The Rupf Collection, on permanent loan to the Kunstmuseum Bern, is closely associated with the story of the important gallery owner and defender of the Cubists, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler. Bern businessman Hermann Rupf’s activity as a collector began around 1907 – as the first client of Kahnweiler’s gallery in Paris.

Amy Sillman (b. 1955) is an important voice in American contemporary painting. Since the 1990s, she has consistently questioned the medium via drawing, printmaking and writing, as well as by making objects and animations. Sillman sees her painting as drawing that aspires to film or poetry. Many of her explorations through drawing revolve around complete devotion to processes of transformation which are open to inversion, redesign and examination. At the centre of the exhibition is Sillman’s treatment of time, and its compression or expansion.