{"title": "Illuminarium Zürich", "start": "2026-11-05T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Landesmuseum", "address": "Museumstrasse 2", "price": "Festival grounds: free; evening ticket (all shows): adults CHF 23.90, teens (10–16) CHF 14.90, child", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["art/installation/light-art"], "description": "ILLUMINARIUM transforms the courtyard of the Zurich State Museum into a winter festival of lights with immersive light shows, a fondue chalet, food stands and DJs. Behind the festival is the artist collective PROJEKTIL (We Are Projektil AG), which created three light shows of about 25 minutes each: two Yuki shows for young and old and a digital art show based on works by Paul Klee. The shows turn the courtyard's facades into a screen, combining light, music and playful knowledge, for example about the biodiversity of the rainforests. The festival area is free to enter; tickets are only required for the light shows.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/illuminarium-zurich-73769/", "official_url": "", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-05T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Landesmuseum", "address": "Museumstrasse 2", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Connecting Festive Moments", "start": "2026-11-05T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Landesmuseum", "address": "Museumstrasse 2", "price": "Free entry", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["art/installation/light-art", "occasion/christmas"], "description": "The ILLUMINARIUM is a Christmas light festival held in the courtyard of the Landesmuseum Zürich, taking place for the ninth time. It features three light shows – with the conductor Yuki, a jungle animal world created with Zurich Zoo, and Paul Klee in motion – plus fondue, wintery cocktails, food stalls and light installations. From 7 pm daily, DJs play at the ILLU.Dance, and on Sundays ILLU.Kids offers music for the whole family. Entry to this part of the light festival is free.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/connecting-festive-moments-106018/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0a154e283196315551c96b4716b419dfc3df615bfbccc104413e51330d8797d3-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Führung zum Plan Lumière", "start": "2026-11-11T17:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-11T19:00:00+01:00", "place": "Kunsthaus", "address": "Heimplatz 1, 8001 Zürich", "price": "Gratis", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/design"], "description": "A walking tour through Zurich's illuminated city centre, starting at the Kunsthauseingang Altbau entrance at Heimplatz. The tour is run by the City of Zurich, which is behind the Plan Lumière, a guide for site-specific lighting planning. Since 2004 a wide range of lighting projects have been realised, and some of them are presented on the tour. The Plan Lumière gives Zurich an attractive night-time appearance and strengthens the city's uniqueness after dark.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/fuhrung-zum-plan-lumiere-20216/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/70a51566fd858d54a5a42fb9171ea054d1f463fa8d2d92e70fc3bb6f191f0d7d-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": "Lichterfest", "start": "2026-11-08T16:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T18:00:00+01:00", "place": "Kiosk Sihlhölzli, Manessestrasse 51, 8003 Zürich", "address": "", "price": "Gratis", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["occasion/festival-of-lights", "community"], "description": "The Lichterfest is a festival at which the Sihlhölzli park is illuminated together. Behind the festival are Soziokultur Kinder, the Reformierte Kirche Kreis 3, Quartierarbeit GZ Heuried and Pfarrei Herz Jesu Wiedikon, Youth. The programme includes a craft activity, communal singing and a fire show by Herz-Feuer, with a small food and drink offering. In advance, lanterns are made at various places free of charge for different groups; the festival is accessible and suited to families and children.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/lichterfest-20515/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/861e13b9ec4b70c393b46a405bee6317a90695bfde91554229f5faf2dbc196ff-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Sabine Marcelis – Light and Color", "start": "2026-11-04T10:00:00+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": "Pipilotti Rist", "start": "2026-11-12T18:45:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-12T19:45:00+01:00", "place": "Kunsthaus", "address": "Heimplatz 1, 8001 Zürich", "price": "CHF 30 / CHF 23", "price_from": "30.00", "price_to": "30.