As part of the ReCollect! series, the works of Wolfgang Laib are brought into dialogue with masterpieces from the Kunsthaus Zürich Collection. Since the late 1970s, Laib has created radically reduced, quietly powerful works using pollen, beeswax, milk, rice and stone.

Laib’s works enter into a transhistorical dialogue with around 30 pieces from the Collection – from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. Among the artists featured are the circle of Fra Angelico, Matteo di Giovanni, Philippe de Champaigne, Claude Monet, Ferdinand Hodler, Alberto Giacometti, Constantin Brancusi, Giorgio de Chirico, Wassily Kandinsky, Verena Loewensberg, Piet Mondrian, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, Robert Ryman, Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Lee Ufan.

Some 50 key works convey Laib’s artistic vocabulary: a large-scale pollen work, a Brahmanda (egg-shaped stone sculpture), Milkstone, Ziggurat, a walk-through wax room, rice houses, a lacquer stair, and other sculptures, drawings and photographs. Complementing these are formative works of Asian art, particularly from India – including a major loan from the Museum Rietberg: an important Jain marble statue of Jina Rishabha.