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Hauser & Wirth
Gallery Book Shop
The book shop on the ground floor of our gallery at Löwenbräukunst is a dedicated area for books where we invite visitors to discover our newest Hauser & Wirth Publishers titles, explore our back catalogue, and further books on our gallery artists, alongside edition prints and issues of Ursula, our magazine of contemporary culture.
The bookshop is open Tuesday – Friday, 11 am – 6 pm and Saturday, 11 am – 5 pm.
FREE
Hauser & Wirth
Catherine Goodman
The Colour of a Quiet Mind…
For more than four decades, Catherine Goodman CBE has developed a unique visual language that communicates a powerful visionary response to her lived experience and memory. In this new body of work, presented in the exhibition ‘The Colour of a Quiet Mind…,’ Goodman combines strongly pigmented oil paint, expressive brushwork, oil sticks, drips and washes to create immersive abstract paintings. At the heart of this new body of work lies an exploration of paradox: how painting can hold both quietness and turbulence. Created during a period marked by profound personal loss and illness, as well as a wider backdrop of war and political instability, the paintings reflect Goodman’s search for enduring, memorable images that acknowledge the fragility of the world while remaining open to joy, kindness and renewal.
The bookshop on the ground floor is open during regular opening hours.
FREE
Hauser & Wirth
George Segal
Man Installing Pepsi Sign
From 24 September, George Segal’s iconic ‘Man Installing Pepsi Sign’ (1973) is on view on the ground floor of Löwenbräu. Alongside this presentation, Catherine Goodman’s exhibition ‘The Colour of a Quiet Mind’ is on view on the second floor.
The bookshop on the ground floor is open during regular opening hours.
FREE
Edition VFO
«Storylines» Jeanne Jacob, Yoan Mudry, Valentin Rilliet, Romane de Watteville
The exhibition "Storylines" brings together new editions by Valentin Rilliet, Yoan Mudry,Romane de Watteville and Jeanne Jacob, in which single images become starting points for open-ended narratives. The title can be read in two ways: as a reference to storylines that intersect, break off or are picked up again, and to the drawn and printed line from which the images emerge. The painterly works were realised in lithography, monotype and screenprint.
The four artists draw on myths, art-historical motifs, film, comics, advertising, social media and personal observations. Figures appear in mid-movement, gazes meet, bodies touch, animals and fabled creatures look back at us. What came before these scenes and what might follow remains outside the frame. The works offer clues but do not settle on a definitive plot. Their stories emerge where what is depicted connects with the memories, expectations and imaginings of the viewer.
Exhibition dates: 26 September 2026 to 16 January 2027
Image: Installation view "Storylines"; Photography: Bernhard Strauss
FREE
Kunsthalle Zürich
Ayo Akingbade
Exhibition opening: Friday 25 September 2026, 6–9 pm
Löwenbräu Season Opening: Friday 25 September 2026, 6–11 pm
With Crossing, Kunsthalle Zürich presents the first institutional solo exhibition outside the United Kingdom by London-based filmmaker and artist Ayo Akingbade (b. 1994, London). Bringing together two new productions which have their premiere at Kunsthalle Zürich, as well as earlier works by the artist, the exhibition traces the Akingbade’s continued engagement with urbanism and architecture and the social and political forces that shape them.
Over the past decade, Akingbade has realised over twenty short films that move between the genres of experimental documentary, fiction, and personal essay film, presenting them in both art exhibitions and cinema settings. Her works often centre on specific types of architecture and locations – from social housing to shopping centres, factories, and other spaces, public and private alike – which the artist usually captures on celluloid. But Akingbade is less interested in architecture as built form than in how people inhabit these spaces, share them with one another, or navigate their way through them – and, ultimately, how broader social and political changes manifest themselves within those engineered environments shaping the everyday lives of their inhabitants.
Akingbade was born in Hackney in 1994, an area in East London that has witnessed profound urban and social transformation over recent decades, and the questions related to gentrification, housing, and the displacement of local communities were at the centre of many of her earlier works. In her No News Today trilogy, made between 2016 and 2018, for instance, she addressed the use of social housing and the changing living conditions in London. Those themes also recur in Deadphant (2020), a three-minute portrait of the city’s Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre. Shot on Super 8 film during the final weekend before the shopping centre was shuttered, the work depicts both a place and the communities impacted by the impending urban transformation.
The Fist (2022), Akingbade’s earliest work using a 35mm camera, focuses on Nigeria where her family hails from. Filmed at the Guinness brewery in Lagos, this record of a day’s routine inside the factory follows the workers and machines as they carry out their repetitive, finely orchestrated tasks. More recently, Akingbade’s work brought her to Central Europe. In Nichtschwimmer (2026), made during a residency in western Germany near the Belgian and Dutch border, the artist herself appears before the camera as the protagonist. In a historic Art Nouveau swimming pool, built as a public swimming and bathing facility in the early twentieth century – at a time when questions of public health, housing conditions and hygiene were closely intertwined – Akingbade performs simple swimming exercises that, through rhythm and repetition, increasingly resemble choreographed movements.
In Two Truths (2026), a new 35mm work commissioned for the exhibition and filmed in Zurich, Akingbade once more turns to the relationship between body, movement, and architecture. Referencing Trisha Brown’s landmark performance Man Walking Down the Side of a Building (1970), the film takes Brown’s simple yet radical idea of walking vertically down the façade of a building and recasts it in a different context. Different movements, paths, and gazes intersect—or cross—without resolving into a single perspective. Movement thus becomes not only a means of traversing a place, but also a way of bringing different perspectives on it into relation with one another.
Taken together, the works presented in the exhibition trace the idea of movement across different cities, architectures, and cinematic approaches. What connects them is Akingbade’s recurring attention to the relationship between the body and the space it traverses – and the social and political conditions that manifest themselves in the process.
