Switzerland Art, architecture and travel
Let Wallpaper* guide you through the worlds of art, design and architecture in Switzerland - and discover where to go and what to see when you travel to Switzerland.
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Hauser & Wirth opens ninth gallery in St. Moritz designed by Luis Laplace
By Harriet Thorpe Last updated
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The Hamlet in Geneva is a showcase of design classics
By Melina Keays Last updated
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Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement: radical reflections on surreal times
At Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, the Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement 2021 kicks off with group show ‘A Goodbye Letter, A Love Call, A Wake Up Song’, a full house of subversive moving image commissions
By Amah-Rose Abrams Last updated
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Exposed concrete, pink marble and a rooftop pool revive an old Lisbon home
As seen in the September Style Special of Wallpaper* (W*246)
By Harriet Thorpe Last updated
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Back to the Bauhaus school days of Swiss polymath Max Bill
An exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Zurich explores the multilayered bonds formed between the artist and his fellow students at the Dessau institution
By Charlotte Jansen Last updated
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Switzerland’s Muzeum Susch opens in a redesigned rural monastery
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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SeARCH and Christian Müller’s buried hillside Hole House is a holiday home with altitude
By Emma O'Kelly Last updated
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Walter Maria Förderer’s 1960s European churches remain avant-garde today
In the 1960s, Walter Maria Förderer designed eight churches in Switzerland and Germany. Influenced by Le Corbusier, and even more so by the collages of Kurt Schwitters and Gothic architecture, Förderer designed cascades of concrete blocks and strange totemic objects that now form some of Europe’s most avant-garde religious buildings.
By Jonathan Bell Last updated
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Art Basel 2021: a guide to the fair and art in the city
At long last, Art Basel is about to get physical once again. Running from 24 – 26 September 2021 at Messe Basel, the fair promises a radical mix of new commissions and iconic works. Here's a preview of what to see at the fair, and around the city
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated
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La Prairie and Maotik plunge us into the twilight zone at Art Basel and Frieze London
La Prairie celebrates the launch of its Skin Caviar Nighttime Oil with a digital installation offering an entrancing trip into the twilight zone at Art Basel and Frieze London
By Mary Cleary Last updated
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Akris’ tribute to the embroidery city of St. Gallen
Creative director Albert Kriemler on Akris’ Fall/Winter 2021 collection, which honours the heritage of its Swiss hometown
By Jack Moss Last updated
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Inside architect Peter Zumthor’s wooden holiday home in the Swiss Alps
By Emma O'Kelly Last updated
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Carbon Fibre House: a Swiss home that draws on the history of prefabrication
By John Gendall Last updated
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Roni Horn talks remote control in her upstate New York retreat
By Marina Cashdan Last updated
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The Zurich List: art, culture, design and architecture in Mitteleuropa’s most handsome city
By Simon Mills Last updated
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Artist Julianknxx on poetry, dreams and Switzerland
Ahead of the New York showing of his major new film with Switzerland Tourism, we visit the studio of London-based poet and filmmaker Julianknxx
By Jessica Klingelfuss Last updated
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Perrotin releases Maurizio Cattelan banana t-shirts to benefit hunger-relief charity
Profits from each sale will go towards Feeding South Florida, a food bank serving Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade and Monroe counties
By Jessica Klingelfuss Last updated
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’Lignes d’Ombres’: Mobilab’s latest showcase is a creative meeting of minds
By Ali Morris Last updated
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Damien Hirst reaches new heights in St Moritz
‘Mental Escapology’ is Damien Hirst’s first public exhibition in Switzerland, and sees a monumental sculpture by the artist installed on Lake St Moritz
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated
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Christ & Gantenbein designs the Lindt Home of Chocolate near Zurich
Swiss architects Christ & Gantenbein team up with internationally renowned Swiss chocolatiers Lindt & Sprüngli to design a seductive architectural experience for chocolate-lovers in Switzerland
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Olafur Eliasson reflects on ways of seeing ahead of his latest exhibiton
By Clara Le Fort Last updated
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Welcome to Sarajevo: transforming the Historical Museum in Venice
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Chetzeron — Crans-Montana, Switzerland
By TF Chan Last updated
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Davide Macullo’s WAP Art Space combines art and dwelling
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Cold play: Rolf Sachs conjures an alpine adventure in a Swiss chalet
By Jessica Klingelfuss Last updated
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Roche Pharmaceuticals’ new workspace is ‘industrial palazzo’
Roche Pharmaceuticals gets a new multifunctional workspace for their Grenzach-Wyhlen campus, designed by Swiss architecture studio Christ & Gantenbein
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Combs turn artworks at Geneva’s Máti gallery
Designer Aurore Piedigrossi untangles the history of the comb with her Grands Hers collection at Geneva’s Máti gallery
By Mary Cleary Last updated