{"title": "H.R. Giger: Der Weg des Magiers (Passagen)", "start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-29T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Photobastei 2.0", "address": "Sihlquai 125, 8005 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["society/drugs/psychedelics", "art/painting"], "description": "An exhibition as part of the «Substanzen Jetzt.» festival shows the four-part group of works «Passagen – Tempel» by H. R. Giger from 1974–75, including the central picture «Tempel, der Weg des Magiers». The monumental pictures appear like transitional spaces between birth and death, technology and body, fear and transformation. Giger's biomechanical temples recall inner landscapes and archetypal images of the hero's journey, the passage through darkness and the confrontation with the unconscious. Created in a time of intense engagement with consciousness expansion, psychology and psychedelic experience, the works touch imagery of dissolution, rebirth, merging and boundary crossing.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/hr-giger-der-weg-des-magiers-passagen-116456/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0dafd9ab502d61f4a91b47e6dcc0fafc44e7cec86b84855b166dd8b30cb3b51e-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-29T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Photobastei 2.0", "address": "Sihlquai 125, 8005 Zürich", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "H.R. Giger: Der Weg des Magiers (Passagen)", "start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Photobastei 2.0", "address": "Sihlquai 125, 8005 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "The special exhibition shows H.R. 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A joint party takes place on the middle weekend.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/substanzen-jetzt-das-festival-123006/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b33aeb2b0422ba307cf0881c0cff762ecbd3bb631bf293e360f3e75f88a5eace-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Substanzen Jetzt. - Das Festival", "start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-29T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Photobastei 2.0", "address": "Sihlquai 125, 8005 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["art/psychedelic-art", "occasion/festival", "society/drugs"], "description": "On 12 November, the festival \"Substanzen Jetzt.\" opens with a special event at the venue. It marks the start of the festival programme running from 12 to 29 November. The festival offers a wide range of formats: exhibitions of psychedelic art, panel discussions, tables with experts, concerts, films, workshops and a party on the middle weekend. These open up new perspectives and create altered states of consciousness entirely without substances.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/substanzen-jetzt-das-festival-116458/", "official_url": "https://substanzen-festival.ch/programm/eroeffnung?ansicht=chronologisch&ereignis=eroeffnung", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9992dc377bb8164dd775aa26ce6b8838614445e4104d3a9249fa49f2b632fa97-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Josh Smith: Mind Child", "start": "2026-09-25T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-12-11T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Galerie Eva Presenhuber", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/contemporary-painting"], "description": "“Mind Child” is an exhibition of new and recent paintings, monotypes, works on paper, and jewelry by the American artist Josh Smith at Galerie Eva Presenhuber in the Maag Areal. At its center is the recent series “Destiny,” in which Smith transports the figure of the Grim Reaper from historical pictorial tradition into the present—for instance as a cyclist riding through the streets of New York. In parallel, the gallery shows a selection of works by Dieter Roth, whose approach has long been an important reference for Smith. The exhibition also presents “Stage Paintings,” which extend painting into space, alongside works from 2024 with a distinctly print-like quality.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/josh-smith-mind-child-59089/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/773b905fed31931b417ce0e81a66ec30ca2dd035ca13a541c0d0df06c1cbe273-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Dieter Roth: Curated by Josh Smith", "start": "2026-09-25T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-12-11T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Galerie Eva Presenhuber", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/mixed-media"], "description": "At the Maag Areal, an exhibition is on view devoted to the work of an influential Swiss artist of the 20th century. It was curated by a painter who to this day regards him as an important artistic reference and is showing his own exhibition in parallel. The show brings together works from the late 1960s through the 1980s, among them painted shelves, object assemblages, prints, self-drawings and pieces made from unusual materials such as chocolate or light bulbs. It presents an open understanding of art in which studio, material, working process and life are inseparably connected and the boundaries between the everyday and art dissolve.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/dieter-roth-curated-by-josh-smith-59090/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/49ff75d869402bd725bda95075bab2d4d62303743761415026494ce9c428a2dc-2000.webp"}, {"title": "PAPER MIRRORS", "start": "2026-11-13T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Photobastei 2.0", "address": "Sihlquai 125, 8005 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/drugs/psychedelics", "art/psychedelic-art"], "description": "\"PAPER MIRRORS\" is a richly illustrated talk on the history of psychedelic art and the emergence of blotter art. The internationally active artist Kevin Barron explores how psychedelic visual worlds developed and how printed blotting paper evolved from a functional medium into an artistic form in its own right. Drawing on selected examples, he examines the cultural, social and aesthetic contexts of this distinctive art form. The talk also offers a deeper introduction to the exhibition, opening a window onto a visual universe where counterculture, contemporary history and art intersect.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/paper-mirrors-116462/", "official_url": "https://substanzen-festival.ch/programm/paper-mirrors", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2014aa20f5da54a996801b393a2b97f4df0296d8050057a9a191a067b1ceab27-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Mind Child", "start": "2026-09-25T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-12-11T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Galerie Eva Presenhuber", "address": "Zahnradstrasse 21, 8005 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/contemporary-painting"], "description": "Mind Child is a solo exhibition by the painter Josh Smith at Galerie Eva Presenhuber in the Maag Areal quarter of Zurich. The gallery presents Smith's eighth solo show in Zurich, centred on his 2025 body of work Destiny, which moves the figure of the Grim Reaper between historical pictorial traditions and a contemporary visual language; 2024 paintings, monotypes, oil-on-paper works, jewelry and Stage Paintings are shown alongside it. In parallel, the gallery presents a focused selection of works by Dieter Roth, curated by Josh Smith.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/mind-child-1326/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/feec898ef4960621d961515c72ef1fe955e84b430e12bbd48315695eb99c2dbb-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Eröffnung", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Photobastei 2.0", "address": "Sihlquai 125, 8005 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["society/drugs/psychedelics"], "description": "The opening of the festival «Substanzen Jetzt.» kicks off two and a half weeks of exhibitions, events and encounters at the Photobastei in Zurich. From 12 to 29 November 2026, the Photobastei Zurich devotes itself to the multi-layered topic of psychoactive substances. With exhibitions, panels, concerts, films, workshops and regulars' tables, the festival sheds light on psychedelics from different perspectives and creates space for discourse, knowledge sharing and the exchange of experiences.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/eroffnung-97607/", "official_url": "https://substanzen-festival.ch/programm", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0edb175530556dff8022e0aa223a3cb2e834154de96b2c7f6aa25440c7a6ec09-2000.webp"}]}