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Opening: September 27, 2024, 6 pm
Daniel Dawson, Stefano Faoro, Gritli Faulhaber, Peter Fend, Ada Friedman, Dani Leder, Maggie Lee, Megan Plunkett, Kate Sansom, Richard Sides, Jen Shear, Lise Soskolne, Adelhyd van Bender
Some artists use the ring binder as a format more closely associated with office work than with work in the studio. The few examples illustrate an artistic potential that exerts its appeal despite — or perhaps precisely because of — the limitations of the ring binder format. Due to their bureaucratic rigidity, ring binders encourage a critical engagement with their connotation of normative systems, while at the same time being particularly accessible, as our society is so familiar with their use. Contrary to their supposed austerity, they can, due to their ease of handling, quick binding and various sleeves and forms also offer a playful field or encourage the adaptation of repetitive patterns for personal sorting methods and entirely individual logics. The exhibition sheds light on various materialisations of artistic thinking by presenting objects that emerge from studio practice and operate within the ring binder format, inspired by the contemplative act of collecting and leafing through, as a source for artistic work.
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Kunsthalle Zürich, basement
After the opening, the space will be open by appointment only. We ask for a timely request via backrooms [at] kunsthallezurich.ch
Hauser & Wirth
GÜNTHER FÖRG Arbeiten auf Papier / Works on Paper / Oeuvres sur Papier: 1975 – 2009
The largest survey exhibition of Günther Förg’s works on paper, spanning over 30 years, opens at Hauser & Wirth Zurich, Limmatstrasse, this September. Förg’s works on paper were an integral part of his multi-disciplinary practice (which comprised drawing, painting, photography and sculpture) and ran parallel to his works on canvas. Executed in a variety of materials, from watercolor, acrylic and oil to charcoal, chalk and ink, these creations are considered works in their own right; instead of using them as preparatory sketches for paintings, the artist would often be inspired to paint and draw on paper after experimenting with his large-scale canvases. The exhibition includes well-known series, including his Grid, Color Field, Grey and Spot works, alongside lesser-known pieces, such as early works on paper from his studies in Munich, rare monotypes, as well as his later series An die Leine and Mostly Landscapes.
With many shown together for the first time, the exhibition positions Förg as a daring conceptualist who both incorporated and critiqued tropes of modernism, while celebrating his distinctively sensuous approach to gestural abstraction. His works on paper offer an insight into the way in which Förg engaged with these concerns by ceaselessly transforming his use of color, form and composition to push the boundaries of his own image making. Sidestepping easy categorization, he candidly appropriated and re-imagined canonical art historical references, such as the work of Blinky Palermo, Paul Klee, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, Cy Twombly, Edvard Munch and others.
Born in Füssen, Germany, Förg is considered one of the most significant German artists of the post-war generation. The earliest works on view are from 1975, during which time he was studying under Karl Fred Dahmen, one of the most influential figures of Art Informel, at The Academy of Fine Art Munich. Executed on lined note-book paper with isolated pink or green sections of gouache and overlined with a ball point pen, these works are early examples of Förg’s engagement with artists such as Blinky Palermo or Cy Twombly, who he first came across during his studies. Experimenting with and expanding their visual language through color and form, the works, titled ‘Capri’ and ‘Green Paul Veronese’—the latter referencing the pigment of green used by Renaissance painter Paul Veronese—are at once evocative of landscapes yet resolutely abstract.
Works from the following decade include Förg’s Color Field paintings, geometrically partitioned fields of color which he started in the mid-1980s after taking a short break from the medium. Painted with acrylic on Canson paper, the gestural immediacy of the works and thinly applied layers of color subvert the modernist notion of the sublime, despite their compositions being evocative of the densely colored experimentations of Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman.
In contrast, Förg’s renowned Grid works from the mid-1990s, executed here in gouache on paper, demonstrate a visual shift away from his Color Field paintings. Identified as an emblem of modernism, the artist engages with the grid through expressive layers of color and paint, threatening to dissolve any distinctions between negative and positive space. He takes this notion a step further in his series of Grey paintings, begun in the 1970s with examples from the 1990s on view in Zurich. Förg immerses the picture plane with infinite tones of grey by covering cardboard with black gesso and layering geometric hatchings of washed-out streaks of chalk, introducing a tonal complexity within a deconstructed grid formation.
An example of Förg’s Chequerboard works from 1993 in varying tones of grey is also on view and explores a different approach to the grid, here taking inspiration from the geometrical compositions of Paul Klee. The motif is further explored in a rarely seen work on paper titled ‘Decke IV’ (1998) from a series of paintings inspired by the French post-impressionist painter Pierre Bonnard. This work depicts the geometric pattern of an orange and red tablecloth owned by Bonnard that would frequently appear in his compositions, once again reflecting Förg’s complex critical engagement with the aesthetics of modernism.
Works from the 2000s include expressive watercolors or gouaches which abstractly or explicitly depict landscapes, among them his Mostly Landscape paintings or his An die Leine series. These are shown alongside some of Förg’s later drawings using charcoal and oil on paper, experimenting with the negative space of the paper through gestural mark-making. He developed these expressive, dynamic brushstrokes by introducing bright dabs of color for one of the last series he ever made, his celebrated Spot paintings (2005 – 2010). Within these works on paper, Förg transformed the previous lattice structures from his series of Grid paintings into rhythmic, gestural marks that appear to float across his paper, doing away with any previous sense of order. In these works, the brushstroke itself becomes the main protagonist, representing an ultimate return to expressive painting, indicating a completion of sorts—a full-circle arrival at painting as a synthesis of experimentation, rooted in art history.
