Latest Events in Zurich(June Updated)

The exhibition at the National Museum Zurich shines a spotlight on a culture still embraced enthusiastically by millions of people around the world today. Video and audio installations in a setting designed to look like a record shop take visitors on a journey through the evolution of electronic sound and let them explore the social, political, economic and aesthetic dimensions of techno culture in Switzerland.

Mumford & Sons Zurich promises to be an unforgettable evening of music and emotion, set against the backdrop of the iconic Hallenstadion in Zurich, Switzerland. Scheduled for November 20, 2025, at 20:00, this event will showcase the band's signature blend of folk rock and heartfelt lyrics. With tickets priced at 147 USD, attendees will experience a night filled with the soulful melodies and powerful performances that Mumford & Sons are renowned for. The Hallenstadion, known for its excellent acoustics and vibrant atmosphere, will provide the perfect venue for this highly anticipated concert. Fans can expect to hear a mix of classic hits and new material, making Mumford & Sons Zurich a must-see event for music lovers.

The Kunsthaus Zürich presents a diverse exhibition programme that unites opposites and opens up innovative ways of viewing art. The focus is on surprising moments that invite visitors to rethink boundaries and open up new worlds of perception. This year's outstanding artists include Roman Signer, known for his spectacular installations, Monster Chetwynd, whose provocative works challenge traditional art forms, and Refik Anadol, a pioneer of AI-supported art. These and other globally unique projects offer fresh perspectives and unforgettable experiences that go beyond traditional exhibition formats. From the iconic Dada movement to cutting-edge digital art, from intimate to large-scale works, the coming year promises an inspiring journey through time, space and media at Kunsthaus Zürich.

This exhibition will focus on the textile works of American artist Sheila Hicks, Swiss artist Elsi Giauque and others, ranging from plain and simple fabrics to fancy and colorful tassels, from two-dimensional geometric pattern weaving to free-form products in three-dimensional space, striving to present the creativity of the artists and the unique appeal they give to their works.

The Kunsthaus Zürich shows the fascinating world of Roman Signer. The large exhibition gallery will be transformed into an open artistic landscape where playful energy and a deep sense of wonder about nature come together.

Monster Chetwynd (b. 1973 London, lives and works in Zurich), also previously known under the names Lali, Spartacus and Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, shot to international fame in the 2000s with her excuberant performances that recall medieval mystery plays and carnival theatre and draw on themes from both art history and popular culture. In 2012, she became the first performance artist to be nominated for the prestigious Turner Prize and is today one of the leading figures working in the field of contemporary performance. However, Chetwynd’s artistic production is much broader, encompassing disciplines including painting, sculpture, installations and films. Her artistic practice draws on a vast range of cultural sources and combines them into something new. Humour, curiosity and collaboration are key. The exhibition, created in collaboration with curator Raphael Gygax, offers the first comprehensive overview of Chetwynd’s work in Switzerland. More than 60 pieces from the last 25 years will be combined with an immersive exhibition architecture.

Suzanne Duchamp (1889 Blainville-Crevon – 1963 Neuilly-sur-Seine) left behind a dazzling body of work that has found its way into some of the world’s most famous collections but is still known only to specialists. The sister of Marcel Duchamp, Raymond Duchamp-Villon and Jacques Villon, she was in the vanguard of her times and influenced art history as an exceptional Dada artist. Duchamp’s visual idiom is subtle, delicate, cryptic, humorous and aesthetically appealing. The last large exhibition devoted to her work was in 1983 at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and was also presented at Kunsthalle Bern in a show entitled ‘Tabu Dada’. In collaboration with guest curator Talia Kwartler, the Kunsthaus stages the first retrospective in honour of a multifaceted artist who has for so long remained in her brother’s shadow. Zurich, the birthplace of the Dada Movement, seems the ideal place to highlight Duchamp’s adventurous spirit. Many of the approximately 60 works on display are being shown in public for the first time.

This year, there are once again fascinating new additions to discover at the Beyer Clock and Watch Museum! In our 2024 special exhibition, we are showing selected masterpieces that combine history, craftsmanship and design in the most attractive way. From the sporty Rolex Daytona – launched to mark the 100th anniversary of the legendary Le Mans race – to delicate ladies’ and pendant watches from the 18th and 19th centuries: each piece is a masterpiece in its own right. You can look forward to classics from IWC, Patek Philippe, Chaumet and Ulysse Nardin, the finest enamel painting and technological rarities. A highlight of the exhibition is a unique pendant watch in the form of an apple – intricately enamelled, romantic, playful and around 200 years old. Whether motorsport icon or miniature work of art: the diversity of this collection will delight collectors, technology enthusiasts and design fans alike. Pay us a visit and let yourself be enchanted by the magic of time!

