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Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst

Name: Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Address: Limmatstrasse 270, Zürich, 8005, CH
Telephone: +41442772050
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Das Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zürich ist seit 1996 eine feste Grösse im Bereich der internationalen zeitgenössischen Kunst.

Das Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst präsentiert auf zwei Ebenen wechselnde Einzel- und Gruppenausstellungen sowie Werke aus der eigenen Sammlung. Das international renommierte Museum versteht sich als dynamischer Ort für das zeitgenössische Kunstschaffen, dazu trägt auch das umfangreiche Vermittlungs- und Rahmenprogramm bei. Das Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst ist eine Institution des Migros-Kulturprozent.

09/06/2026

Only a few more days until we open our new exhibition — and things are taking shape fast. Walls have gone up, 22 tons of pebbles have been spread, and metal structures have been welded into place.

But what is Mohamed Bourouissa – Pour Noubia actually about?

In his practice, Mohamed Bourouissa places people at the center. He is a portraitist, a storyteller, and an inventor of spaces that bring us closer to lives and perspectives often absent from dominant media, politics, and art history.

His work traces a journey from Blida in Algeria, where he was born, through the banlieues of Paris, where he lives today, to Osnabrück in Germany, where the life of his aunt Noubia Meyer came to an end.

Will we see you at the opening during on 12 June?

Let us know in the comments

08/06/2026

How do artistic practices evolve when working with deeply personal material?
Join us on 14 June 2026, 2pm for an artist’s talk with Mohamed Bourouissa and our Co‑Director Yasmin Naderi Afschar at schwarzescafé, LUMA Westbau – followed by a book launch with the artist and curator Oriane Durand.

✨ What’s the focus?
Starting from the photographic legacy of his aunt Noubia, reflects on how photographic, spatial, and installative strategies allow him to engage with deeply personal material. His practice unfolds through collaboration and ongoing dialogue with the people he portrays – a process that continually reshapes the work itself.

After the talk, Bourouissa and Oriane Durand, curator of the 2025 exhibition Pour Noubia at Marta Herford, will present the new publication created in collaboration with MOUSSE Publishing. A book signing with the artist will follow.

✨ Why join us?
This afternoon invites us to explore how intimate stories resonate across geographies – from Osnabrück to Paris to Blida – and how artistic practice can hold memory, care, and shared experience. It’s a moment to gather, listen, and reflect on the relationships that shape Bourouissa’s work.

📍 Where: schwarzescafé, LUMA Westbau, Limmatstrasse 270, first floor 🌍 Language: English
♿ Accessible via lift
🎟 Free entry, no registration needed
Part of Zurich Art Weekend 2026

Let’s spend this afternoon together – in dialogue, celebration, and exchange.

Credits
Slide 1: Mohamed Bourouissa
Slide 2: Gian Marco Castelberg
Slide 3: Oriane Durand

06/06/2026

Why can one suddenly buy everyday items inside a museum? 🛍🛒
Find out in our best of…

To celebrate our anniversary, we show you memories from all three decades. You can swipe through the first five years now (1996–2000) – the rest will follow throughout the year. 🧡

Here you’ll see:
Ugo Rondinone, Dog Days Are Over (1996)
HIP: Special Guest Susann Walder (1997)
Rirkrit Tiravanija, Das soziale Kapital (1998)
PEACE (1999)
Mike Kelley, Sublevel, Framed and Frame, Test Room (2000)

Have you seen any of these exhibitions live, or does one of them stand out in your memory now?

Credits
Slide 1:
1996
Ugo Rondinone, Dog Days Are Over
05.05.1996–15.09.1996
Curator: Rein Wolfs
Photo: FBM Studio
© Ugo Rondinone

Slide 2:
1997
HIP: Special Guest Susann Walder
08.11.1997–11.01.1998
Curator: Rein Wolfs
Photo: FBM Studio

Slide 3:
1998
Rirkrit Tiravanija, Das soziale Kapital
22.08.1998–18.10.1998
Curator: Rein Wolfs
Photo: Rita Palanikumar
© Rirkrit Tiravanija

Slide 4:
1999
PEACE
06.11.1999–09.01.2000
Install view Daniele Buetti, Just One More, 1999
Sammlung Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Curators: Rein Wolfs, Gianni Jetzer
Photo: FBM Studio
© ProLitteris, Zurich

