The «Reality Check» at Kunst Museum Winterthur looks at the object-based character of art as the focus of artistic research, with notions of artistic form taking on life in striking sculptural pieces, and artistic visions taking on a material shape. Exquisite individual pieces are juxtaposed to extensive groups of works by artists from the 1960s to the present: Jean Tinguely, Daniel Spoerri, John Chamberlain, Arman, Reto Boller, Mimmo Rotella, Dieter Roth, Imi Knoebel, Isa Genzken, Manfred Pernice and others.

The Urban Dictionary defines «Reality Check» as that sobering moment when the bubble quite literally bursts, causing your ideas to collide with reality and come crashing to earth. The term may have acquired additional social relevance in the era of Fake News, when at times globally communicated news items have absolutely no basis in reality and the world as it were takes on a life of its own in digital tweets.