Agenda

History

Shedhalle on the premises of Rote Fabrik

Rote Fabrik was built in 1892 as a mechanical silk weaving mill. As was usual for industrial buildings of the time, sawtooth roofs (so-called shed roofs according to the English shed patent) provided the necessary daylight for the production halls.
After several changes of ownership* and temporary vacancies, the city of Zurich acquired Rote Fabrik in 1972 with the plan to widen the adjacent Seestrasse after demolition of the buildings. However, the Department of Homeland Security and the Social Democratic Party successfully intervened against these plans with a popular initiative. The factory was to be preserved. In 1977, the voters commissioned the city council to draw up a proposal for the use of the Rote Fabrik as a cultural and leisure center. Three years later, youth unrest accelerated the creation of the alternative cultural center “Rote Fabrik”.
The exhibition space Shedhalle was founded in 1985 by Trakt B, the association of artists with studios in the Rote Fabrik, which was founded in 1982. As local artists they were underrepresented in the established art system. By winning the vote for the Rote Fabrik as a cultural centre at the end of 1987, the city made independence a condition, which is why the Shedhalle Association was founded in the spring of 1988 and established permanent positions for curators and management.

Programmatics

At the beginning of 1994 there was a fundamental revision of the programmatic concept of Shedhalle. The overriding goal of this revision was to open the program to more unconventional forms of art education and to interdisciplinary cooperation with other social and scientific organizations.
In order to do justice to this goal, the team was to be composed of staff members who had already worked at the interface between art, discursive procedures and political commitment. Within the framework of a communicative and egalitarian working philosophy, the curatorial team was involved in operational matters and the management in curatorial matters. Furthermore, the curatorial team was staffed with two to three curators of equal standing working collectively.

Curatorial Practice

In order to pave the way for a different exhibition practice, Shedhalle had to become a place where not only the products but also their working and exchange relationships in which they are created are shown. This implied that the examination of the political conditions and circumstances of art production and reception became an integral part of the work in Shedhalle.
The aim was to examine the conventional concept of art and to counter it with alternatives. Thus, the exhibition “Nature™” (1995) was staged as a sales fair where artistic, social and political projects – which emancipatorily deal with so-called New Technologies – could be presented. Or in a project on pornography and prostitution, “Gewerbeschein Künstlerin” (1995), which was dedicated to the connection between commercial advertising strategies and pornography/prostitution as well as the examination of these topics within the “operating system art”. During the project “8 Wochen Klausur” (1994), the Shedhalle became the workplace for a group of artists/activists who became involved in Zurich’s drug policy with two projects. In this context, art should make effective contributions to current issues and not isolate itself from any social and political reality.
Shedhalle succeeded in attracting great international attention with its program and became an important reference point for an experimental, socio-critical, contemporary art practice.
Shedhalle and Rote Fabrik have always been places for processes that have bundled the city’s potential to enable new artistic formats as well as social forms. With the new artistic orientation 2020-2025, the Shedhalle is to become a space for process-based art in Zurich and Switzerland.

 

Previous Curators

and Guest Curators
(1985 – 1986)

Luigi Kurmann
(1986 – 1987)

Harm Lux
(1988 – 1993)

Renate Lorenz
(1994 – 1997)

Sylvia Kafehsy
(1994 – 1997)

Marion von Osten
(1996 – 1998)

Ursula Biemann
(1995 – 1998)

Justin Hoffmann
(1997 – 2000)

Elke aus dem Moore
(1999 – 2002)

Frederikke Hansen
(2000 – 2004)

Sønke Gau
(2004 – 2009)

Katharina Schlieben
(2004 – 2009)

Anke Hoffmann
(2009 – 2012)

Yvonne Volkart
(2009 – 2012)

Can Gülcü
(2012 – 2014)

Katharina Morawek
(2012 – 2017)

Egija Inzule
(2017-2018)

Annette Amberg
(2017 – 2018)

Paolo Do
(2017 – 2018)

Salvatore Lacagnina
(2017 – 2018)

Adriana Lara
(2017 – 2018)

Mirjam Bayerdörfer
(2019-2020)

Franz Krähenbühl
(2019-2020)

Shedhalle – History
04.03.-15.05.22

Are you
coming?

In short

Are you coming? Protozone 6 is an invitation to gather, to be hosted and witness, together.

 

programmed by Michelangelo Miccolis

produced by Cora Gianolla and nick von kleist

in collaboration with zürich moves! Forever imbricated

Shedhalle – Protozone6: Are you coming?
22.05.22

Hard-
breakes

In short

Video Deutsch/English VideoFrançais/Espagnol VideoTürkçe/عربي

 

Anna Fries + Göksu Kunak

 

Produced as part of the About Us! Festival.

