Exhibition Programme 2026

The 2026 annual programme explores the theme of 'apparatus', which is understood as systems that shape perception, action and social order. The exhibitions explore apparatuses as interfaces between technology, the body, and community, as instruments of translation, projection, and control. They reveal the processes through which energy, information or meaning are set in motion and transformed into new forms of materiality and experience. Apparatuses appear as both responsive sensors and agents of social dynamics, connecting people, machines, and environments; shaping the rhythms of everyday life; and opening up spaces for reflection on power, dependence, and transformation. In this way, they become models in which the relationship between reality and imagination is constantly readjusted.

Caline Aoun

3 May – 25 October 2026
Kunstmuseum / Kunsthalle

The solo exhibition by Caline Aoun (*1983 in Beirut, Lebanon; lives and works in Beirut) spans the Kunstmuseum and Kunsthalle, presenting artistic approaches in which digital and physical processes interweave. Aoun works with installations and often site-specific media, including sculpture, printmaking, works on paper, and video. Using technical devices and everyday materials such as printing systems, water cycles, or natural substances, she translates phenomena such as light, heat, humidity, or data into aesthetic and sensorial experiences. Repetition, saturation, and delay serve as methods that allow her to explore the relationship between image, surface, and space. The exhibition responds attentively to the architectural and atmospheric conditions of each location, inviting reflection on how constellations of apparatuses and forms structure perception, influence states, and shape reality.

Florian Germann

15 November 2026 - 25 April 2027
Kunstmuseum /

In his sculptures and installations, Florian Germann (*1978 in Kreuzlingen, CH; lives and works in Zurich, CH) explores the relationships between humans, animals, and machines. Working with materials that he perceives as carriers of energy, he shapes them into hybrid bodies that appear both familiar and alien. His objects take on the character of organic–technical beings whose surfaces and structures evoke physical as well as mythological forces. Some sculptures develop a life of their own, becoming colonised by insects, birds, or plants and transforming into dynamic systems in which interaction and change play a central role. Germann’s sculptures can become environments that are both perceptual and formative – instruments that channel energy, shape sensory impressions, and forge connections between different forms of life. They evoke apparatuses that receive, transmit, or transform, while leaving open whether they were constructed, grew, or emerged from another reality. This ambiguity creates spaces for speculation in which new ideas of coexistence and materiality can unfold.

Gabriela Löffel

15 November 2026 - 25 April 2027
/ Kunsthalle

Gabriela Löffel (born 1972 in the Canton of Bern, CH; lives and works in Geneva, CH) has developed an audiovisual practice that exposes the political economies of our perception. Emerging from years of research in places such as military training areas, security conferences, and the obscure zones of global financial flows, her installations reveal the entanglement of power structures, narratives about systemic relationships, and fictional layers. Löffel employs methods of translation, fragmentation, and distancing to reinterpret voices, reframe images, and deconstruct scenarios. This results in precisely composed spaces in which reality is revealed as a network of narratives, projections, and apparatuses. Central to Löffel's work is the infrastructure of speaking and listening. The artist understands sound as an independent plane in which meanings come into being – often in collaboration with sound artists and musicians. This collaborative dimension is highlighted in the exhibition and expanded to encompass practices of auditory thinking.