Audioguide: Ayo Akingbade talking about her exhibition
Kunsthalle Zürich
Caspar Heinemann
Exhibition opening: Friday 25 September 2026, 6–9 pm
Löwenbräu Season Opening: Friday 25 September 2026, 6–11 pm
In his sculptures, installations, performances, drawings, and texts, Glasgow-based artist Caspar Heinemann (b. 1994, London) casts language, narratives, and historical fragments into material and spatial forms. He often combines queer and countercultural histories with references to art that does not hail from the mainstream, architecture that is not built to professional designs, as well as spiritual and literary traditions that hold unexpected narratives and characters. Highlighting his interest in crafting and materiality, the exhibition at Kunsthalle Zürich unfolds around a new, large-scale installation in which Heinemann looks to the night sky – a recurring motif in his work to explore questions of continuity and magical thinking.
ABRACADABRA (2026), an installation developed especially for the exhibition, includes wooden pallets and a heavy noise-cancelling hand-embroidered curtain that divides the space of the Kunsthalle Zürich in two. Reminiscent of an improvised theatre setup in a school or community hall, the structure takes the form of two identical stages installed back-to-back, each with a flight of steps. There is, however, no actual front or back, nor is there the true backstage area characteristic of theatre. The separation is an illusion; the back of each stage serves as the front of the other.
Like the simple construction of wooden pallets that support it, the black curtain follows a deliberately handmade aesthetic. Sewn from a variety of fabrics and decorated with stars affixed with rough stitches, the curtains expose their threads and seams, referencing Heinemann’s experience of punk, DIY, and squatting cultures and their use of readily available materials. The processes of making, mending, and deliberately introducing patchwork is purposefully ambiguous. The night sky functions here as a concept, an allegorical device complicating the gap between the thing and its representation: while a few stars against a black ground are enough to evoke the image of a night sky, what they strive to represent ultimately eludes depiction. As a motif that is at once geographically specific and universal, the night sky becomes a surface for humans to imagine, project, and give meaning to something ultimately incomprehensible.
Set in dialogue with ABRACADABRA is 2x Early Post War Black Forrest Cuckoo Clocks Hand Painted Shields Restoration (2026), also created for the exhibition. Two wooden clocks from the Black Forest region were restored to working condition before having their mechanisms altered to amplify the ticking sound which fills the exhibition space. The clocks evoke the aesthetics of folk culture and traditional craft, but were mass produced for export in the period between 1947 and 1952, when pre-World War II production methods were briefly resumed. What interests Heinemann is the way in which the ‘Völkisch’ imagery associated with Nazism continued to hold mass appeal in the aftermath of the war. The clocks are contrasted with the deliberately improvised appeal of ABRACADABRA, which draws on the non-commercial techniques of hobbyists and counterculture. Heinemann is interested in the extent to which the opposing aesthetics of the two works correspond to the social and ethical ideas associated with them, and thereby the role of the imaginal in the political.
Shifts and ambiguities are also reflected in Heinemann’s use of language including the titles of his works. ABRACADABRA is a word of unclear origin used in both ritual practices and illusionist performances to bring about the transformation of matter. One common folk etymology suggests the word derives from an Aramaic or Hebrew phrase meaning ‘I create as I speak’. Through this prism the title points to the idea of accessing a different reality through language – or a spoken formula. The exhibition title „Tempting Fate” similarly plays with this idea and carries two meanings: one of a fate that is tempting (“a tempting fate”), the other referencing the English expression “to tempt fate,”: meaning to dare, challenge, even taunt it – to imagine or say something and thereby risk actually bringing it into being. In other words: careful what you wish for.
Tempting Fate, the artist’s first institutional solo exhibition outside the United Kingdom is curated by Fanny Hauser. Made possible with the support of the Georg and Josi Guggenheim Foundation.
Luma Westbau
ENTERTAINMENT - Christodoulos Panayiotou
Luma Westbau presents Entertainment, an exhibition of newly commissioned works by Christodoulos Panayiotou. It continues an inquiry begun with One Year, his recent exhibition at Luma Arles, into how we experience, shape and remember time.
Entertainment looks at the ways we use leisure, distraction and spectacle to step away from everyday life. But entertainment is not simply an escape. It is also a space where we act out desires, imagine different ways of living and take on social roles. The exhibition asks what our forms of entertainment reveal about how we live, what we value and how we experience time.
Curated by Vassilis Oikonomopoulos, Artistic Director, Luma Arles.
FREE
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Nicole L'Huillier Canción de Amor
The solo exhibition by Chilean artist Nicole L'Huillier will invite visitors to interact and immerse themselves in sound-based installations that come alive through direct participation. Following a discursive first half of the year, L'Huillier's exhibition explores intriguing questions: How can art generate resonance? How can we, as individuals, give without expecting in return? Her work creates a space where sound and body intertwine, offering visitors new experiences of togetherness. Through its exhibitions, discussions and participatory formats, the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst brings people and art together, creating dynamic spaces for connection. In partnership with our audience, we reflect, experiment, and forge new models of solidarity and social cohesion.
FREE
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Sammlungsdialog Sylvie Fleury & Shamiran Istifan She-Devils on Wheels Angels on Heels
Two Swiss artists will engage in a compelling dialogue inspired by Sylvie Fleury's work She-Devils on Wheels – Headquarters (1997) from the museum's collection. This powerful, emancipatory work confronts the exclusion of women from certain spheres of life. By founding her own feminist automobile club, Fleury asserts a bold statement of self-empowerment and independence.
Displayed for the first time in 20 years, the Fleury's oeuvre will resonate with new works by Shamiran Istifan, who explores cultural codes in everyday life, feminist narratives passed down by women through generations, and questions of class and belonging. Together, their works create a vibrant conversation between feminist perspectives from the 1990s and today.
