Shedhalle

In short

TO BE REAL

A first chance to see TO BE REAL in the making.

Ahead of its premiere at Shedhalle in December as part of Hellenalgia, Vol. 2, Alexandra Bachzetsis opens the rehearsal to the public. The work begins as a sculptural presence in the space and gradually becomes a scenography, finally activated and inhabited by a new performance; what is shown here is one stage in that process rather than a finished piece.

Doors open at 6pm. The rehearsal is best seen from the beginning, so we recommend arriving on time.

Free entry, no registration needed.

Opening times:

6 PM

Shedhalle – ALEXANDRA BACHZETSIS: TO BE REAL (OPEN REHEARSAL)

Alexandra Bachzetsis, TO BE REAL, 2026.

In short

LIAM GILLICK: THE PARNASSUS WAY

“To the mountains. Head west on Parnassusweg toward Fredrik Roeskestraat. The masterplan.”

Liam Gillick reads a short passage from his forthcoming book, a journey on foot from central Amsterdam to Mount Parnassus in Greece. Written in “analogue-AI”: the artist read books, took notes, and set them against a turn-by-turn sequence of walking directions across Europe. The Parnassus Way will be published by the Hartwig Art Foundation, Amsterdam.

Free entry, no registration needed. ENG.

Courtesy Hartwig Art Foundation. Thanks to Galerie Eva Presenhuber.

Opening times:

7 PM

Shedhalle – LIAM GILLICK: THE PARNASSUS WAY (WHERE BUILDINGS ABSCOND)

Andrea Mantegna, Parnassus, 1497.

In short

EARWORMS FOR THE RICH TO FALL IN LOVE WITH GETTING POOR

A choir workshop hosted by Nicole L’Huillier and Ingo Niermann

September 13, 3 pm to 6 pm

How do you reach someone who has stopped listening?

Anti-capitalist protest tends to rely on shouting, and shouting rarely changes a heart. This workshop takes another route — through voice, vibration and collective sonic presence: building and training a siren-like chorus whose beguiling chants, eventually performed outside mansions, yachts, casinos and luxury hotels, are meant to plant earworms that persuade the rich to “share!”

Taking Ingo Niermann’s video Positive Terror – 7 Tutorials as a starting point, the afternoon moves from basic singing exercises to writing, arranging and performing exemplary chants. Nicole L’Huillier’s forthcoming exhibition Canción de Amor — an architecture activated by touch, voice and movement — becomes an attunement laboratory for the choir’s second gathering.*

Free entry, no registration needed. ENG.

*The second iteration of the workshop takes place on 29 October at Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst.

Opening times:

3-6 PM

Shedhalle – EARWORMS FOR THE RICH TO FALL IN LOVE WITH GETTING POOR

Nicole L’Huillier, Rehearsal Room: Ouverture, Schering Stiftung, 2026. Photo by Luis Kürschner.

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Shedhalle LONG NIGHT

A warm invitation to the Long Night at Chorós. Join us for an evening in the exhibition and experience a multitude of voices that comment, contradict, question and respond to one another.

With a guided tour with the curators, a reading by artist Alice Speller, music, drinks and further encounters, we invite you to enter a space where polyphony is not resolved, but celebrated.

18:30–19:30
Many Voices, One Chorus?
Guided tour with the curators

19:30–20:30
Reading by Artist Alice Speller

From 21:00
Music, Drinks & DJs
With DJ Ananda Jade

Program LANGE NACHT

Opening times:

6pm–midnight

In short

Chorós: Speaking
All At Once /
Alle zugleich

Opening on July 8, 6-9pm

In the theatre of ancient Greece, the chorós was a voice of the collective: a group that moved and spoke together, commenting on the drama before them and giving form to the doubts and desires of the community. Where that ancient chorus often spoke as one, Chorós: Speaking All at Once lets its many voices sound simultaneously — in unison and in dissonance, in agreement and in argument.

Artists and contributors: Levin Stettler Brogli, Benjamin Egger, Christian Falsnaes, Juliana Gleeson, Ji-Yoon Han, Aziza Harmel & Alice Speller, Johanna Hedva, Barbara Kapusta, Ingo Niermann, Aaiún Nin, Ruth Novaczek, Simon(e) van Saarloos, Maja Smrekar, Sráč Sam, Miriam Stoney.

