Fokus.
Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt)
- Exhibition
- 19.9.2025–18.1.2026
- Fokus Room
Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt, 1912 in Hamburg–1994 in Caracas, Venezuela) was a German-Venezuelan artist and pioneer of abstraction in Latin America. She is known among other things for her drawings and her filigree, net-like sculptures and installations, which she called Reticuláreas – abstract drawings in space.
Gego, born Gertrud Louise Goldschmidt, studied architecture and engineering in Stuttgart during the Nazi period, and was strongly influenced by the ideas of the Bauhaus and modern architecture. Shortly after graduation she had to flee Germany because of her Jewish origins, and emigrated to Venezuela, where she devoted herself to art and teaching. The exhibition in the Zentrum Paul Klee is Gego’s first solo exhibition in Switzerland, and shows drawings, watercolours, prints and selected sculptures by the artist.
Curator: Martin Waldmeier
Fokus. Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt) is part of the permanent exhibition Kosmos Klee.
The permanent exhibition Kosmos Klee. The Collection offers visitors a chronological overview of Klee's artistic oeuvre and presents around seventy works as well as biographical material and archive items, which are regularly changed.
Smaller focus exhibitions with a thematic reference to Paul Klee and his work are shown in one room at a time.
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Upcoming exhibitions
8.2.2025–22.6.2025
Ground floor
19.7.2025–5.10.2025
Ground floor
7.11.2025–22.2.2026
Ground floor
22.2.2025–1.6.2025
Fokus Room
7.6.2025–14.9.2025
Fokus Room
19.9.2025–18.1.2026
Fokus Room