FREE
Museum Haus Konstruktiv
THE BODY WITHIN ABSTRACTION
In constructivist-concrete art, the human body was largely ignored – be it as a subject, or as an element in the production of art. The focus was on the autonomy of the line, colour and surface as artistic means, whereas figurative representations were considered illusionistic and arbitrary. The group exhibition The Body Within Abstraction at Museum Haus Konstruktiv playfully and critically questions this conventional reading. Eight internationally renowned artists demonstrate how the body can serve as both a unit of measure and thematic basis for minimalistically pared-down, non-figurative art.
Heidi Bucher, Eva Fàbregas, Kimsooja, Dóra Maurer, Bruce Nauman, Steven Parrino, Chiharu Shiota and Franz West: The exhibition brings together some big names, and is also a premiere, as this is the first time since moving to Löwenbräukunst-Areal that Museum Haus Konstruktiv is utilising all of its new exhibition spaces, in both the east and west wings, for a single presentation. In exhibiting these prominent artists, the museum is also celebrating its 40th anniversary.
Museum Haus Konstruktiv
Public guided Tour
«The Body Within Abstraction»
The Museum Haus Konstruktiv offers public guided tours on a regular basis. Visitors can discover the diverse world of ideas of the artists, obtain background information and train their eye for modern and contemporary art.
Gain in-depth insights into the exhibition, «The Body Within Abstraction», which features works by Heidi Bucher, Eva Fàbregas, Kimsooja, Dóra Maurer, Bruce Nauman, Steven Parrino, Chiharu Shiota and Franz West.
Museum Haus Konstruktiv
SonntagsAtelier
Workshop for Families / Slot 1
Slot 1: 1 to 2.15pm
The SonntagsAtelier invites families to playfully discover art and get creative together. Children and adults can explore the exhibition’s themes through small games and creative prompts.
Places in the atelier are limited. Advance registration is not available. Tickets will be available at the front desk on the day of the event. We recommend arriving early to secure your spot.
To ensure all guests enjoy a peaceful and relaxing experience, please respect our house rules.
Museum Haus Konstruktiv
SonntagsAtelier
Workshop for Families / Slot 2
Slot 2: 2.30 to 4 pm
The SonntagsAtelier invites families to playfully discover art and get creative together. Children and adults can explore the exhibition’s themes through small games and creative prompts.
Places in the atelier are limited. Advance registration is not available. Tickets will be available at the front desk on the day of the event. We recommend arriving early to secure your spot.
To ensure all guests enjoy a peaceful and relaxing experience, please respect our house rules.
Museum Haus Konstruktiv
Neon Nights
In the Neon Nights, the studio at Haus Konstruktiv transforms into a fluorescent experimental space. Inspired by the current exhibition, visitors can freely unleash their creativity in a relaxed atmosphere. After a short tour of the exhibition, there is the opportunity to paint, design, and experiment with neon colours. The relaxed atmosphere is the perfect setting for a creative evening. Whether it's your first time or you're already regularly working creatively – there's room to try out new things.
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Youth Mental Health Day
Meeting point: Museum entrance
Are you interested in mental health, art, and new perspectives? Then join us at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst on International Mental Health Day. Together, we will create an open space for exchange, creativity, and connection.
Following a Slow Art tour of the interactive exhibition Canción de Amor by Nicole L'Huillier, you will explore different ways of expressing your feelings and perceptions. Using paint, paper, and natural or everyday materials, you will experiment, contribute your own ideas, and create together with others.
This co-creative workshop offers a welcoming space for young people experiencing mental health challenges, as well as friends, family members, and anyone interested in the topic. The focus is on participation, creative forms of expression, community building, and strengthening personal resources.
A collaboration between the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Living Museum Zürich, and Mentalliance.
Medical Disclaimer:
The Art and Healing Workshop is a resource-oriented space for encounter and exchange and does not constitute psychotherapeutic treatment. If you are experiencing an acute mental health crisis, or if there is a risk of harm to yourself or others, please seek immediate support from Pro Juventute counselling service 147, emergency medical services (144), or a psychiatric emergency service.
With Cynthia Gavranic, Head of Education and art therapist in training, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, and Marlise Vogel, certified art therapist (ED) and board member of Living Museum Zürich.
- In German and English
- For young people and adults aged 16 and over
- Please register at kunstvermittlung@migrosmuseum.ch no later than three days before the event
- Maximum of 15 participants
- Free of charge
FREE
Museum Haus Konstruktiv
Öffentliche Führung
«The Body Within Abstraction»
Please note that this public guided tour is held in German.
Das Museum Haus Konstruktiv bietet regelmässig öffentliche Führungen an. Das Publikum entdeckt die vielfältige Ideenwelt der Künstler:innen, erhält Hintergrundinformationen und kann den Blick auf die moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst schulen.
Erhalten Sie vertiefte Einblicke in die Ausstellung «The Body Within Abstraction» mit Werken von Heidi Bucher, Eva Fàbregas, Kimsooja, Dóra Maurer, Bruce Nauman, Steven Parrino, Chiharu Shiota und Franz West.
Museum Haus Konstruktiv
Öffentliche Führung
«The Body Within Abstraction»
Please note that this public guided tour is held in German.
Das Museum Haus Konstruktiv bietet regelmässig öffentliche Führungen an. Das Publikum entdeckt die vielfältige Ideenwelt der Künstler:innen, erhält Hintergrundinformationen und kann den Blick auf die moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst schulen.
Erhalten Sie vertiefte Einblicke in die Ausstellung «The Body Within Abstraction» mit Werken von Heidi Bucher, Eva Fàbregas, Kimsooja, Dóra Maurer, Bruce Nauman, Steven Parrino, Chiharu Shiota und Franz West.
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Museum & Dating mit noii
Meeting point: LOI Bistro, Löwenbräukunst foyer, Limmatstrasse 270
Exhibition tour: 7:00–7:30 pm
Hello Single,
On October 15, we are opening our museum especially for you! As part of a dating event organized by noii, you will enjoy a guided tour through the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst together with other like-minded singles.
A particular highlight will be the ground-floor exhibition Canción de Amor byNicole L'Huillier. The artist’s colorful sound installations only truly come to life through your interaction. And isn’t the exhibition title itself a wonderful omen for a dating event.
