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Fabio Mauri
Hauser & Wirth
Lorna Simpson

Opening 30 September 2023, the US artist Lorna Simpson will exhibit new work in Zurich from her ongoing Special Character series, marking Simpson’s first solo exhibition with the gallery in Switzerland. First unveiled in 2019, her Special Character series superimposes women’s faces from fashion and wig ads found in the pages of Ebony magazine, revealing through repetition the reinforcement of stereotypes in the everyday imagery we consume. In these works, silkscreened images of isolated figures emerge from layered washes of paint, highlighting Simpson’s continual investigation of the relationship between parts and wholes and the nature of representation, identity, gender and race. By repurposing and reconfiguring found images—a signature source in her work—Simpson creates her own highly distinctive visual terrain that offers a potent response to American life today.
Kunsthalle Zürich
Elene Chantladze As in a Melody or a Bird’s Nest

Die erste institutionelle Einzelausstellung von Elene Chantladze zeigt eine Auswahl ihrer Malereien und gibt zum ersten Mal eine umfangreiche Übersicht über ihr Schaffen.
Die Ausstellung ist kuratiert von Otto Bonnen.
Kunsthalle Zürich
Zurich Biennale

Across the 500 m2 lower level of the Kunsthalle Zürich, the Zürich Biennial presents approximately 50 positions and more than 300 works scattered across time and geography. The works share in common certain effects of distortion and the grotesque, reflecting on a world that is 'windschief', warped by the wind.
Curated by Mitchell Anderson, artist and founder of Plymouth Rock, and Daniel Baumann, director of Kunsthalle Zurich
Luma Westbau
Cyprien Gaillard
Nightlife

Rodin's famous bronze sculpture "The Thinker" in front of the Cleveland Museum, exotic Hollywood Juniper trees moving in the wind in the urban space of Los Angeles, fireworks over the Berlin Olympic Stadium, a bare oak tree in the searchlight of a helicopter - the nocturnal exterior shots of Cyprien Gaillard’s 3D film Nightlife (2015) take us to places that are deserted and yet full of life.
Luma Westbau
Tarek Atoui
The Whisperers

Tarek Atoui is an artist and composer known for his experimental work with sound's multi-sensory potential. During the pandemic, he launched "The Whisperers" project, collaborating with young students to explore sound, space perception, and more. He also collaborates with musicians and instrument makers worldwide to create "tools for listening" from various materials. His exhibition combines musical and non-musical elements, inviting visitors to explore sound through performance, amplification, and energy in innovative ways.
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Interdependencies: Perspectives on Care and Resilience

This expansive group exhibition considers models of radical care through three distinct themes: self-care, politicised care, and collective care.
Opening: Friday, October 6, 2023
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic we have all experienced varying levels of difficulties in our personal and private lives, brought on by isolation, sickness and adapting to new situations. Due to this monumental shift in society, an outpouring of care has been experienced across the globe. This is in stark contrast to the failures of care that have long been present in society, especially for the most vulnerable members of society. While for some, models of self-care might offer respite from the harsh realities of global capitalism, they are a privilege for the few. More than ever before, care has become a central question in a variety of contexts, in clinical environments, socially, and in the workplace.
It could be said that artists have always responded to various forms of care either collectively or individually, in response to social and political crises. But as care has entered the zeitgeist as a reaction to today’s political climate, artists are seeking to present alternative models of radical care, which engage histories of grassroots community action, queer, feminist and social movements, and attack neoliberal models of self-care. This expansive group exhibition considers models of radical care through three distinct themes: self-care, politicised care, and collective care. These themes emerge through practices that propose and deliver interventions, commentary and acts of care that challenge our understanding of the phenomenon today.
The exhibition will include a publication, an extensive public programme and a symposium.
With works by: Sharona Franklin, Maryam Jafri, Grace Ndiritu, Rory Pilgrim, Lauryn Youden and others.
Curator: Dr. Michael Birchall
Edition VFO
Monotypes Shift

