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Pavillon Le Corbusier
Planet Digital
Starting from 23 current research projects by the most creative minds of the Zurich Higher Education Institutions the exhibition takes the public along on a sightseeing tour of the world of digitalization.
11.2. – 6.6.2022
Ausstellungsstrasse
Alberto Venzago: Taking Pictures – Making Pictures
Zurich photographer and filmmaker Alberto Venzago masterfully shuttles between the worlds of reportage and advertising, documentary and fiction. Venzago’s first museum exhibition showcases his work in an opulent retrospective.
9.7.2021 – 2.1.2022
Ausstellungsstrasse
6 Rooms × 6 Positions
The museum has invited contemporary Swiss designers to each decorate a room using objects from the museum’s collection.
16.7.2021 – 5.11.2023
Ausstellungsstrasse
Le Corbusier and Color
The new exhibition at the Pavillon Le Corbusier traces the main stages in Le Corbusier’s treatment of polychromy and invites visitors to indulge in a sensual experience of color in three installations.
7.5. – 28.11.2021
Pavillon Le Corbusier
Plant Fever – Towards a Phyto-centred Design
Plant Fever
brings together some fifty international projects and innovative solutions to current environmental and social issues, investigating plants’ hidden potential.
3.12.2021 – 3.4.2022
Toni-Areal
Formafantasma: Cambio – Tree, Wood, Human
Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, design duo Formafantasma investigate the global timber industry and explore the role of design in the climate crisis.
3.12.2021 – 8.5.2022
Toni-Areal
Alexey Brodovitch: The First Art Director
Alexey Brodovitch made design history — as a teacher and as role model for legendary photographers like Richard Avedon or as an art director of the fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar. The exhibition traces the career of this influential designer.
12.2. – 20.6.2021
Toni-Areal
René Hubert: The Clothes Make the Star
From the 1920s to the 1960s, the Swiss René Hubert belonged to the crème de la crème of costume designers in Hollywood and Europe. This is the first exhibition of his life’s work.
19.3. – 20.6.2021
Toni-Areal
Wild Thing – Swiss Fashion Scene
The exhibition presents a colorful palette of trendy outfits, shows fashion photography, film exhibits or fabric innovations and thus creates a snapshot of the current fashion scene in Switzerland.
11.12.2020 – 24.5.2021
Ausstellungsstrasse
Total Space
In museums across the globe, elaborate stage sets and expansive installations are spellbinding visitors.
Total Space
traces this development in an up-to-date survey and creates a multi-layered world of experience that can be explored with all the senses.
23.10.2020 – 20.6.2021
Toni-Areal
Lee Miller – A Photographer Between War and Glamor
Elizabeth "Lee" Miller was an outstanding photographer and a strong, modern woman. Miller did not bother with conventions, neither privately nor professionally, and went her own way as an artist, portrait photographer, and war reporter. The first-ever exhibition in Switzerland of her life's work features some 200 originals.
28.8.2020 – 3.1.2021
Toni-Areal
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
MyCollection: Bruno Monguzzi
Graphic artist Bruno Monguzzi presents his personal highlights from the museum's extensive collection. The exhibition combines traditional craftsmanship and modern design consciousness to create timeless inspiration, particularly for young people.
23.10.2020 – 14.2.2021
Toni-Areal
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
Special programs
Zu Gast bei der SNB: Typografische Verführungen
Schrift erobert den Raum oder wird zum Bild, Buchstaben, Worte, Sätze werden zerlegt und beschnitten, Handschriften ausprobiert und neue Schriften erfunden.
1.2. – 30.4.2022
Schweizerische Nationalbank, Fraumünsterstrasse 8, 8001 Zürich
Subtle Appeals: Environmental Protection Posters from Japan
Japanese graphic designers have been addressing environmental problems for decades. With timeless posters they raise awareness for the need to protect our natural world.
25.2. – 17.4.2022
Toni-Areal
Bold Intervention – Environment Posters by Klaus Staeck
Ever since the 1970s, German political graphic artist Klaus Staeck has been urgently warning with his posters of the dangers of man-made climate change and environmental destruction—with vicious irony that has a way of making our laughter get stuck in our throats.
