marytwo proudly presents the group exhibition What Performance Artists Wear featuring contributions by Luciano Castelli, Lara Dâmaso, Barnaby Horn, Nils Amadeus Lange, Eva Maspoli, Martina Morger, Pipilotti Rist, Davide-Christelle Sanvee and Silvia Ziranek.
What Performance Artists Wear presents a range of costumes and designs that represent an ephemeral medium through garments. We have invited nine artists with an array of approaches, from work by fashion designers to handmade DIY pieces made by the artists themselves, to garments that push the boundaries of wearability. This exhibition offers a candid look at the symbiotic and complex relationship between clothing and performance art.
At the opening Silvia Ziranek (UK) performed her 2011 work NOT UNDIRTY for the first time in Switzerland, together with her daughter Yma Ziranek Wilson.
Exhibition booklet with a text by Monica Unser
Floor plan
Poster design by Fabian Fretz and Basil Haug
Featured on Contemporary Art Switzerland
and KUBAPARIS
Luciano Castelli
Lara Dâmaso
Barnaby Horn
Nils Amadeus Lange
Eva Maspoli
Martina Morger
Pipilotti Rist
Davide-Christelle Sanvee
Silvia Ziranek
Barnaby Horn
The Man I Know, 2023
Peachbloom felt, acid dye, embroidery
Barnaby Horn
Muscles for Silence, 2023
Cotton, polyester, embroidery
A collaboration with Oscar Cheung
Barnaby Horn
How to Read Clouds II, 2023
Peachbloom felt, acid dye, embroidery
Barnaby Horn
How to Read Clouds, 2023
Melusine fur felt, acid dye, embroidery
Luciano Castelli
One pair of knee-high boots worn during various GEILE TIERE concerts ca 1981/82 (detail)
Luciano Castelli
One pair of knee-high boots worn during various GEILE TIERE concerts ca 1981/82
Silvia Ziranek
Various button-up shirts, plastic aprons with text and other leftovers worn in NOT UNDIRTY (2011) performed during the opening at marytwo with Yma Ziranek Wilson
Silvia Ziranek
NOT UNDIRTY (2011) performed during the opening at marytwo with Yma Ziranek Wilson
Silvia Ziranek
Leftover plastic aprons with text from NOT UNDIRTY (details)
Eva Maspoli
Chain wire fencing costume and mask, plexiglass, silver spray painted shoes, potato plant
Worn in wachsen lassen during Act Performance Festival, Geneva, 2023
Davide-Christelle Sanvee
Spandex bodysuit, bow, jewellery, styled by Doria Gomez Rosay
Worn in the video work Tourbillon quoiqu’il arrive, 2020
Davide-Christelle Sanvee
Spandex bodysuit, bow, jewellery, styled by Doria Gomez Rosay (detail)
Worn in the video work Tourbillon quoiqu’il arrive, 2020
Annemarie von Matt
Tourbillon, 1947
Archive scan sourced by Davide-Christelle Sanvee, printed on Inkjet paper
Lara Dâmaso
Dress made by Vitelli in 2×1 fine gauge ribbed linen with outlines shaped by “boning” and a sheer front panel in tulle
Worn in Gravity and Grace performed at the Move Festival, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2023
Lara Dâmaso
Dress made by Vitelli in 2×1 fine gauge ribbed linen with outlines shaped by “boning” and a sheer front panel in tulle (details)
Worn in Gravity and Grace performed at the Move Festival, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2023
Pipilotti Rist
One pair of red heeled shoes by Vera Pelle
Worn in the video work Ever Is Over All, 1997
Martina Morger
Workwear, accessories and tools
Worn in Fossils – Layers of Intimacies performed at Kunstmuseum Appenzell, 2022
Martina Morger
Workwear, accessories and tools (details)
Worn in Fossils – Layers of Intimacies performed at Kunstmuseum Appenzell, 2022
Nils Amadeus Lange
19th century headpiece
Worn in the play Hildegard Von Bingen performed at Arsenic in Lausanne, Orangerie Theater in Cologne, CCN in Rennes, 2023
Nils Amadeus Lange
19th century headpiece (detail)
Worn in the play Hildegard Von Bingen performed at Arsenic in Lausanne, Orangerie Theater in Cologne, CCN in Rennes, 2023
Nils Amadeus Lange
Various fabrics draped over male dress form, Frederic Malle (Promise) perfume, vintage Helmut Lang high heels
Worn in Skulpturengruppen performed at Secession Vienna, 2022