For our anniversary, following the MONOTYPES exhibition at Kunsthalle Zürich, we present another group show in two acts on the theme of monotype and unique print.
The exhibition explores the theme of printing as a conceptual and original means of expression in art production and runs concurrently with the Anniversary exhibition " A Unique Print in Series " at Kunsthaus Grenchen, which will be on view from September 10, 2023 to January 28, 2024.
Vernissage: Wednesday, October 25, 6 to 9 p.m.
Part One: 25.10-2.12.2023
Henni Alftan, Sol Calero, Frédéric Gabioud, Luisanna Gonzalez Quattrini, Federico Herrero, Stefan Marx, Olivier Mosset, Elza Sile
Part Two: 7.12.2023-27.1.2024
Ralph Bürgin, Cédric Eisenring, Andrea Heller,
Charlotte Herzig, donna Kukama, Izidora I LETHE, Rebekka Steiger
We are AIA - Awareness in Art
FINTOPIA

Fintopia investigates a key driver of our activities: Money. What happens if we design its rules differently to foster a healthy world? The exhibition uses artistic and design practices to explore how our systems work and how we might conceive our (financial) world differently. Where is the frontier between plausibility and utopia? And where do we already find traces of desirable futures? Fintopia offers future scenarios full of approaches, inspirations and stories. And opens up the space for discussion, questioning, and thinking beyond. A realm of possibilities that awakens the curiosity to venture into the economic unknown.
About Kollektiv Fintopia:
Fintopia is a project by Miriam Nietlispach, Tom Stäubli, Marie-Claire Graf and Massimo Calamassi. The Kollektiv Fintopia is organized as a non-profit association.
Fintopia promotes dialogue around the sphere of economy. Money and its systems permeate every area of life.This must be a starting point for any political discourse. Nevertheless, very few people find their way into this complex topics. Given the challenges of our time, we must be able to discuss and investigate the most effective actions toward transformation with broad social support. Fintopia wants to facilitate access to this matter and support people in finding passion for the future and courage to imagine new alternatives.
More information: www.fintopia.ch
Image courtesy: Cerca Research & Design Lab
25.Nov – 10.Feb 2024
Sat 02 Dec 2023
17:00 – 18:00
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
PERSPECTIVES ON CARE AND RESILIENCE: TALK ABOUT THE FEMINIST DISABILITY MOVEMENT WITH AVANTI NETWORK

Care and disability are linked in many ways. However, people with disabilities are not only recipients of care, but also provide care (services) for others, non-disabled people, for example in childcare or caring for relatives. Although it is actually obvious, the aspect of disability is usually left out of the discourse on care.
The history of the Swiss disability movement is poorly documented and many of the pioneers have been forgotten. FLINTA people like Aiha Zemp and Ursula Eggli have campaigned for the rights of FLINTA people with disabilities in recent decades – many of their demands also related to care.
The network avanti, feminist disabled and chronically ill, has been advocating for the feminist concerns of people with disabilities for over 20 years. Care work has always been a central theme of the association, be it personal assistance, parenthood or collective forms of self-help.
Nina Mühlemann and Karin Huber from the network avanti will take up the topic of care in this talk. What is the significance of care in the work of a self-representing organization for people with disabilities? How has the topic influenced the founders of the network? What could an intersectional concept of care look like if disability is consistently taken into account?
The talk will roughly take 40 minutes and will be followed by a conversation with the audience.
Location: Caring Space, museum, ground floor
– No admission fee.
– No registration required.
– In German with German sign language translation.
We are AIA - Awareness in Art
Guided tour of the exhibition Fintopia

Guided tour of the exhibition Fintopia by exhibition developer and Kollektiv Fintopia member Tom Stäubli, Research & Design Lab Cerca
Wednesday 6th of December, 6:30pm - 7pm
The event will be held in English.
No registration needed.
For more information please visit fintopia.ch
Photo credit: Research & Design Lab Cerca.
Kunsthalle Zürich
Dress up, you gamblers! NLH with Miriam Laura Leonardi

