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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
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
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
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
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.
Until 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.
Until 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.
Until 20.6.2021
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
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.
Until 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.
Ausstellungsstrasse

Special programs

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. – 16.5.2021
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.
12.10. – 21.11.2021
Ausstellungsstrasse
Swiss Design Lounge
How about biding your time while discovering and trying out outstanding Swiss design at the same time? The Swiss Design Lounge at our newly refurbished main building on Ausstellungsstrasse now offers visitors first-hand experience of re-edited Swiss furniture classics as well as of contemporary designs.
Ausstellungsstrasse