Festival Catalog (Download)
Festival Catalog (Download)
This year's Kunstlokal Festival catalog is available as PDF download. It shows all artists and projects of this year's Kunstlokal Festival.
Download catalog 2022
The Kunstlokal Festival is an art and culture festival in the Zurich Oberland that invites contemporary artists to engage with the traditions, histories and collections of seven local museums. The museums' collections and local contexts are the starting point for these works and form the basis for new relationships, narratives and research. The Art Local Festival was initiated with issues of social relevance, participation, and accessibility in mind, particularly with regard to the potential resonance of local museums.
In 2022, participating artists will present performances, installations, videos, sculptures, and participatory projects under the theme "Moving Collections." The next execution is planned for fall 2024.
Kunstlokal is a cooperation between ajour, an association for art and cultural projects, and Standortförderung Zürioberland.
In 2022, participating artists will present performances, installations, videos, sculptures, and participatory projects under the theme "Moving Collections." The next execution is planned for fall 2024.
Kunstlokal is a cooperation between ajour, an association for art and cultural projects, and Standortförderung Zürioberland.
Week 6
03 SEPTEMBER - 09 OCTOBER
Wed
5
Oct
Museum Wetzikon
2pm - 5pm
Open workshop with original idewe material: tentacle and probe
Open workshop - about creatures and create. Touching, feeling, hearing - discovering, inventing and creating together. A workshop area invites the visitors to become part of it, to work on the sculpture in a participatory way, to let it grow. Or to create something new through their own design. Thinking should be like a game of threads, it should combine fictions with facts, invent new stories with open ends that can be continued. The material used comes mainly from the textile company idewe, which was active in Wetzikon until 2008.
WebsiteThu
6
Oct
Library Wetzikon
18.30
After-Work Guided tour "Dürsteler Silks" in Wetzikon
A guided tour through the exhibition "Dürsteler Seiden" with Gabriele Flüeler, director of the Museum Wetzikon and the cultural mediator Karen Geyer. Meeting point is in front of the Wetzikon library, Kirchgasse 4, on the 1st floor of the Coop supermarket. The guided tour lasts 75 minutes, is free of charge and is organized jointly by the Zürioberland Location Promotion Agency and the Wetzikon Regional Library.
WebsiteThu
6
Oct
Bauma - Hinwil - Bauma
Timetable
Steam Train Experience
Travel with the historic steam locomotives through the Zürioberland. On the line between Bauma and Hinwil you will enjoy a unique ride. From CHF 5.
WebsiteFri
7
Oct
Bauma - Hinwil - Bauma
Timetable
Uerikon-Bauma Railway Days
Experience vehicles from the early days of the Uerikon-Bauma Railway. From CHF 5.
WebsiteSat
8
Oct
Garage Wetzikon
2 pm
Art Locality Symposium: Potentials of Locality
With: Martin Handschin&Brigit Rufer, Insa Müller and Antje Majewski, moderated and organized together with curator Kim Anni Bassen. In the closing event of the Kunstlokal Festival we reflect on the potentials of local narratives and the collaboration between artists and local museums. We have invited guests to bring an outside perspective and share their practice and research experiences working with local museum collections and histories. Through open discussion, including with the audience, this event is intended to contribute to our own research process. We hope to bring new perspectives, methods, and reflections to future museum work and to the next staging of the festival.
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Carole Bruderer-Blanchard
Cultural Mediator and Project Manager
I am the cultural mediator and co-director of the Kunstlokal Festival and take care of the participatory aspect of this event. I strongly believe in the beneficial effects of culture for each of us and, by extension, for society. Through exchange, discovery and experimentation, new horizons open up for us, both externally and internally. I would like to offer all visitors to our festival moments of discovery and joyful encounter.
The name Kunstlokal combines the two main characteristics of the festival. While "Art" conveys the focus on artistic positions, "Local" refers to the geographical and spatial aspect of the festival, which can be thought of in different dimensions. The name represents the different local levels on which the festival navigates - from the Zürcher Oberland region to the exhibition spaces in the different municipalities.
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