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Pavillon Le Corbusier
Collection Highlights
Featuring 2000 highlights from this internationally significant collection, the newly refurbished main building invites visitors to discover the world of beautiful, useful, and curious everyday objects.
Ausstellungsstrasse
Le Corbusier and Zurich
The Museum für Gestaltung Zürich is dedicating its second exhibition at the Pavillon Le Corbusier to the relationship between the Swiss architect of the century and the city of Zurich – the most important platform for his international reputation.
9.6. – 29.11.2020
Pavillon Le Corbusier
Ideal Living
Seven sample rooms, furnished with highlights from the collection, present the most important trends in Swiss furniture design of the modern age and trace changing lifestyles.
12.5.2020 – 28.3.2021
Ausstellungsstrasse
Switzerland in World Format
One special feature of the Swiss poster is the "world format" (128 × 90.5 cm), which established itself as the standard format only in Switzerland. The 80 posters on display invite visitors to saunter through the history of Swiss posters.
12.5.2020 – 15.5.2022
Ausstellungsstrasse
Animal Energy
Tiger slippers or feather hats, the silhouette of an alpine procession or a porcelain cat: designers have always used animal materials and forms to create artistic worlds of images and objects.
12.5. – 25.10.2020
Ausstellungsstrasse
Norm – It's Not Complicated
The precise solutions developed by the Zurich design agency Norm are characterized by strict design rules like grids, proportions, and modularity. Their exhibition examines the most fundamental elements and laws of graphic design.
12.5. – 27.9.2020
Toni-Areal
Design Laboratory: Materials and Technology
Ceramics dripping from a 3D printer? Clothing that helps one get up? Bacteria instead of leather for a shoe? What sounds like science fiction is already within reach.
12.5. – 6.9.2020
Toni-Areal
SBB CFF FFS
Original objects, photographs, posters, video installations, and a model railway invite visitors on a journey through time—from the company’s beginnings to tomorrow’s mobility.
3.8.2019 – 5.1.2020
Ausstellungsstrasse
Knowledge in Images – Information Design Today
Whether for visualizing big data, publishing journalistic findings, spatial orientation, or as material promoting effective learning and teaching—information design explains the most diverse contents within the shortest time through combining much visual material with few words.
20.9.2019 – 8.3.2020
Toni-Areal
Poster Stories
Featuring around 80 posters, the exhibition provides insights into the immense collection and illustrates the collection’s thematic, geographical, and historical scope.
3.3.2018 – 14.3.2020
Ausstellungsstrasse
The Curatorial Project: UNLABEL – Fashion Beyond Categorization
By growing their ideas into finished concepts, MA Art Education students specializing in Curatorial Studies, i.e. prospective exhibition makers, developed their own exhibitions. A jury selected the most exciting exhibition concept for implementation.
24.5. – 29.9.2019
Toni-Areal
Mon univers
Conch shells, ceramics from the Balkans, flotsam and industrial glass: the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich is dedicating its first exhibition in the newly renovated Pavillon Le Corbusier to the Swiss architect of the century’s passion for collecting, in a display providing insight into his creative cosmos.
11.5. – 17.11.2019
Pavillon Le Corbusier
Design Studio: Processes
In the Toni-Areal the Museum für Gestaltung launches “Design Studio”, a new interactive type of exhibition. It provides rare insights into the design process of important designers while also offering visitors a platform for learning and experimentation.
25.8.2017 – 28.4.2019
Toni-Areal
Social Design
Social design is design for and with society — and highly topical. This exhibition presents relevant international projects and discusses the redesign of social systems, as well as of living and working environments.
5.10.2018 – 3.2.2019
Toni-Areal
Sebastião Salgado – Genesis
Sebastião Salgado depicts the earth as a creation of overwhelming beauty. The exhibition is a dramatic manifesto that not only touches visitors with its opulent black-and-white photographs, but also raises open questions about how we deal with the planet.
16.11.2018 – 23.6.2019
Ausstellungsstrasse
3D Lettering on Buildings
Three-dimensional typefaces are omnipresent and exceptionally di verse. The exhibition focuses on 3D letterings on buildings, which take into account architectural features and their surroundings, thus affording buildings a fitting identity.
7.12.2018 – 14.4.2019
Toni-Areal
Photographics: Klein, Ifert, Zamecznik
Light drawing, photograms, photomontages: the search for a contemporary visual idiom for the postwar period inspired artists and designers to experiment with photography.
1.11.2019 – 9.2.2020
Toni-Areal
Bally – Swiss Shoes Since 1851
Bally, founded in Switzerland, achieved worldwide fame with top-class shoes. The company is considered to have pioneered combining craftsmanship, industrial innovation and fashion design.
14.3. – 11.8.2019
Toni-Areal
Protest! Resistance Posters
Globalization, women’s rights, Trump: the poster has established itself as an effective medium for political struggle. 50 years after 1968, the onset of a worldwide rebellion, this exhibition presents around 300 international protest posters.
20.4. – 2.9.2018
Toni-Areal
Oïphorie: atelier oï
To mark the opening of the refurbished main building on Ausstellungsstrasse, Swiss design agency atelier oï will be staging several spacious installations in the large hall, which is now once again two stories high.
3.3. – 30.9.2018
Ausstellungsstrasse
PA-DONG! The furniture of Susi and Ueli Berger
They created Swiss design icons: for over 40 years, Susi Berger-Wyss, a graphic designer and Ueli Berger, an artist, designed furniture together.
29.6. – 19.8.2018
Toni-Areal
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