Bernhard Luginbühl, Ursi Luginbühl, and George Sugarman, entering into surprising and "disobedient" constellations. They enter into a dialogue that disrupts established ways of seeing and thinking and enables new interpretations.
In the exhibition, the works of art tell of their idiosyncratic, sometimes repressed histories, unexpected interpretations, or even previous misconceptions. Disobedient Constellations illuminates not only the works of art themselves, but also how we interact with them: how we talk about them, classify them, categorize them, and interpret them.
Participating artists:
Patrick Angus, Tessa Boffin, Monica Bonvicini, Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, Walter De Maria, Elisabeth Eberle, Olivia Etter, Hans Falk, May Fasnacht, Peter Fischli / David Weiss, Rainer Fetting, Sylvie Fleury, Tarek Lakhrissi, Hans Lifka, Janis Löhrer, Bernhard Luginbühl, Ursi Luginbühl, Maria Sibylla Merian, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Erwin Rehmann, Walter Schnackenberg, George Sugarman, Cosima von Bonin, Nina Wakeford, Rebecca Warren
Curated by Michael Hiltbrunner and Nina Wakeford
Opening Reception 5 September 2025, 7 pm
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