Opening times:

Donnerstag & Freitag: 12 – 19 Uhr

Samstag & Sonntag: 12 – 17 Uhr

Shedhalle – Chorós: Speaking All At Once / Alle zugleich

Installation view: Chorós: Speaking All at Once / Alle zugleich, 2026, photo: Alice Speller. LEVIN STETTLER BROGLI, Wiedergänger, various materials, in collaboration with Marcel Ny"enegger & Tina Ehrat, 2026.

Installation view: Chorós: Speaking All at Once / Alle zugleich, 2026, photo: Alice Speller.

Installation view: Chorós: Speaking All at Once / Alle zugleich, 2026, photo: Alice Speller. MIRIAM STONEY, The Hypocrite, 2026.

Installation view: Chorós: Speaking All at Once / Alle zugleich, 2026, photo: Alice Speller. NATÁLIA SÝKOROVÁ & PAULA GOGOLA, PU-777-2k GLOSS 01 - 06, Extimacy forum, Drainage Systems. ABDUL SHARIF BARUWA, New Beginnings, Modular-1.

Installation view: Chorós: Speaking All at Once / Alle zugleich, 2026, photo: Alice Speller. CHRISTIAN FALSNAES, Look At Me, Solo, and Rise, 2026. ABDUL SHARIF BARUWA, New Beginnings.

Installation view: Chorós: Speaking All at Once / Alle zugleich, 2026, photo: Alice Speller. BARBARA KAPUSTA, One (Upright), 2022/2026. SRÁČ SAM, Setrvat do úplného zničení, 2026. BENJAMIN EGGER, ...will be back, 2026.

Installation view: Chorós: Speaking All at Once / Alle zugleich, 2026, photo: Alice Speller. SRÁČ SAM, Setrvat do úplného zničení, 2026. BENJAMIN EGGER, ...will be back, 2026.

Installation view: Chorós: Speaking All at Once / Alle zugleich, 2026, photo: Alice Speller. RUTH NOVACZEK, Sappho, 2026, Wrongness, 2025.

Installation view: Chorós: Speaking All at Once / Alle zugleich, 2026, photo: Alice Speller. CELINE CONDORELLI, Average Spatial Composition 2, 3, 6, 7. LIAM GILLICK, Prototype Mountain Number 2 (Parnassus).

Installation view: Chorós: Speaking All at Once / Alle zugleich, 2026, photo: Alice Speller. AAIÚN NIN, Peeling, 2026.

Installation view: Chorós: Speaking All at Once / Alle zugleich, 2026, photo: Alice Speller. BENJAMIN EGGER, ...will be back, 2026.

Installation view: Chorós: Speaking All at Once / Alle zugleich, 2026, photo: Alice Speller. RUTH NOVACZEK, Sappho, 2026, Wrongness, 2025. LIAM GILLICK, Prototype Mountain Number 2 (Parnassus).

Installation view: Chorós: Speaking All at Once / Alle zugleich, 2026, photo: Alice Speller.

Installation view: Chorós: Speaking All at Once / Alle zugleich, 2026, photo: Alice Speller. AAIÚN NIN, Peeling, 2026.

Installation view: Chorós: Speaking All at Once / Alle zugleich, 2026, photo: Alice Speller. JI-YOON HAN, The Letter Y [upsilon, i-grec, wye]. Commentary no. 1 — Tuning in, 2026.

Installation view: Chorós: Speaking All at Once / Alle zugleich, 2026, photo: Alice Speller. INGO NIERMANN, Positive Terror, 2023/2026, courtesy of World Revolution Fund. ABDUL SHARIF BARUWA, New Beginnings, Modular-1.

Installation view: Chorós: Speaking All at Once / Alle zugleich, 2026, photo: Alice Speller. SIMON(E) VAN SAARLOOS, Give Piss a Chance, or: transitioning as frivolous desire, 2025–2026.

Installation view: Chorós: Speaking All at Once / Alle zugleich, 2026, photo: Alice Speller. JULIANA GLEESON Preview of forthcoming book, Listening Like A Girl (full publication November 2026).

Installation view: Chorós: Speaking All at Once / Alle zugleich, 2026, photo: Alice Speller. AZIZA HARMEL & ALICE SPELLER, mirror inversion (fortune), 2026; feat. Aziza Harmel, Oversharing, 2026, and untucked (fortune) 01.A-J, 2026.

Installation view: Chorós: Speaking All at Once / Alle zugleich, 2026, photo: Alice Speller. AZIZA HARMEL & ALICE SPELLER, untucked (fortune) 01.A-J, 2026.