25.1. – 20.3.2022
Ausstellungsstrasse
Zu Gast bei der SNB: Von Flügeln und Hörnern
1.11.2021 – 31.1.2022
Schweizerische Nationalbank, Fraumünsterstrasse 8, 8001 Zürich
Zu Gast bei der SNB: Zum Wohl!
Werbung insbesondere für Spirituosen unterliegt in der Schweiz strengen Richtlinien. So ist es mithin kein Zufall, dass in Plakaten für Spirituosen, Wein und Bier die Getränke selbst zu Hauptdarstellern werden.
1.8. – 31.10.2021
Schweizerische Nationalbank, Fraumünsterstrasse 8, 8001 Zürich
Vetements in Zurich
The Vetements design collective breaks with established fashion conventions. The exhibition features five of a total of 54 looks of the Spring/Summer 2018 collection that was photographed in Zurich.
2.3. – 11.4.2021
Ausstellungsstrasse
50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights
39 posters from the collection attest to the emotionally driven campaign for women voting rights, and show the visual rhetoric and strategies of argumentation used by both camps.
2.3. – 30.6.2021
Toni-Areal
Bernard Chadebec: Unfallprävention mit Charme
Von 1965 bis 2005 produzierte Chadebec 300 verschiedene Plakate. Die Nordwand präsentiert fünf seiner Plakate in Form von riesigen Reklametafeln.
3.12.2021 – 13.2.2022
Toni-Areal
The Absurdity of the Moment
One year after the lockdown due to the coronavirus, Swiss designer Dafi Kühne is showing a series of twelve posters that serve as a visual diary.
22.4. – 1.8.2021
Ausstellungsstrasse
Werner Jeker: Photo Posters
Werner Jeker has been a key figure of Swiss graphic design for some fifty years, crafting expressive imagery out of type and photography.
12.8. – 3.10.2021
Ausstellungsstrasse
Education Showcase: Taking Pictures – Making Pictures
In the showcase, the education department of the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich presents young perspectives on the exhibition
Alberto Venzago: Taking Pictures – Making Pictures
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12.10. – 21.11.2021
Ausstellungsstrasse
Zu Gast bei der SNB: Jazz im Plakat
1.2. – 30.4.2021
Schweizerische Nationalbank, Fraumünsterstrasse 8, 8001 Zürich
Swiss Design Lounge
Ausstellungsstrasse
Bruno Monguzzi
Bruno Monguzzi's posters have long shaped the public appearance of cultural institutions without following short-lived trends. Central to his intelligent visualizations is conveying their message in the clearest possible way.
23.10.2020 – 17.1.2021
Toni-Areal
Josef Müller-Brockmann
Josef Müller-Brockmann was a pioneer of the Swiss Style, which he was instrumental in shaping in the 1950s and '60s.
31.8. – 15.11.2020
Ausstellungsstrasse
Norm 123456789
Norm presents a series of posters in the Toni-Areal entrance hall. The surprising diversity of these posters reveals Norm’s creative freedom within the confines of seriality.
12.5. – 27.9.2020
Toni-Areal
En Vogue − Fashion Posters
Fashion posters function as contemporary witnesses par excellence. They reflect both moral concepts and social conditions and not least mirror changing gender roles.
10.7. – 30.8.2020
Ausstellungsstrasse
Zu Gast bei der SNB: Von Angesicht zu Angesicht
In den Schaufenstern der Schweizerischen Nationalbank präsentiert das Museum ausgewählte Plakate aus seiner bedeutenden Sammlung.
1.2. – 30.7.2020
Schweizerische Nationalbank, Fraumünsterstrasse 8, 8001 Zürich
Zurich's Emergency Fountains
Everyday refreshment, emergency supply: 85 beautifully designed emergency fountains are spread across Zurich, ensuring access to fresh water even in emergencies.
26. – 26.4.2020
Ausstellungsstrasse
Homage to Armin Hofmann
To mark the 100th birthday of Armin Hofmann, the Museum für Gestaltung Zurich is presenting a small selection of his extensive oeuvre. His posters fascinate viewers with their formal and colorful condensation and high sensuality.
12.5. – 5.7.2020
Ausstellungsstrasse
The Best of 2020
Hochparterre celebrates the best of the year in architecture, design, and landscape.
2.12.2020 – 10.1.2021
Ausstellungsstrasse