Running concurrently with the Pippa Garner retrospective, Kunsthalle Zürich is presenting a selection of drawings by the Sudanese artist Ibrahim El-Salahi. Ibrahim El-Salahi is renowned as one of the key figures of African Modernism. El-Salahi was one of the first artists to deliberately try to un-learn the art of Europe (where he had studied at Oxford) in order, from the end of the 1950s onwards, to arrive at a new art through his head-on engagement with his origins and Sudanese traditions. In 2013, El-Salahi was honored with a solo exhibition at Tate Modern in London. In 2023 he participated in the Venice Art Biennale.

Kunsthalle Zürich now presents a group of 89 small-format drawings that Ibrahim El-Salahi calls Pain Relief Drawings. The are drawn on medicine packets or envelopes. El-Salahi started the series in 2016 when back pain reduced his mobility and caused him to rely on medication for relief. The exhibition runs until May 14, 2023.

Ibrahim El-Salahi: Pain Relief Drawings / Kunsthalle Zürich. Introduction by Daniel Baumann (Curator and Director, Kunsthalle Zürich). Zürich (Switzerland), February 3, 2023.