No Limit Hold'em
0.25/0.50
An alle Spieler: Kommen Sie als eine Figur aus der Unterhaltungsindustrie (Film, Musik, Literatur)! Die beste Verkleidung wird mit einem kostenlosen Buy-In belohnt.
Mit Pigs in Blankets von Lorenza Longhi
Thu 07 Dec 2023
17:30 – 20:00
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Interventions on Frequency: Alexandra Sheherazade Salem, Fatima Wegmann and Göksu Kunak

«Intervention on Frequency» is a performance series focusing on sound practices and asks the question: What happens when body and sound meet? Works that represent different positions on pressing issues around race, gender, and sexuality are shown. Curated by Antoine Simeão Schalk and Danniel Tostes.
This iteration features two performances, each roughly lasting an hour:
5.30 pm
«My hair woke up horny as fuck» is a performance by Alexandra Sheherazade Salem in collaboration with producer Fatima Wegmann. It is an exploration of body memory and desire, in which the movements are derived from ancient dances that realte to the earth and fertility. By associating poetry to movement, and using symbols from her Persian cultural heritage, Alexandra Sheherazade Salem embodies an encounter between vulnerability and power, transporting us into the depths of emotion and sensuality as a transformative force.
7 pm
«An(a)kara» is a performance in the format of a sci-fi TV variety show. It is hosted by the artist Göksu Kunak herself and explores Turkey’s late modernity with a particular focus on the city of the same name and the bodies of neoliberal TV hosts who are like monumental statues as they embody nationalist ideologies, serving as instruments of propaganda.
- This event is free of charge
- No registration required
Location: Caring Space, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, ground floor
Edition VFO
OPENING MONOTYPES SHIFT PART II

Part two: 7.12.2023-27.1.2024
Opening: Thursday, December 7, 6:00-8:00 pm
With artworks by Ralph Bürgin, Cédric Eisenring, Andrea Heller, Charlotte Herzig, donna Kukama, Izidora I LETHE and Rebekka Steiger.
For our anniversary, as a follow-up to the "MONOTYPES" exhibition at Kunsthalle Zürich, we present another group show in two acts on the theme of monotypes and unique prints. The second part of the exhibition series is opening on December 7, from 6 to 8 pm. The exhibition explores the topic of print as a conceptual and original means of expression in art production. It runs simultaneously with the anniversary exhibition "A unique piece in Series" at Kunsthaus Grenchen, on view from September 10, 2023, to January 28, 2024.
We are AIA - Awareness in Art
Führung durch die Ausstellung Fintopia

durch die Ausstellungsentwicklerin Miriam Nietlispach, Research & Design Lab Cerca.
Anlass auf Deutsch.
Ohne Anmeldung, unentgeltlich.
Weitere Informationen unter fintopia.ch
Photo credit: Research & Design Lab Cerca.
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
NARRATIVE CAFÉS

Life stories connect us. At the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, the storytelling café gives you the opportunity to share incidents from your own life in a group on a specific topic. The storytelling café is led by a moderator, and participants can discover commonalities, gain new perspectives, or look back on their own lives.
In 2023, in parallel with the «Acts of Friendship» exhibition, the storytelling café themes revolve around friendship and, with the «Interdependencies» exhibition, around how we care for one another. This narrative café revolves around the topic of care.
More information about the exhibitions can be found here.
Moderator: Sabine Hofmann, Moderator for Narrative Cafés FHNW
Please register until 3 days before the event at: kunstvermittlung@migrosmuseum.ch
Cost: free
Place: In the museum
Time: Saturdays, 11.30 am - 1.30 pm
More information about the Network Narrative Café Switzerland https://www.netzwerk-erzaehlca... and
https://www.migros-engagement.... together/erzaehlcafe
Luma Westbau
Tareks Sound
Sound Workshop for children age 6-12 years

