In the historic heart of Winterthur, the Gewerbemuseum Winterthur mounts exhibitions which explore the points at which design, art and everyday life intersect. The museum shows the familiar in unfamiliar ways, asks pertinent questions, provides startling, multisensory insights into current topics and offers easy access to the world of materials.

Spotlight

Fri 09.06.23 − Sun 22.10.23

New “The Imaginary House: Uwe Wittwer, Aiko Watanabe, Jürg Halter” exhibition

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In the historic heart of Winterthur, the Gewerbemuseum Winterthur mounts exhibitions which explore the points at which design, art and everyday life intersect. The museum shows the familiar in unfamiliar ways, asks pertinent questions, provides startling, multisensory insights into current topics and offers easy access to the world of materials.

Current exhibitions

Fri 09.06.23 – Sun 22.10.23

The Imaginary House: Uwe Wittwer, Aiko Watanabe, Jürg Halter

The painter Uwe Wittwer, the ceramist Aiko Watanabe and the poet Jürg Halter are engaged in a stimulating artistic interchange. The starting point of their collaboration is the Japanese cult film “Tales of the Pale and Silvery Moon After the Rain” by Kenji Mizoguchi.

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Textile industry & Artists in Residence

Fri 21.04.23 – Sun 18.06.23

TaDA – Textile and Design Alliance is a funding programme that enables international cultural practitioners to engage artistically with the textile and design culture of Eastern Switzerland. The exhibition at Gewerbemuseum Winterthur offers insights into the three-year pilot programme by exhibiting 13 positions and showing how potential can unfold when design, culture, technology and economy work together.

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Forthcoming exhibitions

The Imaginary House: Uwe Wittwer, Aiko Watanabe, Jürg Halter

Fri 09.06.23 – Sun 22.10.23

The painter Uwe Wittwer, the ceramist Aiko Watanabe and the poet Jürg Halter are engaged in a stimulating artistic interchange. The starting point of their collaboration is the Japanese cult film “Tales of the Pale and Silvery Moon After the Rain” by Kenji Mizoguchi.

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Mining Photography. The Ecological Footprint of Image Production

Fri 22.09.23 – Sun 21.01.24

Mining Photography. The Ecological Footprint of Image Production

Ever since its invention, photography has relied on the extraction and exploitation of natural resources. In the 19th century these were salt, copper and silver, in the age of digital photography and smartphones, image production requires rare earths and other metals.

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Perfectly Imperfect – Flaws, Blemishes and Defects

Fri 24.11.23 – Sun 12.05.24

Perfectly Imperfect – Flaws, Blemishes and Defects

Mistakes occur, accidents happen, things get damaged. This is part of our everyday experience, and we learn to use various strategies to cope with imperfection. Errors also crop up in the material world of design and manufacturing, because of poor decisions and carelessness, technical deficiencies and design faults, or the intractable nature of the materials themselves. The consequences are ranging from minor blemishes right through to disastrous production failures.

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MATERIAL ARCHIV

Fotos: Michael Lio

From Tuesday, 18 July until Monday, 11 September 2023, the MATERIAL ARCHIV will be closed for renovation work. Thank you for your understanding.

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Please feel free to touch! From glass, metal, wood, paper, plastic and stone to ceramics, colour pigments, textiles and leather – the permanent MATERIAL ARCHIV exhibition is an interactive laboratory for studying materials. It is like a vast, three-dimensional textbook with an online database, some 1,000 specimen materials, experiment tables, video and audio stations and a library, all offering an in-depth yet enjoyable way of finding out about the world of materials. The MATERIAL ARCHIV is thus a fun learning opportunity, as well as a place where interested members of the public, specialists and students of all ages can carry out research and make discoveries.

Permanent exhibition

Grand Café du Musée

Culinary delights & tempting treats

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Postcards, souvenirs & gifts

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Kulturnacht Winterthur, Saturday 26 September 2020

Video of construction of the “Rock Print Pavilion” on Kirchplatz square in front of the Gewerbemuseum Winterthur, September 2018, opening Thursday, 4 October 2018

Picture series with impressions of the opening of the “Feathers – warmth, seduction, flight” exhibition

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