Join us for the opening reception Friday 27 September, 6 – 9 pm.
The exhibition coincides with the artist’s solo exhibition at Maison La Roche in Paris, on view from 15 October to 14 December 2024.
Kunsthalle Zürich
AAA Experiments in AI, Art and Architecture
Eröffnung 27. September 2024, ab 18 Uhr
Seminare, Vorträge und Ausstellungen ab 7. Oktober 2024
AAA Experiments ist eine experimentelle Ausstellung, die in Zusammenarbeit mit Studierenden, Forscher:innen und Professor:innen der ETH Zürich entwickelt wird und von Adrian Notz, Kurator des AI+Art-Programms an der ETH Zürich, und Daniel Baumann, Direktor der Kunsthalle Zürich, kuratiert wird. Die ETH-Professorin Catherine De Wolf und ihre Studierenden bauen aus recycelten Bauteilen «Mehrwerk», eine Zuschauertribüne, die ab dem 7. Oktober für öffentliche Vorträge und Seminare benutzt wird. Dazu werden im Verlauf der Ausstellung Projekte und Kleinausstellungen kommen, die von den Studierenden entwickelt werden. Am Freitag 27. September gibt es eine Vernissage, Bar, Party.
AAA Experiments ist ein reales und imaginäres Gebäude und eine alternative Akademie, in der sich Kunst und Wissenschaft treffen und in der Student:innen, Professor:innen und Besucher:innen Inhalte entwickeln. Es ist ein Experimentierfeld jenseits aller Erwartungen, ein Ort des Erfolgs und des Scheiterns und eine Plattform, die Form und Zweck finden und anpassen muss. Tatsächlich wird Form eine Schlüsselrolle spielen, da sie unsere Beziehung zur Welt und unser tägliches Leben bestimmt und definiert. Um es mit den Worten des visionären Architekten Yona Friedman zu sagen: «Handle ohne zu planen» und «Intelligenz beginnt mit Improvisation».
AAA Experiments steht allen offen und die Ergebnisse sind nicht vorhersehbar. Wir bitten unsere Besucher:innen offen, neugierig und grosszügig zu sein. Lassen Sie sich langweilen, verzaubern oder inspirieren. Auf unserer Online-Agenda finden Sie bald die aktuellen Informationen zu den öffentlichen Vorträgen am Donnerstagabend sowie zu den verschiedenen Seminaren und Veranstaltungen.
Die AAA Experiments bestehen aus vier Teilen:
- «Mehrwerk»
«Mehrwerk», die Zuschauertribüne, wird von Prof. Catherine De Wolf zusammen mit Forscher:innen, Student:innen und den Techniker:innen der Kunsthalle Zürich entworfen und gebaut. Unter Verwendung von Material des ehemaligen Huber-Pavillons auf dem ETH-Campus Hönggerberg wird zudem KI (Künstliche Intelligenz) als Design-Werkzeug erprobt. Die erste Version von «Mehrwerk» wird am 27. September anlässlich des Season Openings präsentiert. Die Studierenden werden ihn in der darauffolgenden Woche fertigstellen, damit der Pavillon am 7. Oktober, wenn das Bildungsprogramm (siehe Agenda) beginnt, voll funktionsfähig ist.
- Seminare
Wöchentliche Seminare, Kurse und Workshops werden von den Lehrstühlen von Prof. Benjamin Dillenburger (Digital Fabrication Lab, D-ARCH), Prof. Inge Herrmann (Nanoparticles Systems Engineering Lab, D-MAVT), Prof. Philip Ursprung (Kunst- und Architekturgeschichte, D-ARCH), Prof. Catherine De Wolf (Circular Engineering for Architecture, D-BAUG), von ihren Forschungsteams sowie von Adrian Notz und Daniel Baumann, den beiden Kuratoren der Ausstellung, durchgeführt. Gemeinsam werden sie die Kunsthalle Zürich in AAA Experiments verwandeln, um neue Formen der Bildung zu testen. Das vollständige Programm wird bald aufgeschaltet.
Zeitraum: 7. Oktober–19. Dezember 2024
- Öffentliche Vorträge
Öffentliche Vorträge finden zwischen dem 10. Oktober und dem 19. Dezember 2024 jeweils donnerstags statt. Diese Vorträge sprechen ein breites Publikum an, sie sind kostenlos und beginnen um 19.00 Uhr.
Gespräche mit u.a. KI Entwickler und Investor Yariv Adan, Prof. Rosa Barba (Kunst in Raum und Zeit, D-ARCH), Dr. André Bideau (Leitung MAS GTA, D-ARCH), Prof. Eleni Chatzi (Institut für Baustatik u. Konstruktion), Prof. Emily Cross (Kognitive und soziale Neurowissenschaften, D-GESS), Kunstsammler und sozialer Unternehmer Haro Cumbusyan, Künstler und Forscher Tiziano Derme, Prof. Catherine De Wolf (Circular Engineering für Architektur D-BAUG), Prof. Benjamin Dillenburger (Technologie in der Architektur, D-ARCH), Künstlerin Ruth Erdt, Filmemacher Manuel Hendry, Prof. Inge Hermann (Nanopartikuläre Systeme, D-MAVT), Künstlerin Liat Grayver, Entwickler und Künstler Alexander Mordvintsev, Künstler Janiv Oron, Vanessa Schwarzkopf (Forscherin D-BAUG), Prof. Philip Ursprung (Kunst- und Architekturgeschichte D-ARCH).
