Since the nineteen-eighties, Peter Fischli and David Weiss have been photographing cities, landscapes, and airports during their travels. The airports, which are the central motif of this exhibition, may be seen in quite different ways. On the one hand, as an autonomous and contemporary civilisation with coherent spatial organisation, an individual set of actors and an aesthetic language of their own. Airports are a fundamental symbol of economic globalization and networks, and they function as points of departure and intersection for international trade. On the other hand, they are the source of yearnings which leave their mark on people in their striving towards far-away and unknown places. Airports move within an ambiguity between sameness and difference. Cultural and geographical distinctions are apparent everywhere. In this work of the artistic duo, in which hundreds of photographs of airports play the leading role, the principle of fades and the use of slowly dissolving transitions convey an impression of contemplative rapture with vivid meditative and evocative power.

The four women in business costumes (1987/2012) made of white plaster show the non-individual and stereotypical appearance of a modern woman whose activity is not clearly defined, as there are no details that allow an individual attribution. Likewise, the three automobiles (1988/2013) are, like airplanes, an essential part of our world, but in the selected aesthetic and form they only resemble prototypes. The sculptures can be read as a steady effort and ongoing artistic experiment to give an impression of today's life and its banality.