Events

'Body as Artistic Material and Form of Resistance'

In this tour, we will visit exhibitions in which the body is an arena for research as well as the material itself. In these shows, materiality becomes a symbolic language that represents and provokes different layers and exposures of being. We will speak about the subject, visible or invisible, its relevancy today, and its impact. We will discuss the venues and their position in the field, the curatorial and subtle decisions that are made, and meet with representatives of these shows. As part of the tour, we will visit Liz Larner Below Above at Zurich Kunsthalle, Raphaela Vogel My Appropriation of Her Holy Hollowness at Gregor Staiger gallery, Under my Skin group exhibition at Last Tango, Teresa Margolles exhibition at Peter Killchmann gallery and Peter Fichli & David Weiss Airports and Cars exhibition at Eva Presenhuber Gallery. Please notice that accessibility is limited in some of these locations.

Once again, Zurich Art Weekend is excited to present its Art Walks on the occasion of Zurich Art Weekend 2022!

Get to know Zurich’s thriving art scene following the footsteps of young curators and art mediators. You will visit selected art venues and discover upcoming and established artists through a two hours walk.
The tours will take place on Saturday June 11th and Sunday 12th, respectively starting at 11:00 and 14:00, will last 2 hours and will be conducted in English.

Guide: Ronny Lao Koren
Ronny Lao Koren (1990, Tel Aviv) is an independent curator. Her interest focuses on hospitality in the social framework of curatorial practice. Her recent projects include the three back-to-back group exhibitions “Becoming Habits: Chapter 1,2,3” (St. Moritz, 2021) and the accompanying book, the exhibition Rolling Rooms of Hilla Toony Navok for the multi-format series Choreographing the Public (Zurich, 2020), and the collective show Small Projects for Coming Communities (2019, Stuttgart). She is also a regular contributor to the OnCurating academic journal. In addition to her curatorial practice, Ronny is a digital marketing consultant specializing in arts and culture.

'POINTS OF DIS/CONNECTION'
The tour starts at Lullin+Ferrari with an exhibition “Who Delivers” by Benedikte Bjerre, where the artist addresses societal changes that divided the world into pre- and post-Corona times. Next, viewers are introduced to “Aus den Fugen - Momente der Störung” - a group show at Migros Museum, in which artists contemplate on our relationship with the world and disruptions in our connection to it. Another perspective on the subject is presented at Kunsthalle with “Below Above” by Liz Larner - the show revolving around presence and absence – communicating bodies, in-depth understanding of forms and materials, as well as a place of a human being in this web of connections. Finally, the tour is concluded by an introduction to “Back to the Roots” show at We Are AIA - a group exhibition, in which artists are looking for ways of turning forms of “knowing” into forms of “being” and inviting viewers to become a part of this shift.

Once again, Zurich Art Weekend is excited to present its Art Walks on the occasion of Zurich Art Weekend 2022.
Get to know Zurich’s thriving art scene following the footsteps of young curators and art mediators. You will visit selected art venues and discover upcoming and established artists through a two hours walk.

The tours will take place on Saturday June 11th and Sunday 12th, both starting at 11:00, will last 2 hours and will be conducted in English.

Guide: Olena Iegorova
Olena Iegorova is an independent curator, educator and cultural practitioner. After establishing her art and education center in Odessa, Ukraine, she worked on multiple public art projects, including city-scale street art festivals, charity fairs and exhibitions since 2014. The main focus of her practice is lying on the intersection of art and education, with an emphasis on social change. Currently Olena is based in Zurich and is a graduate of MAS program in Curating at ZHdK. In October 2021 she was a resident at UNIDEE program for art and social change of Fondazione Pistoletto. Her recent curatorial projects include “Intersections” exhibition in Galerie Vogtei in Herrliberg, series of shows within Compost - Open Bin project at OnCurating Space and several major shows, including “Terra Omnium” and “Last Words from the Periphery II”.