Weitere Informationen entnehmen Sie bitte unserer Agenda.
- Ausstellung
AAA Experiments ist auch eine Ausstellung von Ausstellungen, die sich im Lauf der Wochen aus Vorträgen und Seminaren entwickelt und aus Gegenständen, Displays, Erkenntnissen und Mikroausstellungen bestehen wird.
Kunsthalle Zürich
Ruth Erdt K12 – Schwamendingen
Zurich's Schwamendingen could be seen to typify a Swiss suburb; it is comparable with Geneva’s Meyrin or Bümpliz-Bethlehem in Bern. Schwamendingen lies to the north of Zürich and is designated Kreis 12 (Kreis meaning district, thus K12). The A1 motorway splits the district – 120’000 vehicles pass through each day – and it lies on the southern flight path into nearby Kloten Airport. The district is (or was) viewed as both a suburban ghetto and a bland garden city and is home to more than 32’000 people from countries far and wide. It is said that in such suburbs, what is absolutely Swiss (geraniums on the balcony) meets the foreign (cooking with spices). Be that as it may, Schwamendingen is as much a reality as it is cliché: the place is a legend, and people there are proud of their Schwamendingen.
It was no coincidence that, in the 1980s, new research into Swiss normality emerged in Schwamendingen, a field covered in all its complexity in the magazine Der Alltag. Sensationsblatt des Gewöhnlichen, (Everyday Life. A Sensational Journal of the Ordinary) founded in the same district. The Schwamendinger Chilbi, a popular fair, is famous throughout Switzerland, as are the rapper Bligg, TV presenter and actress Viola Tami and national footballer Ricardo Rodríguez, all of whom come from K12. The fact that Schwamendingen is now invited into the centre of Zürich at Kunsthalle Zürich can be seen as a triumph, the revenge of the agglomeration or as the normal course of history.
We have the artist Ruth Erdt, who has been photographing Schwamendingen for almost 20 years, to thank for this. She has taken more than 60,000 pictures since 2006, resulting in a long-term study that traces the changes in such a place. It is a research project using the methods of art - and it is a tribute to the people there. Alongside schoolchildren, workers and residents of Schwamendingen, as well as the far-reaching structural interventions, the lively Schwamendingerplatz, public festivals, gardens and the constant of everyday life, Ruth Erdt's K12 - Schwamendingen also shows the most recent building project: the much-discussed, long-awaited enclosure of the A1 motorway, at a cost of CHF 450 million. Started in March 2019, the project will be completed this year and will, once again, change Schwamendingen significantly.
Erdt's exhibition is, not least, a reflection on the medium of photography in 5,000 images: photography as a means of documentation; as engaged detective work; photography enabling beauty, honour and self-confidence; as an indictment and a form of activism – and thus as art in the service of society.
The 900-page publication K12 - Schwamendingen, ein Randbezirk von Zürich with over 600 illustrations and contributions by, amongst others, Philipp Klaus, Urs Stahel and the artist herself is published by Steidl Verlag to accompany the exhibition. The book will be on sale at Kunsthalle Zürich on the day of the opening on 27 September at a special price! At the exhibition opening the legendary Bockler Bar from Schwamendingen will also be in situ.
We are grateful for the support of Pro Helvetia, Swiss Arts Council, Kanton Zürich Fachstelle Kultur/Swisslos, Stiftung Ema und Curt Burgauer and the Baugenossenschaft Süd-Ost Zürich.
The exhibition K12 - Schwamendingen: On the Periphery of Zürich was realised with the support of the City of Zürich: Kunst im öffentlichen Raum (Art in Public Space, KiöR) and further develops a photographic study undertaken over several years that was realised in the framework of the project 'Lokaltermin Schwamendingen' from KiöR.
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"BEYOND IMAGERY"
Wade Guyton, Thomas Hirschhorn, Laura Arminda Kingsley, Mingjun Luo, Olga Titus, Beat Zoderer
Gruppenausstellung mit neuen Werken von Wade Guyton, Thomas Hirschhorn, Laura Arminda Kingsley, Mingjun Luo, Olga Titus, Beat Zoderer.
Die Ausstellung «Beyond Imagery» vereint neue Arbeiten von sechs unterschiedlichen Positionen: Mingjun Luo, Beat Zoderer, Wade Guyton, Laura Arminda Kingsley, Thomas Hirschhorn und Olga Titus. Die Künstler:innen dekonstruieren einerseits das klassische Bild als Form der Repräsentation, andererseits schaffen sie neue abstrakte Ästhetiken. Zwischen Materialität und Digitalität, Sprache und Form, Rasterung und Überdrucken entstehen komplexe Dialoge über Wahrnehmung, Repräsentation und den Zustand des Bildes in Bezug auf zeitgenössische Druck- und Editionsproduktion.
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Diana Thater
Chernobyl Redux (2023)
Diana Thater, known for her innovative use of film, video, light, and sound, revisits her 2011 work on the Chernobyl exclusion zone in her installation Chernobyl Redux (2023). Featuring new footage of Prypiat and its wildlife, particularly the endangered Przewalski's Horse, the piece contrasts decaying infrastructure with thriving nature, examining the impact of industrial disaster and the potential for regeneration.
Courtesy Maja Hoffmann / Luma Foundation collection.
Image: Diana Thater, Chernobyl Redux, 2023, video still from the installation. Courtesy the artist.
