{"title": "Out of Service? – Swiss Sacred Architecture in Transformation", "start": "2026-09-19T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-02-07T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "ZAZ Bellerive Zentrum Architektur", "address": "Höschgasse 3, 8008 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/architecture/religious-architecture"], "description": "The exhibition 'Out of Service? – Swiss Sacred Architecture in Transformation' presents historical and contemporary projects from Switzerland showing how empty religious buildings can be transformed. It is an exhibition by ZAZ BELLERIVE, curated by Fabian Ruppanner and Nora Hochuli. As many places of worship increasingly stand empty and their upkeep becomes difficult, parishes are seeking alternative property strategies. Ranging from removed church pews to demolition, the many paths of transformation are meant to foster a collective discourse on the transformation and preservation of sacred buildings.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/out-of-service-swiss-sacred-architecture-in-transformation-68875/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ccefce9912450061b9ec1c6f4cc0e6c9cc1ac394f09d1edcb6c523fa90011cbb-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-09-19T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-02-07T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "ZAZ Bellerive Zentrum Architektur", "address": "Höschgasse 3, 8008 Zürich", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Zuhause im Alter – Neue Perspektiven auf das Wohnen", "start": "2026-10-20T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Raum «Treffpunkt», Mattenhof 16, 8051 Zürich", "address": "", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["society/aging"], "description": "The exhibition «Zuhause im Alter – Neue Perspektiven auf das Wohnen» invites visitors to reflect on housing in older age. It runs from 20 October to 8 November 2026 in Zurich-Schwamendingen and is free of charge. It is organised by the BFH and supported by the City of Zurich's Health and Environment Department. There is an accompanying programme, with a vernissage on the evening before.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/zuhause-im-alter-neue-perspektiven-auf-das-wohnen-27620/", "official_url": "https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/de/aktuell/veranstaltungen/lebenslagen/alter/zuhause-im-alter-saw-nov.html", "image": ""}, {"title": "Translating the Rural. Wooden Churches, Open-Air Museums and Modern Architecture in Interwar East-Central Europe", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "ETH Zürich", "address": "Sonneggstrasse 5, 8006 Zürich", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/architecture"], "description": "The exhibition \"Translating the Rural. Wooden Churches, Open-Air Museums and Modern Architecture in Interwar East-Central Europe\" is on show at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) at ETH Zurich. It is the work of Radu Remus Macovei, a doctoral researcher at the gta. It traces how three wooden churches from mountain villages were moved during the interwar period to Prague, Bucharest and Lviv as part of Czechoslovak, Romanian and Ukrainian national projects. It presents findings from his doctoral thesis \"Moving Churches, Making Nations\" and from the design research project \"Ligneous Worlds\".", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/translating-the-rural-wooden-churches-open-air-museums-and-m-59595/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/171c49c3e3ebc6f74222724e443a8e2385156e8304fa92f2bb960b7938cd5e46-2000.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, "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": "Ausstellung «Zuhause im Alter»", "start": "2026-11-02T10:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-02T17:00:00+01:00", "place": "Raum «Treffpunkt», Mattenhof 16, 8051 Zürich", "address": "", "price": "Gratis", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["society/aging"], "description": "The exhibition «Zuhause im Alter» presents new perspectives on housing in later life. It is run by the Stiftung Alterswohnungen der Stadt Zürich (SAW), with support from the city's Gesundheits- und Umweltdepartement. Staged in Zürich-Schwamendingen, it invites visitors to think about living and housing as they age, and is aimed at senior citizens.