{"title": "Avant-Garde – Graphic Design on the Verge of a Breakthrough", "start": "2026-10-30T10:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Museum für Gestaltung", "address": "Ausstellungsstrasse 60, 8005 Zürich", "price": "Regular: CHF 15.00, Reduced: CHF 10.00, Free admission for everyone every Thursday starting at 5:00 ", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/design/graphic-design"], "description": "The special exhibition \"Avant-Garde – Graphic Design on the Verge of a Breakthrough\" at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich looks back at graphic design between the world wars, when Constructivism, New Typography and photography defined its visual language. It shows posters, collages and magazines by El Lissitzky, Valentina Kulagina, Adolphe Mouron Cassandre, Jan Tschichold, Lucia Moholy and Binia Bill, among others. A reduced approach of colours and forms replaced the previous subjective-artistic styles and painterly narratives. The exhibition also highlights parallel trends in architecture, product design, theatre and film, capturing a brief, intense era that still influences graphic design today.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/avant-garde-graphic-design-on-the-verge-of-a-breakthrough-59604/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ede82ad8b08d1ddf3cb23088482a2d113e7f0a8fa37a2402eecc397937c91298-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-30T10:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Museum für Gestaltung", "address": "Ausstellungsstrasse 60, 8005 Zürich", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-01T00:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Museum für Gestaltung", "address": "Ausstellungsstrasse 60, 8005 Zürich", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-04T00:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Museum für Gestaltung", "address": "Ausstellungsstrasse 60, 8005 Zürich", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Avantgarde – Grafikdesign im Aufbruch", "start": "2026-09-03T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-02-21T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Museum für Gestaltung", "address": "Ausstellungsstrasse 60, 8005 Zürich", "price": "CHF 15 regular, CHF 10 reduced; free for under 20s and for everyone on Thursdays from 17:00", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/design/graphic-design"], "description": "Avantgarde – Grafikdesign im Aufbruch is an exhibition at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich on Ausstellungsstrasse. The Museum für Gestaltung Zürich presents how graphic design was radically renewed between the world wars through constructivism, New Typography and photography. Posters, collages and magazines by El Lissitzky, Valentina Kulagina, Jan Tschichold, Lucia Moholy, Binia Bill and Adolphe Mouron Cassandre are shown alongside parallel trends in architecture, product design, theatre and film. Children from the age of nine can explore the exhibition on their own and solve playful tasks along the way.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/avantgarde-grafikdesign-im-aufbruch-6306/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f2ef284410c2fe0622f7f71264afcb87b3b2b7773d9078b04606220db77cf10d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Cherchez la femme – Weibliche Positionen der Avantgarde", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Museum für Gestaltung", "address": "Ausstellungsstrasse 60, 8005 Zürich", "price": "Kostenlos", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/art-history", "society/gender"], "description": "A dialogue-based guided tour at the Museum für Gestaltung exploring women's positions in the avant-garde. Art and design historian Gerda Breuer and Bettina Richter, curator of the poster collection and the exhibition, shed light on works by well-known and lesser-known pioneers of modernism. It looks at the reasons for the marginalization of women in design history, the politics of gender equality in the young Soviet Union, and a feminist avant-garde in the West. The tour is aimed at adults and teenagers, is wheelchair accessible and is held in German.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/cherchez-la-femme-weibliche-positionen-der-avantgarde-6313/", "official_url": "https://museum-gestaltung.ch/de/events/cherchez-la-femme-weibliche-positionen-der-avantgarde-2026-11-05", "image": "https://noky.io/images/75d1b8726ed2fae1e449a898118889d2d746283e8f1b4ad1dc5c1f6a42bca30c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Grafik. Visuelle Gestaltung im Alltag", "start": "2026-07-17T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-04-04T00:00:00+02:00", "place": "Landesmuseum", "address": "Museumstrasse 2", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/design/graphic-design"], "description": "The exhibition \"Grafik. Visuelle Gestaltung im Alltag\" shows the power of visual communication in everyday life. It draws on the extensive graphics collection of the Swiss National Museum. Historical posters and objects illustrate how graphic design creates desire, conveys stereotypes and shapes cultural identities. The second part makes design tools and craft processes visible, and interactive stations invite visitors to try things out themselves.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/grafik-visuelle-gestaltung-im-alltag-69481/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/dd602af7e9cdab973f1e764158a62c4584f10e83e6f4f126f0db58b91b543806-600.webp"}, {"title": "Offenes Atelier für Alle", "start": "2026-11-01T14:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Museum für Gestaltung", "address": "Ausstellungsstrasse 60, 8005 Zürich", "price": "CHF 5.00 pro Person (unter 4 Jahren kostenlos)", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/design/graphic-design"], "description": "The open studio invites visitors to discover, try out and make things themselves, inspired by the exhibition \"Avantgarde – Grafikdesign im Aufbruch\". It is led by graphic designer Daniela Mirabella and Nic Tillein, a scenographer and cultural mediator. The design ideas relate to the museum's exhibitions or its architecture, and the themes change regularly. The offer is open to all ages; children up to 10 years attend only with an adult, and no registration is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/offenes-atelier-fur-alle-59829/", "official_url": "https://museum-gestaltung.ch/de/kalender?f_target_group=88--17--19&f_location=1&f_event_type=115&f_exhibition=542", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f32bc4386be590338496117e5482b764518dc116110b229baf38cd01153aa83d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Swiss Design Collection", "start": "2026-10-30T10:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Museum für Gestaltung", "address": "Ausstellungsstrasse 60, 8005 Zürich", "price": "CHF 15.00 / 10.00", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/design/graphic-design"], "description": "The Swiss Design Collection is a permanent exhibition at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich at the Toni-Areal. The museum holds the largest international design collection in Switzerland and presents highlights from graphic design, typography, poster design, textile and product design, as well as decorative arts. Around 2,500 objects and an accessible archive allow visitors to experience design in all its diversity. The Forum hosts temporary installations offering external perspectives on the collection, while in the Studio visitors can experiment with their own designs.