9 listopada 2026
Kunsthaus Zürich hangs Maria Lassnig beside Edvard Munch, Rietberg digs into 13,000 years of the Amazon, and Sabine Marcelis fills the Toni-Areal with light just as the sun starts setting before five. Le Corbusier's lakeside pavilion shuts for winter after 29 November, taking its show on architecture and power with it. Seven picks.
Kunsthaus ZürichUntil 21 February
Munch painted illness and grief; Lassnig spent decades painting what it feels like to be inside her own body. About 150 works, in the first show to hang the two together, made with Hamburger Kunsthalle.
Museum RietbergOpened 30 October
Funerary urns, painted ceramics and a virtual visit to the rock paintings of Chiribiquete, a Colombian site almost nobody is allowed to enter. The show spans 13,000 years of people living in the Amazon.
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Toni-ArealOpened 30 October
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.
Pavillon Le Corbusier (Heidi Weber Museum)Closes 29 November
Le Corbusier's last building hosts a show about his willingness to engage with fascism, and about how monumental architecture gives political power a stage. An uncomfortable subject, examined from inside one of his own designs.
Helmhaus ZürichFree
729 artworks, 724 of them borrowed from six public collections that had not shown them for 50 years or more. The other five are invisible, described to you by narrators. Free, on the Limmat.
Museum Haus KonstruktivUntil 10 January
Heidi Bucher's body shells alongside Bruce Nauman, Kimsooja, Chiharu Shiota and Franz West. For its 40th anniversary, a museum built on squares and grids goes looking for the human body in abstract art.
Cabaret VoltaireUntil 10 January
Prints, scores and sketches that turned Dada's 1916 language experiments into objects, in the cellar of the house where Hugo Ball performed his sound poems. The show also follows what those experiments left out and what they set off.
Pavillon Le Corbusier (Heidi Weber Museum)
How monumental buildings give political power a stage, examined through Le Corbusier's designs and his willingness to engage with fascism.
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Ausstellungsstrasse
First solo show of Swiss textile designer Christoph Hefti: knotted carpets, patchwork, prints, ceramics, costumes and performance.
Helmhaus ZürichWstęp wolny
729 artworks, 724 on loan from six public collections and not shown for 50 years or more, set against five invisible works told by narrators.
Museum Haus Konstruktiv
40th anniversary show on the body in abstract art, with Heidi Bucher, Kimsooja, Bruce Nauman, Chiharu Shiota, Franz West and others.
Kunsthalle Zürich
First institutional solo show outside the UK by London filmmaker Ayo Akingbade, with two premieres including the new 35mm film Two Truths (2026).
Kunsthalle Zürich
Glasgow-based Caspar Heinemann's first institutional solo show outside the UK, centred on the installation ABRACADABRA (2026) with back-to-back stages and restored cuckoo clocks.
Cabaret Voltaire
How Dada's 1916 language experiments took material form in prints, scores and sketches, and what they left out and set off later.
Landesmuseum Zürich (Swiss National Museum)
How wars shaped Switzerland from the late Middle Ages to today: national myths, civil wars, mercenary service, the arms industry and neutrality.
Migros Museum für GegenwartskunstWstęp wolny
Collection show pairing works by Sylvie Fleury, some shown for the first time in 20 years, with new works by Shamiran Istifan.
Migros Museum für GegenwartskunstWstęp wolny
Solo show of sound installations, swings and whispering bowls that visitors activate by playing, dancing and singing.
Museum Rietberg
Carved and inlaid Chinese lacquer from the Ming and Qing dynasties, with dragons, flowers and birds, shown with the LWL Museum in Münster.
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Ausstellungsstrasse
Interwar graphic design, typography and photography, with El Lissitzky, Cassandre, Jan Tschichold and Lucia Moholy.
Museum Rietberg
Ceramics, funerary urns and a virtual visit to the rock art of Chiribiquete trace 13,000 years of Amazonian history.
Landesmuseum Zürich (Swiss National Museum)
Posters, logos and stamps from the museum's graphic art collection show how design shapes desire and identity, with hands-on design stations.
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Toni-Areal
Sabine Marcelis's first museum show combines recent works with site-specific light installations, including the Varmblixt tunnel and Mathmos Lava Columns.
Landesmuseum Zürich (Swiss National Museum)
Video installation with eleven interviews about sex work in Switzerland. Closed 2 Nov 2026 to 11 Jan 2027 for Christmas & Cribs.
Museum Rietberg
Pahari court portraits and series by Nikka of Guler (1745-1833), drawn from the museum's own collection, in the Park-Villa Rieter.
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