Art Fairs

Booth C05 designed by Zaha Hadid.

Zaha Hadid and Suprematism explores the formative influence of the masters of the Russian Avant-Garde on the practice of the Pritzker Prize-winning architect. The Kabinett will be curated by Hadid within a newly created design environment she has prepared for Galerie Gmurzynska at Art Basel Miami Beach. Pieces by masters such as Malevich, Suetin, Chashnik and Rodchenko are juxtaposed with architectural and design works by one of Time's 'Most Influential People' of 2010. The link between Hadid and these artists has spanned her entire career, beginning with her 1976-1977 graduation project for the Architectural Association, Malevich’s Tecktonik, which took the visual deconstructed influence of Malevich and used it as the starting point for a London hotel design. Following in this interest, in 1993 Zaha Hadid was asked by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York to create an exhibition design for their encyclopedic show of the Russian Avant-Garde, The Great Utopia. This selection will expose the dramatically influential relationship between the artists of the Russian Avant-garde and the most important architect working today.