Events

THE DARK SIDE OF THE DIGITAL

The tour is an exploration of the blurred lines dividing real and digital universes we find ourselves balancing between. Nowadays, such phenomena as digital entropy, advancing AI algorythms, cryptomarket and extended reality are the new normal spreading influence in all spheres of our existence, including art. Technologies meant to serve society raise growing concerns such as information security and privacy issues, screen-time and digital addiction, epidemics of loneliness and anxiety, grey areas in legal systems etc. Being a reflection of the society, art has changed in an attempt to redefine itself in this modern realm. We will trace the ways in which challenges of Digital Era inspired artists to re-think what makes us human and offer new models of co-existing in this ever-evolving multidimensional metaspace.
We start with “and they say it’s true” installation by Nora Turato, recently presented by Kunsthaus Digilab, proceed to group show “Vertrauen” (“Trust”) in Helmhaus and complete our journey with “Maximum Security Society” exhibition by Julia Scher in Kunsthalle Zurich.

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

Starting point: Kunsthaus Zürich, Chipperfield-Buidling (new) in front of the Helpdesk
Guide: Olena Iegorova
Note: Participants will need a public transportation ticket (from CHF 3.10)

Olena Iegorova is an independent curator, educator and cultural practitioner. After establishing her art and education center in Odessa, Ukraine, she organised multiple public art projects, including city-scale street art festivals, charity fairs and exhibitions in Ukraine, Qatar and Switzerland since 2014. The main focus of her practice is lying on the intersection of art and education, with an emphasis on social change. Olena is a graduate of MAS Programme in Curating at Zurich University of the Arts and is currently a research team member at Continuing Education Centre (ZHdK). She is also a curatorial board member of OnCurating Project Space.

BEYOND THE EXHIBITION

From Carl Andre to younger international artists, we will explore together four galleries which occupy an interesting space in the Zürich's art scene. We will start our tour at Gallery Weiss Falk which since 2016 presents young and upcoming Swiss and international artists with outstanding exhibitions. Next, we will move towards the most fluorescent street in the Zürich’s art scene: Rämistrasse, where the viewers would be introduced to a solo exhibition of the New Yorker painter Amy Feldeman at Galerie Eva Presenhuber. Thirdly, we will move to visit one of the newest gallery in the city: Galerie Tschudi where the visitors would have the possibility to discover the first group show in the new space with well-esablished artists such as Carl Andre and Petra Wunderlich. The tour would conclude at the last floor of a very unique building with a solo exhibition by Shai Azoulay at Sommer Salon.

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

Starting point: Weiss Falk, Sonneggstrasse 82, 8006 Zürich
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.