Installation view: Chorós: Speaking All at Once / Alle zugleich, 2026, photo: Alice Speller. OZ ODERBOLZ, Backroom / Acts of Kindness, 2026. A Hard Pill To Swallow, Ivory Stocker, 2026.

In short

Aaaand… Scene / Und… Szene

Opening

15. April 2026 6pm

Show Dates

16. April – 14. Juni

Participating Artists:

Abdul Sharif Baruwa

Monster Chetwynd

Céline Condorelli

Katrina Daschner

Liam Gillick

Martins Kohout

Martin Maeller

Sarah Margnetti

Oz Oderbolz

Day Shift Office

Toni Schmale

Natália Sýkorová & Paula Gogola

Opening times:

Thursday 12 – 19
Friday 12 – 19
Saturday 12 – 17
Sunday 12 – 17

Katrina Daschner, Martin Maeller, Installation view: Aaaand… Scene / Und… Szene, Shedhalle Zurich, 2026, photo: Alice Speller

Installation view: Aaaand… Scene / Und… Szene, Shedhalle Zurich, 2026, photo: Alice Speller, NATÁLIA SÝKOROVÁ & PAULA GOGOLA, PU-777-2k GLOSS 01 - 06, Extimacy forum, Drainage Systems, ABDUL SHARIF BARUWA, New Beginnings, Modular-1, SARAH MARGNETTI, See it Through, Pillar of Strength, TONI SCHMALE, 8 Us, LIAM GILLICK, Prototype Mountain Number 2 (Parnassus).

Installation view: Aaaand… Scene / Und… Szene, Shedhalle Zurich, 2026, photo: Alice Speller, ABDUL SHARIF BARUWA, New Beginnings, Modular-1, SARAH MARGNETTI, See it Through, Pillar of Strength, LIAM GILLICK, Prototype Mountain Number 2 (Parnassus), NATÁLIA SÝKOROVÁ & PAULA GOGOLA, PU-777-2k GLOSS 01 - 06, Extimacy forum, Drainage Systems.

Abdul Sharif Baruwa, Katrina Daschner, Sarah Margnetti, Natália Sýkorová & Paula Gogola, Installation view: Aaaand… Scene / Und… Szene, Shedhalle Zurich, 2026, photo: Alice Speller

Sarah Margnetti, Installation view: Aaaand… Scene / Und… Szene, Shedhalle Zurich, 2026, photo: Alice Speller

Katrina Daschner, Martin Maeller, Installation view: Aaaand… Scene / Und… Szene, Shedhalle Zurich, 2026, photo: Alice Speller

Natália Sýkorová & Paula Gogola, Installation view: Aaaand… Scene / Und… Szene, Shedhalle Zurich, 2026, photo: Alice Speller

Sarah Margnetti, Installation view: Aaaand… Scene / Und… Szene, Shedhalle Zurich, 2026, photo: Alice Speller

Sarah Margnetti, Oz Oderbolz, Installation view: Aaaand… Scene / Und… Szene, Shedhalle Zurich, 2026, photo: Alice Speller

Natália Sýkorová & Paula Gogola, Installation view: Aaaand… Scene / Und… Szene, Shedhalle Zurich, 2026, photo: Alice Speller

Oz Oderbolz, Installation view: Aaaand… Scene / Und… Szene, Shedhalle Zurich, 2026, photo: Alice Speller

Natália Sýkorová & Paula Gogola, Installation view: Aaaand… Scene / Und… Szene, Shedhalle Zurich, 2026, photo: Alice Speller

Martins Kohout, Installation view: Aaaand… Scene / Und… Szene, Shedhalle Zurich, 2026, photo: Alice Speller

Monster Chetwynd, Installation view: Aaaand… Scene / Und… Szene, Shedhalle Zurich, 2026, photo: Alice Speller

Installation view: Aaaand… Scene / Und… Szene, Shedhalle Zurich, 2026, photo: Alice Speller, DAY SHIFT OFFICE, The Stage (I remember it was hot but nothing else), MONSTER CHETWYND, Bat Opera, Parasocial Grotto, SARAH MARGNETTI, Hidden Door, OZ ODERBOLZ, Läufer #1, MARTIN MAELLER, untitled (for those who love) 1–5.

