{"title": "The Shunpōan Incident: Forgery and Ukiyo-e Painting", "start": "2026-10-26T17:15:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Rämistrasse 59, CH-8001 Zürich", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/history", "history/japan"], "description": "A lecture on one of the most notorious forgery scandals in the history of ukiyo-e, known as the Shunpōan Incident. It is given by art historian Prof. Dr. Julie Nelson Davis of the University of Pennsylvania, who speaks at the University of Zurich as an Ishibashi Foundation Visiting Scholar in the Zurich Lectures in East Asian Art History series. Drawing on newspaper coverage, trial records and the auction catalogue itself, she examines how in 1934 a private collection of ukiyo-e paintings, including two works attributed to the elusive Sharaku, was exposed in the media as an elaborate fraud involving a family of painters, complicit dealers and a prominent scholar-connoisseur. She also traces how the forgers built their paintings from available print sources, recruited experts to lend credibility, and how the scheme unraveled, with implications for paintings in public and private collections today.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/the-shunpoan-incident-forgery-and-ukiyo-e-painting-33318/", "official_url": "https://www.khist.uzh.ch/de/chairs/ostasien/Aktuelles/Zurich-Lectures-in-East-Asian-Art-History--Prof.-Dr.-Julie-Nelson-Davis.html", "image": "https://noky.io/images/565c402155d6c74c849597570dfdb6f34b2c6396f0be3946a11ba3dce55fcdf9-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-26T17:15:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Rämistrasse 59, CH-8001 Zürich", "address": "", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "SHIT HAPPENS!", "start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kunstraum Hartdurm", "address": "", "price": "free entry", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://cryptoshit.info/draw", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/digital-art"], "description": "\"SHIT HAPPENS!\" is a special exhibition in which 128 works gradually disappear from the wall of an art space in Zurich. Behind the project is Zurich-based artist Marco Spitzbarth (iBulla), who generated the CRTSHT series algorithmically in 2021 and anchored it with all sorts of cryptic information. The works are distributed through three drawings known as \"draws\" – every ticket wins, and with each draw another picture disappears from the wall until the exhibition dissolves. Each 20 × 20 cm original print comes with an inlay full of references to the 2021 NFT hype, a sealed private key and more.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/shit-happens-59594/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5fda3260e4e45ac6a441281539117de3069f15d9d201e9183eab53bf65f0bb51-2000.webp"}, {"title": "RECOLLECTION CASPER FAASSEN - SOLO SHOW - 2ND PART", "start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Bildhalle", "address": "Stauffacherquai 56, 8004 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/colonialism/restitution", "art/photography"], "description": "ReCollection: Casper Faassen - Solo Show - 2nd Part is an art exhibition with an opening and an artist talk. Behind the project is artist Casper Faassen, whose longstanding interest in collecting, memory and the value of objects gave rise to it. The works critically engage with provenance, restitution and colonial legacy, including Switzerland's place in histories of collecting and looted art. The objects are presented in crates that evoke the transport and trade of cultural goods.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/recollection-casper-faassen-solo-show-2nd-part-1018/", "official_url": "https://www.bildhalle.ch/events/117/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9197060651c05599c9183e6364717344d76a6ee2b8a8ee5cd7b7cf8898bc1b6b-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Hiroki Tsukuda: Inferno", "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/mixed-media"], "description": "Inferno is a solo exhibition at Mai 36 Galerie in Zürich. The gallery presents new two-dimensional and sculptural works by Hiroki Tsukuda, born 1978 in Kagawa and now working in Sapporo, in his first solo show with the gallery. Hybrid pieces combining monotype, drawing, photography and screen-printed acrylic stand beside Plexiglas boxes of the artist's \"Cross Figures\" made from found objects and readymade parts, while \"record\" and \"warning\" are the central themes he names for his work.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/hiroki-tsukuda-inferno-6229/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/31926411bd1871870c2312629397e9fc21e0d27bb50eadefd1896b53676bf203-600.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": "Zwischenstand. Sammlung Emil Bührle", "start": "2026-11-08T13:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T14:00:00+01:00", "place": "Kunsthaus", "address": "Heimplatz 1, 8001 Zürich", "price": "CHF 30 / CHF 23", "price_from": "30.00", "price_to": "30.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.kunsthaus.ch/shop/tickets/start/6669/zwischenstand-buehrle-13/", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting", "history"], "description": "A public guided tour of the exhibition Zwischenstand. Sammlung Emil Bührle at Kunsthaus Zürich. The tour presents the collection's history and selected artworks by Impressionists such as Claude Monet and Auguste Renoir, by modern artists such as Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall, and from 17th-century Dutch painting. Over 200 paintings from the Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle are displayed in a so-called Petersburger Hängung, the way Emil Bührle hung his private collection. For the first time, all of the collection's works can be seen together in a visible-storage overview.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/zwischenstand-sammlung-emil-buhrle-6109/", "official_url": "https://www.kunsthaus.ch/besuch-planen/programm/zwischenstand-buehrle-13/", "image": ""}]}