ART WALKS – With Francesca Ceccherini

Once again, Zurich Art Weekend is excited to present its Art Walks on the occasion of Zurich Art Weekend 2022.

Get to know Zurich’s thriving art scene following the footsteps of young curators and art mediators. You will visit selected art venues and discover upcoming and established artists through a two hours walk.

The tours will take place on Saturday June 11th and Sunday 12th, both starting at 16:00, will last 2 hours and will be conducted in English.

Guide: Francesca Ceccherini

GENERAL INFORMATION

Meeting point: Luma Westbau, Limmatstrasse 270, 8005 Zürich

• Saturday 11.06: 16:00 – 18:00

• Sunday 12.06: 16:00 – 18:00

Francesca Ceccherini

Francesca Ceccherini (IT, 1986) is curator, researcher and writer based in Zurich.

She develops projects aimed at exploring the relation between images and memory, the dichotomy of history-contemporaneity. She investigates the present time by exploring issues such as borders, universes of invisible and migrations in relation to multiple fields of knowledge. With a specialized practice in the realization of site specific and trans-disciplinary projects, she is the founder of OTO Sound Museum and Zaira Oram. She collaborated both with independent spaces and museums including Kunsthalle Winterthur (Winterthur), Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen (St. Gallen), Johann Jacobs Museum (Zurich), IIC Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Zurigo (Zurich), Fondazione Pastificio Cerere (Rome), Nomas Foundation (Rome), GAMeC – Galleria d’arte moderna e contemporanea (Bergamo), Palazzo Monti (Brescia), Accademia Carrara (Bergamo) and La Triennale di Milano (Milan). She is the curator of the international project ONE BY ONE by Filippo Berta – Italian Council winner in 2019 –, part of the Contemporary Locus and Exibart magazine.

Contact: +41 0783020877

Subject of the tour:

Walking to look towards the experimentation of multiple languages between present and past. Among the themes that weave the red thread of our journey are memory, resistance and the body, understood as a collective and individual political being.

This walk begins at Luma Westbau with Sophia Al Maria's film Tender Point Ruin and continues in the context of the same building – one of the cultural poles of the Zurich art scene – in the immersive video and sound installation May amnesia never kiss us on the mounth of Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme at Migros Museum. The third stage takes a step into the history of art with a view to the exhibition Light vulnerable objects threatened by eight cement bricks by the missing artist Bas Jan Ader, honored on this occasion with the reenactment of the homonymous performance to be held on June 12 at 6 pm at Verein by association, off space in Wiedikon –the district that connects the urban space with the Zurich forest.

We look forward to sharing this exciting moment with you!