• Issue
  • Sep 01, 2023

Dispatch: Zurich: Booming But Unseen

Installation view of CHIHARU SHIOTA’s Eye to Eye, 2023, rope, glasses, dimensions variable, at "Eye to Eye," Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, 2023. Photo by Stefan Altenburger. Courtesy Museum Haus Konstruktiv.

Made up of diverse communities, Zurich is developing many interesting cultural layers. These cultural strata are continuously crossing different fields, spaces, and social classes. While art is an everyday presence in the high-priced, high-quality-of-life city, unlike the flamboyance of London, New York, Paris, and Berlin, Zurich’s art ecology is a gesture of slow advancement.