Across the exhibition, a cast of recurring characters moves between the works on view, mediating between what is shown and those who come to see it — among them The Hypocrite, The Letter Y, The Listener, The Paranoid, Sappho, The Piss Goblin, or a horde of Zombies. Authored by the participating artists, writers, and collaborators, these figures turn the exhibition into a polyphony: a space where many positions speak together without collapsing into a single message.

Chorós unfolds within the infrastructure laid down earlier in Shedhalle’s programme. The Re-Props — modular works that function at once as artworks and as exhibition architecture — return here, reconfigured, to stage the gathering. They appear, recede, and reappear from one chapter to the next, carrying the memory of previous arrangements into the present one.

Like the programme it belongs to, Chorós is conceived not as a finished exhibition but as a staging — a durational, evolving arrangement that gathers voices over time. To speak all at once, after all, is not to agree: it is to make room for many moods, registers, and truths within a single shared space.

The international group exhibition Aaaand… Scene / Und… Szene marks the beginning of a new programme at Shedhalle Zürich. Borrowing its title from the moment on a film set when a director calls the end of a take in English or the beginning of one in German, the exhibition treats the exhibition space itself as a scene — a stage on which objects, bodies, and narratives come into relation.

At the centre of the exhibition is the introduction of Re-Props — artistic contributions that function simultaneously as artworks and exhibition infrastructure. The participating artists develop modular works — seating structures, display systems, platforms, partitions, and environments — that shape the spatial conditions of the exhibition while remaining open to transformation in future shows. The term is borrowed from theatre and film production, where it refers to reusable stage elements that reappear across different scenes. At Shedhalle, Re-Props are designed to do the same: to travel through the programme, adapting to new contexts and configurations over the coming years.

Rather than treating exhibition architecture as neutral support, these works make visible what usually stays behind the scenes — the structures that hold an exhibition together and determine how it is experienced. An artist’s bench is also a sculpture. A partition wall is also an artwork. The infrastructure of the show is the show.

Aaaand… Scene / Und… Szene therefore acts less as a finished display than as a first staging — the beginning of a long-term experiment that will continue to evolve throughout Shedhalle’s programme.

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.

more information about Confluences and other events soon.

CONFLUENCES gather practices, archival fragments and people linked to the Shedhalle. During conversations, meals, performances, listening sessions, discussions and workshops, works of the exhibition and the archives get activated. Confluences (re)visit concerns and questions that repeatedly appeared in different time periods at Shedhalle.

Confluence describes an “estuary”: both end and new beginning. This cyclical quality shapes the encounters, tracing resonances in divergent strategies across time and generating collective knowledges.