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