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Liu Chuang
Bitcoin Mining and Field Recordings of Ethnic Minorities (2018)
Bitcoin Mining and Field Recordings of Ethnic Minorities (2018) by Liu Chuang is a three-channel video installation that examines the intersection of technology, ecology, and culture in southwest China. Collaborating with curator Yang Beichen, Liu blends found footage, original filming, and a Muya language voiceover to explore how Bitcoin mining and modern infrastructure affect the region’s ethnic diversity and traditional lifestyles.
Courtesy Maja Hoffmann / Luma Foundation collection.
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Louise Bourgeois
Untitled (1998 - 2014)
Louise Bourgeois' "Untitled" series (1998–2014) explores holography as a new artistic medium. The series consists of eight holograms that reinterpret her dioramas, incorporating elements such as miniature chairs, a bell jar, and disembodied feet. This work extends Bourgeois' exploration of psychological themes and satire, utilizing the distinctive properties of holography to evoke a sense of unease and depth.
Courtesy Maja Hoffmann / Luma Foundation collection.
Image: Louise Bourgeois, Untitled (Suite of 8 holograms), 1998 - 2014. © The Easton Foundation / 2024, ProLitteris, Zurich.
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Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
An der Schwelle des Museums
Stretching thresholds, holding streams
For the first time, the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst has commissioned an artist working in the field of socially engaged art. Socially engaged art includes artistic practices where artists work with different groups of people as collaborators and develop a project together.
Stretching thresholds, holding streams is a project initiated by artist Jeanne van Heeswijk and developed with Sophie Mak-Schram and collaborators. A growing constellation of invested people from the surroundings of the Museum are being invited to think in and with the museum's thresholds. Together – as makers, artists, activists, neighbours, and associations – they are working on a project that takes its starting point inside the museum and flows in and out of it, over a period of several months. Therefore, a central aspect of the project is the notion of a «stream».
It symbolizes the flow of ideas, stories, influences, and ethics that move within, through and around the museum – connecting it to people, places and ways of knowing outside of it. Vitally, streams also denote both directions of movement and refer to how people enter and bring into the museum as much as vice versa. Just as streams shift the positions of rocks and leave a trace, the project tries to make the museum porous to the local context and alter existing circumstances in mutually beneficial ways.
The set of streams will emerge both inside and outside of the museum, taking shape as different sites of learning, activities and encounters. In doing this, the streams invite and share thinking about the different thresholds that exist (spatial, institutional, social) at the Museum and how these can become possible.
Jeanne, Sophie and the collaborators ask the question: what is already streaming out of the museum despite or because of its mechanisms of maintenance, care, preservation, learning, and exhibiting formats? The project allows for co-making as a form of learning to take place in the museum and out of the museum.
Stretching thresholds, holding streams, at its core, will connect with various people and groups in Zurich who will co-make a series of streams and activate existing ones. Within the museum, there will be things to see, places to sit comfortably, ideas to question, and different encounters to learn through and with. From September 28, 2024 onwards, streams will weave into and out of the museum at different paces: with changing physical layouts and activities that visitors can engage and reflect on as these streams unfold.
Stretching thresholds, holding streams tries to unravel the thresholds of the museum.
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Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Knowledge Is a Garden
Mit Werken von Maria Eichhorn, Susan Hiller, General Idea, Uriel Orlow u. a.
Die Ausstellung Knowledge Is a Garden zeigt erstmals Uriel Orlows aufwendige dreiteilige Videoinstallation Theatrum Botanicum Trilogy (2016–2018), seit sie im Besitz der Sammlung des Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst ist. Darüber hinaus wurde der Künstler eingeladen, seine Werke ausgehend von eigenen künstlerischen Interessen in den Dialog mit Arbeiten aus der Sammlung zu setzen. Insbesondere richtet sich sein Blick auf künstlerische Auseinandersetzungen mit «willentlichem Nicht-Wissen» (Agnotologie). Welches Wissen wird im Zuge von globalen Machtverhältnissen erlaubt, welches wird unterdrückt oder versteckt? Welches Wissen wird sich unrechtmässig angeeignet? Wie geht Wissen verloren? Was ist eine Wissens-Ökonomie?
Diese Fragen stehen in unmittelbarem Zusammenhang mit der Theatrum Botanicum Trilogy (2016–2018) sowie mit Learning from Artemisia (2020) – der zweiten Arbeit Orlows, die in der Ausstellung gezeigt wird. In beiden Videoinstallationen geht es um Pflanzen als stumme Zeugen menschlicher Herrschaftsverhältnisse. Learning from Artemisia erzählt von der Pflanze Artemisia afra, die in der indigenen Medizin erfolgreich als Malariaprophylaxe eingesetzt wird. Dennoch wird das Mittel trotz beweisender Studien zugunsten der globalen Pharmaindustrie von westlichen Instanzen nicht als Heilmittel empfohlen. Dieses Beispiel ist nur eines von vielen, in denen die botanische Welt über Jahrhunderte hinweg als Mitakteurin in politischen Verhältnissen wirksam ist.
Weitere Leihgaben zum Thema ergänzen Orlows Videoinstallationen und die Werkauswahl aus der Sammlung.
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Kunsthalle Zürich
Tour of the exhibitions with Julian Kopetschny
Learn more about the exhibition and gain personal insights from our expert guide - this time, the artist herself!
There is a free exhibition tour of our current exhibitions every Thursday evening.
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Kunsthalle Zürich
Inge Herrmann and Liat Grayver
AAA Talk in the Mehrwerk
Prof Inge Herrmann (Nanoparticles Systems Engineering Lab, D-MAVT) and artist Liat Grayver speak in the context of the exhibition AAA Experiments. These talks are public and free; they take place on Thursdays between the 10 October and 19 December 2024, starting each week at 7 pm.