Upstairs, the exhibition She Devils on Wheels Angels on Heels explores gender stereotypes between the auto repair shop and the beauty salon, a highly relevant topic in today’s social media landscape.
Since a 30-minute tour does not leave much time for endless conversations, we will round off the evening at LOI Bistro, where you can continue discussing art, life, and the world with fellow singles.
Dating and museum visits? A perfect match!
The event is organized jointly by noii and Zusammen ins Museum in cooperation with the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst.
- Guided tours in German and English
- Registration and tickets: here
- Price: CHF 35/45
Museum Haus Konstruktiv
Öffentliche Führung
«The Body Within Abstraction»
Please note that this public guided tour is held in German.
Das Museum Haus Konstruktiv bietet regelmässig öffentliche Führungen an. Das Publikum entdeckt die vielfältige Ideenwelt der Künstler:innen, erhält Hintergrundinformationen und kann den Blick auf die moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst schulen.
Erhalten Sie vertiefte Einblicke in die Ausstellung «The Body Within Abstraction» mit Werken von Heidi Bucher, Eva Fàbregas, Kimsooja, Dóra Maurer, Bruce Nauman, Steven Parrino, Chiharu Shiota und Franz West.
Kunsthalle Zürich
Paper weaving workshop with a tour of the exhibitions
Paper weaving workshop with tour of the exhibition.
Whether with family, friends, or on your own, our “afternoons for everyone” offer a chance to discover the exhibitions in a playful way. Accessible and engaging for curious minds aged four and up, we introduce you to the artworks and working methods of Ayo Akingbade and Caspar Heinemann. Together, we share our impressions and then translate them into creative activities in the studio.
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For everyone aged 4+ (children and young people up to and including age 16 must be accompanied by an adult).
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Please sign up via: fuelscher [at] kunsthallezurich.ch
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Fee: CHF 16 per adult, including admission, children attend free of charge
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Collection Insights: “She-Devils on Wheels – Headquaters” mit Kamilla Ødegård
When artworks are allowed to change - The Preservation of "She-Devils on Wheels"
What are the greatest challenges in conserving installation artworks? Unlike more fixed art forms, installations often change with each presentation, responding to a specific space, curatorial context, and sometimes even the people involved in their realization. How does an artist influence the form their work takes when it is reinstalled in a new environment? We will explore these questions through two works by Sylvie Fleury from the collection of Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst .
Variability can be an intentional aspect of an artwork, particularly in installations, but it can also result from conservation processes. Works incorporating time-based media often require interventions such as migration or digitization due to technological obsolescence. The moment of acquisition is therefore crucial, yet museums frequently have to reconstruct missing information retrospectively.
How can authenticity be preserved amid these changes? Which elements of a work remain constant, and which are open to transformation? Who decides? These questions become even more complex when artists are still actively involved and able to shape, reinterpret, or authorize changes to their own work.
- Language: German
- Barrier-free access
- No registration required
- Free of charge
FREE
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Art and Healing Workshop mit Living Museum Zürich
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Limmatstrasse 270, 8005 Zürich: Google Maps
Meeting Point: Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst: In front of the museum entrance on the ground floor inside the building (near the sign).
The collaboratively designed Art and Healing Workshop Series with the Living Museum Zurich has been taking place regularly since 2023 at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst or the Living Museum Zurich. The workshops create a space for encounters between people with and without psychiatric experiences or mental health topics.
In this open, co-creative environment, we will explore the theme of “Resonance and Resilience” throughout the autumn. Inspiration comes from Canción de Amor, the exhibition by artist Nicole L’Huillier at the Migros Museum. Her sound installations only unfold through the active participation of visitors, creating a space in which sound and body enter into resonance and new forms of togetherness can be experienced.
In the studio, we will work with paint, paper, textiles, and natural as well as everyday materials. The workshops encourage connection, solidarity, collective artistic exploration, and the strengthening of personal resources.
The workshop series will conclude with a public presentation of the artworks created during the sessions as part of a vernissage at the Living Museum Zürich.
Medical Disclaimer:
The Art and Healing Workshops provide a resource-oriented space for encounter and creative exchange and do not constitute psychotherapeutic treatment. If you are experiencing an acute mental health crisis, or if there is a risk of harm to yourself or others, please contact the emergency medical services (144 in Switzerland) or a psychiatric emergency service immediately.
With Cynthia Gavranic, Head of Education and Art Therapist in Training, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Marlise Vogel, Art Therapist ED, Chairperson, Living Museum Zurich and Tanya Weiss, Art Therapist, Living Museum
Languages: German and English
For Teenagers and adults aged 16 and older
Booking: Please register at least 3 days before the start via kunstvermittlung@migrosmuseum.ch
Maximum participants: 15 people
Free participation
Dates and locations:
Workshop: 16 November (Living Museum Zürich)
Workshop: 14 Dezember (Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst),
Vernissage: 11 January, 5-7 PM no registration required
FREE
Museum Haus Konstruktiv
Mitgliederführung
«The Body Within Abstraction»
Please note that this public guided tour is held in German.
Exklusiver Rundgang mit Annika Hossain durch die Ausstellung mit anschliessendem Apéro für unsere Mitglieder und alle, die es noch werden wollen.
Erhalten Sie vertiefte Einblicke in die Ausstellung «The Body Within Abstraction» mit Werken von Heidi Bucher, Eva Fàbregas, Kimsooja, Dóra Maurer, Bruce Nauman, Steven Parrino, Chiharu Shiota und Franz West.
Kunsthalle Zürich
Tour of the exhibitions by Ayo Akingbade and Caspar Heinemann with Annina Herzer
Learn more about the exhibitions and gain personal insights from Annina Herzer, art historian and Kunsthalle Zürich team member.
FREE
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Ask and Talk Kopie
The Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst is a vibrant place for encounters and meaningful exchange. On the last Saturday of each month, you can engage directly with our live speakers in the exhibition.
