All the Lonely Things My Hands Have Done is the first exhibition at the gallery devoted to the work of Swiss artist Hannah Villiger, who defined herself as a sculptor working with photography. Organized in collaboration with The Estate of Hannah Villiger and titled after an early work presented in the exhibition, All the Lonely Things My Hands Have Done explores Villiger’s alphabet across the full scope of her multidisciplinary practice.

Following a reverse chronological path, the exhibition brings together a large-format enlarged Polaroid from the 1980s depicting the artist’s hand, alongside drawings, watercolors, vintage photographs, and sculptural works on paper created during Villiger’s extended stays in Canada (Toronto, 1974) and Italy (Rome, 1975–76). Reminiscent of Land Art and Arte Povera, these early works reveal Villiger’s ongoing exploration of the relationship between her body and the surrounding space, as well as her initial focus on plants and their envelopes, before she turned from 1980 onwards her attention toward her own body and skin.

Hannah Villiger (1951, Cham, Switzerland – 1997, Auw, Switzerland) established herself as a major figure on the Swiss art scene before her career ended prematurely with her death at the age of forty-five. Her work has been the subject of numerous institutional exhibitions, including Kunsthalle Basel (1985), Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel (1989), the São Paulo Biennial (Swiss Pavilion, 1994, with Pipilotti Rist), MAMCO (Geneva, 2007), Kolumba (Cologne, 2020), Weserburg (Bremen, 2023), Muzeum Susch (Susch, 2023), and the Centre Pompidou (Paris, 2024). She lived in Paris from 1986 to 1997.

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