Shown in the Framework of Tag der offenen Fabrik

 

Shedhalle is currently under construction for the new Protozone, so we’re opening the back door for a video screening of “Hardbreakes”:

 

All humans know it: wishing for something that in the end does not bring happiness at all. Be it in love, with plans for the future or in the search for solutions to problems – longing can also bring pain.

 

Inspired by Lauren Berlant’s book “Cruel Optimisim”, people in Wollishofen were asked about their unfulfilled wishes and how they deal with heartbreak. The conversations can be discovered in the video, which is published here.

Video Türkçe/عربي

Video Français/Espagnol

Video Deutsch/English

03.06.-07.08.2022

Zones
of Kinship,
Love
& Playbour

In short

Lo-Intensity

10.06.-07.08.2022 > open every Sat 14-20h & Sun 14-18h, plus additional opening hours on request

 

Guided Tours with Lucie Tuma:

Sa 06.08. 16:00
So 07.08. 16:00

and on request

 

If all of life is centered around work – how about work being a bit more like life, or like, living?

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour
Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour, space view. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour, space view. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

Nils Amadeus Lange, Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis (BWV 21), Performance 03.06.22 with Florian Schlessmann. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

Guided Tour with Lucie Tuma. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

Claudia Hill, Co-Weaving, installation view. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour, space view. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

Kiraṇ Kumār, Six uneasy fragments (exactly) about the natural and spiritual, installation view. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

Enad Marouf, Time of The Angel, installation view. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

Claudia Hill, Co-Weaving, installation view. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour, space view. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

aLifveForms (fed and cared for by JP Raether), Transformella Cinis [4.4.6.10.3], Installation view. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

Nils Amadeus Lange, Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis (BWV 21), Installation view. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

Liquid Dependencies Theory, Liquid Dependencies: What would a decentralized caring society look like? Installation view. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

Liquid Dependencies Theory, Liquid Dependencies: What would a decentralized caring society look like? Installation view. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

Enad Marouf, Time of The Angel, installation view. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

Enad Marouf, Time of The Angel, installation view. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

SABA, Wish we were free, installation view. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour, space view. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Zones of Kinship, Love & Playbour

River Oracle, installation view. Photo: Carla Schleiffer

03.09.2022, 18-02h

Proto-
Club3:
Pre-
Serving

In short

Long Night of the Museums, Performance by Byungseo Yoo & Video-Screening by Dominique Koch

Please buy your tickets online via https://langenacht-zuerich.ch/ or register for free to participate in the cooking via mail@shedhalle.ch

 

The effects of climate change as well as of war are impacting not only the worldwide supply with fossil fuels but also very basic food supply, especially in the global south. Proto-Club3 responds to the current crisis by bringing together two artistic perspectives on the complex question of how to treat and preserve food as our basic resource of survival.

 

Kindly supported by Kompotoi

Shedhalle – Long Night of the Museums / Proto-Club3: Pre-Serving
Shedhalle – Long Night of the Museums / Proto-Club3: Pre-Serving

Lactobacillus. Creative Commons.

Shedhalle – Long Night of the Museums / Proto-Club3: Pre-Serving

Foto: Byungseo Yoo

Shedhalle – Long Night of the Museums / Proto-Club3: Pre-Serving

Lactobacillus. Creative Commons.

Shedhalle – Long Night of the Museums / Proto-Club3: Pre-Serving

Foto: Byungseo Yoo

Shedhalle – Long Night of the Museums / Proto-Club3: Pre-Serving

Cryptococcus. Creative Commons

Shedhalle – Long Night of the Museums / Proto-Club3: Pre-Serving

Foto: Byungseo Yoo

Shedhalle – Long Night of the Museums / Proto-Club3: Pre-Serving

Dominique Koch. Filmstill. Sowing the Seeds for the Future. 2020. 4K Video. Sound. Courtesy the Artist.

Shedhalle – Long Night of the Museums / Proto-Club3: Pre-Serving

Dominique Koch. Filmstill. Sowing the Seeds for the Future. 2020. 4K Video. Sound. Courtesy the Artist.

Shedhalle – Long Night of the Museums / Proto-Club3: Pre-Serving

Dominique Koch. Filmstill. Sowing the Seeds for the Future. 2020. 4K Video. Sound. Courtesy the Artist.