Do you have questions about the artworks, are you curious about background information on the exhibition, or would you like to discuss ways to build a more solidarity-based society? The expertise of our dedicated live speakers makes your visit both informative and interactive. We look forward to welcoming you!
- In German and English
- Children accompanied by adults
- No registration required
- Free to come and go
- Free of charge
FREE
Museum Haus Konstruktiv
Rundgang «Gemeinsam anders»
As part of this project, people with and without disabilities explore the museum together. They experience and discuss art in their own way. The tour is open to everyone and is included in the museum admission fee.
The regular museum admission fee is CHF 18. A reduced price of CHF 12 is available with a Swiss disability (IV) or pension (AHV) card. Admission is free for required accompanying persons. No registration is required.
Museum Haus Konstruktiv
Öffentliche Führung
«The Body Within Abstraction»
Please note that this public guided tour is held in German.
Das Museum Haus Konstruktiv bietet regelmässig öffentliche Führungen an. Das Publikum entdeckt die vielfältige Ideenwelt der Künstler:innen, erhält Hintergrundinformationen und kann den Blick auf die moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst schulen.
Erhalten Sie vertiefte Einblicke in die Ausstellung «The Body Within Abstraction» mit Werken von Heidi Bucher, Eva Fàbregas, Kimsooja, Dóra Maurer, Bruce Nauman, Steven Parrino, Chiharu Shiota und Franz West.
Museum Haus Konstruktiv
SonntagsAtelier
Workshop for Families / Slot 1
Slot 1: 1 to 2.15pm
The SonntagsAtelier invites families to playfully discover art and get creative together. Children and adults can explore the exhibition’s themes through small games and creative prompts.
Places in the atelier are limited. Advance registration is not available. Tickets will be available at the front desk on the day of the event. We recommend arriving early to secure your spot.
To ensure all guests enjoy a peaceful and relaxing experience, please respect our house rules.
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Offenes Atelier: Gemeinsam Klangwelten erleben
2:00 – 2:30 PM: Interactive family tour through the exhibition
Meeting point: Museum entrance
From 2:30 PM: Workshop in the Atelier Migros Museum, basement level
Feel free to come and go
Dear families, children, and accompanying adults, Today, we are opening our museum and studio especially for you!
At 2:00 pm, we will embark on a discovery tour of Canción de Amor, the exhibition by artist Nicole L'Huillier. There is plenty to listen to, observe, and explore, as the colourful sound installations only come to life through the participation of visitors.
From 2:30 pm onwards, we will get creative in our open studio. Using recycled materials that you bring along, such as empty cans, cardboard boxes, or plastic cups, we will create our own imaginative sound objects with paints, pebbles, and other materials. Shake, drum, rattle, and ring, anything is possible!
A delicious afternoon snack will be provided. We look forward to spending a joyful afternoon with you!
Please bring: Clean yogurt pots, cottage cheese containers, tin cans, or toilet paper rolls.
With: Cynthia Gavranic (Head of Education), Flavia Trachsler and Aina Aliotta (Art Educator)
Languages: German and English
No registration required
Feel free to come and go
Children must be accompanied by adults
Ideal age for children: 3 to 10 years
Free event
FREE
Museum Haus Konstruktiv
SonntagsAtelier
Workshop for Families / Slot 2
Slot 2: 2.30 to 4 pm
The SonntagsAtelier invites families to playfully discover art and get creative together. Children and adults can explore the exhibition’s themes through small games and creative prompts.
Places in the atelier are limited. Advance registration is not available. Tickets will be available at the front desk on the day of the event. We recommend arriving early to secure your spot.
To ensure all guests enjoy a peaceful and relaxing experience, please respect our house rules.
Museum Haus Konstruktiv
Öffentliche Führung
«The Body Within Abstraction»
Please note that this public guided tour is held in German.
Das Museum Haus Konstruktiv bietet regelmässig öffentliche Führungen an. Das Publikum entdeckt die vielfältige Ideenwelt der Künstler:innen, erhält Hintergrundinformationen und kann den Blick auf die moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst schulen.
Erhalten Sie vertiefte Einblicke in die Ausstellung «The Body Within Abstraction» mit Werken von Heidi Bucher, Eva Fàbregas, Kimsooja, Dóra Maurer, Bruce Nauman, Steven Parrino, Chiharu Shiota und Franz West.
FREE
Kunsthalle Zürich
Tour of the exhibitions by Ayo Akingbade and Caspar Heinemann with Michael Zimmermann
Learn more about the exhibition and gain personal insight from Michael Zimmermann, exhibitions manager at Kunsthalle Zürich.
FREE
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Choir Workshop: Earworms for the Rich to Fall in Love With Getting Poor
Venue: Exhibition
A choir workshop hosted by Nicole L'Huillier and Ingo Niermann
How do you reach someone who has stopped listening? Common anti-capitalist protests rely on shouting to be heard. But shouting rarely changes a heart. This workshop takes a different approach, one rooted in voice, vibration, and collective sonic presence: building and training a siren-like chorus whose beguiling chants (eventually performed in front of mansions, yachts, casinos, luxury hotels, exclusive clubs and shops) are meant to plant earworms to instigate change, to the rich to “share!” Taking Ingo Niermann’s video Positive Terror – 7 Tutorials as a starting point, the workshop will include basic singing exercises, followed by the writing, arranging and performing of exemplary chants.
For this context, Nicole L’Huillier's upcoming exhibition Canción de Amor – an architecture activated by touch, voice, and movement, transforming individual gestures into a shared, ever-shifting sonic composition – becomes an attunement laboratory: a space to rehearse collective listening and resonance for the choir's second gathering. The first gathering is on September 13 at Shedhalle Zurich.
Der Chor-Workshop ist Teil einer Kooperation zwischen der Shedhalle Zürich und dem Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst.