'The Poetics of Bits & Pieces: Text(ile)s and a Little Bit More'
At the heart of this Art Walk lies the power of language, embodied in both tangible and intangible ways. With Cabaret Voltaire, the birthplace of Dada movement, as a starting point, we will be exploring how space, time and memory interweave. Can the history of a place and the narratives of the past have an impact on our perception today? Ilaria Vinci’s fireplace, the object landscapes of ektor garcia and Stefan Burger’s luminaire objects in the library, will offer us some insights. The transfer from Dadaism to Conceptualism will take us only 6': "As long as it lasts", the tribute exhibition to Lawrence Weiner, at Mai 36 gallery will be our second stop, where we will be exploring the relationship between art, artist, and viewer; beyond words. Walking along Rämistrasse, a real hotspot for the gallery scene of the city, we will visit Hauser & Wirth Publishers and the exhibition set up by fluid editions "About, by or of Marcel Duchamp", featuring a selection of books and catalogues, rarely exhibited historical magazines and artistic responses to Duchamp’s works. Our passage from text to textile installations will take place with Marion Baruch’s fabric sculptures, which open a dialogue between space and memory, presence and absence, material and immaterial, at Sommer Salon. Following the Limmat river, the Art Walk will end at Wasserkirche. Stefan Vogel’s floor-to-ceiling installation will be welcoming us to "kommen, abhängen!", and to reflect again on the ways that the space is activating new experiences and narratives while, simultaneously, is encapsulating its history.
*The title is a play on Lawrence Weiner’s: "Bits & Pieces Put Together to Present a Semblance of a Whole" 1991 and "A Bit of Matter and a Little Bit More" 1976.

Once again, Zurich Art Weekend is excited to present its Art Walks on the occasion of Zurich Art Weekend 2022.
Get to know Zurich’s thriving art scene following the footsteps of young curators and art mediators. You will visit selected art venues and discover upcoming and established artists through a two hours walk.

The tours will take place on Saturday June 11th and Sunday 12th, both starting at 14:00, will last 2 hours and will be conducted in English.

Guide: Sofia Gkinko
Sofia Gkinko holds a PhD in Modern Greek Literature, specializing in Periodical Press, from the University of Patras, and a MAS in Curating from the Zurich University of the Arts. She has been an exchange PhD student at Lumière University Lyon 2 and trained in Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig and University of Oxford. Gkinko has participated in conferences and interdisciplinary research projects with emphasis on literature, translation and periodicals, in Greece and France. She currently works at Visarte Zurich, the professional association for visual artists, architects, and independent curators in Switzerland. Previously she has worked in cultural organisations and institutions in Greece and Albania. Within the curatorial realm, her research focuses on art and language, the relationship between writing and performance, poetry and body, score and (re)enactment, as well as their blurring boundaries.

'Stadt, Land, Fluss'
The Stadt, Land, Fluss walk aims to reveal how Zurich, through art, overcomes its identity and embraces not only its personal migratory component, but also the suggestions of distant oceans and nations thematised through the symbolic restitution of ecological struggles and perception exercises. Starting with the project Found in Translation at the Helmhaus and the installation KOMMEN, ABHÄNGEN! at the Wasserkirche by Stefan Vogel for Tichy Ocean Foundation, we will visit spaces on both sides of the Limmat River, crossing it right where the river splits in two and then reaching the OnCurating Project Space as the last stop, where the performance Training to Access Ecology as a Migratory System #2 - Oceanic entanglements from Stefanie Knobel & Samrat Banerjee will begin at 4 pm.

Once again, Zurich Art Weekend is excited to present its Art Walks on the occasion of Zurich Art Weekend 2022.
Get to know Zurich’s thriving art scene following the footsteps of young curators and art mediators. You will visit selected art venues and discover upcoming and established artists through a two hours walk.

The tours will take place on Saturday June 11th and Sunday 12th, respectively starting at 14:00 and 11:00, will last 2 hours and will be conducted in German, but can also be translated into English if required.

Guide: Eleonora Stassi
Eleonora Stassi (1989, Rome) is a freelance curator and Montessori teacher based in Zurich. Due to her mixed origins from Italy, North Africa and the Middle East, which converge on the sea, she describes herself as Mediterranean. Her practice and research focus on issues of identity, feminism, digital nomadism, post-migration and art as a possibility of resistance and 'making visible', especially in relation to the Kurdish cultural genocide and the Rojava social system. She developed her MAS project under the title 'Curating (Post) Migration'. She is the initiator of the MigrationsMuseum Zürich, of the project The Feminist Capital and with the collective Zaira Oram of the OTO SOUND MUSEUM . She has two daughters. She is co-editor of the OnCurating issue "Work, Migration, Memes, Personal Geopolitics", published and presented with a panel as a parallel event to Manifesta 11.