Shedhalle – Long Night of the Museums / Proto-Club3: Pre-Serving

Dominique Koch. Filmstill. Sowing the Seeds for the Future. 2020. 4K Video. Sound. Courtesy the Artist.

16.09.-04.12.22

Queer
Trust
Protozone8

In short

QUEER TRUST is an attitude that draws from and relies on the in-between. It has shaped the work at Shedhalle as a space for process-based art since 2020 and is also the basis of Protozone8. The exhibition shows artistic works and ways of working that trust in relationships and processes beyond fixed attributions. The participating artists share intimate, vulnerable, open, and courageous artwork. In doing so, they question (gender) identities as well as artistic, scientific, and social traditions and classifications.

Opening times:

HI-Intensity

16.-18.09.22

 

LO-Intensity

19.09.-04.12.22

open every Sat 14-20h & Sun 14-18h

29.10. 20h BEAST! Performance by Tarek Lakhrissi

04.-06.11. The Institute for embodied creative practices by Isabel Lewis

in collaboration with Josephine Baan, Nina Emge, Izidora l Lethe, Ceylan Öztrük, Tyra Wigg and international academies

Shedhalle – Protozone8 Queer Trust

Protozone8. Graphic Design: Studio Yukiko

Shedhalle – Protozone8 Queer Trust

Dana Michel. Photo: Clara Lacasse

Shedhalle – Protozone8 Queer Trust

Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė, Leave No Trace (Milan), 2021. Photo: Fred Dott.

Shedhalle – Protozone8 Queer Trust

Isabel Lewis, The Institute for Embodied Creative Practices. Performance view, Welt ohne Aussen, Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin, 2018. Photo: Mathias Voelzke.

Shedhalle – Protozone8 Queer Trust

Natasha Tontey, Garden amidst the flame (still), 2022. Courtesy of the artist.

Shedhalle – Protozone8 Queer Trust

Sunny Pfalzer, Slim Soledad, Lau Lukkarila, I know what to do, 2022. Photo: Joseph Kadow.

Shedhalle – Protozone8 Queer Trust

Tarek Lakhrissi, Makeda Monnet, Victor da Silva, Beast!, 2022. Photo: Markus Goessi, Tinguely Museum.

Shedhalle – Protozone8 Queer Trust

Terre Thaemlitz, Interstices (still), 2001. Courtesy of the artist.

29.10.2022

Tarek Lakhrissi
BEAST!

In short

This performance

“…explores bestiality as a philosophical and political concept by drawing on the stigma that historically frames queers and PoC as monstrous. Through read- ings of my recent romantic/radical poems accompanied by the lyrical vocals
of Makeda Monet and the electronic music of Victor da Silva. BEAST! explores utopian queer passions, rituals for lost ones, dark corners to protect oneself in, erotic dreams, and… you’ll see. All the poems are from my last poetry book LE SANG! (BLOOD!) published by Lafayette Anticipations.”

-Tarek Lakhrissi

Shedhalle – Tarek Lakhrissi – BEAST!

Tarek Lakhrissi, BEAST!
Performance at Shedhalle 2022 during Protozone8 - Queer Trust
with Makeda Monnet and Fatma Pneumonia
photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Tarek Lakhrissi – BEAST!

Tarek Lakhrissi, BEAST!
Performance at Shedhalle 2022 during Protozone8 - Queer Trust
with Makeda Monnet and Fatma Pneumonia
photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Tarek Lakhrissi – BEAST!

Tarek Lakhrissi, BEAST!
Performance at Shedhalle 2022 during Protozone8 - Queer Trust
with Makeda Monnet and Fatma Pneumonia
photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Tarek Lakhrissi – BEAST!

Tarek Lakhrissi, BEAST!
Performance at Shedhalle 2022 during Protozone8 - Queer Trust
with Makeda Monnet and Fatma Pneumonia
photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Tarek Lakhrissi – BEAST!

Tarek Lakhrissi, BEAST!
Performance at Shedhalle 2022 during Protozone8 - Queer Trust
with Makeda Monnet and Fatma Pneumonia
photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Tarek Lakhrissi – BEAST!

Tarek Lakhrissi, BEAST!
Performance at Shedhalle 2022 during Protozone8 - Queer Trust
with Makeda Monnet and Fatma Pneumonia
photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Tarek Lakhrissi – BEAST!

Tarek Lakhrissi, BEAST!
Performance at Shedhalle 2022 during Protozone8 - Queer Trust
with Makeda Monnet and Fatma Pneumonia
photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Tarek Lakhrissi – BEAST!

