René Groebli, Tresterclub Zürich (#603), Early Work, vintage, 1947 - Courtesy of the artist and Bildhalle.
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Movement
12/12/2025 - 14/03/2026
Bildhalle ZURICH
Stauffacherquai 56
8004 Zürich
www.bildhalle.ch
The exhibition Movement traces the decades-long, dynamic, and ever-evolving career of Swiss photographer René Groebli — an artist who never stood still and continually tempted the new, previously unseen, without ever confining himself to one single style, genre, or technique.
Groebli's oeuvre is so multifaceted that it cannot be understood through a few iconic images alone. It encompasses dynamic street photography full of motion blur, experiments in color and montage techniques, inventive industrial and commissioned works, as well as intimate studies of life, love, and bodily forms in black and white. If there is one constant throughout his oeuvre, it is a clearly recognizable, unquenchable thirst for new forms of expression. One of his earliest photographs – taken freehand from his bicycle over the handlebars – already reveals the artist's early fascination with speed and stands symbolically for a career that would follow no linear path, always moving slightly ahead of prevailing formal conventions.
12/12/2025 - 14/03/2026
Bildhalle ZURICH
Stauffacherquai 56
8004 Zürich
www.bildhalle.ch
The exhibition Movement traces the decades-long, dynamic, and ever-evolving career of Swiss photographer René Groebli — an artist who never stood still and continually tempted the new, previously unseen, without ever confining himself to one single style, genre, or technique.
Groebli's oeuvre is so multifaceted that it cannot be understood through a few iconic images alone. It encompasses dynamic street photography full of motion blur, experiments in color and montage techniques, inventive industrial and commissioned works, as well as intimate studies of life, love, and bodily forms in black and white. If there is one constant throughout his oeuvre, it is a clearly recognizable, unquenchable thirst for new forms of expression. One of his earliest photographs – taken freehand from his bicycle over the handlebars – already reveals the artist's early fascination with speed and stands symbolically for a career that would follow no linear path, always moving slightly ahead of prevailing formal conventions.