This Is The House that Jack Built: an exhibition by HELMRINDERKNECHT

27 September - 3 November '13

Recently moved from Berlin to Zurich, HELMRINDERKNECHT contemporary design gallery proudly presents a new exhibition project. The exhibition „This is the House that Jack built“ transforms a vacant villa in the neighbourhood of Zurich Oerlikon into a temporary home for contemporary design and art. Featuring objects from HELMRINDERKNECHT contemporary design and invited guest galleries, such as: jeanine hofand contemporary art, Amsterdam; Depot Basel, Basel; QuintessentiaLiving by Arthur Rooks, Zurich; Barbara Seiler gallery, Zurich, galerie peter tellini, Zurich.

As the british nursery rhyme and exhibition title „THIS IS THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT“ narrates, the exhibition can be seen as an accumulated story of complicated relative sentences. Starting with an old villa, the show stretches over three foors, through a vast number of rooms, from the basement with its hidden bar up to the attic with its wonderful gabled structure.

The participating galleries present artists from their programme in conjunction with the other guest projects. As in the nursery rhyme, the story of the building becomes also the subject of the exhibition. It is the direct and indirect link to the work of art. „The House that Jack built...“, this house; it is not only a house containing exhibited objects, but perfectly illustrates the symbiotic relationship that all houses have with the objects they contain and the lives lived within its walls.

This Is The House that Jack Built: an exhibition by HELMRINDERKNECHT

This Is The House that Jack Built: an exhibition by HELMRINDERKNECHT

This Is The House that Jack Built: an exhibition by HELMRINDERKNECHT

This Is The House that Jack Built: an exhibition by HELMRINDERKNECHT