Installation view: Aaaand… Scene / Und… Szene, Shedhalle Zurich, 2026, photo: Alice Speller, OZ ODERBOLZ, Backroom / Acts of Kindness.

Installation view: Aaaand… Scene / Und… Szene, Shedhalle Zurich, 2026, photo: Alice Speller, NATÁLIA SÝKOROVÁ & PAULA GOGOLA, PU-777-2k GLOSS 01 - 06, Extimacy forum, Drainage Systems, KATRINA DASCHNER, Bewitched Antlers (Earth, Mars), Las Vegas, MARTIN MAELLER, untitled (for those who love) 1–5.

Martin Maeller, untitled (for those who love) 1–5. Installation view: Aaaand… Scene / Und… Szene, Shedhalle Zurich, 2026, photo: Alice Speller

Installation view: Aaaand… Scene / Und… Szene, Shedhalle Zurich, 2026, photo: Alice Speller, DAY SHIFT OFFICE, The Stage (I remember it was hot but nothing else), KATRINA DASCHNER, Bewitched Antlers (Earth, Venus), Las Vegas, NATÁLIA SÝKOROVÁ & PAULA GOGOLA, PU-777-2k GLOSS 01 - 06, Extimacy forum, Drainage Systems, ABDUL SHARIF BARUWA, New Beginnings, Modular-1, SARAH MARGNETTI, Pillar of Strength.

Installation view: Aaaand… Scene / Und… Szene, Shedhalle Zurich, 2026, photo: Alice Speller, DAY SHIFT OFFICE, The Stage (I remember it was hot but nothing else).

Installation view: Aaaand… Scene / Und… Szene, Shedhalle Zurich, 2026, photo: Alice Speller, SARAH MARGNETTI, See it Through, LIAM GILLICK, Prototype Mountain Number 2 (Parnassus), ABDUL SHARIF BARUWA, New Beginnings, Modular-1.

Installation view: Aaaand… Scene / Und… Szene, Shedhalle Zurich, 2026, photo: Alice Speller, ABDUL SHARIF BARUWA, New Beginnings.

Céline Condorelli, Installation view: Aaaand… Scene / Und… Szene, Shedhalle Zurich, 2026, photo: Alice Speller

Visual identity by Day Shift Office

In short

Loving Shedhalle

40 Jahre Shedhalle Zurich

Loving Shedhalle marks the 40th anniversary of Shedhalle in 2025 and reflects on its history, artistic and curatorial strategies, and social resonance. The endeavor examines what it takes to maintain an independent art space in the long term. At its core is an in-depth exploration of the concerns that have shaped this space in its respective historical situations The title reflects the idea of loving as an affective practice: concerns are deeply interwoven with emotions, beliefs and decisions. At Shedhalle, for example, strategies and formats have been developed that aim at agencies of the arts beyond art. Curated by a team of three (Michael Hiltbrunner, Carla Peca, Lucie Tuma), three sub-projects will be created for this occasion:

From September 2025, the new website with the digitised archive of Shedhalle at

www.loving.shedhalle.ch

developed and curated by Michael Hiltbrunner, Carla Peca, Lucie Tuma

Loving Shedhalle is supported by: Cultural Fund of the Canton of Zurich – Special Project, City of Zurich – Contribution Fund of the Department of Finance, Memoriav, Ernst Göhner Foundation, Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation, Else v. Sick Foundation, Cassinelli-Vogel Foundation, Dr. Adolf Streuli Foundation, videocompany.ch, ZHdK – Zurich University of Arts

Design: Studio Yukiko, Berlin.

Group Show

Loving Shedhalle—Abundance brings together a total of fifteen artistic positions whose concerns are particularly relevant to the last forty years of Shedhalle. The exhibition activates Shedhalle’s archives and draws on numerous conversations with people who have worked here. The invited works and artistic practices reinforce each other and form connections without diluting themselves. Relating their concerns to each other in a sensual and material way means keeping an eye on a multitude. With exuberant joy, Loving Shedhalle—Abundance celebrates not only the archival holdings, but also the very existence of Shedhalle itself.

With Paloma Ayala, Sabian Baumann, Ursula Biemann, Blablabor, Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, Donna Conlon, Shruti Belliappa and Kiran Kumār, Denise Ferreira da Silva and Valentina Desideri, Sylvie Fleury, Barbara Heé, Lang/Baumann, knowbotiq, Pipilotti Rist, Roma Jam Session art Kollektiv (RJSaK) Archive, Susanne Sauter.

