Zaha Hadid’s work is currently on view at Galerie Gmurzynska in Zurich. The show, “Zaha Hadid and Suprematism,” was designed and curated by Hadid, the distinguished architect and designer who won the Pritzker Prize and has been named one of the 100 Most Influential People of 2010 by TIME magazine. The gallery specializes in the field of Russian Avant Garde, has three locations in Switzerland, and is internationally acclaimed. Given that, the show couldn’t have had a more appropriate setting than the Galerie Gmurzynska: the exhibition is a comparison of her work to that of the Russian Suprematists, namely Ilya Chashnik, El Lissitzky, Kasimir Malevich, Alexander Rodchenko, and Nikolai Suetin. It displays some of the finest works of these avant garde artists, including Kasimir Malevich’s 1917 “Dissolution of a Plane” and Alexander Rochenko’s 1920 “Composition No. 99.” Zaha Hadid presents these pieces alongside her own to articulate a connection between her contemporary works, which have influenced our culture today, and the pervasive legacy of these earlier Russian artists.
The exhibition opened on June 13th and is on view through September 25th.