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Kunsthalle Zürich
Afternoon for all: Ruth Erdt Creative workshop
Zurich-based photographer Ruth Erdt is a master of the artful wink. In her work, she captures the soul of the unique district of Schwamendingen with humour and an eagle eye. Schwamendingen is a suburb and Zürich’s twelfth district (K12). The residents are proud of their neighbourhood, as is Erdt: ‘K12 is special. The others live here, the outsiders, I'm one of them and this is my declaration of love for Schwamendingen.’
Erdt has always combined autobiography and everyday life in her practice. She has been recording the development of her neighbourhood since 2006. In addition to far-reaching structural interventions, the lively Schwamendingerplatz square, the local fair and gardens, Erdt shows the ever-changing quotidian of students, workers and residents of Schwamendingen.
Come with family, friends or alone. Afternoons for all offer an opportunity to experience Ruth Erdt's exhibition in a playful way. We will introduce you to the artist and her work in a way that makes sense for young and old. Together we will exchange impressions, which we will then, subsequently, put into form. Using colours, pens and a photocopier, you can creatively form your own image of Schwamendingen and take it home with you as a souvenir of the afternoon.
All workshop dates: 20.10.2024, 17.11.2024, 8.12.2024, 19.01.2025, 3–5 pm
Open to all from 4 years old (children up to 16 years old require an adult companion)
Register by email to: fuelscher@kunsthallezurich.ch
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Art and Healing Workshops mit Living Museum Zürich
Venue: Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Meeting point: In front of the museum entrance on the ground floor (at the sign)
The collaboratively designed Art and Healing series with the Living Museum Zürich takes place once a month at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst or at the Living Museum Zurich. It creates a meeting space for people with and without mental illnesses. In this open, creative environment, we will this time focus on the theme "Our Knowledge is a Garden".
We are inspired by the exhibition Knowledge Is a Garden. By exploring artworks and creating with a variety of materials such as paint, textiles, natural materials, or clay we create encounters, engage, work with creativity, and enhancing one's own resources. The works created will be publicly presented at a vernissage in the Living Museum Zurich at the end.
With Cynthia Gavranic, art mediator and art therapist in training at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Gina Orsatti, art therapist and studio leader at the Living Museum Zurich, and Marlise Vogel, art therapist ED, board member of the Living Museum Zurich.
In German and English
For teenagers and adults from 16 years old
Please register up to 3 days before the start at kunstvermittlung@migrosmuseum.ch
The number of participants is max. 15 people
Participation is free
Further dates:
25.11.24, 4-7 pm, at the Living Museum Zurich
16.12.24, 4-7 pm, at the Migros Museum of Contemporary Art
Vernissage: 13.1.25, 5-7 pm at the Living Museum Zurich
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Vocal Matters: Exploring the Materiality of Sound
Treffpunkt: Museumseingang
Mario Espinoza ist ein venezolanischer multidisziplinärer Künstler, der hauptsächlich im Bereich der vokalen Performance und der naturalistischen bildenden Kunst arbeitet. Er wird einen speziellen Workshop im Museum durchführen, der sich auf die menschliche Stimme als Materie konzentriert.
Gemeinsam werden wir die akustischen Möglichkeiten der Museumsarchitektur erkunden und ein Bewusstsein für die Resonanz unseres Körpers in Reaktion auf die uns umgebende Kunst entwickeln. Der Workshop dreht sich um die Stimme als Werkzeug für kollektive Erfahrungen. Basierend auf Prinzipien des Circle Singing, Stimmübungen und Körperarbeit werden wir unsere Vokalität auf spielerische Weise erforschen.
Kommt und spürt die transformative Kraft und die gesundheitlichen Vorteile der Stimme!
Der Workshop wird in Englisch abgehalten.
Offen für alle, unabhängig von Gesangserfahrung
Empfohlen ab 7 Jahren (Kinder nur mit Erwachsenen)
Anmeldung: kunstvermittlung@migrosmuseum.ch
Teilnehmerzahl auf 12 Personen begrenzt
Kostenlos
Folgetermin: 19. November
Workshop kuratiert und geleitet von Mario Espinoza (Künstler), unterstützt von Cynthia Gavranic (Kunstvermittlerin)
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Edition VFO
CINE LÖWENBRÄU SCREENING FILM
"Zwischen Kalkül und Zufall"
Das Ciné Löwenbräu zeigt den Film «Zwischen Kalkül und Zufall». Ein Portrait über den Künstler Beat Zoderer und den Musiker Nick Bärtsch. Filmemacher Jürg Egli hat die beiden Künstler in einer Atelier-Session zusammengebracht. Entstanden ist dabei eine filmische Performance von einmaliger Intensität.
Der Film dauert 90 Minuten. Anschliessend zum Film findet ein Künstlergespräch mit David Khalat, Direktor Edition VFO, und dem Künstler Beat Zoderer statt.
Film «Zwischen Kalkül und Zufall»
Schwarzes Café, Löwenbräukunst Areal, Limmatstrasse 270, 8005 Zürich
23. Oktober 2024
Einlass ab 18 Uhr; Filmstart um 18:30 Uhr
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Kunsthalle Zürich
Tour of the exhibitions with Jacqueline Granwehr
Learn more about the exhibition and gain personal insights from our expert guide - this time, the artist herself!
There is a free exhibition tour of our current exhibitions every Thursday evening.
