In the Romantic imagination, mountains in general and the Alps in particular represented a privileged locale of the sublime, a place where beauty could be considered in its purest form. Over the years, however, the power of these peaks has been put to reactionary purpose, slathered over with a gooey layer of kitsch. This exhibition, curated by Wolfgang Kos, looks at the fate of the alpine experience in art since the ’60s, examining its resurrection and recreation in the work of artists such as Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy, Fischli/Weiss, Gerhard Richter, and the IRWIN collective, among others.

— Mark van de Walle