Almine Rech Brussels is pleased to present Six Trees, Zio Ziegler’s third solo exhibition with the gallery, on view through February 1, 2026. Expressed through a rich vocabulary of form and color, Zio Ziegler’s paintings offer a non-linear, transhistorical vision of knowledge and representation. “Painting is my attempt at processing and synthesizing the stories and information I’ve become curious about,” Ziegler explains. “Human beings advance by looking at things from different perspectives and by changing the way in which they look at themselves.”
There could hardly be a more fitting place than Gstaad to host this exhibition, which also marks Ziegler’s first solo show in Switzerland. The Saanenland is a mystic place, charged with energy—where nature and society, tradition and innovation, coexist, often in paradoxical ways. For Ziegler, this juxtaposition of opposites is familiar: he teaches design at Stanford, in the heart of Silicon Valley, yet lives and works in Mill Valley, California, riding his bike almost daily on Mount Tamalpais—a mountain once inhabited by Native American tribes. —Valentina Locatelli, Writer and Curator
