Solo exhibition as part of the Visiting Artist program at ETH Zurich
2017
March 1–June 12, 2017
Christopher Williams. Supplements, Models, Prototypespresented recent work by the artist, who is the first participant in the new Visiting Artist program at ETH Zurich University's Department of Architecture.
Supplements, Models, Prototypes was the first exhibition to focus exclusively on exhibition walls, which are a central element of Williams's work. The exhibition presented a group of five walls drawn from prior exhibitions includingChristopher Williams: The Production Line of Happiness,the artist's first major museum survey which travelled from The Art Institute of Chicago to The Museum of Modern Art in New York and London's Whitechapel Gallery in 2014-2015.
Williams often intervenes with the architecture of his exhibition spaces. His first installation of a temporary wall was for his 1991 solo exhibition at Galerie Max Hetzler in Cologne, where he had a new wall built directly in front of an existing one.