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Rita McBride's exhibition from June 13th to September 5th, 2010, is not designed as a retrospective, as the artist prefers to avoid this traditional type of presentation. She has therefore chosen a selection of older works, many of which were never seen in Europe, combined with new pieces for the Winterthur Art Museum (Kunstmuseum). In this way, relationships become visible, but developed playfully and not in a strict sequence, making it easier to understand Rita McBride's interests over twenty years of work, how smart and funny her approach to modernity is and what surprising results she achieves with her understanding of historical items.

In the last few years, the Kunstmuseum Winterthur has acquired several different Rita McBride pieces for its collection, where they are placed in the context of recent sculpture alongside works of Pedro Cabrita Reis, Isa Genzken, Václav Pozarek and Thomas Schütte. Like other artists of her generation, Rita McBride sees sculpture in the light of the language of form of architecture and design. It is the often overlooked subtext of the designs to which her pieces give speech, the interplay of, or rather the contradiction between function and representation.

Rita McBride was born in 1956 in Des Moines, Iowa. She studied at the California Institute of the Arts and now lives in Düsseldorf, Neuss, and New York. Since 1989, Rita Mcbride has had numerous exhibitions, including the Liechtenstein Art Museum in 2002 and 2008, Municipal Museum Abteiberg in Mönchengladbach. Rita McBride teaches at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, but the artist is not bound to one place, as she loves to be on the road to the many places worldwide where she is called to exhibitions, performances, lectures and other tasks to. Her work cannot be restricted only to sculpture, but rather exceeds the limits of traditional genres.

An exhibition catalog with essays by Daniel Kurjakovic, Dieter Schwarz, and Iris Wien accompanies the exhibition. German / English. 176 pages, 60 color illustrations, sewn paperback. CHF 45 -

The opening will take place on Saturday, June 12th, 2010, 3-5 PM; at 3:15, Dr. Dieter Schwarz and the artist will speak.

The exhibition runs from June 13th  to September 5th, 2010.
Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Museum 52, 8402 Winterthur, Switzerland
www.kmw.ch