Slide 5:
2000
Mike Kelley, Sublevel, Framed and Frame, Test Room
08.04.2000–04.06.2000
Install view Mike Kelley, Framed and Frame (Miniature Reproduction “Chinatown Wishing Well” built by Mike
Kelley after Miniature Reproduction “Seven Star Cavern” built by Prof. H.K. Lu), 1999
Curator: Rein Wolfs
Photo: Peter Hunkeler
© ProLitteris, Zurich

04/06/2026

12.06.2026 | 10pm ✨ ✨Artist Mohamed Bourouissa invites you to continue our opening evening at the Pour Noubia Opening Night Party – a collaboration between the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst and the Schauspielhaus Zürich .ch

From 10pm to 3am, the Schiffbau Foyer transforms into a late‑night gathering as part of , expanding the exhibition into a shared space of music, community, and celebration.

A shared, immersive experience shaped by music, community, and Bourouissa's artistic vision.

DJ Line‑up
✨ Nadia Keira (Paris) – blending Afro‑Fusion, electronic textures, and hip‑hop into intuitive, hybrid sound journeys. .keira

✨ Modulaw (Zürich/Paris) – a sound architect whose sets move between experimental electronics, classical influences, rap, dancehall, R&B, and global club styles.

Bourouissa’s practice creates moments of encounter and collective experience, bringing together personal stories and perspectives that rarely appear in dominant narratives. Pour Noubia invites audiences into intimate worlds shaped by memory, identity, and belonging.

📍 Schauspielhaus Zürich, Schiffbau Foyer
♿ Accessible
🎟 Free entry, no registration required

Let’s celebrate the opening together – see you on the floor.

Credits
Slide 1: Mohamed Bourouissa, Foto: Daniel Roche
Slide 2: DJ Nadia Keira, Paris
Slide 3: DJ Modulaw, Zürich/Paris

02/06/2026

Exactly 22 tons of pebbles have just arrived at the museum.
So… why do we need them? 🪨🪨🪨

For our upcoming exhibition Mohamed Bouroissa – Pour Noubia, the pebbles will be spread across the entire first floor as part of the spatial installation. The crunch under your feet creates a sensory link to places outside the museum – cemeteries, parks, walking paths – carrying the story of Noubia, the late aunt of artist Mohamed Bourouissa, outward in both sound and symbolism. We won’t reveal too much yet, but something special is taking shape.

Join us on 12 June at 6pm for the opening of our exhibition Pour Noubia.

P.s.: And yes… you can walk on the pebbles! 🙂‍↕️

28/05/2026

Wallpaper is coming down, monitors are being packed away, and walls are being taken down. Our team is ensuring that every artwork is safely stored and that everything is ready for the new exhibition to be set up. Thank you to the more than 10,000 visitors who came to see the Disobedience Archive (Canopy of Broken Time).

See you on 12 June for the opening.

Reel by Gabi Deutsch
Credits TN: Exhibition view Disobedience Archive (Canopy for Broken Time), In dialogue with Raqs Media Collective, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, 2026. Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zürich.

26/05/2026

12th June: Mark your calendars ✨ it’s vernissage time ✨

In our new exhibition Pour Noubia by Mohamed Bourouissa, the artist’s works invite you to explore stories of exclusion, invisibility, and resistance. People are at the heart of his practice - not those already in the spotlight of media, politics, art, or history, but the people from “next door,” whose biographies speak of resilience and lived experience. creates space for their stories to be seen, heard, and felt.

Join us for the opening weekend during

📅 Friday, June 12
6 pm: Opening 6.30 pm: Introduction (with sign language interpretation)
10 pm: Opening Night Party with international and national DJ sets at Schiffbau Food & drinks by LOI Bistro + join us for a drink at the «Jubiläumsbar» while stocks last

📅 Saturday, June 13
11 am – 8 pm: Discover our exhibition Pour Noubia

📅 Sunday, June 14
2 pm: Artist Talk & Book Launch — Mohamed Bourouissa: Pour Noubia
4 pm: Sound Bath with Tina Marie .typhina in the Caring Space 🌊 (registration required – link in bio)

On Mondays, we are also open from 11am to 6pm, as a one-off

✨ Admission is free — some events have limited spots, so be sure to register. Come for the art, stay for the conversations, and join us on this journey.