TAREKS SOUND
Klangworkshop zur aktuellen Ausstellung Tarek Atoui - The Whisperers
Für Kinder von 6-12 Jahren in Begleitung einer erwachsenen Person.
Im Workshop erhalten die Kinder einen Einblick in Tarek Atouis Arbeit und lernen verschiedene Dimensionen des Hörens kennen.
Sie erforschen vielfältige Musikströmungen und experimentieren damit. Im Anschluss gestalten sie kreativ etwas Eigenes, das sie mit nach Hause nehmen können.
TERMINE
Sa. 9. Dezember - 14-16 Uhr
Hier anmelden
Sa 13. Januar 2024 - 14-16 Uhr
Hier anmelden
TREFFPUNKT
2. Etage, Luma Westbau
Löwenbräukunst
Limmatstrasse 270
8005 Zürich
TEILNAHME
Kostenlos
LEITUNG
Alexandra Eichenauer
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
CARE CREW REPORTS – BY MACHTHEATER

Zeit: 14 – 19 Uhr
Mitglieder der Care Crew begleiten Euch durch die Ausstellung. Umsorgend und fragenstellend regen sie ungewohnte Sichtweisen an. Kommt mit!
Die Care Crew Reports sind eine Kooperation zwischen machTheater und Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst im Rahmen der Ausstellung «Interdependencies: Perspektiven zu Care und Resilienz».
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
AUDIODESCRIPTIVE GUIDED TOUR: INTERDEPENDENCIES

Zeit: 18.30 – 19.30 Uhr
Treffpunkt: Eingang Museum
Sprache: Deutsch
Der audiodeskriptive Rundgang bietet Menschen mit Sehbehinderung sowie blinden Menschen die Möglichkeit verschiedene Kunstwerke der Ausstellung Interdependencies kennenzulernen.
Diese Veranstaltung ist kostenlos.
Keine Anmeldung erforderlich.
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
TIM - TANDEM IN THE MUSEUM

TIM - TANDEM IM MUSEUM
Lerne in der Adventszeit neue Menschen kennen! TiM - Tandem im Museum ermöglicht Begegnungen zwischen Menschen. Im Tandem mit anderen Besucher*innen kannst du eine Geschichte zu einem Objekt der Ausstellung Interdependencies: Perspektiven zu Care und Resilienz erfinden, das dich fasziniert. Du lernst auf diese Weise unser Museum und auch andere Menschen aus einer neuen Perspektive kennen. Du kannst in Begleitung oder alleine an den TiM-Advents-Anlass kommen. Zum Abschluss erzählen wir uns bei Tee und Keksen unsere Geschichten.
Ort: Im Museum
Diese Veranstaltung ist kostenlos
Keine Anmeldung erforderlich
Mit: Cynthia Gavranic, Kunstvermittlerin Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst und Cornelia Jacomet, TiM Guide
Kunsthalle Zürich
Tour of the exhibition Zürich Biennial with Mitchell Anderson

Mitchell Anderson, co-curator of Zürich Biennale introduces the exhibition and gives personal insights. In English.
There is a free exhibition tour every Thursday evening.
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
CARE CREW REPORTS – BY MACHTHEATER

Zeit: 14 – 19 Uhr
Mitglieder der Care Crew begleiten Euch durch die Ausstellung. Umsorgend und fragenstellend regen sie ungewohnte Sichtweisen an. Kommt mit!
Die Care Crew Reports sind eine Kooperation zwischen machTheater und Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst im Rahmen der Ausstellung «Interdependencies: Perspektiven zu Care und Resilienz».
Luma Westbau
Tareks Sound
Sound Workshop for children age 6-12 years

TAREKS SOUND
Klangworkshop zur aktuellen Ausstellung Tarek Atoui - The Whisperers
Für Kinder von 6-12 Jahren
in Begleitung einer erwachsenen Person.
Im Workshop erhalten die Kinder einen Einblick in Tarek Atouis Arbeit und lernen verschiedene Dimensionen des Hörens kennen.
Sie erforschen vielfältige Musikströmungen und experimentieren damit. Im Anschluss gestalten sie kreativ etwas Eigenes, das sie mit nach Hause nehmen können.
TERMIN
Sa 13. Januar 2024 - 14-16 Uhr
Hier anmelden
TREFFPUNKT
2. Etage, Luma Westbau
Löwenbräukunst
Limmatstrasse 270
8005 Zürich
TEILNAHME
Kostenlos
LEITUNG
Alexandra Eichenauer
Sun 14 Jan 2024
15:00 – 17:00
Kunsthalle Zürich
Afternoon for all Creative workshop