FREE
Kunsthalle Zürich
Alexander Mordvintsev, Haro Cumbusyan & Yariv Adan
AAA Talk in the Mehrwerk
Developer and artist Alexander Mordvintsev, collector and social entrepreneur Haro Cumbusyan and developer and investor Yariv Adan speak in the context of the exhibition AAA Experiments. All three are passionate about so-called 'AI art' and see great potential for art therein, which they wish to develop in the future. Mordvintsev, who presented Google DeepDream in 2015, and Adan, who lead the development of innovative AI products at Google, will offer informed insights into current uses of AI, while Cumbusyan presents his perspective as a media art collector.
The talk will take place in English.
These talks are public and free; they take place on Thursdays between the 10 October and 19 December 2024, starting each week at 7 pm.
Yariv Adan is an investor in early-stage AI startups at future-fund.ai, and passionate about everything AI, especially on the junction of AI and Art. Previously he spent 17 years at Google as a Senior Director of products, where he led the development of cutting-edge AI products for consumers and businesses.
Haro Cumbusyan is a social entrepreneur and a collector of media art. For the past 20+ years, privately and through his participation in acquisition committees of public institutions, he has been involved in collecting art that uses digital technologies. Haro is particularly interested in AI for its potential to expand human capabilities and perspectives, as well as for the questions it raises around creativity, authorship and ethics.
Alexander Mordvintsev is a researcher, artist and engineer working in the fields of Collective Intelligence and Artificial Life. His main contributions to the field is the introduction of the Neural Cellular Automata model. Earlier Alexander delved into Deep Neural Networks, seeking to understand their operation mechanisms. This exploration led to the creation of Google DeepDream in 2015, a programme that amplified patterns detected by neural networks to generate psychedelic images.
Kunsthalle Zürich
Hallowe'en Special Drawing monsters!
Monster-drawing maestro Nicolas Frey comes to Studio Kunsthalle Zürich. Draw your own monster with him! Open to young and old.
For anyone from 4 years and upwards. (Children up to 16 with adult companions.)
Register by email to: fuelscher [at] kunsthallezurich.ch
FREE
FREE
Kunsthalle Zürich
Booklaunch: Ruth Erdt signs her new book! K12 Schwamendingen, on the Periphery of Zürich
Die Künstlerin Ruth Erdt im Gespräch mit Urs Stahel, Mitbegründer des Fotomuseums Winterthur und renommierter Foto-Experte. Das Gespräch beginnt um 18 Uhr. Vorher und nachher signiert Ruth Erdt ihre umfangreiche Publikation (900 Seiten zu Schwamendingen), von Urs Stahel herausgegeben und im Steidl Verlag publiziert. Mit Apéro.
Es ist eines der besten Bücher, das ich je gemacht habe -
geniales Konzept, grossartige Fotografie - grandioses Layout - Gerhard Steidl
Spezialpreis nur an diesem Abend: CHF 50.-: das perfekte Weihnachtsgeschenk!
Kunsthalle Zürich
Tour of the exhibitions with Otto Bonnen
Discover more about our exhibitions on a walk through with an expert, this time with Otto Bonnen, curator of the exhibition Files in the Löwenbräukunst basement.
There is a free tour every Thursday evening.
FREE
Kunsthalle Zürich
Rosa Barba and Philip Ursprung
AAA Talk in the Mehrwerk
Prof Rosa Barba (Art in Space and Time, D-ARCH) and Prof Philip Ursprung (History and Theory of Architecture, D-ARCH) talk in the context of the exhibition AAA Experiments. These talks are public and free; they take place on Thursdays between the 10 October and 19 December 2024, starting each week at 7 pm.
The discussion shall take place in German.
FREE
FREE
Edition VFO
MEET THE ARTIST
Laura Arminda Kingsley
Treffen Sie am 14. November die Künstlerin Laura Arminda Kingsley im Rahmen der Ausstellung «Beyond Imagery». Im Archiv der Edition VFO wird Kingsley verschiedene Arbeiten präsentieren, um ihre künstlerische Praxis zu erläutern. Wie bei einem Atelier Besuch können die Besucher:innen direkt mit der Künstlerin ins Gespräch kommen.
Die Veranstaltung ist öffentlich und ohne Voranmeldung.
FREE
Kunsthalle Zürich
Tour of the exhibitions with Otto Bonnen
Discover more about our exhibitions on a walk through with an expert, this time with Otto Bonnen, curator of the exhibition Files in the Löwenbräukunst basement.
There is a free tour every Thursday evening.
FREE
Kunsthalle Zürich
EAT x KUNSTHALLE ZÜRICH with Eleni Chatzi, Pamela Rosenkranz and Günther Vogt
Like the exhibition AAA Experiments, Engadin Art Talks (E.A.T.) is a public platform for knowledge-transfer, an alternative academy of sorts, and a real and imaginary building that constantly changes, adapts, and reinvents itself.
Entry is free, but reservation is necessary given limited seating. You can reserve a seat via the E.A.T. websitesoon.
FREE
Kunsthalle Zürich
Afternoon for all: Ruth Erdt Creative workshop
Zurich-based photographer Ruth Erdt is a master of the artful wink. In her work, she captures the soul of the unique district of Schwamendingen with humour and an eagle eye. Schwamendingen is a suburb and Zürich’s twelfth district (K12). The residents are proud of their neighbourhood, as is Erdt: ‘K12 is special. The others live here, the outsiders, I'm one of them and this is my declaration of love for Schwamendingen.’
