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Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Toni-ArealZürich-West

Sabine Marcelis: Light and Color

In corso30 ottobre 2026 – 4 aprile 202715 CHF

Sabine Marcelis's first museum show combines recent works with site-specific light installations, including the Varmblixt tunnel and Mathmos Lava Columns.

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Eight lava lamps, the tallest almost three metres, stand between mirrored walls, so their milky wax rises and falls into infinity. Curator Damian Fopp compares the room to Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirror Rooms.

This is Sabine Marcelis's first museum show, and she chose the works for how they handle light and colour, not by date. You walk through an 11-metre tunnel of 125 orange IKEA Varmblixt lamps, past curved-glass chaise longues on only their second showing, to Sunbeam Captured, where lights trace the sun's path over rippling water to recreate a sunbeam in a rain puddle. Come February, that puddle will be sunnier than most of your week in Zurich.

Wallpaper's review was warm and named no catch. Tickets are CHF 15, CHF 10 reduced, free under 20 and free for everyone on Thursdays from 17:00, when the museum stays open until 20:00. Marcelis gives an artist talk on 26 November.

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A tunnel of light called Varmblixt and a row of Mathmos lava columns, made for this space. Rotterdam designer Sabine Marcelis, known for resin and glowing glass, gets her first museum show, mixing recent pieces with site-specific light.

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  • Mathmos Lava Columns

    Eight lava lamps made with Mathmos, the tallest nearly 3m of milky wax in frosted glass, repeat endlessly between mirrored walls.

  • The Varmblixt tunnel

    Walk 11 metres through 125 orange IKEA Varmblixt lamps set against a colour-graded mirror wall.

  • Sunbeam Captured

    Made with Boris Acket, moving lights trace the sun's path over rippling water and a blue-to-orange mirror.

  • No Fear of Glass

    Curved-glass chaise longues from her 2019 Barcelona Pavilion show, so hard to make that Zurich is only their second outing.

  • House Wine

    Her Design Academy Eindhoven graduation project on home winemaking and rising bubbles, where her fixation on moving liquids began.

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