Agenda

23.05 - 03.08.2025

ProtoZone19

curated by Phila Bergmann & Thea Reifler, curatorial assistant Vanessa Bosch
01.08.2025

Queer Bay Day 2025

September 2025

ProtoZone20 (final ProtoZone of the current curatorium)

program tba. Curated by Lucie Tuma, Michelangelo Miccolis, Phila Bergmann & Thea Reifler, curatorial assistant Vanessa Bosch
2025-08-01

2025-03-05

Proto-Club 6 x Chair of Art in Space and Time

In short

Dark Screen: Narratives Beyond Data

05.03.2025, 14-19h

 

As technological advancements and conversational agents transform our relationship with knowledge, the digital screens through which we engage with this reality have never seemed so opaque. The program Black Screen: Narratives Beyond Data seeks to explore new paradigms of knowledge in the digital era.

 

In the first part of the afternoon, the program is introduced by Jonathan Pouthier and engages with the film Ancestral Clouds Ancestral Claims by Arjuna Neuman & Denise Ferreira da Silva. In the evening, Elizabeth Prize will be at Shedhalle to share her artistic practice and exchange with the audience.

 

Opening times:

14:00-19:00

Shedhalle – Proto-Club 6 x Chair of Art in Space and Time

Elizabeth Price, The Woolworths Choir of 1979, 2012, 20min. (detail) © Elizabeth Price

2025-08-01

2025-05-23

2025-03-14

ProtoZone18:
Unfamiliar Evermore

In short

A poetic farewell, a drift into the increasingly unknown, Unfamiliar Evermore occupies a space between recognition and estrangement, fantasy and absurdity––being both in the present tense and out of time.

 

with Ivan Cheng, Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome, Kris Lemsalu + Johanna Ulfsak, Eglė Budvytytė, Ingo Niermann + Frédérique Vivet

 

curated by Michelangelo Miccolis

produced by nick von kleist

Opening times:

Hi-Intensity Phase

14.03.25 open 18-22h + 15.03.25 open 14-20h

 

Lo-Intensity Phase

16.03.25 – 11.05.25

open every Saturday 14-20h & every Sunday 14-18h

 

Shedhalle – ProtoZone18: Unfamiliar Evermore
2025-01-13

Winter Break

In short

Shedhalle is on its winter break – the last big break before ProtoZones 2020-2025 comes to an end in September. Hard to believe, isn’t it?
Before that happens, let’s take a deep breath and gather energy – because from March 14, ProtoZone18, curated by Michelangelo Miccolis, will continue.
We can hardly wait to experience this last year together with you!

 

💛 THANK YOU to all the artists, partners and visitors who made our year so unique! 💛

 

Click here for information on renting Shedhalle.

Shedhalle – Winter Break

The Institute for Embodied Creative Practices 2024 at Shedhalle

2024-11-02

Book Launch with Mîrkan Deniz

In short

Out of Place, 2024

 

The artist’s book Out of Place brings together several works by Mîrkan Deniz. The main work Masa (English: Table) refers to the Treaty of Lausanne, signed in 1923. It redrew the borders of Turkey and Greece while also dividing Kurdistan between Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria, effectively disenfranchising both the Kurds and Armenians.

 

During a state visit to Ankara in November 2008 to mark 80 years of diplomatic relations, Pascal Couchepin, then President of the Swiss Confederation, presented Turkey with the table on which the treaty was signed. Masa deals with the places and objects connected to this historic accord and recreates the signing table, raising questions about Switzerland’s role in the process.

 

Other works such as Untitled (300) examine military surveillance through abstract drawings, while Barikat focuses on Kurdish resistance. Untitled (Out of Place) uses a frayed, unfinished black carpet to draw parallels between colonial relics and contemporary protests.

 

The book consists of four separate volumes of 48 pages each, bound together by frontal wire stitching. The works subvert the rational order of the volumes and thus transcend their boundaries, switching between different printing techniques and types of paper. The book includes essays by art historians Yasmin Afshar and Matthieu Jaccard, who contextualise Deniz’s work both historically and artistically.

 

Out of Place is published on the occasion of the 9th anniversary of the work Masa.
Supported by Stadt Zürich Kultur, Fachstelle Kultur Kanton Zürich, Erna & Burgauer Stiftung, Ernst und Olga Gubler-Hablützel Stiftung.