Events during the exhibition will be announced by Shedhalle and on loving.shedhalle.ch.

Opening: Friday, 24 October, 6 p.m.

Duration: 25 October 2025 to 11 January 2026

Publication

The book Loving Shedhalle—Resonance provides insight into the research processes that informed Loving Shedhalle. The approach to the history of Shedhalle is driven by a desire to listen to the material traces and voices of past decades and to resonate with them. Resonance here means more than echo: it describes the relationship between bodies that vibrate in response to each other through encounter. The book searches for the spaces in between. It listens to forms of knowledge that are passed on in relationships and through embodiment.

With contributions by AKW, Sønke Gau, Frederikke Hansen, Michael Hiltbrunner, Gülsün Karamustafa, Renate Lorenz, Maurice Maggi, Carla Peca, Katharina Schlieben, Nora Sternfeld, Lucie Tuma; and interviews with Sabian Baumann, Felix Brunner, Sylvia Kafehsy, Elke aus dem Moore, Katharina Morawek, and Marion von Osten.

Book launch: Thursday, 20 November, 6 p.m., Shedhalle Zurich

Bilingual edition: German and English
Publisher: Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich.

Website

The web platform loving.shedhalle.ch offers direct access to videos, photographs and documents from the various eras and exhibitions of Shedhalle. Shedhalle archive has been made accessible by the Swiss Social Archives since 2022. Videos and photographs have been digitised in collaboration with Memoriav, and posters and documents from Shedhalle can also be viewed as part of the project. The online archive aims to document the eras, exhibitions, people and concerns of Shedhalle. To this end, contextualising oral history interviews are being conducted.

https://loving.shedhalle.ch

Bilingual website: German and English

Programming: Furbo, Zurich.

Opening times:

Wednesday 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Thursday 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Friday 2:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Saturday 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Sunday 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Graphic Design by Studio Yukiko

Shedhalle – Loving Shedhalle — 40 years Shedhalle Zürich

Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Agenda

Chorós: Speaking All At Once / Alle zugleich

EARWORMS FOR THE RICH TO FALL IN LOVE WITH GETTING POOR

LIAM GILLICK: THE PARNASSUS WAY (WHERE BUILDINGS ABSCOND)

ALEXANDRA BACHZETSIS: TO BE REAL (OPEN REHEARSAL)

Hellenalgia, Vol. 1: EXHAUSTED

Hellenalgia, Vol. 2: After The Ideal

TO BE REAL

Opening times:

LIAM GILLICK: THE PARNASSUS WAY

Opening times:

EARWORMS FOR THE RICH TO FALL IN LOVE WITH GETTING POOR

A choir workshop hosted by Nicole L’Huillier and Ingo Niermann

September 13, 3 pm to 6 pm

Opening times:

Shedhalle LONG NIGHT

A warm invitation to the Long Night at Chorós. Join us for an evening in the exhibition and experience a multitude of voices that comment, contradict, question and respond to one another.

Opening times:

Chorós: Speaking
All At Once /
Alle zugleich

Opening times:

Aaaand… Scene / Und… Szene

Opening times:

Loving Shedhalle

Opening times:

Keep intouch

Agenda

Chorós: Speaking All At Once / Alle zugleich

EARWORMS FOR THE RICH TO FALL IN LOVE WITH GETTING POOR

LIAM GILLICK: THE PARNASSUS WAY (WHERE BUILDINGS ABSCOND)

ALEXANDRA BACHZETSIS: TO BE REAL (OPEN REHEARSAL)

Hellenalgia, Vol. 1: EXHAUSTED

Hellenalgia, Vol. 2: After The Ideal

TO BE REAL

Opening times:

LIAM GILLICK: THE PARNASSUS WAY

Opening times:

EARWORMS FOR THE RICH TO FALL IN LOVE WITH GETTING POOR

A choir workshop hosted by Nicole L’Huillier and Ingo Niermann

September 13, 3 pm to 6 pm

Opening times:

Shedhalle LONG NIGHT

A warm invitation to the Long Night at Chorós. Join us for an evening in the exhibition and experience a multitude of voices that comment, contradict, question and respond to one another.

Opening times:

Chorós: SpeakingAll At Once /Alle zugleich

Opening times:

Aaaand… Scene / Und… Szene

Opening times:

Loving Shedhalle

Opening times:

Keep intouch

Chorós: Speaking
All At Once /
Alle zugleich