Irma Blank

Opening Reception: Friday, June 12, 6 PM

Gallery Breakfast: Sunday, June 14, 11 AM

Exhibition: June 12 - August 8, 2026

On 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.

What unfolds over 50 years of Irma Blank’s practice is a kind of universal writing, that belongs to no single language and therefore, in a sense, to all of them. Her works are both spiritual expression and physical experience. Blank's notations are ultimately a means of recording and, at the same time, result from an existential connection between life and work.