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/ausstellung-zuhause-im-alter-6527/", "official_url": "https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/de/aktuell/veranstaltungen/lebenslagen/alter/zuhause-im-alter-saw-nov.html?calentry=8", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a32e4afa1441e07bbf11a6cb27cfca0074281d501d540efac1f0a3d83af30a6e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "«Maria», eine Videoinstallation von Annelis Strba", "start": "2026-10-09T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-02T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Heilig Geist", "address": "Limmattalstrasse 146, 8049 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/video-art", "religion/christian"], "description": "A video installation is on view in the church of Heilig Geist in Zürich-Höngg. Photographer and video artist Annelis Strba, who lives in Richterswil SZ, shows flowing and glowing colours of mother-and-child motifs and lets familiar Madonna images appear in a new light. The work invites viewers to reflect on the relationship between mother and child. Songs of Mary by St Hildegard of Bingen and Gregorian Marian chants sound through the speakers in the church.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/maria-eine-videoinstallation-von-annelis-strba-20723/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bd0aeb8e166b477d5968f9d680f77061b5229eb85e799003e22e3b608c2eff2e-600.webp"}, {"title": "Wettbewerbsausstellung Betreuungsgebäude Schule Auhof", "start": "2026-11-06T16:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-06T20:00:00+01:00", "place": "Ausstellungsraum Pavillon Werd, Morgartenstrasse 40, 8004 Zürich", "address": "", "price": "Gratis", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/architecture"], "description": "An exhibition on the architecture competition for a replacement building for the childcare facility at the Auhof school site, showing all competition entries. It is organised by the City of Zurich, which plans to consolidate childcare in a larger new building and to ecologically upgrade the outdoor space as a meeting place for the neighbourhood. The existing one-storey building from 1959 cannot accommodate day-school care for twelve primary classes and two kindergartens. The school complex and the Auhof outdoor pool form a listed ensemble designed by architect Ernst Gisel.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/wettbewerbsausstellung-betreuungsgebaude-schule-auhof-6650/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Krisen, Konflikte, Kontroversen", "start": "2026-11-05T18:35:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-05T20:35:00+01:00", "place": "Haus Dubs", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "A guided tour of the exhibition \"Krisen, Konflikte, Kontroversen\" at Haus Dubs. The exhibition presents some 50 works from the Kunstsammlung Kanton Zürich, curated by master's students under the direction of Prof. Dr. Bärbel Küster at the University of Zurich's art history institute. It explores how art engages with, makes visible and rethinks the crises, conflicts and controversies of its time. The tour invites visitors to explore the works and their stories together.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/krisen-konflikte-kontroversen-33337/", "official_url": "https://www.khist.uzh.ch/de/chairs/moderne/events/-Ausstellung-%C2%ABKrisen%2C-Konflikte%2C-Kontroversen%C2%BB-mit-Studierenden-des-KHIST.html", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d9730214a75663ccccc421e6cf911f15131526a48ab0690849b6cea46f36e7ab-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Ideas of Switzerland", "start": "2026-11-03T00:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Landesmuseum", "address": "Museumstrasse 2", "price": "CHF 13.00 / 10.00; children and young people up to 16 years free", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "13.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/switzerland"], "description": "«Ideas of Switzerland» is a permanent exhibition at the Landesmuseum Zürich. It asks what binds a community together and presents works by four authors whose ideas shaped the image of contemporary Switzerland: Henri Dunant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jean Calvin and Petermann Etterlin. The exhibition is completely wheelchair accessible and runs until 1 January 2030, from Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00 to 17:00.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/ideas-of-switzerland-59658/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e4c4b345bc83106cb65d89559fa174f556ebf3f8590386aa97a096093dea61ef-2000.webp"}, {"title": "House ⇆ Shed ⇆ Field", "start": "2026-11-07T18:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T21:00:00+01:00", "place": "ZAZ Bellerive Zentrum Architektur", "address": "Höschgasse 3, 8008 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/architecture"], "description": "«House ⇆ Shed ⇆ Field» is a public lecture by Ito Tamotsu at ZAZ Bellerive Zentrum Architektur in Zurich. The architect, working between his native Gifu and metropolitan Tokyo, shows how he treats demographic shifts, obsolete industrial facilities and regional waste streams as generative constraints rather than limitations. He frames this approach through the «Non-Modern Hybrid», arguing for the critical necessity of «re-assembling» our built environment as he moves between the «House», the «Shed» and the «Field». The event is hosted by plenty.online, Frano Karlovic and ZAZ BELLERIVE and will be held in English; the bar is open before and after the lecture.