Emma Kunz exhibition, Serpentine Gallery

For its 2019 Forward Programme, the Serpentine presents the first UK solo exhibition of the work of Swiss artist Emma Kunz. Conceived in collaboration with the artist Christodoulos Panayiotou, the exhibition brings the futuristic drawings for which Kunz was famous to a modern audience.

Emma Kunz was by trade a healer, researcher and artist. Despite having no formal arts education, Kunz went on to create hundreds of geometric drawings, which were exhibited posthumously in the 1970s. Her drawings were inspired by spiritualism and produced under a technique called radiesthesia, which uses a pendulum to plan the structure of the piece. Kunz saw her work as energy fields that could also be used to help diagnose her patients.

The revival of Kunz's work for this exhibition fulfils her own prophecy that her work was destined for the 21^st Century.