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 14:00, will last 2 hours and will be conducted in English.

Guide: Sofia Gkinko

GENERAL INFORMATION

Meeting point: Cabaret Voltaire, Spiegelgasse 1, 8001 Zürich

Saturday 11.06: 14:00 – 16:00

Sunday 12.06: 14:00 – 16:00

Sofia Gkinko

Sofia Gkinko holds a PhD in Modern Greek Literature, specializing in Periodical Press, from the University of Patras, and a MAS in Curating from the Zurich University of the Arts. She has been an exchange PhD student at Lumière University Lyon 2 and trained in Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig and University of Oxford. Gkinko has participated in conferences and interdisciplinary research projects with emphasis on literature, translation and periodicals, in Greece and France. She currently works at Visarte Zurich, the professional association for visual artists, architects, and independent curators in Switzerland. Previously she has worked in cultural organisations and institutions in Greece and Albania. Within the curatorial realm, her research focuses on art and language, the relationship between writing and performance, poetry and body, score and (re)enactment, as well as their blurring boundaries.

Contact: +41 0764941278

Subject of the tour:

The Poetics of Bits & Pieces: Text(ile)s and a Little Bit More

At the heart of this Art Walk lies the power of language, embodied in both tangible and intangible ways. With Cabaret Voltaire, the birthplace of Dada movement, as a starting point, we will be exploring how space, time and memory interweave. Can the history of a place and the narratives of the past have an impact on our perception today? Ilaria Vinci’s fireplace, the object landscapes of ektor garcia and Stefan Burger’s luminaire objects in the library, will offer us some insights. The transfer from Dadaism to Conceptualism will take us only 6': "As long as it lasts", the tribute exhibition to Lawrence Weiner, at Mai 36 gallery will be our second stop, where we will be exploring the relationship between art, artist, and viewer; beyond words. Walking along Rämistrasse, a real hotspot for the gallery scene of the city, we will visit Hauser & Wirth Publishers and the exhibition set up by fluid editions "About, by or of Marcel Duchamp", featuring a selection of books and catalogues, rarely exhibited historical magazines and artistic responses to Duchamp’s works. Our passage from text to textile installations will take place with Marion Baruch’s fabric sculptures, which open a dialogue between space and memory, presence and absence, material and immaterial, at Sommer Salon. Following the Limmat river, the Art Walk will end at Wasserkirche. Stefan Vogel’s floor-to-ceiling installation will be welcoming us to "kommen, abhängen!", and to reflect again on the ways that the space is activating new experiences and narratives while, simultaneously, is encapsulating its history.

We look forward to sharing this exciting moment with you!

ART WALKS - With Sofia Gkinko