Kunsthaus Zürich: YOKO ONO until 29.05.2022

YOKO ONO: THIS ROOM MOVES AT THE SAME SPEED AS THE CLOUD

Poetry meets conceptual art and performance

Yoko Onos performances and actions of the 1960s and 1970s have achieved cult status. Some of them will be performed and exhibited at the Kunsthaus Zürich.

Since the beginning of her career, Yoko Ono has explored issues of socio-political importance that are still highly relevant today. From early on, she has been committed to peace in the world and the feminist cause. Ideas always play a central role in her work: sometimes she formulates them in a playful and humorous way, sometimes quite radically, and then again very poetically. Some are transformed into objects while others are left immaterial. Yoko Ono’s artistic oeuvre is correspondingly diverse, encompassing sculptures, works on paper, installations, performances, film and music. Kunsthaus curator Mirjam Varadinis, in collaboration with Yoko Ono and her long-time curator Jon Hendricks, has selected some 60 of them to arrange into an exhibition.

A selection of central works from all creative periods will be shown, with a focus on the early work. The presentation is not a classic retrospective, but will revive over fifty years of artistic creation with a fresh view from today. Visitors will be involved in a variety of ways. Accompanying the exhibition, a diverse performance programme is planned in which important works by Yoko Ono will be restaged. Yoko Ono is personally involved in the conception of the exhibition.