Exhibitions

The Zimmerli joins hundreds of cultural institutions around the globe on Bloomberg Connects, which offers unique content to enrich visitor engagement. The app invites the public to easily access the Zimmerli's content when planning a trip to the museum, while in the galleries or delving deeper after a visit. Easy links to visitor information, upcoming events, the gallery map, social media accounts, and membership options—as well as multilingual capabilities with the integration of Google Translate—enhance the visitor experience. (9/9/24)

After nearly two decades of service to the museum and the university, Donna Gustafson retires on Sept. 1, 2024. Her forward-thinking contributions to the Zimmerli reach far beyond the art and exhibitions that she put on display. (7/11/24)

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Opening September 4, the major exhibition Smoke & Mirrors features work from across the globe by artists who conceptualize access through humor, antagonism, transparency, and invisibility. Organized by guest curator Dr. Amanda Cachia, a prominent disability arts activist and scholar, this unprecedented exhibition showcases work by artists with disabilities, who are underrepresented in museums. It also encourages visitors with disabilities and their allies to become active participants in telling their own stories. (6/27/24)

Featuring more than 100 objects—painting, drawing, assemblage, video, sculpture, photography—The Body Implied: The Vanishing Figure in Soviet Art presents works of art made between 1970 and the present, by 22 artists from Armenia, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Russia, and Ukraine. The imagery features partially obscured or hidden figures, as well as instances where the human form is implied, but not visible. (4/4/24)

Composer, multimedia artist and writer Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky) presents the artist talk “Anthropocene Blues—The Peace Symphony,” in conjunction with the current exhibition The Body Implied: The Vanishing Figure in Soviet Art. (3/25/24)

A New York Times staff photographer and Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, Agins's images tell unforgettable stories about life in America. The second Black woman ever hired as a staff photographer at The New York Times, her groundbreaking assignments offer some of the most important documentation of race relations, celebrity culture, sports, spirituality, and economic disparity in America. (2/22/24)