Sting Zurich, an eagerly anticipated event, is set to take place at the renowned Hallenstadion in Zurich, Switzerland. On October 13, 2025, at precisely 20:00, the legendary artist Sting will grace the stage, delivering an unforgettable performance that promises to captivate the audience. Known for his profound musical prowess and a career spanning decades, Sting's Zurich concert is expected to feature a mix of his classic hits and newer compositions, offering a rich and varied musical experience. The Hallenstadion, with its state-of-the-art acoustics and spacious seating, provides the perfect venue for such a prestigious event. Attendees will witness a night of exceptional artistry and timeless music, set against the backdrop of one of Zurich's most iconic locations. This event is poised to be a highlight in Zurich's cultural calendar, drawing music enthusiasts from near and far.

Wilhelm Lehmbruck (1881 Duisburg – 1919 Berlin), one of the most important sculptors of his generation, moved to Zurich from Germany in 1916. During the First World War, the city became a meeting place for international artists. It was in this inspiring environment that Lehmbruck reached another peak of his powers: his last works in particular reveal him to be a visionary, charting out a new course with his ‘mental’ sculptures. Joining him in a visual dialogue is the contemporary Swiss artist Yves Netzhammer (b. 1970 Schaffhausen), whose drawings, spatial installations and computer-generated video films are a captivating blend of corporeal appearance and pictorial narrative. Netzhammer will conceive the overall spatial design of the exhibition and develop new works in resonance with Lehmbruck. The exhibition is a cooperation with the Kunstmuseum Moritzburg in Halle (Saale), in collaboration with the Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg.

Rod Stewart Zurich promises to be an unforgettable evening of music and entertainment, set to take place at the renowned Hallenstadion in Zurich, Switzerland. On December 5, 2025, at 20:00, fans will gather to experience the legendary Rod Stewart as he performs his greatest hits. With a career spanning over five decades, Stewart's iconic voice and charismatic stage presence have captivated audiences worldwide. The Hallenstadion, known for its excellent acoustics and modern amenities, provides the perfect backdrop for this highly anticipated event. Tickets are priced at 210 USD, reflecting the high demand and exceptional quality of the performance. Attendees can look forward to a night filled with classic rock anthems, soulful ballads, and the timeless charm that only Rod Stewart can deliver. This event is set to be a highlight of Zurich's cultural calendar, drawing music lovers from near and far to witness a true icon in action.

The FIFA Museum is currently hosting the new exhibition space "Football Fever: Play. Compete. Repeat.", which will be open until 31 August 2025. It offers a unique opportunity to experience football in an interactive way and to discover how closely the sport is linked to pop culture. "Football Fever" focuses on the fascinating fusion of football with areas such as toy design, comics, entertainment trends, art and social movements. Visitors will not only be able to admire exciting exhibits, but also get active themselves. There are interactive stations and games that bring to life the many ways in which football has impacted society.

With "Toward Architecture," Le Corbusier created a manifesto and laid the foundation for modernism. To mark the 100th anniversary of this work, the exhibition of the same name examines the collected texts and examines current architectural discourses and future perspectives.

Fabian Lang presents Becky Tucker’s first solo exhibition in mainland Europe and with the gallery. In the show titled The Quarry Tucker charts part fictional, part re-invented extinct creatures in an immersive space. The elaborate ceramic sculptures shine in their detail and complexity. They are shape and genre shifting, bridging with it the focus on the making in regards to the material's rich history, its fragility but also its longevity and the expression of a Zeitgeist Angst in a fascinating way.

Lullin + Ferrari present Biographical Forms, featuring works by six artists from the gallery program. The idea for this exhibition was inspired by Formas Biográficas, a 2014 show at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid. The connection between biography and artwork was already explored by Renaissance author Giorgio Vasari. The renowned Swiss curator Harald Szeemann investigated the concept of individual mythologies in the context of documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972.

For the first time, works by Mark Rothko (1903 – 1970) and Robert Ryman (1930 – 2019) meet directly in a two-person exhibition, opening up new perspectives on the artistic interaction between two American greats of 20th-century painting. On view at Hauser & Wirth’s gallery on Bahnhofstrasse in Zurich, this exhibition brings together important works by Rothko from the 1950s and 1960s and by Ryman from the late 1950s to the 1990s. Rothko and Ryman represent two generations of American abstract painters that briefly coincided around 1960; Rothko was then at the height of his fame, Ryman an aspiring painter. Beyond this brief overlap in time, they are deeply connected by the great visual quality of their paintings, a concise selection of which can be seen in the exhibition.

With Anker Protocol – 1.0, Galerie Urs Meile will inaugurate its new headquarters at Ankerstrasse 3 in Zurich in June 2025. In addition to its existing space on Rämistrasse, the gallery is reaffirming its long-term commitment to artistic dialogue and the continued evolution of its vision. The group exhibition also marks the beginning of a new series that will regularly offer insight into the gallery’s program and expanded curatorial perspectives. Anker Protocol – 1.0 brings together works by ten internationally active artists, spanning a wide range of formal approaches, thematic positions, and cultural contexts.

Opening during Zurich Art Weekend 2025, celebrated New York-based artist Pat Steir unveils a suite of new paintings for her exhibition at Hauser & Wirth in Zurich, her first solo show with the gallery in Europe.

