Jacqueline Burckhardt on
"Meret Oppenheim und die Parkett Editionen"

6 October 2025, 6 pm
Fasanenstraße 25, 10719 Berlin

Admission is free - unfortunately we cannot guarantee a seat.

Jacqueline Burckhardt, born in Basel in 1947, studied art history at the University of Zurich and is a conservator, art historian, curator, author, publisher, organiser and co-founder and editor of the art magazine Parkett.

For 33 years, from 1984 to 2017, she played a key role in shaping the magazine's profile. Parkett put the current art of the time up for discussion, focussing on the transatlantic transfer of art and artist relations, and did so bilingually, in German and English. The success was overwhelming, not least because of the proximity to the artists. From today's perspective, the 101 issues in total read like an art history of the time. Parkett provided a stage for over 300 artists - listing them reads like a table of contents of this very art history, from Richard Artschwager to Laura Owens, from Tauba Auerbach to Robert Wilson, from Cosima von Bonin to Jimmie Durham, from Maurizio Cattelan to Sylvie Fleury, from Fischli/Weiss to Katharina Fritsch. Stars such as Meret Oppenheim, Andy Warhol, Roni Horn, Paul McCarthy, Isa Genzken, Richard Serra, Monica Bonvicini can be found alongside storytellers such as Sam Taylor-Wood, Mika Rottenberg, Karen Kilimnik, Sophie Calle, and the world explorers Alighieroe Boetti, Camille Henrot, Pipilotti Rist alongside the poets Luc Tuymans or Tacita Dean. Whether they are purists, storytellers, demiurges or world-explainers, the artists are always committed to the specific aesthetics of the artistic economy of means and the awareness of the mode of appearance of the artwork.

On the occasion of Meret Oppenheim's 112th birthday, Jacqueline Burckhardt will tell us about her collaboration with this great artist.