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Art Diary

Meret Oppenheim: My Exhibition

15 October 2021

The German-born Swiss artist Meret Oppenheim lived in Bern for the last 30 years of her life; her bulbous fountain, erected in the centre of the city two years before she died in 1985 and now overgrown with lichen and accretions of limestone, is just a stone’s throw from the Kunstmuseum, which from 22 October–13 February 2022 will host the first leg of this transatlantic survey of Oppenheim’s work. Expect the Surrealist’s famous fur-lined breakfast set, along with other fantastical pieces from throughout her long career, ranging from other absurdist found-object assemblages (a beer mug with the tail of a squirrel, for instance) to abstract paintings, collages, and sculptures in bronze. Find out more from the Kunstmuseum Bern’s website.

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(1960/69), Meret Oppenheim.

Squirrel (1960/69), Meret Oppenheim. Moderna Museet, Stockholm. Photo: Albin Dahlström; © 2021, ProLitteris, Zurich

Quick, Quick, the most Beautiful Vowel is Voiding, M.E. by M.O. (1934), Meret Oppenheim.

Quick, Quick, the most Beautiful Vowel is Voiding, M.E. by M.O. (1934), Meret Oppenheim. Sammlung Bürgi. Photo: Roland Aellig; © 2021, ProLitteris, Zurich

Enchantment (1962), Meret Oppenheim.

Enchantment (1962), Meret Oppenheim. Kunstmuseum Bern. Photo: Peter Lauri; © 2021, ProLitteris, Zurich