The art of showcasing art. The Magnificent Visions of Harald Szeemann

interview with Una Szeemann

edited by Chiara Gatti

The artist Una Szeemann, guest of MAN as part of the residences shared with Monte Verità in Ascona, will dialogue with i the director of the museum, telling the public the story and glory of his father, the great art critic and exhibition curator Harald Szeeman. True inventor of the art of exhibiting art.

From his bizarre cabaret beginnings to the birth of his “Museum of Obsessions”; from the gestation of some of the most famous exhibitions of the twentieth century, up to the direction of He documents in Kassel and at the Venice Biennale, which owes the creation of the central pavilion to him! Stories behind the scenes, experiences, family, passions, intuitions. Until the discovery of Monte Verità, the hill of utopias, which today hosts young Sardinian artists in residence.

A Szeemann

Born in Locarno, she was a teacher at the Haute École d’Art et de Design in Geneva (HEAD) and currently teaches at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) in the Department of Fine Arts. He has held seminars and conferences at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Catholic University of Milan, the Academy of Arts of Munich and the Academy of Fine Arts of Vienna. He is a member of the Federal Art Commission, of the board of directors of the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich and of the Open Art Museum in St. Gallen.

Una Szeemann’s installations follow material traces and transfers of invisible phenomena. An approach and exploration through the possibilities of parallel thinking and an investigation into unconscious processes.

Personal and group exhibitions: Kunsthalle Winterthur, MASI Lugano, Kunstverein Hamburg, Belvedere 21 Vienna, Nam June Paik Art Center Seoul, Kunstmuseum Lucerne, Fundació Joan Miró Barcelona, ​​Contemporary Art Center Vilnius, Kunsthalle Vienna. He has exhibited at Manifesta 11, 5th Busan Biennale in Korea, 3rd Contour Biennale in Belgium, 9th Lyon Biennale and the 52nd Venice Biennale.