{"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", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/design"], "description": "«Sabine Marcelis – Light and Color» is the first museum exhibition by the Dutch designer Sabine Marcelis at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich at the Toni-Areal. In her minimalist designs, in which design, art and architecture merge into one unit, Marcelis (*1985) plays with light, colour, reflection and transparency, turning materials such as glass, resin and natural stone into glowing, mirroring, space-shaping objects. The show brings together key groups of works from recent years alongside light pieces created especially for the venue, while material samples and studies offer insights into her creative process. Lamps, mirrors and immersive installations combine in a deliberately restrained staging into an intense spatial experience with an almost magical atmosphere.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/sabine-marcelis-light-and-color-76391/", "official_url": "", "image": "", "dates": [{"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", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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": "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": "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"}, {"title": "Stefan Burger, «Narcissus, zentrales Höhlengrau, Erbse, Flamingo» (I&II)", "start": "2026-11-01T13:30:00+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": "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": "LAYERS OF MEANING", "start": "2026-09-15T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-12-31T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Kunstwarenhaus", "address": "", "price": "Free admission", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "LAYERS OF MEANING is an exhibition of original contemporary artwork at Kunstwarenhaus in Zurich. It is brought together by Kunstwarenhaus Galerie and presents a curated selection of works by six contemporary artists: Giuseppe Beddru, Petra Rös-Nickel, Cynthia Coulombe-Bégin, Bernhard Zimmer, Virginie Schröder and Shiri Philips. The exhibition explores layers, textures, colour and meaning through diverse artistic approaches and materials, from expressive abstract compositions to tactile, richly textured works. Kunstwarenhaus presents itself as a welcoming gallery setting in Zurich where visitors can discover contemporary original art.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/layers-of-meaning-6182/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/64659b9ddf81fa3658f1c6dbddfbb0a1f3cba2db141ec2803ec2ed5de0f65ae0-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Aus der Lehre in die Sammlung – Fokus: Designausbildung", "start": "2026-11-12T18:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-12T19:30:00+01:00", "place": "Museum für Gestaltung", "address": "Ausstellungsstrasse 60, 8005 Zürich", "price": "Kostenlos", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/design"], "description": "A talk at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich presenting two projects straight from design education: «Healing Light» (BA Art Education, ZHdK) and the book design module «150 Jahre Museum für Gestaltung» (BA Graphic Design, HSLU). Individual objects from both projects have already made their way into the museum's collection. Together with students and their lecturers, current questions of design education are discussed, such as which topics move the next generation and which skills are in demand today. Involved are Sharon Boccali, Jana Boldo, Paula Rüttimann, Svenja Streit and Paula Christen.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/aus-der-lehre-in-die-sammlung-fokus-designausbildung-6314/", "official_url": "https://museum-gestaltung.ch/de/events/aus-der-lehre-die-sammlung-fokus-designausbildung-2026-11-12", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7b151a7aaff8e0e1e83bacd70d6f0510ed39b1b846444fcf5bca16afa690a955-2000.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", "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": "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": "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": "Offenes Atelier für Alle", "start": "2026-11-01T14:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Museum für Gestaltung", "address": "Ausstellungsstrasse 60, 8005 Zürich", "price": "CHF 5.00 pro Person (unter 4 Jahren kostenlos)", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/design/graphic-design"], "description": "The open studio invites visitors to discover, try out and make things themselves, inspired by the exhibition \"Avantgarde – Grafikdesign im Aufbruch\". It is led by graphic designer Daniela Mirabella and Nic Tillein, a scenographer and cultural mediator. The design ideas relate to the museum's exhibitions or its architecture, and the themes change regularly. The offer is open to all ages; children up to 10 years attend only with an adult, and no registration