Nicole L’Huillier (born in 1985 in Santiago, Chile; lives and works in Berlin) is a transdisciplinary artist and researcher working at the intersection of art, science and technology. Her work encompasses installations, sound and vibration sculptures, performances and experimental compositions. She studied architecture at the Universidad de Chile and was awarded her PhD in 2022 at the MIT Media Lab. Her honours include the MIT Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts and a fellowship from the DAAD’s Berlin Artists’ Programme. Her works have been exhibited internationally, including at the Venice Biennale (2024), the Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts (2025), the Bienal do Mercosul (2025), the Kunsthalle Bern and the Ming Contemporary Art Museum in Shanghai. She conducts research and teaches at the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich.
Ingo Niermann is a writer and artist based in Basel. His work moves between literature, speculative writing, art, and social and political thought. He is the editor of the Solution Series, published by Sternberg Press, and has authored numerous books, including Umbauland, Complete Love, Mare Amoris and The Monadic Age. His work has been presented at institutions and exhibitions including documenta, the Berlin Biennale, the Istanbul Biennale and ZKM. Niermann is also the initiator of the Army of Love, a project exploring the redistribution of sensual love. He teaches at the Institute Art Gender Nature at HGK Basel FHNW.
- Language: English
- Barrier-free access
- No registration required
- Free of charge
FREE
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Kuratorischer Rundgang zu She-Devils on Wheels Angels on Heels mit Gebärdensprache Übersetzung
Location: In the museum
Language: German
The curatorial tour with the exhibition's curator Nadia Schneider Willen, offers visitors the opportunity to learn more about the conception and creation of the exhibition, as well as the background of the artworks, and to ask questions to the exhibition makers. The tour will be conducted in German.
This event is free of charge.
No registration required.
Guided tours usually take place on the first Thursday and Saturday of the month.
FREE
FREE
FREE
Kunsthalle Zürich
Tour of the exhibitions by Ayo Akingbade and Caspar Heinemann with Michael Zimmermann
Learn more about the exhibition and gain personal insight from Michael Zimmermann, exhibitions manager at Kunsthalle Zürich.
FREE
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Art and Healing Workshop mit Living Museum Zürich
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Limmatstrasse 270, 8005 Zürich: Google Maps
Meeting Point: Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst: In front of the museum entrance on the ground floor inside the building (near the sign).
The collaboratively designed Art and Healing Workshop Series with the Living Museum Zurich has been taking place regularly since 2023 at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst or the Living Museum Zurich. The workshops create a space for encounters between people with and without psychiatric experiences or mental health topics.
In this open, co-creative environment, we will explore the theme of “Resonance and Resilience” throughout the autumn. Inspiration comes from Canción de Amor, the exhibition by artist Nicole L’Huillier at the Migros Museum. Her sound installations only unfold through the active participation of visitors, creating a space in which sound and body enter into resonance and new forms of togetherness can be experienced.
In the studio, we will work with paint, paper, textiles, and natural as well as everyday materials. The workshops encourage connection, solidarity, collective artistic exploration, and the strengthening of personal resources.
The workshop series will conclude with a public presentation of the artworks created during the sessions as part of a vernissage at the Living Museum Zürich.
Medical Disclaimer:
The Art and Healing Workshops provide a resource-oriented space for encounter and creative exchange and do not constitute psychotherapeutic treatment. If you are experiencing an acute mental health crisis, or if there is a risk of harm to yourself or others, please contact the emergency medical services (144 in Switzerland) or a psychiatric emergency service immediately.
With Cynthia Gavranic, Head of Education and Art Therapist in Training, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Marlise Vogel, Art Therapist ED, Chairperson, Living Museum Zurich and Tanya Weiss, Art Therapist, Living Museum
Languages: German and English
For Teenagers and adults aged 16 and older
Booking: Please register at least 3 days before the start via kunstvermittlung@migrosmuseum.ch
Maximum participants: 15 people
Free participation
Dates and locations:
Workshop: 14 Dezember (Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst),
Vernissage: 11 January, 5-7 PM no registration required
FREE
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Trauercafé – Gemeinsam über Trauer sprechen
Venue: Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Atelier
Meeting point: Museum entrance, ground floor
The Grief Café is a space for conversation, where we can come together to mourn and exchange memories. Farewells are a recurring part of life: whether it’s the end of a romantic relationship, a broken friendship, a death, or an illness. Sharing these experiences creates connection and can have a healing effect.
The Grief Café, inspired by the exhibition Disobedience Archive (Canopy for Broken Time), addresses themes such as loss, memory, political mourning, and community. During a guided tour with grief counselor Jordis Fellmann, we will discuss the thoughts and feelings the exhibition evokes in us.
Afterward, we will gather in the art mediation studio over coffee and cake to share our own experiences. Together with the grief counselor, we will explore rituals to confront death, grief, and loss, finding ways to process them effectively. To conclude, with the guidance of an art therapist, we will use various materials, paper, and colors to give shape to our grief and emotions through art.
- With: Jordis Fellmann, certified grief counselor and art educator and Cynthia Gavranic, art educator and art therapist
- Languages: in German and English
- Recommended for: Teenagers and adults aged 16 and older
- Registration: Please register at least 3 days before the event by emailing kunstvermittlung@migrosmuseum.ch
- Participants: Limited to 15 people – free of charge
FREE
FREE
FREE
Kunsthalle Zürich
Tour of the exhibitions by Ayo Akingbade and Caspar Heinemann with Annina Herzer
Learn more about the exhibitions and gain personal insights from Annina Herzer, art historian and Kunsthalle Zürich team member.
FREE
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Collection Insights
Meeting point: Museum entrance, ground floor
Who looks after the artworks collected by the museum? How are the various materials preserved? What challenges does conservation present regarding sustainability and managing resources? In this tour, participants will learn more about the background of the works on display from Francisca Silva e Sousa, Head of Collection Care.