Erdt has always combined autobiography and everyday life in her practice. She has been recording the development of her neighbourhood since 2006. In addition to far-reaching structural interventions, the lively Schwamendingerplatz square, the local fair and gardens, Erdt shows the ever-changing quotidian of students, workers and residents of Schwamendingen.
Come with family, friends or alone. Afternoons for all offer an opportunity to experience Ruth Erdt's exhibition in a playful way. We will introduce you to the artist and her work in a way that makes sense for young and old. Together we will exchange impressions, which we will then, subsequently, put into form. Using colours, pens and a photocopier, you can creatively form your own image of Schwamendingen and take it home with you as a souvenir of the afternoon.
All workshop dates: 20.10.2024, 17.11.2024, 8.12.2024, 19.01.2025, 3–5 pm
Open to all from 4 years old (children up to 16 years old require an adult companion)
Register by email to: fuelscher@kunsthallezurich.ch
Kunsthalle Zürich
Emily Cross and Manuel Hendry
AAA Talk in the Mehrwerk
Prof Emily Cross (Cognitive and Social Neuroscience, D-GESS) and film-maker Manuel Hendry speak in the context of the exhibition AAA Experiments. These talks are public and free; they take place on Thursdays between the 10 October and 19 December 2024, starting each week at 7 pm.
The discussion shall take place in English.
FREE
Art Education
Sun 24 Nov 2024
11:00 – 18:00
Sun 24 Nov 2024
11:00 – 18:00
Art Education
FREE
Hauser & Wirth
Kinder Workshop: ‘Freie Struktur’ in der Ausstellung ‘Günther Förg. Arbeiten auf Papier / Works on Paper / Oeuvres sur Papier: 1975 – 2009’
24 November 2024 / 11.30am – 1pm and 2.30 – 4pm
Capacity: Max. 15 (ages 5 – 13yo)
The workshop will be held in German.
Join us for one of two creative workshops for children and their accompanying adults.
This introduction and workshop to Günther Förg’s work is tailored to younger audiences, as part of the Löwenbräukunst family day. We will begin this event in the exhibition of Günther Förg’s works on paper, which were an integral part of his multi-disciplinary practice, which comprised drawing, painting, photography, and sculpture. Informed by modernism, he evolved in his style from grid paintings into rhythmic, gestural marks that appear to float across his paper, doing away with any previous sense of order. We will investigate Förgs gestural painting style, his use of colour and how he continuously explored the medium of painting.
Suitable for children aged 5 – 13 and their parents and carers. Materials will be supplied, no previous experience required.
The family day at Löwenbräukunst invites you to explore the current exhibitions together and experience art from different perspectives. Our art education studios and workshops are open to everyone. A rich program for everyone is offered throughout the day. In workshops, families can get to grips with art in a practical way.
FREE
Kunsthalle Zürich
Vanessa Schwarzkopf and Catherine De Wolf
AAA Talk in the Mehrwerk
Prof Catherine De Wolf (Circular Engineering in Architecture, D-BAUG) and Vanessa Schwarzkopf talk about their research at the Chair of Circular Engineering in Architecture, which led to the construction of the 'Mehrwerk' stand, in the context of the exhibition AAA Experiments. While De Wolf offers insights into the research of the whole department, Schwarzkopf explains how AI was tested as a design tool.
The evening is moderated by Adrian Notz; the discussion will take place in English.
These talks are public and free; they take place on Thursdays between the 10 October and 19 December 2024, starting each week at 7 pm.
Prof. Dr. ir. arch. Catherine De Wolf is a professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), where she leads the chair of Circular Engineering for Architecture (CEA). After studying Civil Engineering and Architecture in Brussels, she earned her PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Subsequently, she founded companies related to circular construction such as De Wolf EArTh and Anku Gmbh, served on the boards of various technology and innovation initiatives, and is a faculty of the Centre for Augmented Computational Design in Architecture, Engineering and Construction (Design++), the ETH AI Centre, the National Competence Centre in Research (NCCR) on digital fabrication, the Circular Future Cities lab, as well as at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA).
Vanessa Schwarzkopf joined the Chair for Circular Engineering in Architecture as a PhD student in 2024. Her master’s thesis, 'Dreaming Architecture', explored the potential of generative AI in the early phase design stages. After graduating, she continued working as a research assistant at the Chair of Architecture in Context in Hanover. In addition to her position at the university, she worked on projects in exhibition scenography for several studios. Vanessa’s background lies in architecture, with a bachelor’s in architecture (B.Sc.) and a master’s in architecture and urban design (M.Sc.) from the Leibniz University Hanover in Germany, while also studying at the ENSA Paris Malaquais in France as an exchange student. She is now eager to explore the possibilities of AI-driven design for circular design strategies.
FREE
FREE
FREE
Kunsthalle Zürich
Bob Sumner and Fabio Zünd
AAA Talks in the Mehrwerk
Bob Sumner and Fabio Zünd from the ETH Game Technology Center talk in the context of the exhibition AAA Experiments.
The evening is moderated by Adrian Notz; the discussion will take place in English.
These talks are public and free; they take place on Thursdays between the 10 October and 19 December 2024, starting each week at 7 pm.