is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/offenes-atelier-fur-alle-59829/", "official_url": "https://museum-gestaltung.ch/de/kalender?f_target_group=88--17--19&f_location=1&f_event_type=115&f_exhibition=542", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f32bc4386be590338496117e5482b764518dc116110b229baf38cd01153aa83d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "2026 Exhibition of the Zurich Artists' Association", "start": "2026-11-01T00:00:00+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"}, {"title": "Markus Saile: False Horizon", "start": "2026-09-10T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Mai 36 Galerie", "address": "Rämistrasse 37, 8001 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-painting"], "description": "Markus Saile: False Horizon is an exhibition at Mai 36 Galerie in Zürich. It is the second solo exhibition there by Markus Saile, who was born in Stuttgart and lives and works in Cologne, and presents large-scale oil paintings on wood, some of them close to or beyond the scale of the human body. Green and yellow shape their own rooms while blue works set accents within an installation arranged in relation to the architecture. The title False Horizon names a perceptual disturbance in which a horizontal line is mistaken for the horizon, pointing to the search for references to reality within the paintings that cannot be verified with certainty.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/markus-saile-false-horizon-6228/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/45bc2247c788042c84d2a05c2c6ae46ccc80dbc692dc6fe13dc3f0f149dd11b7-600.webp"}, {"title": "Christoph Hefti – The Missing Cat und andere textile Storys", "start": "2026-07-10T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-01-03T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Museum für Gestaltung", "address": "Ausstellungsstrasse 60, 8005 Zürich", "price": "Regulär CHF 15, ermässigt CHF 10; unter 20 Jahren gratis; jeden Donnerstag ab 17 Uhr freier Eintritt", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/textile-art"], "description": "This exhibition at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich is the first solo show of Swiss textile designer Christoph Hefti (born 1967), regarded as one of the country's outstanding textile designers. His work moves between textiles, fashion, ceramics, video and stage, weaving mystical, poetic stories together with precise craftsmanship. The show presents hand-knotted rugs, patchwork and printed textiles, as well as ceramics, furniture, costumes and performative stagings. Eyes, moons and cats fill a surreal, colourful and wild universe between design and art.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/christoph-hefti-the-missing-cat-und-andere-textile-storys-6307/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ad2f982accfe07bcf17f291b142b654a23884330defd17f93408b2fcc3815662-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Christoph Haerle – Beton und Nagellack", "start": "2026-09-10T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Galerie & Edition Stephan Witschi", "address": "Limmatstrasse 214", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "«Beton und Nagellack» is an exhibition of works in pigmented concrete, opened with a Vernissage. It comes from the artist and architect Christoph Haerle, who has worked with concrete for many years, keeps refining his technique of coloured concrete and explores the limits of the material together with the possibilities of colour. Landscape and plant motifs are his starting point: he first paints them as miniature studies with nail polish on tracing paper before they take on physical presence in concrete.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/christoph-haerle-beton-und-nagellack-1314/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/96721413cf08410950f9307597bb962e739abd88684730df2f7a7ab67daba71b-600.webp"}, {"title": "Collage-Werkstatt", "start": "2026-11-10T09:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-10T11:30:00+01:00", "place": "Museum für Gestaltung", "address": "Ausstellungsstrasse 60, 8005 Zürich", "price": "CHF 150 pro Klasse + reduzierter Eintritt CHF 10 pro Person", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/collage"], "description": "\"Collage-Werkstatt\" is a workshop for school classes of all levels from primary school onward. It is led by Meret Gschwend and Franziska Hess, staff members of the museum's education department, and deals with designers of the interwar years who made their desire for new social orders visible in posters and other graphic disciplines. Participants explore today's possible utopias in fold-out collages, working together in groups or in pairs. A selection of the resulting collages will be presented as a pop-up exhibition at the museum in spring 2027.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/collage-werkstatt-69272/", "official_url": "https://museum-gestaltung.ch/de/events/collage-werkstatt-2026-11-10", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3408ad915747746c7556ea45c369729ec0664c941c27dd6127a275c514414a4b-2000.webp"}]}