Expected to run until the end of 2026

Jeffrey Gibson «boshullichi / inlʋchi – we will continue to change»

The US-American artist Jeffrey Gibson transforms the entrance hall of the Chipperfield Building with a monumental, colour-rich installation that is expected to remain on view until the end of 2026. Painting, sculpture, screen printing, beadwork, ceramics and textiles merge into an immersive total work of art – open to performative activations.

Following his celebrated solo exhibition in the U.S. Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024 and ahead of the unveiling of a new façade work at the Metropolitan Museum in New York in September 2025, Gibson is now realizing his first project in a museum on the European continent: a site-specific work conceived especially for the Haefner Foyer, titled «boshullichi / inlʋchi – we will continue to change».

The title combines two words from the Choctaw language, both meaning 'change': «Boshullichi» means to break something apart, to dismantle and transform it. «Inlʋchi» means to make something different, to restore and rebuild it anew.

Jeffrey Gibson combines Indigenous traditions from North America with elements of modern and contemporary art in his work. He draws on techniques such as weaving, beadwork, ceramics, and basketry – and combines them with geometric and gestural abstraction. Art historical references also play a role: his works evoke figures such as Kazimir Malevich, Anni Albers, Corita Kent, or the Indigenous artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith. Gibson demonstrates how diverse and powerful contemporary Indigenous art can be – far from clichés and narrow categories.

The presentation was made possible thanks to the generous support of a Zurich cultural foundation as well as patrons of the Gateway Fund.

Starting beginning of September 2025 in the Garden of Art, Chipperfield Building

Monster Chetwynd 'Zardoz'

With Monster Chetwynd (b. 1973 in London, lives in Zurich), the Kunsthaus Zürich presents the very first commission for its Garden of Art. Rising up in the grounds is a monumental head more than eight metres tall – a sculpture that is both a space for thought and a space for play. Inspired by the grotesque figures of the 16th-century garden at Bomarzo, by the science fiction visions of the 1970s and by the folly tradition, the work invites children and adults alike to step inside and explore it. The climbing frame within transforms monumentality into accessibility and activates the outdoor space designed by David Chipperfield as a genuine Garden of Art for the first time.

Chetwynd’s work fuses art history, popular culture and feminist strategies to create new forms of garden art. In collaboration with architects and engineers including the startup Contouro stemming from ETH Zurich, associated with Digital Building Technologies chair, she has created a contemporary sculpture that recasts monumentality as playful, participatory experience. On view until 2027, freely accessible, it makes art a tangible, sensory encounter while providing space for reflection – a powerful statement for the future of art in public space.

Supported by the Hans Imholz Foundation, the Tarbaca Indigo Foundation, the Dr. Georg and Josi Guggenheim Foundation as well as private patrons from the Gateway Fund, a fund to support public art installations at the Kunsthaus Zürich.

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