{"title": "Grafik.", "start": "2026-07-17T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-04-04T00:00:00+02:00", "place": "Landesmuseum", "address": "Museumstrasse 2", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/design/graphic-design"], "description": "«Grafik. Visuelle Gestaltung im Alltag» is an exhibition about the power of visual language. Using historical posters and objects from the graphic collection of the Swiss National Museum, it shows how graphic design creates desire, transports stereotypes and shapes cultural identities. A second part makes the design tools and craft processes visible, from poster design and logos to typography. Interactive stations invite visitors to get hands-on.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/grafik-92526/", "official_url": "", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-07-17T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-04-04T00:00:00+02:00", "place": "Landesmuseum", "address": "Museumstrasse 2", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Schweizer Grafik: vom Plakat zu Hypermedia", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Landesmuseum", "address": "Museumstrasse 2", "price": "kostenlos", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/design/graphic-design"], "description": "A panel discussion and exchange of experiences held in connection with the exhibition \"Grafik\" at the Swiss National Museum. It looks at change and continuity in graphic design in the 20th and 21st centuries, from the commercial artist of the 1930s to the digital generation. The panellists are Rosmarie Tissi, Felix Pfäffli and Richard Feurer, moderated by Elinor Landmann (SRF). The event is free of charge, and booking is compulsory.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/schweizer-grafik-vom-plakat-zu-hypermedia-97606/", "official_url": "https://www.landesmuseum.ch/de/veranstaltung/schweizer-grafik-vom-plakat-zu-hypermedia-52541", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ed907898a4fdd5cce3a0918d2ca6ab54a1ca1d5bd370816a1965821d9fb2f722-2000.webp"}, {"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", "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/560b160c84262cb86d4ca5f4aae4e4cf7e26a30221ab2d6e10fb0a6baefc3b4c-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, "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": "Avant-garde. Graphic Design on the Verge of a Breakthrough", "start": "2026-11-10T00:00:00+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", "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"}, {"title": "unlesbar", "start": "2026-10-09T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-01-03T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Strauhof", "address": "", "price": "CHF 10 / CHF 6 reduced; free for children up to 16 and members", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/design/graphic-design", "literature"], "description": "Unlesbar is an exhibition about writing that cannot be read at once, which unsettles yet also sparks curiosity. It is shown at the Strauhof and presents 42 documents from the Swiss Literary Archive, hardly legible or altered, enciphered, blacked out and struck through. The exhibition spans ancient writing systems, graphic design and typography up to (un)readable literary classics and the swirling signs of a fast-moving present. It develops a visual aesthetic that fascinates independently of the content.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/unlesbar-6296/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ccf1f6ed6c2335d08e74155ef7d9c46b75bdc8580d9466fc5f6d289d19e5a197-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Renaming – People, Things, Places", "start": "2026-11-10T00:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Völkerkundemuseum der Universität Zürich", "address": "Pelikanstrasse 40, 8001 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["society/languages"], "description": "\"Renaming – People, Things, Places\" is a special exhibition at the Museum of Ethnology of the University of Zurich. Names have power: they shape our sense of self, how others treat us, and how we perceive the world. The museum has outgrown its name and is looking for a new one; the exhibition is part of this transition and invites visitors to reflect on the motivations behind and consequences of name changes. Using objects from the museum's collection as a starting point, it explores what it means to name or rename people, things, and places, and brings to light the diverse stories associated with names.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/renaming-people-things-places-59608/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/71cd3b7d5ce24db460fa6b20fa64a2006de5541bb8b58402055f0e62159ffb56-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Sabine Marcelis – Light and Color", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Museum für Gestaltung", "address": "Ausstellungsstrasse 60, 8005 Zürich", "price": "kostenlos und ohne Anmeldung", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/design"], "description": "This is the opening (vernissage) of the exhibition \"Sabine Marcelis – Light and Color\" at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich at the Toni-Areal. It centers on designer Sabine Marcelis and her work with light and color, presented by the museum. The evening opens with welcome remarks and an introduction by museum director Christian Brändle and curator Damian Fopp, after which the exhibition is open. Admission is free and without registration, the event is accessible and offers sign language interpretation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/sabine-marcelis-light-and-color-6311/", "official_url": "https://museum-gestaltung.ch/de/events/sabine-marcelis-light-and-color-2026-10-29", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6ae593042cb7d31c34335bd77f1577f778966871f515ac1cff933847f4461390-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Wir und der Krieg", "start": "2026-04-17T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-01-17T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Landesmuseum", "address": "Museumstrasse 2", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/switzerland"], "description": "\"Wir und der Krieg\" is an exhibition at the Landesmuseum Zürich. From different perspectives, it shows how wars from the late Middle Ages to today have influenced political structures, economic interests and social orders in Switzerland, as war is a formative element of Swiss history. Behind the exhibition stands the Landesmuseum Zürich, which, under the roof of the Swiss National Museum, presents Swiss history from its beginnings to the present day.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/wir-und-der-krieg-69478/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b23b9aea516969b6679f7a51566d0d2ab7997ac94a3f40e2f5ff163b79503e32-600.webp"}]}