Exhibition
in St. Moritz / Switzerland
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- Cathy Josefowitz: Untitled, 1980, Pastel on paper, 20.3 x 16 cm, © Estate of Cathy Josefowitz, Photo Jon Etter
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- Maria Lassnig: Rosa Bauch (Pink Belly), 1997, oil on canvas, 125 x 100 x 2.5 cm, 49 1/4 x 39 3/8 x 1 in, © Maria Lassnig Foundation / 2026, ProLitteris, Zurich, Photo Felix Jungo
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- Carol Rama: Untitled, 1950, oil on canvas, 70 x 50 cm, 27 1/2 x 19 5/8 in, Ursula Hauser Collection, Switzerland, © Archivio Carol Rama, Turin, Photo Stefan Altenburger Photography Zürich
This summer at our St. Moritz gallery, ‘Intimate Anatomies’ brings together the work of Cathy Josefowitz, Maria Lassnig and Carol Rama, three trailblazing 20th-century artists whose practices challenged traditional notions of portraiture by depicting the female body as a site of lived, individual experience.
For the first time, the exhibition unites paintings and works on paper by Lassnig and Josefowitz with Rama’s paintings and multimedia works, in which she incorporated everyday materials such as syringes, spray paint and glue. Distinct in their approaches yet connected by a shared resistance to convention, the artists explore the body through movement, amorphous form, sexuality and colour. Through these boundary – pushing depictions of the human form and psyche, the exhibition highlights each artist’s relationship to her own body while also considering the body’s connection to society, architectural space and nature.
Cathy Josefowitz
Prolific, prescient and powerfully original yet under-recognized in her lifetime, Josefowitz (1956 – 2014) produced a diverse body of work that ingeniously transcends hierarchies of medium and genre. Over the course of four decades, this New York-born, Swiss-raised artist created an oeuvre of remarkable ambition, spanning drawing and painting, theater and dance, as she developed a deeply personal visual syntax in her quest to represent the body as an expressive vehicle of individual experience.
Maria Lassnig
Born in Carinthia in Southern Austria in 1919, Maria Lassnig’s (1919 – 2014) work is based on the observation of the physical presence of the body and what she termed ‘body awareness’, or ‘Körpergefühl’ in German. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in the midst of the Second World War.
Carol Rama
Over more than seven decades, Carol Rama (b. 1918, Turin; d. 2015) developed a radical body of work that addressed connections between desire, sacrifice, eroticism and repression. Today, Rama is considered one of the most original and individualistic artists to emerge from the 20th Century. By constructing a visual cosmos where transgression leads to liberation, Rama countered assumptions about gender, sexuality and representation, offering a retort to the societal conventions and the prevailing far-right political ideologies that defined the fascist-dominated Italy of her youth.
Gallery hours Tue-Sat 11 am – 6 pm
Exhibition Duration 11 July – 29 August 2026
Location:
Hauser & Wirth
Via Serlas 22
7500 St. Moritz
Switzerland