Credits Slide 1: Mohamed Bourouissa, Noubia, video still, 2025. Courtesy of the artist and Mennour, Paris Photo. Archives Mennour © Mohamed Bourouissa, ProLitteris Zurich

25/05/2026

With a mix of nostalgia and excitement, we say goodbye to Disobedience Archive (Canopy for Broken Times).

Our exhibition not only presented the largest selection of the Disobedience Archive to date but also openend a dialogue with Raqs Media Collective . Throughout the exhibition, questions of disobedience were given space, highlighting resistance, social struggles, and collective self-organisation.

So many of you came to visit, stayed, lingered, and immersed yourselves deeply in the films. Thank you for your time, your curiosity, and your presence.

From 13 June 2026, we are excited to open our new exhibition, “Mohamed Bourouissa – Pour Noubia.” In his work, Mohamed Bourouissa places people at the heart of his work. He is at once a portraitist, storyteller, and inventor, creating spaces that bring us closer to the lives of those who are often left out of dominant media, politics, and art history.

His work takes us on a journey from Blida in Algeria, where he was born, through the banlieues of Paris, where he lives today, to Osnabrück in Germany, where the life of his aunt Noubia Meyer came to an end.

But first, it’s time for the exhibition changeover. See you soon!

21/05/2026

Join us for one final weekend of our exhibition Disobedience Archive. 💥

Spanning five chapters, the exhibition brings together 50 films that engage with disobedience in different ways — from fiction to documentary.

In “Inventur – Metzstrasse 11", for example, artist Želimir Žilnik turns his attention to the lives of guest workers in Germany, giving residents of a multicultural housing community the chance to tell their own stories.

In “Videograms of a Revolution”, Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujica take us into the midst of the Romanian Revolution, showing, among other things, how protesters seized the national television station in Bucharest and broadcast live for several days.

The exhibition remains open until 25 May.

You can visit the museum on Whit Monday as well..

Credits;
Slide 1/2/3/4: Exhibition view Disobedience Archive (Canopy for Broken Time), In dialogue with Raqs Media Collective, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, 2026. Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zürich.

Slide 5: Exhibition view Disobedience Archive (Canopy for Broken Time), In dialogue with Raqs Media Collective, Diaspora Activism in dialogue with Canopy: Ferment (Shimmer), Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, 2026. Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zürich.

Slide 6/7: Exhibition view Disobedience Archive (Canopy for Broken Time), In dialogue with Raqs Media Collective, Radical Ecologies in dialogue with Canopy: Ferment (Splinter), Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, 2026. Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zürich.

20/05/2026

Can memories take shape through the body?

Join us on 21 May at 8 pm at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst for ODE, a performance by dancer and choreographer Catol Teixeira .teixeira.

Traditionally, an ode is a poem accompanied by music, dedicated to a person or an event. Here, however, ODE unfolds as a dance dedicated to gaps, ruptures, and transformation – a lament for what slips through our fingers, for what never arrives, for what was once almost here.

Catol Teixeira’s solo piece moves through grief and its many phases, tracing the contradictions it holds, the emotions it stirs, and the questions it leaves behind.

ODE becomes a rehearsal of farewell, and the body turns into an archive of past movements. Mourning runs through the choreography – sometimes exaggerated, sometimes deeply sincere. In repetitive yet ever-shifting movements, interrupted by unexpected moments, Teixeira’s body lingers in the tension between loss and grace – not to hold on, but to let go of what has already changed.

Where: Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst Zürich
When: 8pm

Curious? Join us and discover ODE

Videos by Dylan
Curated by Paula Thomaka

Reel by Magali Egger

Credits Thumbnail: © Solene Hoffmann

Adresse

Limmatstrasse 270
Zürich
8005

Öffnungszeiten

Dienstag	11:00 - 18:00
Mittwoch	11:00 - 18:00
Donnerstag	11:00 - 20:00
Freitag	11:00 - 18:00
Samstag	11:00 - 18:00
Sonntag	11:00 - 18:00

Telefon

+41442772050

Webseite

http://www.migrosmuseum.ch/

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