Parkett

02/19/2026

Parkett is pleased to announce the launch of a new publication series dedicated to re-issuing previously published texts on contemporary artists. The Parkett Reader opens with two inaugural volumes focused on Louise Bourgeois and Sigmar Polke.

Conceived as a platform to bring essential writings on artists back into circulation, the Parkett Reader revisits texts from the early 1980s through the 2000s in a new small-scale text-only format, making them available to a new generation of readers.

Find them at the link in bio, and www.parkettart.com

10/03/2021

10/02/2021

John Waters „Tragedy“, for Parkett 96, 2015, repost from MoMA

02/06/2021

Francis Alÿs’ exhibition “Wet feet __ dry feet: borders and games” is on view at Hong Kong’s . Curated around the artist's interest in migration, borders, and his fascination with children's games from around the world, the exhibition brings together three important and interconnected projects by Alÿs, including newly commissioned videos.
Critically acclaimed and an influential conceptual artist, Francis Alÿs (born in Belgium; based in Mexico) has a complex and at times elusive artistic practice that poetically fuses an imaginative, conceptual sensibility with the socio-political momentousness of issues related to urban spaces, transnational borders, and geopolitical concerns. While his works are charged with political concerns, what is significant is how he opens up an artistic space for doubt and invention—often through ephemeral actions initiated and documented by the artist which leave no trace and yet conjure up fables.
The exhibition's title is based on the "spark" to Alÿs's works on view— the "Wet Feet, Dry Feet" policy on Cuban refugees in 1995. Under this policy, Cuban migrants headed for the United States faced vastly different treatment depending on whether they were intercepted at sea or on land, on US soil. If intercepted at sea ("wet feet"), they would be repatriated back to Cuba; if intercepted on land ("dry feet"), they would be allowed to stay in the United States. For a Hong Kong audience, this might sound uncannily familiar: the "Touch Base" policy in 1970s Hong Kong meant that Mainland Chinese migrants would be sent back to the Mainland if intercepted at sea or in the New Territories; only if they reached south of Boundary Street—the formal boundary between Kowloon and the New Territories—were migrants allowed to stay legally in the territory. The show is curated by Xue Tan and and co-presented by Tai Kwun Contemporary and , Seoul.
To browse selected texts on from Parkett 97 and view his “Ghetto Collector”made for Parkett in 2003 (image 9 & 10), please go to the link in our bio, where you can browse Parkett‘s 33 year time capsule with 270 in-depth artists portraits.

12/29/2020

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s new travelling show “Fly in League with the Night” is now on view at Tate Britain in London. Acclaimed for her enigmatic portraits of fictitious people, this exhibition brings together around 80 works from 2003 to the present day in the most extensive survey of the artist’s career to date.
The figures in Yiadom-Boakye’s paintings are not real people – she creates them from found images and her own imagination. Both familiar and mysterious, they invite viewers to project their own interpretations, and raise important questions of identity and representation.
Often painted in spontaneous and instinctive bursts, her figures seem to exist outside of a specific time or place. Her paintings are coupled with poetic titles, such as Tie the Temptress to the Trojan 2016 and To Improvise a Mountain 2018.
Writing is central to Yiadom-Boakye’s artistic practice, as she has explained: ‘I write about the things I can’t paint and paint the things I can’t write about.’
To view “Red Kite” (image 10), the artist’s edition for Parkett 99 (2017) and to read texts on the Lynette Yiadom-Boakye by Hilton Als, Rizvana Bradley and Adrienne Edwards go to www.parkettart.com (link in bio).
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10/03/2020

Katharina Grosse’s exhibition “It Wasn’t Us” continues at Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof Museum until Jan 10,2021. Grosse’s paintings can appear anywhere. Her large-scale works are multi-dimensional pictorial worlds in which splendid color sweeps across walls, ceilings, objects, and even entire buildings and landscapes. For the Berlin show the artist has transformed the Historic Hall of Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin as well as the outdoor space behind the building, into an expansive painting which radically destabilises the existing order of the museum architecture.
In Grosse’s work the boundaries between objects, and between horizontal and vertical orientations begin to melt away, and the work’s scale continuously shifts depending on the visitor’s position. As the viewer moves through the painting new spaces emerge that are both artificial and ripe with associations, and at the same time completely real, forcing us to renegotiate our habitual ways of seeing, of thinking about, and of perceiving the world around us. (See also other selected installations by her from Prague, Arhus and Rockaway/NY).
To view more images of Katharina Grosse’s painted rock and painted book for Parkett and browse selected texts on her work from both volumes (74-2006 & 100/101-2017) please go to our website, link in bio. Both works “… offer a sense of what artists can do with the challenge of how to distill their practices into a single, compact object …” (Philip Tinari, Director, UCCA, Beijing)



Arhus Kunstmuseum

09/06/2020

UNIQUE

Works with Unique Elements & Variations
@ Parkett Space Zurich
Opening Sep 11, 2020, 6-9pm

Works on view will include some sixty editions from the last three decades with hand-painted, drawn, or collaged elements, entirely unique sculptural objects, experimentations with printmaking, and more; works that defy the traditional notion of editions that all prints and multiples of one project are identical from the first to the last work of this edition.

The show is a tribute to the continuously expanding imaginations with which artists keep pushing the boundaries of past and present, and provide viewers and collectors with illuminating approaches and looks forward, with an ever evolving diversity and range of artistic thoughts and ideas.

The works “…offer a sense of what artists can do with the challenge of how to distill their practices into a single, compact object or image..” (Philip Tinari, director UCCA Beijing).














And sixty further artists

04/23/2020

Celebrating earthday with artists exploring nature.
To view and read more about these artists and their edition projects for Parkett go to our website, link in bio above.




/Calzadilla

04/11/2020

„Among the Trees“ , now on view online at London‘s Hayward Gallery explores our relationship with trees and forest.

The show transports the viewer around the world – from Colombian rainforests and remote Japanese islands to olive orchards in Israel and a 9,550-year-old spruce in Sweden. By drawing attention to the beauty, scale and complexity of trees and forests, the 38 artists in this exhibition turn our vision of the natural world on its head, inviting us to see it with new eyes.

Whether exploring the way that trees – with lifespans much longer than our own – challenge how we think about time, or revealing how they are intimately entangled with human affairs, these artists enliven and expand our appreciation of these remarkable organisms. At a time when the destruction of the world’s forests is accelerating at a record pace, Among the Trees vividly highlights the indispensable role that trees play in our lives and imaginations. A virtual tour by curator Ralph Rugoff can be viewed at the Hayward Gallery website.

To browse texts on the twelve artists in this show featured in-depth in Parkett and to view their special editions please visit our website, link in bio.





-LucMylayne .

03/19/2020

To protect the safety of our visitors and staff and to help prevent the spread of the Covid-19 virus, Parkett's Space in Zurich is closed until further notice. We are continuing to monitor the situation while following Swiss public health regulations, and will announce our reopening when appropriate.

Our current exhibition "(Self) Portraits" can be visited by appointment (see selection of works above by Ellen Gallagher, Marilyn Minter, Cindy Sherman, Nicole Eisenman, Adrian Ghenie, Pipilotti Rist, Jordan Wolfson, & Andy Warhol). The show can also be viewed online, where we have uploaded the new catalog with all portraits and self-portraits made by artists for Parkett (see link in bio).

Since 1984 we have witnessed the solidarity of community, artists and art. We believe in its strength now more than ever.

During this time you can reach us at our offices in Zurich and New York (contact info in bio).
We gladly help you finding missing or out-of-print works and books.