Yto Barrada – im Rahmen der ReCollect!-Reihe

Yto Barrada combines her own works with collection pieces from her birth year, 1971. A dialogue unfolds around memory, time, loss, and forms of artistic resistance.

Material, History and Resistance

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Yto Barrada (*1971 in Paris) combines political analysis with a poetic engagement with form and material. Her practice spans photography, film, textiles and collage. For this exhibition, she brings her own works into dialogue with pieces from 1971. At the centre is her 16mm film A Day is Not a Day (2022), which contrasts capitalist systems of time with natural processes of decay. Her works explore loss, history, and close observation of nature as acts of resistance.

Yto_Barrada-07578 — Exhibition view – Frank Stella, Odelsk IV, Kunsthaus Zürich, 1972, Photo © Franca Candrian

Yto_Barrada-07635 — Detail of Yto Barrada, Untitled (Color Analysis from Odelsk IV by Frank Stella), 2024, Kunsthaus Zürich, Photo © Franca Candrian

Yto_Barrada-07586 — Exhibition view – Left: Dieter Roth, Grosses Gewürzquadrat, 1971, Kunsthaus Zürich, Donated by a private collection, 2012. Right: Yto Barrada, Untitled (painted educational boards found in Natural History Museum, never opened, Azilal, Morocco), Collection Art at Swiss Re, Photo © Franca Candrian

Yto_Barrada-07608 — Exhibition view, Dennis Oppenheim, A Feed-Back Situation; 2-Stage Transfer Drawing. (Advancing to a Future State); 2-Stage Transfer Drawing. (Returning to a Past State), 1971, Dennis Oppenheim Estate, Kunsthaus Zürich, Photo © Franca Candrian

Yto_Barrada-07632_04 — Yto Barrada, A Day Is Not a Day, 2022, Courtesy of the artist, Sfeir-Semler Gallery Beirut/Hamburg, Pace Gallery, and Galerie Polaris, Photo © Franca Candrian

Yto_Barrada-07597 — Exhibition view, Yto Barrada, Anagramme Agadir (Agadir Anagram), 2018, Courtesy of the artist & Sfeir-Semler Gallery Beirut/Hamburg, Photo © Franca Candrian

Pedagogy and Organic Thinking

What is the ReCollect! series?

In the «ReCollect!» series, contemporary artists take a new look at the Kunsthaus collection.

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A recurring theme in Barrada’s practice is learning through doing. In her hometown of Tangier, she founded the Cinémathèque de Tanger and «The Mothership», a creative campus for natural dyes. Her artistic processes combine research, play and collective knowledge – creating spaces for memory, transformation and utopia. In 2026, she will represent France at the Venice Biennale.

The exhibition is curated by Laura Vuille and supported by the Leir Foundation.

Events to ReCollect!

Sat 30.8. 11:00-12:00

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Ill.: Yto Barrada, Untitled (After Stella, Melilla V), 2019, Courtesy of the artist, Sfeir-Semler Gallery Beirut/Hamburg, Pace Gallery, and Galerie Polaris