Avery Singer - War_overlays transforms Hauser & Wirth Zurich
Published on 08/29/2026 at 13:56 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael MĂĽller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWS
Avery Singer opens up the upstairs galleries of Hauser & Wirth Zurich as a cinematic casino environment in the solo exhibition War_overlays. As Hauser & Wirth states, the show runs from June 12 to September 5, 2026 at Limmatstrasse 270 in Zurich and introduces AI-based tools into Singer's painting process. Hauser & Wirth exhibition page
War_overlays in Zurich
The exhibition War_overlays at Hauser & Wirth Zurich presents new large-scale paintings alongside a site-specific architectural intervention that reshapes the upstairs gallery into a space reminiscent of a casino, charged by surveillance aesthetics and atmospheric tension. The run from June 12 to September 5, 2026 aligns with Zurich Art Weekend, giving the New York-based artist a high-visibility European platform.
Hauser & Wirth describes how Singer integrates AI-based tools and custom software into her process here for the first time, feeding glitches, distortions and algorithmic outputs into compositions that reference televised war imagery and media interfaces. This technological turn extends her established digital workflows, which previously relied on 3D modeling and computer rendering before being translated into airbrushed acrylic on canvas.
Casino architecture and paintings
Within War_overlays, the architectural intervention envelops visitors in red-velvet surfaces, gaming-table geometries and overhead structures that echo casino interiors while embedding cameras and surveillance motifs. Artguide notes that this transformed space operates as a critical stage, where viewers navigate the aesthetics of risk, control and observation typically hidden inside entertainment architecture.
Individual works such as Solver are highlighted in independent coverage as examples of how Singer captures the 'poetic beauty of a malfunctioning digital system', translating software errors into layered pictorial events on canvas. According to Artlovers.travel, the exhibition foregrounds the friction between AI-generated distortions, memories of televised war and the unstable reality constructed by screens and networks.
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How the artist works
Avery Singer is widely associated with digitally constructed compositions that are later rendered onto canvas using airbrush and acrylic, producing a sleek, machinic surface that contradicts the hand-drawn origins of many motifs. Her works often draw from histories of avant-garde painting, early computer graphics and generic corporate imagery, recomposed through 3D modeling software.
Where the artist stands now
In sum, Avery Singer's current position is anchored by War_overlays at Hauser & Wirth Zurich, on view until September 5, 2026, with parallel representation of her paintings in long-running collection presentations in Bonn and Luxembourg that extend her European institutional footprint.
Key facts on Avery Singer
- Artist: Avery Singer
- Medium / Genre: Painting (digitally constructed, airbrushed)
- Born: 1987, New York, USA
- Place(s) of practice: Studio in New York
- Active since: Early 2010s, with museum recognition following her breakout around 2013–2014
- Key work groups: Reality Ender, run_it_back.exe?, War_overlays, large-scale Basel installation derived from Art Basel Statements 2015
- Current/last exhibition: War_overlays, Hauser & Wirth Zurich, June 12 – September 5, 2026
- Major collections: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Mudam Luxembourg, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
- Awards: No major international prize such as Turner Prize or Hugo Boss Prize is publicly documented for Singer as of August 29, 2026; recognition has mainly taken the form of prominent institutional exhibitions and fair presentations.
- Next date: September 5, 2026, finissage of War_overlays at Hauser & Wirth Zurich
Frequently asked questions about Avery Singer
Where can Avery Singer’s work be seen right now?
As of late August 2026, Avery Singer’s solo exhibition War_overlays is on view at Hauser & Wirth Zurich Limmatstrasse through September 5, 2026, while her paintings also appear in collection shows at Kunstmuseum Bonn and Mudam Luxembourg.
What defines the War_overlays exhibition at Hauser & Wirth?
War_overlays combines new AI-influenced paintings with an architectural intervention that turns the upstairs Zurich gallery into a casino-like environment shaped by surveillance, aligning formal experimentation with a critique of media and control systems.
Which public collections hold works by Avery Singer?
According to institutional and art-market overviews, Singer’s works have entered major collections including the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Mudam Luxembourg and the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, marking a strong museum presence for a mid-career artist.
This article was produced with a.i. support and editorially reviewed. All statements without guarantee; auction results, exhibition dates and awards may change at short notice.
