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Rita Ernst has received numerous honours and awards, including a studio residency at the Cité internationale des Arts in Paris in 1982, a residency at the City of Zurich’s guest studio in New York (USA) in 1983, a fellowship at the Istituto Svizzero di Roma (Italy) in 1987–88, the Conrad-Ferdinand-Meyer Prize, Zurich, in 1991, the Primo Premio at the Trevi Flash Art Museum (Italy) in 1996, the Fontana-Gränacher Foundation Prize, Zurich, in 2006, and an Artist in Residence programme at Bar Bach Hamba (TN) in 2008.

Next exhibition at Galerie Braun
show 24 from 24 October 2026

Rita Ernst’s geometrically abstract painting has been enlivened by dynamic linear structures over the last five or six years – and one is tempted to speak of ‘perspectival viewpoints’. That’s not entirely wrong: the works entitled ‹Neue Weite› and ‹Spazio›, for example, which form part of Ernst’s first solo exhibition at the Klaus Braun Gallery, are based on architectural shadows she photographed herself, translating the interplay of light and space into colourful fields of intersecting grids.
With the series ‹Salinas›, the Zurich-based artist even ventures into the world of digital possibilities in order to further intensify her ‹Progetto Siciliano›, begun in 1997, and steer it in a new direction. Floor plans of old Sicilian buildings still form the starting point – in this case, those of the Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas in Palermo. Following her characteristic free, painterly interpretation of the architectural floor plan, Ernst began to… However, it is also the awareness of the cultural heritage that inspired these paintings that lends the works their special aura.
Deborah Kelller kunstbulletin-12-2019

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