'Hidden corners of Oerlikon - a tour in the off-spaces of the periphery'
Always more spaces open up in really strange building and locations. In this tour we would not only concentrate to look at exhibitions and the different artists' works, but especially at the history of each space, understanding what led the owners to open a space so far from the vibrant and chic Rämistrasse.

Once again, Zurich Art Weekend is excited to present its Art Walks on the occasion of Zurich Art Weekend 2022.
Get to know Zurich’s thriving art scene following the footsteps of young curators and art mediators. You will visit selected art venues and discover upcoming and established artists through a two hours walk.

The tours will take place on Saturday June 11th and Sunday 12th, both starting at 16:00, will last 2 hours and will be conducted in English.

Guide: Elisa Pezza
Elisa (b. 1998, Rovereto IT) lives and works in Zurich. Elisa Pezza’s research focuses on the affirmation of the curatorial practice as an artistic practice. In her works, curatorial characteristics are questioned and investigated through a critical approach and an artistic research, which she has developed thanks to her studies in Fine Arts at the Free University of Bozen/Bolzano and that continues to enhance through her Master in Curatorial Studies at the ZHdK in Zurich.
Her interest in performance had led Elisa to undertake a semester at the Angewandte in Vienna, where she participated at the 2020 SoHo Festival and contributed in the collaborative exhibition at Tonspur_Passage in the MuseumsQuartier titled Private Dots and Public Clouds curated by Georg Weckwerth. However, her main interest remains curatorial practice, which she has cultivated working as gallery assistant at Galleria Fonti in Naples and as curatorial assistant at Centrale Fies.

'In memory of'
Walking to look towards the experimentation of multiple languages between present and past. Among the themes that weave the red thread of our journey are memory, resistance and the body, understood as a collective and individual political being.
This walk begins at Luma Westbau with Sophia Al Maria's film Tender Point Ruin and continues in the context of the same building – one of the cultural poles of the Zurich art scene – in the immersive video and sound installation May amnesia never kiss us on the mounth of Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme at Migros Museum. The third stage takes a step into the history of art with a view to the exhibition Light vulnerable objects threatened by eight cement bricks by the missing artist Bas Jan Ader, honored on this occasion with the reenactment of the homonymous performance to be held on June 12 at 6 pm at Verein by association, off space in Wiedikon –the district that connects the urban space with the Zurich forest.

Once again, Zurich Art Weekend is excited to present its Art Walks on the occasion of Zurich Art Weekend 2022.
Get to know Zurich’s thriving art scene following the footsteps of young curators and art mediators. You will visit selected art venues and discover upcoming and established artists through a two hours walk.

The tours will take place on Saturday June 11th and Sunday 12th, both starting at 16:00, will last 2 hours and will be conducted in English.

Guide: Francesca Ceccherini
Francesca Ceccherini (IT, 1986) is curator, researcher and writer based in Zurich.
She develops projects aimed at exploring the relation between images and memory, the dichotomy history-contemporaneity. She investigates the present time by exploring issues such as borders, universes of invisible and migrations in relation to multiple fields of knowledge. With a specialized practice in the realization of site specific and trans-disciplinary projects, she is the founder of OTO Sound Museum and Zaira Oram. She collaborated both with independent spaces and museums including Kunsthalle Winterthur (Winterthur), Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen (St. Gallen), Johann Jacobs Museum (Zurich), IIC Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Zurigo (Zurich), Fondazione Pastificio Cerere (Rome), Nomas Foundation (Rome), GAMeC – Galleria d’arte moderna e contemporanea (Bergamo), Palazzo Monti (Brescia), Accademia Carrara (Bergamo) and La Triennale di Milano (Milan). She is the curator of the international project ONE BY ONE by Filippo Berta – Italian Council winner in 2019 –, part of the Contemporary Locus and Exibart magazine.