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/swiss-design-collection-59638/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/13bd728c4d8953a107407d70c38fb0c5ad15898ff1446fdad4e9b7d2714659fd-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Licht", "start": "2026-10-09T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-01-14T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Museum für Gestaltung", "address": "Ausstellungsstrasse 60, 8005 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/design/graphic-design/poster"], "description": "Licht is a pop-up exhibition of posters on the subject of light, shown in the windows of the Swiss National Bank in Zurich. It is put together by the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, which selects works from its poster collection, and hosted by the Swiss National Bank, which has offered its windows for such presentations since the year 2000. The focus lies on the depiction of artificial light and on posters about lighting design and the effect of light, among them a tourism poster by Eugen Bachmann and a Winterhilfe poster from 2005. Contrasts of light and dark and layered colour values make the pictured light appear to vibrate.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/licht-21166/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/db3b12589fb3afbf3a9210fa9f2a852fd636a857e143459b9b8637dca5c0c449-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Aus der Lehre in die Sammlung – Fokus: Designausbildung", "start": "2026-11-12T18:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-12T19:30:00+01:00", "place": "Museum für Gestaltung", "address": "Ausstellungsstrasse 60, 8005 Zürich", "price": "Kostenlos", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://museum-gestaltung.ch/de/events/aus-der-lehre-die-sammlung-fokus-designausbildung-2026-11-12", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/design"], "description": "A talk at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich presenting two projects straight from design education: «Healing Light» (BA Art Education, ZHdK) and the book design module «150 Jahre Museum für Gestaltung» (BA Graphic Design, HSLU). Individual objects from both projects have already made their way into the museum's collection. Together with students and their lecturers, current questions of design education are discussed, such as which topics move the next generation and which skills are in demand today. Involved are Sharon Boccali, Jana Boldo, Paula Rüttimann, Svenja Streit and Paula Christen.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/aus-der-lehre-in-die-sammlung-fokus-designausbildung-6314/", "official_url": "https://museum-gestaltung.ch/de/events/aus-der-lehre-die-sammlung-fokus-designausbildung-2026-11-12", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7b151a7aaff8e0e1e83bacd70d6f0510ed39b1b846444fcf5bca16afa690a955-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Collage-Werkstatt", "start": "2026-11-10T09:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-10T11:30:00+01:00", "place": "Museum für Gestaltung", "address": "Ausstellungsstrasse 60, 8005 Zürich", "price": "CHF 150 pro Klasse + reduzierter Eintritt CHF 10 pro Person", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/collage"], "description": "\"Collage-Werkstatt\" is a workshop for school classes of all levels from primary school onward. It is led by Meret Gschwend and Franziska Hess, staff members of the museum's education department, and deals with designers of the interwar years who made their desire for new social orders visible in posters and other graphic disciplines. Participants explore today's possible utopias in fold-out collages, working together in groups or in pairs. A selection of the resulting collages will be presented as a pop-up exhibition at the museum in spring 2027.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/collage-werkstatt-69272/", "official_url": "https://museum-gestaltung.ch/de/events/collage-werkstatt-2026-11-10", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3408ad915747746c7556ea45c369729ec0664c941c27dd6127a275c514414a4b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Typo move", "start": "2026-11-06T09:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-06T11:30:00+01:00", "place": "Museum für Gestaltung", "address": "Ausstellungsstrasse 60, 8005 Zürich", "price": "CHF 150 pro Klasse + reduzierter Eintritt CHF 10 pro Person", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://museum-gestaltung.ch/de/events/typo-move-2026-11-06", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["art/design/typography"], "description": "'Typo move' is a school workshop on typography held at the Toni-Areal by the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich. The Vermittlung team guides participants through the Swiss Design Collection, where posters of every typographic style can be discovered. Using pencil and paper, the design possibilities of lettering are explored in the studio. Finally, stop-motion technique brings the letters to life.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/typo-move-69268/", "official_url": "https://museum-gestaltung.ch/de/events/typo-move-2026-11-05", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f00ba54381fd49e08716d02f52e25d62b0a09063d7741804b127207c3300920b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Christoph Hefti – The Missing Cat und andere textile Storys", "start": "2026-07-10T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-01-03T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Museum für Gestaltung", "address": "Ausstellungsstrasse 60, 8005 Zürich", "price": "Regulär CHF 15, ermässigt CHF 10; unter 20 Jahren gratis; jeden Donnerstag ab 17 Uhr freier Eintritt", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/textile-art"], "description": "This exhibition at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich is the first solo show of Swiss textile designer Christoph Hefti (born 1967), regarded as one of the country's outstanding textile designers. His work moves between textiles, fashion, ceramics, video and stage, weaving mystical, poetic stories together with precise craftsmanship. The show presents hand-knotted rugs, patchwork and printed textiles, as well as ceramics, furniture, costumes and performative stagings. Eyes, moons and cats fill a surreal, colourful and wild universe between design and art.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/christoph-hefti-the-missing-cat-und-andere-textile-storys-6307/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ad2f982accfe07bcf17f291b142b654a23884330defd17f93408b2fcc3815662-2000.webp"}]}