Let's be inspired by the two current exhibitions, Zürich Biennale and Elene Chantladze's As in a Melody or a Bird’s Nest. Through a dialogue tailored to the needs of those taking part, we go on a playful tour of the exhibition before rolling up our sleeves in the Studio and expressing our impressions creatively. We will borrow methods, styles and materials from both exhibitions. And of course you can take your masterpieces home with you.
All dates: 15.10.2023, 19.11.2023, 14.1.2024
Children under 16 years of age must be accompanied by an adult
Costs: CHF 25 per group, for up to five people, additional participants CHF 5
Register by email: fuelscher@kunsthallezurich.ch
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
CARE CREW REPORTS – BY MACHTHEATER

Time: 2 – 7 pm
Members of the Care Crew will accompany you through the exhibition. Caring and questioning, they stimulate unusual perspectives. Come along!
The Care Crew Reports are a cooperation between machTheater and Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in the context of the exhibition «Interdependencies: Perspectives on Care and Resilience».
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
ON CARING FOR ARTISTS' RIGHTS - DISCUSSION WITH WAGES FOR WAGES AGAINST

Venue: Event space, ground floor
In the conversation "On Caring for Artist's Rights" with Ramaya Tegene and Tiphanie Blance from the collective Wages For Wages Against, the question of fair working conditions for artists will be explored and the role of the art and cultural landscape as well as institutions will be discussed. The discussion will be held in conjunction with the group exhibition «Interdependencies: Perspectives on Care and Resilience» and is moderated by Tasnim Baghdadi (Head of Education and Programs).
Launched in 2017, Wages For Wages Against is a collective and campaign for the fair remuneration of artists in Switzerland, better work conditions, and an alternative economy of the arts, actively fighting all forms of discrimination through public debate and collective action. We require art organizations to be accountable and transparent to guarantee fair practices and equal opportunities in a too often discriminatory context. We want to pool our knowledges, recreate common spaces, unveil systemic mechanisms, talk about money and competition, regain power and governance over issues concerning artists, fairly redistribute public money, and counter rather than replicate patterns of domination. WFWA received a Swiss Art Award in 2022.
Ramaya Tegegne is an artist, researcher and cultural producer based in Geneva. She had solo exhibitions at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Istituto Svizzero in Milan, Ludlow 38 in New York, Kevin Space in Vienna, Galerie Maria Bernheim in Zurich and Fri Art Kunsthalle in Fribourg. She co-founded in 2015 the art and critical theory bookshop La Dispersion in Geneva, and co-ran the art space Forde in Geneva between 2014 and 2016.
Tiphanie Blanc is an editor, critic, and teacher of contemporary art theory based in Brussels. Active within the Wages For Wages Against collective since 2017, she fights for better recognition of artistic labor in Europe.
This event is free of charge
No registration required
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
CARE CREW REPORTS – BY MACHTHEATER

Zeit: 14 – 17 Uhr
Mitglieder der Care Crew begleiten Euch durch die Ausstellung. Umsorgend und fragenstellend regen sie ungewohnte Sichtweisen an. Kommt mit!
Die Care Crew Reports sind eine Kooperation zwischen machTheater und Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst im Rahmen der Ausstellung «Interdependencies: Perspektiven zu Care und Resilienz».
We are AIA - Awareness in Art
Führung/Guided Tour of the exhibition Fintopia

Guided tour of the exhibition Fintopia by exhibition developer Tom Stäubli, Research & Design Lab Cerca.
Event in English or German, depending on the audience.
Without registration, free.
For more information please visit fintopia.ch
Photo credit: Research & Design Lab Cerca.
Fri 27 Sep 2024
17:00 – 23:00
Sun 17 Nov 2024
10:00 – 17:00