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Emma Kunz

1892-1963 (SWITZERLAND)

HEALER, RESEARCHER AND ARTIST, EMMA KUNZ WAS AN AUTO-DIDACT WHO SELF-PUBLISHED THREE BOOKS AND PRODUCED HUNDREDS OF GEOMETRIC DRAWINGS BY HAND. SHE APPROACHED THESE NOT AS FORMALISM, BUT AS A MEANS OF STRUCTURING PHILOSOPHICAL, SCIENTIFIC AND SPIRITUAL IDEAS. USING LINE AND GRID, KUNZ’S DIAGRAMS EXPLORED BELIEF SYSTEMS AND RESTORATIVE PRACTICES. HER WORK WON SIGNIFICANT POSTHUMOUS RECOGNITION, NOTABLY BY CURATORS HARALD SZEEMANN AND HANS ULRICH OBRIST. HER RECENT EXHIBITIONS INCLUDE RETROSPECTIVES AT THE SERPENTINE GALLERIES (2019) AND THE AARGUAER KUNSTHAIUS IN SWITZERRLAND (2021).

Emma Kunz Cosmos, AARGAUER KUNSTHAUS (AARAU) 2021

The Botanical Mind: Art, Mysticism and The Cosmic Tree, Camden Art Centre (London) 2020

Emma Kunz und Gegenwartskunst, Zahl, Rhythmus, Wandlung KUNSTHALLE ZIEGELHÜTTE (Appenzell) 2020

Online: In Sickness and in health (online), NICELLE BEAUCHENE GALLERY (New york) 2020

Garden of six seasons, PARA SITE (hong kong) 2020

A New Age: The Spiritual in Art, Tel AViv Museum of Art (tel aviv) 2019/20

Emma Kunz: Visionary Drawings, MUZEUM SUSCH (Zernez) 2019

ALMA. Mediums and visionaries, ES BALUARD, MUSEUM OF MODERN & CONTEMPORARY ART (Palma de Mallorca) 2019

Emma Kunz: Visionary Drawings, The Serpentine Galleries (London) 2019

World Receivers, KUNSTBAU (Munich) 2019

As Above, So Below: Portals, Visions, Spirits & Mystics, IRISH MUSEUM OF MODERN ART (Dublin) 2017

On the border, AARGAUER KUNSTHAUS (AARAU) 2014/15

Ghosts in the machine, New Museum (New York) 2012

Switzerland: Unbounding and Crossing Over as Art, KUNSTMUSEUM LIECHTENSTEIN (Liechtenstein) 2011/12

Free Love Gods: Works on Paper, PULLIAM DEFFENBAUGH GALLERY (Portland) 2008

Yasmin Afschar, Cosmos Emma Kunz: A Visionary in Dialogue with Contemporary Art, Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag, 2021

Karin Althaus et al. World Receivers: Georgiana Houghton - Hilma af Klint - Emma Kunz, Hirmer Verlag, 2019

Emma Kunz: Visionary Drawings, Serpentine Galleries and Koenig Books, 2019

Catherine de Zegher, 3 x Abstraction: New Methods of Drawing by Hilma af Klint, Emma Kunz, and Agnes Martin, Yale University Press, 2005

Emma Kunz, Life, Work, Emma Kunz Zentrum, 1998

Anton C. Meier, Emma Kunz 1892-1963. Researcher, naturopath, artist, 1994