Prof. Sumner is an Adjunct Professor, ETH Zurich Game Technology Center. He received a BS degree in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and went on to earn his MS and PhD degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Exploring the unique way game technology can contribute to science and education, his research focuses especially on augmented reality which adds layers of playful interaction to learning, creativity and culture. He was selected as one of Next Reality’s AR Software Development Leaders of 2018, and his 2019 TEDxZurich presentation 'Behind the Art' predicts the future prevalence of AR and demonstrates how it can be used to enhance engagement with art. Other recent speaking engagements include talks at the World Web Forum, the Zurich Game Show, the World VR Forum, the Global Talent Summit, and Zurich Meets Hong Kong. He was also featured on BBC Click and Ars Technica for his work on 'Unfolding the 8-Bit Era' as well as Reuters for his 'Augmented Creativity' research.
Dr. Fabio Zünd is the Managing Director at the Game Technology Center and the Media Technology Center at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from ETH Zurich, focusing his research on game technology, augmented reality, and computer-assisted storytelling at the ETH Computer Graphics Laboratory and at Disney Research Zurich, Switzerland. In 2016, he co-founded the Game Technology Center with the vision to advance the state of the art in game technology and to apply gamification to disciplines such as learning, creativity, and culture. He co-founded the ETH spin-off Aperion XR AG in 2021. Aperion XR AG commercializes augmented reality technologies for museums developed at ETH Zurich. In 2022, he took on the role of the Managing Director of the Media Technology Center at ETH Zurich. There, he explores what new possibilities emerge by employing Artificial Intelligence in the field of media.
FREE
Kunsthalle Zürich
Afternoon for all: Ruth Erdt Creative workshop
Zurich-based photographer Ruth Erdt is a master of the artful wink. In her work, she captures the soul of the unique district of Schwamendingen with humour and an eagle eye. Schwamendingen is a suburb and Zürich’s twelfth district (K12). The residents are proud of their neighbourhood, as is Erdt: ‘K12 is special. The others live here, the outsiders, I'm one of them and this is my declaration of love for Schwamendingen.’
Erdt has always combined autobiography and everyday life in her practice. She has been recording the development of her neighbourhood since 2006. In addition to far-reaching structural interventions, the lively Schwamendingerplatz square, the local fair and gardens, Erdt shows the ever-changing quotidian of students, workers and residents of Schwamendingen.
Come with family, friends or alone. Afternoons for all offer an opportunity to experience Ruth Erdt's exhibition in a playful way. We will introduce you to the artist and her work in a way that makes sense for young and old. Together we will exchange impressions, which we will then, subsequently, put into form. Using colours, pens and a photocopier, you can creatively form your own image of Schwamendingen and take it home with you as a souvenir of the afternoon.
All workshop dates: 20.10.2024, 17.11.2024, 8.12.2024, 19.01.2025, 3–5 pm
Open to all from 4 years old (children up to 16 years old require an adult companion)
Register by email to: fuelscher@kunsthallezurich.ch
Kunsthalle Zürich
Tiziano Derme andBenjamin Dillenburger
AAA Talk in the Mehrwerk
Benjamin Dillenburger and Tiziano Derme speak in the context of the exhibition AAA Experiments. These talks are public and free, and take place on Thursdays between the 10 October and the 19 December 2024.
This talk will take place in English.
Tiziano Derme is an architect, artist and researcher at the Chair for Digital Building Technologies (dbt), Institute of Technology in Architecture (ITA) at the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich. His research focuses on the integration of biotechnologies and enzymatic processes into Architecture and the construction industry. His works have exhibited in various galleries, events, and institutions such as the Biennale of Venice, Seoul Biennale, Ars Electronica, Melbourne Triennale. Tiziano is also a visiting scientist at EMPA in the Bio-Engineered Wood group and the the co-founder and director of the transdisciplinary design practice named MAEID Büro für Architektur und transmediale Kunst.
Benjamin Dillenburger is an Architect and Professor for Digital Building Technologies at the Institute of Technology In Architecture (ITA) at the Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich. His research focuses on the development of building technologies based on the close interplay of computational design methods, digital fabrication and new materials. In this context, he searches for ways to exploit the potential of additive manufacturing for building construction. He previously was appointed as Assistant Professor at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto, and worked as a senior lecturer in the CAAD group at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology’s architecture department in Zurich. He holds a Master of Advanced Study degree from ETH Zurich and a Master of Architecture Degree from the Technical University Kaiserslautern.
FREE
FREE
Kunsthalle Zürich
Afternoon for all: Ruth Erdt Creative workshop
Zurich-based photographer Ruth Erdt is a master of the artful wink. In her work, she captures the soul of the unique district of Schwamendingen with humour and an eagle eye. Schwamendingen is a suburb and Zürich’s twelfth district (K12). The residents are proud of their neighbourhood, as is Erdt: ‘K12 is special. The others live here, the outsiders, I'm one of them and this is my declaration of love for Schwamendingen.’
Erdt has always combined autobiography and everyday life in her practice. She has been recording the development of her neighbourhood since 2006. In addition to far-reaching structural interventions, the lively Schwamendingerplatz square, the local fair and gardens, Erdt shows the ever-changing quotidian of students, workers and residents of Schwamendingen.
Come with family, friends or alone. Afternoons for all offer an opportunity to experience Ruth Erdt's exhibition in a playful way. We will introduce you to the artist and her work in a way that makes sense for young and old. Together we will exchange impressions, which we will then, subsequently, put into form. Using colours, pens and a photocopier, you can creatively form your own image of Schwamendingen and take it home with you as a souvenir of the afternoon.
All workshop dates: 20.10.2024, 17.11.2024, 8.12.2024, 19.01.2025, 3–5 pm
Open to all from 4 years old (children up to 16 years old require an adult companion)
Register by email to: fuelscher@kunsthallezurich.ch
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