She will explain how important it is to give a close and detailed look into the artworks and what one discovers in the process. Another topic to explore regards the challenge posed by artworks that use technologies that make them vulnerable to obsolescence. And how does one deal with objects whose appearance changes faster than desired, due to ageing processes? Francisca Silva e Sousa will explore these questions and provide a deeper insight into preventative care, as well as highlighting cases that defy traditional conservation standards.
Francisca Silva e Sousa is a conservator specialising in modern materials and time-based media art. She is interested in conservation ethics and how contemporary art challenges the classical museological framework.
FREE
FREE
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Öffentlicher Rundgang durch die Ausstellung
Location: In the museum
Language: German
The guided tour provides a multifaceted insight into the current exhibition.
- This event is free of charge.
- No registration required.
Guided tours usually take place on the first Thursday and Saturday of the month.
FREE
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Öffentlicher Rundgang durch die Ausstellung
Location: In the museum
Language: German
The guided tour provides a multifaceted insight into the current exhibition.
This event is free of charge.
No registration required.
FREE
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Artist Conversation mit Nicole L’Huillier und Nina Emge – on Listening
Venue: Exhibition
As part of the exhibition Canción de Amor, artist Nicole L’Huillier will be in conversation with artist Nina Emge, moderated by curator Yasmin Naderi Afschar.
Connected through a longstanding artistic exchange and friendship, the two artists will reflect on their shared interests in sound, listening, resonance and collective forms of experience. The conversation will explore their artistic practice, focusing on questions of vibration, embodiment, technology and alternative forms of sensing and connection.
Through a dialogue between two artists whose practices engage deeply with sound and listening, the conversation will consider how artistic processes can expand our understanding of environments, relationships and forms of communication. Together, L’Huillier and Emge will discuss listening as a creative and political practice, t, and the ways in which artistic works can create spaces for encounter, resonance and transformation.
Nicole L’Huillier (born in 1985 in Santiago, Chile; lives and works in Berlin) is a transdisciplinary artist and researcher working at the intersection of art, science and technology. Her work encompasses installations, sound and vibration sculptures, performances and experimental compositions. She studied architecture at the Universidad de Chile and was awarded her PhD in 2022 at the MIT Media Lab. Her honours include the MIT Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts and a fellowship from the DAAD’s Berlin Artists’ Programme. Her works have been exhibited internationally, including at the Venice Biennale (2024), the Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts (2025), the Bienal do Mercosul (2025), the Kunsthalle Bern and the Ming Contemporary Art Museum in Shanghai. She conducts research and teaches at the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich.
Nina Emge (*1995, Zurich) is an artist based in Zurich and Berlin. Her practice explores the social dimensions of sound, voice, silence and listening. Through installations, drawings, research and archival processes, Emge examines questions of collective work, decentralisationand alternative forms of knowledge production. She is a member of the Transnational Sound Initiative, and her work has been presented at institutions including Kunsthalle Zürich, Kunsthalle Bern, Istituto Svizzero, Shedhalle Zürich and Halle für Kunst Lüneburg.
Language: English
Barrier-free access
No registration required
Free of charge
FREE
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Resonance Journey: Voice, Body and Artworks
Venue: Exhibition space
Meeting point: Museum entrance, ground floor
The workshop-series “Resonance Journey” offers body-oriented experiences and approaches to art based on each exhibition in the museum spaces.
Which voices, melodies, or sounds fit the various artworks, and which movements or feelings do they evoke? Together, we will resonate with the art, our voices, and our bodies, inspired by the themes of the exhibition. Come along on this exciting journey!
In Nicole L’Huillier’s exhibition Nicole L'Huillier Cancion de Amor, the sound-based installations only fully unfold through the audience’s activation, making them a perfect fit for the Resonance Journey Workshop. Artist Mario Espinoza will lead a variety of voice and movement exercises, while art educator Cynthia Gavranic will provide information about selected works.
Workshop curated and led by Mario Espinoza (artist), with Cynthia Gavranic (head of learning).
- In English and German
- Recommended for ages 16 and up.
- Registration: Up to 3 days before the workshop at: kunstvermittlung@migrosmuseum.ch
- Number of participants: Maximum 12 people
- Free event
- Open to everyone, regardless of singing experience
FREE
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Resonance Journey: Voice, Body and Artworks
Venue: Exhibition space
Meeting point: Museum entrance, ground floor
The workshop-series “Resonance Journey” offers body-oriented experiences and approaches to art based on each exhibition in the museum spaces.
Which voices, melodies, or sounds fit the various artworks, and which movements or feelings do they evoke? Together, we will resonate with the art, our voices, and our bodies, inspired by the themes of the exhibition. Come along on this exciting journey!
In Nicole L’Huillier’s exhibition Nicole L'Huillier Cancion de Amor, the sound-based installations only fully unfold through the audience’s activation, making them a perfect fit for the Resonance Journey Workshop. Artist Mario Espinoza will lead a variety of voice and movement exercises, while art educator Cynthia Gavranic will provide information about selected works.
Workshop curated and led by Mario Espinoza (artist), with Cynthia Gavranic (head of learning).
- In English and German
- Recommended for ages 16 and up.
- Registration: Up to 3 days before the workshop at: kunstvermittlung@migrosmuseum.ch
- Number of participants: Maximum 12 people
- Free event
- Open to everyone, regardless of singing experience
FREE
Kunsthalle Zürich
Star Screen-Printing and Embroidery Workshop with Exhibition Tour
Star screen-printing and embroidery workshop with tour of the exhibition.
Whether with family, friends, or on your own, our “afternoons for everyone” offer a chance to discover the exhibitions in a playful way. Accessible and engaging for curious minds aged four and up, we introduce you to the artworks and working methods of Ayo Akingbade and Caspar Heinemann. Together, we share our impressions and then translate them into creative activities in the studio.
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For everyone aged 4+ (children and young people up to and including age 16 must be accompanied by an adult).
