IRMA BLANK – BEING HERE
2026-04-27On the occasion of Zurich Art Weekend, Mai 36 Galerie is proud to present Being Here, the second solo exhibition by Irma Blank.
Irma Blank was born in Northern Germany (Celle) in 1934 and passed away in 2023 in Milan, at the age of eighty-eight. Passionate about literature and language, she moved to Sicily in 1955 after meeting her Italian husband, a move that uprooted her and became the foundation of her work. A stranger to the language around her, she taught drawing at a local high school by day and made art at night, working alone in her studio. The distance between two countries and two languages led her to a realisation: there is no such thing as the right word. Rather than filling the page with meaning, she empties it, replacing legible words with drawn lines that look like writing but resist being read. “I try to retrieve the space of silence, the unsaid.”
Opposite – Global Writings, La lingua ritrovata, poesia minima, 10-2-04, 2004
Exhibition runs through to August 8th, 2026
Mai 36 Galerie
Rämistrasse 37
CH-8001 Zürich
Switzerland
