Seeing Words, Reading Images

The exhibition at PalaisPopulaire presents selected works from the Written Art Collection, complemented by works from the Deutsche Bank Collection. The focus is on a contemporary perspective—essentially a "Worldwide Written Art"—which places the global dialogue of current artistic positions at its center: a historical network that reveals the roots and connections of writing in art, and a contemporary network that makes global perspectives and new cultural references visible. Through the works from the Deutsche Bank Collection, the contemporary view is broadened—new dialogues are opened and cultural connections are deepened.

With works by: Etel Adnan, Mounira Al Solh, Joseph Beuys, Osman Bozkurt, Hoy Wong Cheong, Natalie Czech, Claudia Comte, Marcel Dzama, Larissa Fassler, Meschac Gaba, Ellen Gallagher, Shilpa Gupta, Jenny Holzer, Annette Kelm, William Kentridge, Imi Knoebel, Sean Landers, Ahmed Mater, Ahmad Moualla, Farhad Moshiri, Herta Müller, Shiryû Morita, Shirin Neshat, Simon Patterson, Zhijie Qiu, Karin Sander, Viviane Sassen, Yinka Shonibare, Slavs and Tatars, Agathe Snow, Kemang Wa Lehulere, Evelyn Teocheng Wang, Lawrence Weiner, Jiechang Yang, Inoue Yū-ichi, Charles Hossein Zenderoudi.

Stage: Etel Adnan, The Linden Tree Poems, 2019, Folded leporello (Detail), Ink and watercolour on paper, The Written Art Collection, Courtesy the Artist and Sfeir-Semler Gallery