{"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", "dates": [{"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", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Sabine Marcelis – Light and Color", "start": "2026-10-30T10:00:00+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", "tickets_url": "", "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": "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", "tickets_url": "", "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": "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": "https://www.zuerich-kultur.ch/kultur/zuerich/museen/kunsthaus.zuerich/kunsthaus.zuerich.html#seg140471", "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": "ILLUMINARIUM", "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": "14.90", "price_to": "23.90", "tickets_url": "https://illuminarium-2026.shop.bookinea.app/de", "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-73769/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"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": "Swiss Design Collection", "start": "2026-10-29T10:00:00+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": "Sabine Marcelis - Licht und Farbe (Vernissage)", "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": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "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-licht-und-farbe-vernissage-59451/", "official_url": "https://museum-gestaltung.ch/de/events/sabine-marcelis-light-and-color-2026-10-29", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4aba298cf765be751ecf7d40f019377c3884a0dbc6fd2d36bd68e6501b36494f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Das Geheimnis des Lichts", "start": "2026-11-04T14:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-04T18:00:00+01:00", "place": "Kunsthaus", "address": "Heimplatz 1, 8001 Zürich", "price": "CHF 40, CHF 20", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "40.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.kunsthaus.ch/besuch-planen/programm/das-geheimnis-des-lichts/tickets", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["art"], "description": "\"Das Geheimnis des Lichts\" is a workshop for children aged 9 to 13. Participants discover in the Grossmünster the church windows made by the artist Sigmar Polke from wafer-thin cut stones that are made to glow by the sun. Back at the Kunsthaus, they take a close look at Polke's works. In the studio, they create their own work with real stones and other materials, guided by Samira Agha Majidi.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/das-geheimnis-des-lichts-6119/", "official_url": "https://www.kunsthaus.ch/besuch-planen/programm/das-geheimnis-des-lichts/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7b79e335d8e7023b62621d24b93278cf44364dba7ad65bd23169230ae8378e12-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Das Geheimnis des Lichts", "start": "2026-11-04T14:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-04T18:00:00+01:00", "place": "Kunsthaus Bibliothek", "address": "Rämistrasse 45, 8001 Zürich", "price": "CHF 40 / CHF 20", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "40.00", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.kunsthaus.ch/de/home", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["art"], "description": "\"Das Geheimnis des Lichts\" is a workshop for children aged 9 to 13. The participants discover the church windows made by the artist Sigmar Polke in the Grossmünster, consisting of thinly sliced stones that the sun makes glow. Back at the Kunsthaus, Polke's works are examined up close. In the studio, the children create their own work with real stones and other materials.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/das-geheimnis-des-lichts-28113/", "official_url": "https://www.kunsthaus.ch/besuch-planen/programm/das-geheimnis-des-lichts/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1a04fedddde7bf0fc01f8f3d6230844432a5bf4eb946e7fda3b6674ec7474a47-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Avant-Garde – Graphic Design on the Verge of a Breakthrough", "start": "2026-10-29T00:00:00+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"}, {"title": "Ausstellung Sélection", "start": "2026-09-21T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-06T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Alte reformierte Kirche Witikon", "address": "Berghaldenstrasse 51, 8053 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography"], "description": "«Sélection» is a photography exhibition at the Alte reformierte Kirche Witikon in Zürich. It presents a small selection of images that photographer Elisabeth Brühlmann and the photographers Christian Lanz, Beat Pfändler and Georges A. Wino have picked from their own body of work.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/ausstellung-selection-865/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Stefan Burger, «Narcissus, zentrales Höhlengrau, Erbse, Flamingo» (I&II)", "start": "2026-10-29T00:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Cabaret Voltaire", "address": "", "price": "Freier Eintritt.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "At Cabaret Voltaire, a permanent exhibition shows two light objects by artist Stefan Burger that illuminate the space and, at best, the spirits. The sculptures of cast glass and aluminium continue Burger's engagement with art as an everyday object, begun at Cabaret Voltaire in 2020. They are hybrid installations or tipping figures that, depending on how one looks at them, lean toward different qualities or readings and play with ornament and function. Working with liquid glass involves colours of intense luminosity that, thanks to their ceramic nature, glow on cheerfully and indestructibly.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/stefan-burger-narcissus-zentrales-hohlengrau-erbse-flamingo-59649/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f6d7da1b5197edf6a00c9e606891e2b6399a0c38b09d05f75b777d436aab7795-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Lichterfest", "start": "2026-11-08T16:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T18:00:00+01:00", "place": "Musikpavillon Sihlhölzli, Manessestrasse, neben Sportplatz, 8003 Zürich", "address": "", "price": "Gratis", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "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": "Swiss Design Collection", "start": "2026-11-08T11:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T12:00:00+01:00", "place": "Museum für Gestaltung", "address": "Ausstellungsstrasse 60, 8005 Zürich", "price": "Im Eintrittspreis inbegriffen", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/design"], "description": "A public guided tour of the permanent exhibition \"Swiss Design Collection\" at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich. The museum holds Switzerland's largest international design collection, and the exhibition presents highlights from it while making parts of the archive accessible. On the tour, visitors learn more about the objects from the design collection on display. Participation is included in the admission price, and registration is recommended.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/swiss-design-collection-32036/", "official_url": "https://museum-gestaltung.ch/de/events/swiss-design-collection-2026-11-08", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c732a7e0e4b2450d015fd004d675798387a52719da18bff4d62feaf2b62f65d4-2000.webp"}, {"title": "2026 Exhibition of the Zurich Artists' Association", "start": "2026-10-29T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Photobastei 2.0", "address": "Sihlquai 125, 8005 Zürich", "price": "Admission to the exhibition is free. No ticket or registration is required.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "The 2026 exhibition of the Zurich Artists' Association presents the latest works of 24 artists across 180 m² at Photobastei 2.0. The exhibition is organised by the Zurich Artists' Association, with Athene Galiciadis featured as guest artist. Visitors are invited to explore the works, engage with them and linger. All works on display can be purchased on site.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/2026-exhibition-of-the-zurich-artists-association-59707/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/10657704c113843fd34e9af8317879a0a5132c9a690f97e6fabb4aa7e8b255c8-1200.webp"}]}