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/media-art/video-art"], "description": "An evening guided tour, 'Pipilotti Rist – Lichtkunst für den Heimplatz', at the Kunsthaus Zürich. Art historian Samira Agha Majidi leads a shared walk past Pipilotti Rist's 'Tastenden Lichter' on Heimplatz and into her 'Pixelwald' in the extension building, where visitors can immerse themselves in her video art amid 3000 LEDs. Attendance is limited and registration is required; an FM group tour system makes the tour accessible to people with hearing impairments. The meeting point is the Moser-Bau, marked 'Führungen'.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/pipilotti-rist-6114/", "official_url": "https://www.kunsthaus.ch/besuch-planen/programm/pipilotti-rist-26-7/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/07f92c3fecf7b74d51c0d2396ec8f0cb70b4e3d0ef17f8e2d81edf3238ce7ed1-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Sabine Marcelis – Light and Color", "start": "2026-11-15T11:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-15T12:00:00+01:00", "place": "Toni-Areal", "address": "Pfingstweidstrasse 96, 8005 Zürich", "price": "Im Eintrittspreis inbegriffen", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/design"], "description": "A public guided tour through the exhibition 'Sabine Marcelis – Light and Color' at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich. Visitors learn more about the objects on display. The tour is aimed at adults and young people and is held in German. It lasts one hour.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/sabine-marcelis-light-and-color-69274/", "official_url": "https://museum-gestaltung.ch/de/events/sabine-marcelis-light-and-color-2026-11-15", "image": "https://noky.io/images/47486d73a2e0b266ae6e8775a81004db12d7843fcc61f3f29717a2548cad3ccd-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Aurora Edition – «Drone & Ambient Festival»", "start": "2026-11-14T16:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Altes Krematorium", "address": "Albisriederstrasse 51, 8003 Zürich", "price": "CHF 45 - CHF 60", "price_from": "45.00", "price_to": "60.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/electronic/ambient"], "description": "An immersive sound space for drone, ambient and neoclassicism inside the historic, heritage-protected crematorium Sihlfeld in Zurich. Behind the event stands the Zurich/Berlin-based cultural platform Aurora Edition, realising its Drone & Ambient Festival in Switzerland for the first time. At its heart is the original pipe organ from 1914, reactivated for contemporary music for the first time in decades, so that sound, architecture and transience merge into a unique experience. International and Swiss artists such as Abul Mogard, NYX, Elisabeth Hubmann, Yanling, Amedeo Cappelletti and Axel Kolb transform the sacred venue into a cultural resonance chamber, accompanied by mystical lighting design by Tym Novy.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/aurora-edition-drone-ambient-festival-29378/", "official_url": "https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/friedhofforum/de/veranstaltungen/aurora-edition----drone---ambient-festival-.html?calentry=1", "image": "https://noky.io/images/159c4fc50a9df9d49e59f1ba5bb4ae52f01cd02d48c92b55eb965d859865e42a-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Sabine Marcelis – Light and Color", "start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-04-04T00:00:00+02:00", "place": "ZHdK Zürcher Hochschule der Künste", "address": "Pfingstweidstrasse 96, 8005 Zürich", "price": "Siehe museum-gestaltung.ch", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/design"], "description": "This evening marks the opening of the exhibition \"Sabine Marcelis – Light and Color\" at the Toni-Areal. The Dutch designer Sabine Marcelis (*1985) plays with light, color, reflections and transparency, transforming translucent materials such as glass, resin or natural stone into luminous objects. The exhibition brings together central bodies of work with site-specific light pieces, including an eleven-meter walkable light tunnel made of 125 lamps and an installation featuring giant lava lamps and mirror walls. It is Marcelis' first museum exhibition, and the opening offers sign language interpretation as well as wheelchair and stroller access.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/sabine-marcelis-light-and-color-59451/", "official_url": "https://museum-gestaltung.ch/de/events/sabine-marcelis-light-and-color-2026-10-29", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e2aea0be21d36940cc070bce656e19c1daaf774b158a3affe6ddb05ca358fc0a-2000.webp"}]}