The artist Mark Divo has shaped the Zurich art scene over the last fifteen years with art parties in the underground of Escher-Wyss-Platz, squats with exhibition spaces in the Sihlpapier-Fabrik or in the Kunsthaus Zürich, as well as the Cabaret Voltaire, the birthplace of Dada, which he briefly revived with a team of artist friends.
Mark Divo has currently settled in the Czech Republic, where he has founded the Divo-Institut with his wife, the artist Sonja Vectomov. Divo-Institut networks the international, independent art scene, organises Dada festivals and exhibition projects in the Czech Republic and Switzerland.
In Perla-Mode, Mark Divo is showing a fine art exhibition on cosy, bourgeois wallpaper in the shop window. The pictures and objects quote important names from art history, such as Spitzweg, Lohse and Bill. The centrepiece of the shop window installation is the new dog ballet video featuring the famous female Bohemian dog Motoracek, who has been accompanying the pug breeder Divo (loosely based on Jaroslav Hašek’s “The Good Soldier Schwejk”) as the protagonist in joint performances through the art world for some time now.