Media release: "Gemischtes Doppel – A perfect match" – Helvetia Art Foyer presents artistic elective affinities

Media release

Basel, 20 February 2019

"Gemischtes Doppel - A perfect match" - Helvetia Art Foyer presents artistic elective affinities

The exhibition "Gemischtes Doppel - A perfect match" at the Helvetia Art Foyer presents elective affinities between selected works from the company's own art collection. The Helvetia Art Foyer is open on Thursdays from 4-8 p.m. and admission is free.

Like a blind date, the new exhibition in the Helvetia Art Foyer at Steinengraben in Basel brings together pairs of works that were created independently of each other and - at first sight, at least - seem completely unrelated. And yet, despite being created by different artists at different times, using different techniques and formats, there is often a striking formal or substantive affinity between each pair. In this exhibition, 15 selected pairs of artworks from Helvetia's collection are presented in close proximity. That is an invitation to explore the works by taking a comparative view.

Kinship of analogies

Hugo Weber's drawing of a circle, created by an expressive gesture, is paired with Franziska Furter's ring sculpture, with its precise wire winding. The miniature painting of a butterfly by Niklaus Stoecklin encounters the large-format charcoal drawing of a moth by huber.huber. And it is not just the dark foreboding of the titles that links Christine Streuli's "Warpainting" and Serge Brignoni's "Pollution atomique"; they also show an excessive colourfulness.

Commitment to art

The Helvetia Art Foyer is an exhibition space at Helvetia's head office in Basel that is open to the public. Pieces from Helvetia's own collection are presented to a broad audience in monographic, dialogue-based and thematic exhibitions. The international insurance group's art collection, with some 1,800 pieces by around 400 artists, is one of the most significant in the area of contemporary Swiss art. In addition, selected artists are invited to the Helvetia Art Foyer for solo exhibitions. A further expression of Helvetia's commitment to the arts is the Helvetia Art Prize, awarded once a year to an up-and-coming artist.

Key data on the exhibition "Gemischtes Doppel - A perfect match"

21 February 2019 to 23 May 2019

Every Thursday from 4 p.m. until 8 p.m. (except 18 April)

Helvetia Art Foyer, Steinengraben 25, 4051 Basel

Admission is free

Information for media representatives

Journalists may visit "Gemischtes Doppel - A perfect match" outside of opening hours. To take advantage of this opportunity, please contact the Helvetia media unit:

Telephone: [phone]

[e-mail]

Ursula Mumenthaler: Room no.8, 1999 / Tobias Nussbaumer: untitled (KUB2), 201

This media release is also available on our website www.helvetia.com/media.

For further information please contact:

Jonas Grossniklaus Senior Manager Corporate Communications & PR Telefon: [phone] [e-mail] www.helvetia.ch

About the Helvetia Group

In 160 years, the Helvetia Group has grown from a number of Swiss and foreign insurance companies into a successful international insurance group. Today, Helvetia has subsidiaries in its home market Switzerland as well as in the countries that make up the Europe market area: Germany, Italy, Austria and Spain. With its Specialty Markets market area, Helvetia is also present in France and in selected regions worldwide. Some of its investment and financing activities are managed through subsidiaries and fund companies in Luxembourg. The Group is headquartered in St.Gallen, Switzerland.

Helvetia is active in the life and non-life business, and also offers customised specialty lines and reinsurance cover. Its business activities focus on retail customers as well as small and medium-sized companies and larger corporates. With some 6,600 employees, the company provides services to more than 5 million customers. With a business volume of CHF 8.64 billion, Helvetia generated underlying earnings of CHF 502.4 million in the 2017 financial year. The registered shares of Helvetia Holding are traded on the SIX Swiss Exchange under the symbol HELN.

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