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Please sign up via: fuelscher@kunsthallezurich.ch
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Fee: CHF 16 per adult, including admission, children attend free of charge
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Kuratorischer Rundgang zu Canción de Amor
Location: In the museum
Language: German
The curatorial tour with the exhibition's curator Yasmin Naderi Afschar offers visitors the opportunity to learn more about the conception and creation of the exhibition, as well as the background of the artworks, and to ask questions to the exhibition makers. The tour will be conducted in German.
This event is free of charge.
No registration required.
Guided tours usually take place on the first Thursday and Saturday of the month.
FREE
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Art and Healing Workshop mit Living Museum Zürich
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Limmatstrasse 270, 8005 Zürich: Google Maps
Meeting Point: Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst: In front of the museum entrance on the ground floor inside the building (near the sign).
The collaboratively designed Art and Healing Workshop Series with the Living Museum Zurich has been taking place regularly since 2023 at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst or the Living Museum Zurich. The workshops create a space for encounters between people with and without psychiatric experiences or mental health topics.
In this open, co-creative environment, we will explore the theme of “Resonance and Resilience” throughout the autumn. Inspiration comes from Canción de Amor, the exhibition by artist Nicole L’Huillier at the Migros Museum. Her sound installations only unfold through the active participation of visitors, creating a space in which sound and body enter into resonance and new forms of togetherness can be experienced.
In the studio, we will work with paint, paper, textiles, and natural as well as everyday materials. The workshops encourage connection, solidarity, collective artistic exploration, and the strengthening of personal resources.
The workshop series will conclude with a public presentation of the artworks created during the sessions as part of a vernissage at the Living Museum Zürich.
Medical Disclaimer:
The Art and Healing Workshops provide a resource-oriented space for encounter and creative exchange and do not constitute psychotherapeutic treatment. If you are experiencing an acute mental health crisis, or if there is a risk of harm to yourself or others, please contact the emergency medical services (144 in Switzerland) or a psychiatric emergency service immediately.
With Cynthia Gavranic, Head of Education and Art Therapist in Training, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Marlise Vogel, Art Therapist ED, Chairperson, Living Museum Zurich and Tanya Weiss, Art Therapist, Living Museum
Languages: German and English
For Teenagers and adults aged 16 and older
Booking: Please register at least 3 days before the start via kunstvermittlung@migrosmuseum.ch
Maximum participants: 15 people
Free participation
Dates and locations:
Vernissage: 11 January, 5-7 PM no registration required
FREE
Kunsthalle Zürich
Tour of the exhibitions by Ayo Akingbade and Caspar Heinemann with Fanny Huaser, director Kunsthalle Zürich
Learn more about the exhibitions and gain personal insights from Fanny Hauser, director and curetor of Kunsthalle Zürich.
FREE
Kunsthalle Zürich
Tour of the exhibition at night
Tour of the exhibition at night!
Paper weaving workshop with tour of the exhibition.
Whether with family, friends, or on your own, our “events for everyone” offer a chance to discover the exhibitions in a playful way. Accessible and engaging for curious minds aged four and up, we introduce you to the artworks and working methods of Ayo Akingbade and Caspar Heinemann. Together, we share our impressions and then translate them into creative activities in the studio.
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For everyone aged 4+ (children and young people up to and including age 16 must be accompanied by an adult).
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Please sign up via: fuelscher [at] kunsthallezurich.ch
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Fee: CHF 16 per adult, including admission, children attend free of charge
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Offenes Atelier: Gemeinsam Klangwelten erleben Kopie
2:00 – 2:30 PM: Interactive family tour through the exhibition
Meeting point: Museum entrance
From 2:30 PM: Workshop in the Atelier Migros Museum, basement level
Feel free to come and go
Dear families, children, and accompanying adults, Today, we are opening our museum and studio especially for you!
At 2:00 pm, we will embark on a discovery tour of Canción de Amor, the exhibition by artist Nicole L'Huillier. There is plenty to listen to, observe, and explore, as the colourful sound installations only come to life through the participation of visitors.
From 2:30 pm onwards, we will get creative in our open studio. Using recycled materials that you bring along, such as empty cans, cardboard boxes, or plastic cups, we will create our own imaginative sound objects with paints, pebbles, and other materials. Shake, drum, rattle, and ring, anything is possible!
A delicious afternoon snack will be provided. We look forward to spending a joyful afternoon with you!
Please bring: Clean yogurt pots, cottage cheese containers, tin cans, or toilet paper rolls.
With: Cynthia Gavranic (Head of Education), Flavia Trachsler and Aina Aliotta (Art Educator)
Languages: German and English
No registration required
Feel free to come and go
Children must be accompanied by adults
Ideal age for children: 3 to 10 years
Free event
FREE
Kunsthalle Zürich
Tour of the exhibitions by Ayo Akingbade and Caspar Heinemann with Fanny Huaser, director Kunsthalle Zürich
Learn more about the exhibitions and gain personal insights from Fanny Hauser, director and curetor of Kunsthalle Zürich.
FREE
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Vernissage mit Werken der Art and Healing Workshops mit Living Museum Zürich
Venue: Living Museum Zürich (new address!) Am Guggenberg 8, 8053 Zürich
To conclude the collaboratively designed Art and Healing Workshop Series with the Living Museum Zurich, the works created during the workshops will be publicly presented at a vernissage in the Living Museum Zurich.
During the workshop series, we explored the theme “Resonance and Resilience” in an open, creative environment. Our inspiration came from the current exhibition.
Public Event
No registration required
Free participation
FREE
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Ask and Talk Kopie
The Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst is a vibrant place for encounters and meaningful exchange. On the last Saturday of each month, you can engage directly with our live speakers in the exhibition.
Do you have questions about the artworks, are you curious about background information on the exhibition, or would you like to discuss ways to build a more solidarity-based society? The expertise of our dedicated live speakers makes your visit both informative and interactive. We look forward to welcoming you!
- In German and English
- Children accompanied by adults
- No registration required
- Free to come and go
- Free of charge
FREE
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