Curated by Katrin Steffen, Anna Bürkli and Tuula Rasmussen

The shared history of Eva Aeppli (1925-2015) and the Solothurn Art Museum does not begin with her major retrospective in 1994, but 20 years earlier, when Meret Oppenheim donated a sculpture by her younger colleague to the museum. Numerous other works by Eva Aeppli subsequently found their way into the Solothurn collection. The artist, who expressed the fragility of human existence in her haunting work, would celebrate her 100th birthday on May 2, 2025. Reason enough to weave her early charcoal drawings, oil paintings, textile figures, silk and bronze sculptures and, last but not least, her Livres de vie into a dense show in the collection presentation. The exhibition also includes rarely shown works from private collections.


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