ART-TRIBUTE:Collecting Lines, Drawings from the Ringier Collection

The Ringier Collection brings together a wide range of contemporary art positions in photography, video, painting, drawing, objects and installations since the late 1960s. The collecting activity, which has no national or media orientation, focuses particularly on intensively collecting groups of works by the artists represented.

By Dimitris Lempesis
Photo: Ringier Collection Archive

For decades a visit to Villa Flora in Winterthur was a privilege, which was reserved only for the guests of the owners. To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Ringier Collection, two exhibitions both focused on drawings (the core of the collection) and works on paper, have been organized there. Ellen and Michael Ringier started to collect works on paper by the early Russian and Western European avant-garde in the ‘80s and has been consistently extended over the past 20 years by collecting body of works spanning from early Conceptual Artists like: John Baldessari, Douglas Huebler, Vito Acconci, Robert Barry, Joseph Kosuth, or Alighiero Boetti to leading contemporary artists like: John Armleder, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Matt Mullican, Urs Fischer, Jim Shaw, Richard Phillips, Mike Kelley, Karen Kilimnik, Jack Pierson, Joe Bradley, Wade Guyton, Trisha Donnelly, Lutz Bacher and Rosemarie Trockel among many others.

Info: Collecting Lines II, Curators: Arthur Fink & Beatrix Ruf, Villa Flora, Tösstalstrasse 44, Winterthur, Switzerland, Duration: 29/8-15/11/15, Days & Hours: Tue-Sun: 14:00-18:00, www.collecting-lines.ch