Join us for a thematic two-hour tour to discover exhibitions across art venues participating in Zurich Art | June with insights from students and alumni from the Master of Arts in Art Education Curatorial Studies of the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK).

The tour will have a limited capacity, and will be held in English and/or German.

Prior registration is required. For organisational reasons, spontaneous sign ups will not be possible.

Meeting point: main entrance of Lowenbraukunst

Keep yourself and others safe: please wear a mask during the tour.

The present is not enough. It is impoverished and toxic for queers and other people who do not feel the privilege of majoritarian belonging, normative tastes and rational expectations. [...] Hope and disappointment operate within a dialectical tension in this notion of queer utopia.

In the Art Walk 'Utopian Ways of Seeing', cultural mediator Lena Seefried and the participants will subject sculptures, paintings and installations to utopian mind games. The queer utopian imaginary allows Seefried to stimulate food for thoughts about political dimensions. (Lena Seefried)

Part of the public programme of Zurich Art Weekend. For more information visit https://zurichartweekend.com/june/events

ABOUT LENA SEEFRIED

Seefried works as a freelance curator, writer, cultural mediator and artist in Berlin and Zurich. They graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Art Education at Leipzig University and hold a Master of Arts in Art Education Curatorial Studies at Zurich University of the Arts. Project related Praxis with persons from various backgrounds allow them to share authorship and to ask questions about an ego-centered culture field. As a queer and intersectional feminist, Seefried sees a future in collaborative curating and in a decolonizing art practice. Their curatorial, artistic, and theoretical work emerges as a direct response to personal and collective experiences related to injustices against 'disruptive' identities. Seefried current work is characterized by positions that deal with moments in between, the fluid and the intangible.

ABOUT ZURICH ART WEEKEND

Zurich Art Weekend is a non-profit organisation that brings together Zurich's major public and private art institutions through a variety of initiatives and events. The fourth edition of ZURICH ART WEEKEND will take place from Friday, September 17 to Sunday, September 19, 2021.