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Pavillon Le Corbusier
DesignScouts Schaufenster: Sitzen im Quartier
2.6. – 21.7.2023
Josefstrasse 115, 8005 Zürich
Game Design Today
The exhibition presents an overview of contemporary video game culture.
17.2. – 23.7.2023
Toni-Areal
Repair Revolution!
The exhibition presents a vision of a repair society and the role that design can play in getting there.
31.3. – 15.10.2023
Toni-Areal
The Modulor—Measure and Proportion
The search for ideal dimensions and a universally applicable system of proportions occupied Le Corbusier throughout his life. The exhibition illustrates his in-depth research.
21.4. – 26.11.2023
Pavillon Le Corbusier
Akris. Fashion. selbstverständlich
The exhibition explores the inspirations of the international St. Gallen fashion house while providing insight into the sophisticated craftsmanship or technical processes behind the collections.
12.5. – 24.9.2023
Ausstellungsstrasse
Visual Poetry – Contemporary Posters from Iran
The museum’s collection of Iranian posters is unrivalled anywhere in Europe. The exhibition is now presenting a new donation of works dating from the last twenty years.
21.7. – 29.10.2023
Toni-Areal
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
Architecture Icons Revisited
The exhibition presents the portraits of seven of Le Corbusier’s buildings by seven contemporary photographers. On a journey through France and Switzerland the show invites the public to discover his architecture from new perspectives.
29.4. – 27.11.2022
Pavillon Le Corbusier
Atelier Zanolli – Fabrics, Fashion, Craft, 1905–1939
Silk fabrics sprayed with an airbrush, opulently embroidered cushions, colorful objects made of beads or wood: The exhibition uses objects designed by the Zanollis with an enormous love of detail to recount the eventful story of this family business.
6.5. – 4.9.2022
Toni-Areal
Queens of their Discipline – Posters by Women Designers
The poster is the supreme discipline in graphic design. This exhibition tells the story of the poster, using exclusively reprints of works by international women designers, for once.
Ausstellungsstrasse
Willy Guhl – Thinking with Your Hands
Swiss design pioneer Willy Guhl designed world-famous seating furniture such as the Eternit Loop Chair or Europe’s first bucket seat made of plastic. The exhibition uses design processes, prototypes, photos, and films to present his creative work.
9.12.2022 – 26.3.2023
Ausstellungsstrasse
Textile Garden
With pieces of Fibre Art, the exhibition evokes associations with plants, flowers or weather phenomena and invite the public to immerse themselves in an atmospheric presentation.
15.7. – 30.10.2022
Ausstellungsstrasse
Collectomania – Universes of Collecting
Barbie dolls, liturgical vestments, water pistols or birdcalls – With a variety of design pieces and objects from daily life as well as video portraits the exhibition enquires into the social and cultural value of this activity.
24.6.2022 – 8.1.2023
Toni-Areal
Haettenschweiler from A to Z – Creator of Typefaces, Graphic Designer, and Artist
Walter F. Haettenschweiler is best-known as a designer of title fonts that are refreshingly different to the mainstream. This show is the first ever presentation of the complete work of this charismatic Swiss designer.
14.10.2022 – 19.2.2023
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
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
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
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
Special programs
A Homage to Walter Ballmer
13.6. – 6.8.2023
Ausstellungsstrasse
A G Fronzoni
4.4. – 4.6.2023
Ausstellungsstrasse
Platform21's Repair Manifesto
31.3. – 14.5.2023
Toni-Areal
Josef sitzt im Museum
19. – 26.3.2023
Ausstellungsstrasse
Let's Dance
12.7. – 6.12.2023
Schweizerische Nationalbank, Fraumünsterstrasse 8, 8001 Zürich
Frauenpower
28.4. – 11.7.2023
Schweizerische Nationalbank, Fraumünsterstrasse 8, 8001 Zürich
Museum
jung
: GuhlSchool
28.2. – 26.3.2023
Ausstellungsstrasse
Zu Gast bei der SNB: Tanz gegen den Alltag
31.1. – 28.4.2023
Schweizerische Nationalbank, Fraumünsterstrasse 8, 8001 Zürich
Advertising with Your Feet
17.1. – 19.2.2023
Ausstellungsstrasse
Zu Gast bei der SNB: Here Comes the Sun
30.11.2022 – 26.1.2023
Schweizerische Nationalbank, Fraumünsterstrasse 8, 8001 Zürich
Walter F. Haettenschweiler's World of Logos
14.10.2022 – 12.2.2023
Toni-Areal
Museum
jung
: Sammeln und Gestalten
27.9. – 23.10.2022
Ausstellungsstrasse
Celestino Piatti – Eine Hommage
1. – 27.11.2022
Ausstellungsstrasse
Zurich’s Long Night of Museums
3. – 3.9.2022
Various locations
Otl Aichers Olympiad
19.7. – 18.9.2022
Ausstellungsstrasse
Stadtgesichter – Stadtgeschichten
29.7. – 28.9.2022
Schweizerische Nationalbank, Fraumünsterstrasse 8, 8001 Zürich
Zu Gast bei der SNB: Bürowelten
30.4. – 29.7.2022
Schweizerische Nationalbank, Fraumünsterstrasse 8, 8001 Zürich
Ace of Lace
6.5. – 18.9.2022
Toni-Areal
Museum
jung
: Zimmer Nr.7
29.3. – 17.4.2022
Ausstellungsstrasse
Niklaus Troxler – Tape It Easy
23.4. – 10.7.2022
Ausstellungsstrasse
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
The Best of 2022
7.12.2022 – 8.1.2023
Ausstellungsstrasse
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
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
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
100 Best Posters 21
22.12.2022 – 8.1.2023
Toni-Areal
Swiss Design Lounge
Ausstellungsstrasse