Tarek Lakhrissi, BEAST!
Performance at Shedhalle 2022 during Protozone8 - Queer Trust
with Makeda Monnet and Fatma Pneumonia
photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Tarek Lakhrissi – BEAST!

Tarek Lakhrissi, BEAST!
Performance at Shedhalle 2022 during Protozone8 - Queer Trust
with Makeda Monnet and Fatma Pneumonia
photo: Carla Schleiffer

Shedhalle – Tarek Lakhrissi – BEAST!

Tarek Lakhrissi, BEAST!
Performance at Shedhalle 2022 during Protozone8 - Queer Trust
with Makeda Monnet and Fatma Pneumonia
photo: Carla Schleiffer

2022-11-03

The Institute for embodied creative practices

In short

‘The Institute for embodied creative practices’ was hosted at Shedhalle by Isabelle Lewis from 3-6 of November during Protozone8 – Queer Trust.
We are grateful for the collaboration with Joseph Baan, Nina Emge, Izidora I LETHE, Juliette Uzor, Tyra Wigg, HGB Leipzig, HSLU Luzern, ZHdK Zurich and many more international art schools.
The Institute for Embodied Creative Practices is an ambulatory corpus of particular concerns and the sensorial methodologies for addressing them founded by artist and choreographer Isabel Lewis.

Lewis (*1981, Santo Domingo) is a US artist with Dominican roots. She studied literature, dance and philosophy and is now active in theater, dance and music. Her work expanded the field of contemporary art to include the format of Occasions. With persistent experimentation and research methods that emerge from bodily experiences, Lewis creates alternative forms of sociality between human and non-human actors. The artist’s body of work to date includes the formats Occurrences, Arrangements, Activations, Expanded Viewings, Sensory Parcours, as well as workshops, listening sessions, and lecture performances. The focus of her fundamentally collaborative practice is on affective bodily experiences that engage all the senses.

 

The Institute of Embodied Creative Practices was supported by Kanton Zürich Fachstelle Kultur & Callies Berlin
Curated by Philipp Bergmann & Thea Reifler

Shedhalle – The Institute for embodied creative practices

The Institute for embodied creative practices, 2022
picture by Vanessa Bosch

2022-11-12

Becoming Justin Bieber

In short

Sunny Pfalzer was hosting their ‘Becoming Justin Bieber’ Workshop, a somatic dance karaoke gathering, during Zurich Art Weekend at Shedhalle!
Thank you for everybody who joined. Together we discovered how the choreographic gestures of pop cultural music videos felt in our bodies. Resisting through slow-motion awkwardness, we all became our own versions of Justin Bieber & Co. ♪

 

Assistance Sculptures: Nico Rueda
Pictures by Vaida Mikliusiene
Curated by Philipp Bergmann & Thea Reifler

Shedhalle – Becoming Justin Bieber

'Becoming Justin Bieber' Workshop by Sunny Pfalzer
Zurich Art Weekend 2022

2022-12-16

Protozone9 WEAK•END•OPERA

In short

with Selma Selman, Mikołaj Sobczak und Nicholas Grafia

 

Shedhalle brings together three artists for their first major institutional collaboration in Switzerland. Selma Selman, Mikołaj Sobczak, and Nicholas Grafia, friends who come from very different backgrounds, will spend a two-week-residency-period at Shedhalle. Together they will develop a spatial installation with their drawings, paintings, sculptural and video works.

 

And they will work on a new performance that will be presented on 16th and 17th of December, exploring the possibilities of experimental and political theatre. With references to absurdist performance and humorous play, they focus on social reality. They draw on narratives that are derived from socially stigmatized individuals and their bodily histories, but also their resilience and resistance.

 

Curated by Phila Bergmann & Thea Reifler

Curatorial Assistance: Vanessa Bosch

Graphic Design: Studio Yukiko

Opening times:

HI-Intensity Phase:

16.12.2022-18.12.2022

 

LO-Intensity Phase:

19.12.2023 – 15.01.2023

Sa 14–20h & Su 14–18h

Shedhalle – Protozone9 WEAK•END•OPERA

Protozone9 WEAK.END.OPERA, 2022
with Selma Selman, Mikołaj Sobczak und Nicholas Grafia

Jan/Feb/March 2023

Winter-
break

In short

Thank you for a wonderful year together! Shedhalle will be closed from mid of January until end of March 2023, but the process continues. Always. We are looking forward to seeing you again soon.

 

 

rent out Shedhalle during our winter break

Shedhalle – WINTER BREAK