Löwenbräukunst invites you to the preview
The art scene is returning to the Löwenbräu. Although Zurich’s new cultural center won’t officially open until August 21, a preview for the international press took place today at the new venue on Limmatstrasse.
And in the coming days, the public is also invited.
It was the biggest media conference since the opening of the European Football Championship in Zurich four years ago. More than 70 media people from Switzerland as well as China, Italy, Germany and England took part in a first tour of the new cultural center on Friday. And they were able to see: Zurich has a new "museum quarter" that no longer needs to fear comparison with the international scene in Vienna, London or Berlin.
The former Löwenbräu site has been converted by star architects Gigon / Guyer at a cost of 65 million Swiss francs. The new center is now owned in equal parts by the city of Zurich, Migros and the Kunsthalle Foundation.
The disused brewery between Limmatplatz and Escherwyssplatz has been used by the art scene since the mid-1990s. This had to move out in the meantime during the reconstruction and now returns with flying colors. This coming Sunday and the following week, the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, which has been expanded over two floors, will celebrate its reopening with various performances. On Sunday, for example, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., there will be "To the Music" by Ragnar Kjartansson.
In the equally massively expanded Kunsthalle Zürich, there will be a preview exhibition from June 10 to 17. The numerous private galleries, such as Hauser & Wirth, Bob van Orsouw or Freymond-Guth Fine Arts, are also partly already open for a first look. Afterwards, the Löwenbräukunst will be closed for a short time so that everything can finally be put in its proper place for the grand opening on August 21.
Andreas Panzeri
Contemporary Art.
Art Gallery.