 

Published by Jungle Books, St.Gallen
Designed by Data-Orbit, St.Gallen
Artist: Mîrkan Deniz
Editor: Mîrkan Deniz
Writer: Yasmin Afschar, Matthieu Jaccard
Language: English

Shedhalle – Book Launch with Mîrkan Deniz

Public action Palais de Rumine 2015

Shedhalle – Book Launch with Mîrkan Deniz

Public action Bundeshaus Bern 2016

Shedhalle – Book Launch with Mîrkan Deniz

Masa Sehdhalle Zürich 2015

Shedhalle – Book Launch with Mîrkan Deniz

Historical picture of the Lausanne Peace Treaty at Palais de Rumine, Lausanne, 1923

Shedhalle – Book Launch with Mîrkan Deniz

Public action Bundeshaus Bern 2016

Shedhalle – Book Launch with Mîrkan Deniz

Public action Palais de Rumine 2015

Shedhalle – Book Launch with Mîrkan Deniz

95th Anniversary of the Treaty of Lausanne at the Château d‘Ouchy

Shedhalle – Book Launch with Mîrkan Deniz

95th Anniversary of the Treaty of Lausanne at the Château d‘Ouchy

Shedhalle – Book Launch with Mîrkan Deniz

95th Anniversary of the Treaty of Lausanne at the Château d‘Ouchy

2024-10-12

The Institute for Scene Experiments: Surplus Reality

In short

The Institute for Scene Experiments

Surplus Reality

 

You are invited to participate in a workshop with the Institute for Scene Experiments on Saturday 12th October from 15:30 to 20:00.

 

The workshop entitled ‘Surplus Reality’ is an experiment in collective practice and is set within a realist frame to examine social questions. We will collectively develop a short improvisational scene taking place in the exhibition space with two studio cameras, professional lighting and lavalier microphones: the starting point will be a realistic dialogue for two or more characters in a gallery, departing from a frame text derived from dialogues in the films of Swiss Filmmaker Anne-Marie Miéville. Once the parameters of the scene are established we will experiment in recording different ways to represent it. At the end of the workshop the raw footage will be shared with the participants.

 

Participation will require being in a variety of roles, from performing, sound, camerawork, lighting and text work. By participating in the workshop you consent to being filmed. To register E-Mail with a brief line about who you are and your interests in the workshop.

07.09.2024

Long Night of Museums Zurich 2024

In short

Long Night of Museums 2024 at Shedhalle

with WAT TAKLAEW and Sarai Rose Duke

curated and hosted by Vanessa Bosch

 

Online Tickets

Opening times:

open 18:00 – 01:00

Shedhalle – Long Night of Museums Zurich 2024
Shedhalle – Long Night of Museums Zurich 2024

WAT TAKLEAW

Shedhalle – Long Night of Museums Zurich 2024

Sarai Rose Duke

Shedhalle – Long Night of Museums Zurich 2024

Solar Capital (2024), Hugo de Almeida Pinho

06.04.2024-26.05.2024

Proto
Zone14:
Staying
Close

In short

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For ProtoZone14 Shedhalle’s curatorial team comes together with a desire to stay close to the relationships and work we have developed over the past four years.

 

With Staying Close we invite you to see new ways of being and staying with one another. Looking for altered understandings of time and collaboration, history and practice. To us, this means looking for solidarity despite and exactly because of our differences.

 

ProtoZone14 hosts an ongoing film and a site-specific installation. The rest of the space and time is dedicated to what we feel is now most urgent: live gathering. We invite you to gather around dance, around poetry, music, excursions, workshops and meals.

 

Curated by Phila Bergmann, Michelangelo Miccolis, Thea Reifler, Lucie Tuma
Curatorial Assistant Vanessa Bosch

 

Production assistance for Cally Spooner: nick von kleist

 

Supported by Stadt Zürich Kultur

and Kanton Zürich Fachstelle Kultur (for The Institute for Embodied Creative Practices)

Opening times:

LAST DAYS!

Friday, 24.05. to Sunday, 26.05. we cordially invite you to the Institute for Embodied Creative Practices.

24.05. 09-22h

25.05. 09-22h

26.05. 09-17h

Shedhalle – ProtoZone14: Staying Close

Graphic Design Studio Yukiko

Shedhalle – ProtoZone14: Staying Close

Alex Baczyński-Jenkins, photo by Laila Kaletta

Shedhalle – ProtoZone14: Staying Close

Cally Spooner, photo by Laila Kaletta

Shedhalle – ProtoZone14: Staying Close

Politics of Doughs, photo by Laila Kaletta

Shedhalle – ProtoZone14: Staying Close

Ivo Dimchev, photo by Laila Kaletta

Shedhalle – ProtoZone14: Staying Close

aLifveForms, photo by Laila Kaletta

Shedhalle – ProtoZone14: Staying Close

The Institute for Embodied Creative Practices, photo by Bettina Filacanavo