Rosalind Nashashibi (b.1973 in London, England) is a British artist known for her painting and filmmaking. Over the last five years, she has shifted her focus back to the medium of painting. Her works often explore everyday life, human relationships, and socio-political themes. Capturing fleeting, dream-like moments, her approach to image making encourages intuitive connections. Her imagery cannot be placed definitively, allowing for numerous associations to be conjured.

Through painting, sculpture, installation, and photographic work, I reflect on how stories are stored, transported, lost, or transformed. I’m drawn to utilitarian materials often associated with migration—tarps, ropes, bags, textiles—objects that carry lives across borders, and also carry their own narratives of labor, survival, and adaptation. These materials become metaphors for containment and release: how we carry our identities, and how they change under pressure.

For many years, Thomas Ruff has been exploring the origins and history of photography in his series. In doing so, he has always questioned the significance of the actual starting points of photography and its essence. In contrast to painting, physical phenomena of optics - such as light, refraction or radiation - and their fixation on a medium always play an important role in photography. The aim of the expériences lumineuses series was to examine this more scientific aspect, consisting of light, light rays and glass, more closely and visualise it with the help of ‘simple’ photography.

Galerie Peter Kilchmann presents Heavy Mental, the first solo exhibition of new paintings, sculptures and drawings by Berlin-based artist Tobias Spichtig (b. 1982, Lucerne, Switzerland). For Spichtig, painting is a way of staying sane or (doing insane things). Like Ozzy Osbourne howling into the void of teenage bedrooms, it’s almost a method—half-joke, half-truth—for not losing your mind while losing it.

This June, Hauser & Wirth Zurich, Limmatstrasse presents ‘Ed Clark. Paint is the Subject,’ the first solo exhibition in Switzerland dedicated to this pioneering American abstractionist. Curated by Tanya Barson in close collaboration with the artist’s estate, the exhibition brings together key works spanning seven decades, offering a comprehensive overview of Clark’s groundbreaking practice. The exhibition will feature a broad selection of his dynamic large-scale paintings and works on paper, as well as early works and an example of his use of the shaped canvas. The presentation will be complemented by archival photographs and documents that provide biographical and historical context, tracing the evolution of his innovative approach and lasting impact on modern painting.

Galerie Eva Presenhuber presents the exhibition Franz West: Die frühen Werke / Early Works with sculptures and objects from 1975 to 1990 by the Austrian artist Franz West (1947-2012 in Vienna, AT) from private collections, in particular from that of his longtime mentor, the former gallerist and curator Peter Pakesch (b. 1955 in Graz, AT) and of Galerie Eva Presenhuber. The exhibition is accompanied by a new publication, photographs by Friedl Kubelka, and film screenings by Andreas Reiter Raabe and Bernhard Riff in an adjacent space. It is the twelfth exhibition at the gallery since the beginning of the collaboration between West and Eva Presenhuber.

Although Switzerland has no royal tradition, royal families have long held a certain fascination for the Swiss; not least because they brought pomp and splendour to the country and celebrated their power there. Many crowned heads of state have visited Switzerland since the 19th century. For example, King Ludwig II of Bavaria was so taken by the William Tell story that he travelled to Lake Lucerne in 1865 and wanted to buy the Rütli meadow so he could build a castle on it. Then there was Charles-Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, nephew of the great Napoleon I and subsequently Emperor of the French, who spent a lot of his childhood at Arenenberg Castle after his family went into exile. Charles-Louis spoke with a proper Thurgau accent and attended military school in Thun. The fate of Sisi, Empress of Austria, is among the best known and most poignant experiences of a royal in Switzerland. She often visited the country for rest and recuperation, and was murdered in Geneva in 1898. All royal visits, whether by an emperor, empress, king, queen, prince or princess, and for whatever reason, whether politics, business or personal, had one thing in common: they triggered – both then and now – immense excitement and fascination among the Swiss public. The exhibition demonstrates this through many pictures and exclusive possessions of these bluebloods.

Warhol/Cutrone, an exhibition curated by James Hedges on the occasion of the Zurich Art Weekend juxtaposes Andy Warhol and Ronnie Cutrone, including paintings, drawings, and unique polaroids.

Galerie Peter Kilchmann presents Personal Effects, a solo exhibition of new paintings by New York–based artist Travis Boyer (b. 1979, Fort Worth, Texas, US) and his first solo exhibition in Switzerland. Executed with dyes on silk velvet, Boyer’s works explore how surfaces accrue meaning, inviting reflection on ornament, cultural memory, and queer embodiment.

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The EarthKeepers Club is a program that focuses on serving, reflecting on, and learning about the natural world. It is a space for youth (ages 12-16) to connect with others their age that have similar interests in the environment and conservation. Through this program, we aim to make a tangible impact and have fun along the way! The EarthKeepers Club currently has no cost to join and runs from April-November, on the second Saturday of each month. We are able to offer 3 volunteer hours for high school students that participate in a program day. We are excited to welcome you to the EarthKeepers Club whether it is your first time or you have been many times before! If this interests you or if you have any questions about our programming, please reach out to cedar.haven@arocha.ca . Information Source: A Rocha Canada | eventbrite