During the renovation period of the MAMCO Geneva building, the complete availability of works from the collection offers the opportunity to initiate a series of off-site projects, conceived as spaces for dialogue and reflection on synergies between Swiss museums.

In 2026, MAMCO launches its Tour de Suisse in collaboration with the Kunst Museum Winterthur, with a presentation dedicated to Jack Goldstein (1945–2003), a major figure of the Pictures Generation.

Born in Montreal and trained at the California Institute of the Arts, Goldstein developed, from the 1970s onward, a body of work marked by radical formal reduction and sustained conceptual rigor. Experimental 16 mm films, sound works and large-scale paintings form a corpus that examines the power of media images, their circulation and their disappearance. From the 1980s on, the artist focused primarily on painting, producing large photorealistic works executed by assistants from printed sources, in order to neutralize any trace of subjectivity. Whether in film, sound or painting, his work explores notions of transience, invisibility and reproduction, striking a subtle balance between spectacle and emptiness.

Presented at the Kunst Museum Winterthur, this selection—curated by Lynn Kost, Curator of the museum—brings together paintings, films and sound works drawn from the MAMCO collection, private lenders, as well as a permanent loan from the Jochen Kienzle Foundation.

 

Opening: 24 January 2026, from 6 pm, Winterthur