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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Special programs
Swiss Design Lounge
Ausstellungsstrasse
The Best of 2018
Die besten Projekte aus Architektur, Landschaft und Design!
5.12.2018 – 6.1.2019
Ausstellungsstrasse
«Rektorat»: Our House Font
In 1933, the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich opened its main building at Ausstellungsstrasse 60. In the spirit of Neues Bauen, the architects dispensed with any ornamentation, but envisaged striking exterior lettering for the building.
25.1. – 14.4.2019
Ausstellungsstrasse
Pierre Mendell: Pictograms, Images, Characters
Ambiguities, irritations and surprising reinterpretations often turn the supposedly universal pictorial symbols from Pierre Mendell into poetic puzzles and invite reflection and re-examination.
25.4. – 30.6.2019
Toni-Areal
See Black and White
Die Vermittlung des Museum für Gestaltung Zürich präsentiert im Rahmen der Ausstellung
Sebastião Salgado – Genesis
Resultate einer Workshop-Reihe für Schulen. Die jungen Fotografinnen und Fotografen suchten im und um das Museum herum nach geeigneten Bildmotiven und setzten sie in Szene. Sie bearbeiteten die Fotografien digital und brachten sie in der Dunkelkammer in einem analogen Prozess auf Papier.
30.4. – 2.6.2019
Ausstellungsstrasse
Le Corbusier – Seen by René Burri
Featuring 17 original photographs, the small permanent exhibition reflects Burri’s view — of both Le Corbusier’s work and person.
11.5. – 17.11.2019
Pavillon Le Corbusier
Stop Motion – Moving Posters
Artists and graphic artists have always played with extending two-dimensional, static surfaces by a third level, thus deceiving the eye.
Stop Motion
presents creative approaches that have enriched poster history by suggesting movement and dynamics.
18.7. – 6.10.2019
Toni-Areal
Filmpodium Posters
Zurich’s Filmpodium presents thematic series and retrospectives of classic movies. Its posters interpret cinematographic achievements and bear witness to their day and age.
23.7. – 4.11.2019
Ausstellungsstrasse
Guests at the SNB: Gold, Money, Happiness
Since 2000, the windows of the Swiss National Bank in the heart of Zurich have been displaying thematically selected posters from the rich holdings of the Museum für Gestaltung’s poster collection. The posters are viewable in the groundfloor windows along the Stadthausquai, Börsenstrasse, and Fraumünsterstrasse.
31.7.2019 – 30.1.2020
Schweizerische Nationalbank, Fraumünsterstrasse 8, 8001 Zürich
Josef Müller-Brockmann – Photographic Experiments
Josef Müller-Brockmann was one of the most influential representatives of constructive Swiss graphic design, which consistently used photomontage in its advertising graphics. Depending on the commission, Müller-Brockmann preferred objective, expressive, or abstract photography.
1.11.2019 – 9.2.2020
Toni-Areal
100 beste Plakate 18 – Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz
Vom 21. Dezember 2019 bis zum 10. Januar 2020 ist im Toni-Areal an der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste ZHdK die Wanderausstellung «100 beste Plakate 18» zu sehen.
21.12.2019 – 10.1.2020
Toni-Areal