ANGGREK
Zurich, 26 December 2025 - By invitation
27 December - 3 January 2026 - Viewing by appointment only
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The exhibition unfolds across photographs by Steven Anggrek, ranging from medium-format analog works to digitally rendered images created with AI, alongside portraits of the artist and curator by others. Highlights include paintings by Maria Pomiansky, created during her own birthday celebration, and works by Marcelot, who will present a solo exhibition at Anggrek Agency next year. Together, these works suggest an ongoing dialogue between self-image and collaboration, between being the one who looks and the one who is looked at.
Chinese photographer Lin Zhipeng (aka 223), known for his vibrant portrayals of youth and intimacy often associated with the late Ren Hang, contributes to the exhibition. American photographer Luca Varano, whose practice will be engaged in a forthcoming project at the agency, also features. Prints by ego andaluz, a local lino artist, provide a counterpoint to the photographic works and reinforce Anggrek Agency’s commitment to supporting queer and emerging voices.
For this occasion, we include works by previously shown and new collaborators such as Una Szeemann, John T.D. Murphy, Daniel C. Müller, Moussa David Saleh, Matéo Picant Laurent, Antoine Medes, Hanspeter Ammann, and Stuart Sandford. It is an ongoing exploration of how intimacy, collaboration, and hospitality can coexist as a curatorial method, where the table, the glass, and the conversation become as integral as the works themselves.
*PRIVATE PARTY gestures to the salon culture in the early 20th-century where patrons and dealers transformed private gatherings into acts of artistic mediation. In that lineage, this celebration is not only personal but performative: an experiment in how hospitality, collecting, and curating overlap. The domestic and the professional, the social and the artistic, merge into a single gesture of shared artistic exchange.
Archival Pigment Print
50 × 33 cm, ed. 2/10 CHF 1’800
100 × 67 cm, ed. 3/5 CHF 3’600
Next print, ed. 4/5 CHF 5’400