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/house-shed-field-32101/", "official_url": "https://www.zaz-bellerive.ch/fcl-booklaunch-2/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/808746d5097800b6adcd293666fee270bec5fd5b47edcc58b5881a86d76ef53b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Translating the Rural", "start": "2026-09-24T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-12-04T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "ETH OAT", "address": "Andreasstrasse 5, 8050 Zürich", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/architecture", "history"], "description": "Translating the Rural is an exhibition on wooden churches, open-air museums and modern architecture in interwar East-Central Europe. It is curated by Radu Remus Macovei and gta Ausstellungen at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture at ETH Zurich. The show presents findings from Macovei's doctoral thesis „Moving Churches, Making Nations“ and the design research project „Ligneous Worlds“. At its core are three wooden churches moved from mountain villages to Prague, Bucharest and Lviv, together with three 1:5 scale wooden models exploring how the buildings might have evolved.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/translating-the-rural-8307/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d064c4d5e86899ee5641c7ddafb3cf677666fcf0736aafbdea40c5a215d0d5e5-2000.webp"}, {"title": "HEKS-Gottesdienst, Neue Kirche", "start": "2026-11-15T10:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Alte reformierte Kirche Witikon", "address": "Berghaldenstrasse 51, 8053 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "worship", "tags": ["religion/christian/protestant", "occasion/charity"], "description": "A church service dedicated to HEKS, the aid agency of the Protestant churches, held in the Neue Kirche in Witikon. It is led by pastor Evi Flachsmann, with Konrad Weiss playing the organ. The collection goes to HEKS-Witikon. After the service there is an apéro, followed by a talk by Corina Bosshard of HEKS in the Kirchgemeindehaus.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/heks-gottesdienst-neue-kirche-68834/", "official_url": "https://www.refwitikon.ch/html/agenda/veranstaltung/43011", "image": ""}, {"title": "1100 Jahre Stadtgeschichte in der Fraumünster-Krypta Zürich", "start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "", "address": "", "price": "Der Besuch des Krypta-Museums ist im Eintrittspreis von CHF 5.– inbegriffen.", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/local-history/zurich"], "description": "The exhibition in the crypt museum beneath the Fraumünster choir presents 1100 years of the city's history. It offers insight into the development of the abbey, the Reformation and the history of today's Fraumünster. On show are archaeological finds such as the head of a Mary statue recovered during excavations in 2013, a testimony to the iconoclasm, along with drawings and animations documenting the building phases of the abbey. Also featured are facsimiles of letters by Heinrich Bullinger, an Ulrich Bible from 1755 and portraits of all pastors since 1524.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/1100-jahre-stadtgeschichte-in-der-fraumunster-krypta-zurich-59645/", "official_url": "https://zuercher-museen.ch/museen/altstadtkirchen/ausstellung-krypta-fraumuenster", "image": "https://noky.io/images/378f464d1b69d70fa44e7b30d4e928453cf15c3a68252d95555193fb5cd7a2bf-2000.webp"}, {"title": "\"Getruckt zů Zürich\" with a focus on disputations - Reformation in the crossfire", "start": "2026-11-03T00:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "", "address": "", "price": "Adults: CHF 5.-; adolescents 6-16 years, students: CHF 2.-", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/reformation", "religion/christian"], "description": "The permanent exhibition \"Getruckt zů Zürich\" presents a unique collection of Bibles and writings from the Reformation period 500 years ago in the gallery of the Grossmünster. A selection of original prints from the disputation period is on display to mark the 500th anniversary of the First Zurich Disputation. The reformers sought to bring the Holy Scriptures to the people and into conversation; by means of \"disputations\" (debates), the truth was to be found on the basis of the Bible. Audio recordings accessible via QR codes let the actor Samuel Streiff bring dialogs from the two Zurich disputations to life.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/getruckt-zu-zurich-with-a-focus-on-disputations-reformation-59647/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/60c4fab23d0456df00955024e5c3ad8ccdc5caa42e96f18c884bf49dd5ee2bdb-2000.webp"}]}