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6 Rooms × 6 Positions
The museum has invited contemporary Swiss designers to each decorate a room using objects from the museum’s collection.
From 16.7.2021
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.
28.5.2021 – 2.1.2022
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-centered 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
Wild Thing – Swiss Fashion Scene
En Suisse, un monde de la mode vivant s'épanouit en parallèle de la célèbre industrie textile, qui teste son potentiel à l'écart des projecteurs et du diktat des grands centres de ce secteur. L'exposition en présente un portrait pris sur le vif et met les projets de ces stylistes en perspective des looks de grandes marques des décennies passées.
Until 23.5.2021
Ausstellungsstrasse
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
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
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.
Until 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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
Until 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
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

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