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Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst

Established in 1996, the museum has been a site of reflection and production focusing on large-scale productions in close cooperation with the artists.

Limmatstrasse 270, 8005 Zürich, Switzerland

Since its founding in 1996, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst has been a site of reflection and production. Focusing on large-scale productions in close cooperation with the artists, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst approaches contemporary art with a dynamic temporal purpose, showing exhibitions that formulate art history as a moving process, which are open to investigation, corrections and variations.

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OPENING TIMES:
Tue – Wed, Fri, Sat, Sun 11am – 6pm
Thu 11am – 8pm

CLOSING DAYS:
Mon

T: +41 44 277 20 50
M: info@migrosmuseum.ch
W: Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst

ADDRESS
Limmatstrasse 270, 8005 Zürich, Switzerland

ESTABLISHED
1996
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Past Exhibitions

Exhibitions

Pilvi Takala: Close Watch

The Finnish artist Pilvi Takala presents Close Watch, a new video installation that examines work cultures,...

10 Jun 2023 - 17 Sep 2023
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst

Zurich

Exhibitions

May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth

Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst hosts "May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth" by the artists Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme.

21 May 2022 - 11 Sep 2022
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst

Zurich

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Out of joint – Moments of disruption

How do disruptions inform our relationship with our world? To explore this question, the two-part exhibition "Out of joint – Moments of disruption" gathers works from the museum’s collection.

21 May 2022 - 11 Sep 2022
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst

Zurich

Exhibitions

Korakrit Arunanondchai: Songs for dying / Songs for living

Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst presents Songs for dying / Songs for living, the first institutional...

18 Sep 2021 - 09 Jan 2022
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst

Basel

Exhibitions

Potential Worlds 1: Planetary Memories

Collective exhibition exploring the relationship between humans and nature

07 Mar 2020 - 11 Oct 2020
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst

Zurich

Exhibitions

Stephen Willats: Languages of Dissent

This comprehensive exhibition is the British conceptual artist’s largest institutional solo shows...

25 May 2019 - 18 Aug 2019
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst

Zurich

Exhibitions

Teresa Burga: Aleatory Structures

Curated by Heike Munder, the exhibition by the Peruvian artist Teresa Burga (b. Iquitos, Peru, 1935) features...

26 May 2018 - 12 Aug 2018
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst

Zurich

Exhibitions

Collection on Display: Communities, Rules and Rituals

Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst presents the exhibition in three parts “Collection on Display:...

18 Feb 2017 - 05 Nov 2017
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst

Zurich

Exhibitions

Maja Bajevic: Power, Governance, Labor

The gallery presents a solo show by the French-Bosnian artist, with her works from the last ten years...

20 May 2017 - 13 Aug 2017
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst

Zurich

Exhibitions

Liz Magor: You You You

Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst presents “You You You”, a solo exhibition, curated by Heike Munder,...

18 Feb 2017 - 07 May 2017
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst

Zurich

Exhibitions

Museum Revisited 1996-2016

The Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst undertakes a searching and multifaceted examination of the history...

15 Oct 2016 - 05 Feb 2017
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst

Zurich

Exhibitions

Karla Black: Principles Of Admitting

Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst presents the room-filling sculpture “Principles Of Admitting” by...

09 Dec 2016 - 05 Feb 2017
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst

Zurich

Exhibitions

Eva Kot’átková: Collection of Suppressed Voices

Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst exhibits Eva Kot’átková‘s “Collection of Suppressed...

02 Dec 2016 - 04 Dec 2016
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst

Zurich

Exhibitions

Ian Cheng: Forking At Perfection

The work of the American artist Ian Cheng (b. 1984) explores the nature of mutation and the capacity...

20 Feb 2016 - 16 May 2016
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst

Zurich

Exhibitions

Collection on Display: Momentary Monuments

The exhibition format Collection on Display showcases selected works from the collection of the Migros...

20 Feb 2016 - 16 May 2016
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst

Zurich

Exhibitions

Resistance Performed

In the extensive group exhibition Resistance Performed – Aesthetic Strategies under Repressive Regimes...

21 Nov 2015 - 07 Feb 2016
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst

Zurich

Exhibitions

Collection on Display: Experimental Arrangements

The exhibition format Collection on Display presents selected works from the collection of the Migros...

29 Aug 2015 - 08 Nov 2015
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst

Zurich

Exhibitions

News from Nowhere: Zurich Laboratory

The Korean artists Moon Kyungwon & Jeon Joonho create works that address elemental questions concerning...

29 Aug 2015 - 08 Nov 2015
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst

Zurich

Exhibitions

Toys Redux – On Play and Critique

The exhibition Toys Redux – On Play and Critique brings together artists who use formats and imagery...

30 May 2015 - 16 Aug 2015
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst

Zurich

Exhibitions

Laura Lima: Bar Restaurant

Laura Lima‘s works are experimental arrangements that explore our perception along the boundaries...

23 Nov 2013 - 02 Feb 2014
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst

Zurich

Exhibitions

Stephen G. Rhodes “The Law of the Unknown Neighbor: Inferno Romanticized”

Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst‘s exhibition The Law of the Unknown Neighbor: Inferno Romanticized...

09 Feb 2013 - 21 Apr 2013
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst

Zurich