In our event calendar you will find current cultural events related to Chinese culture in Switzerland. We are thankful for your tips regarding interesting events.
Please send your information to info@sinokultur.ch.
Cultural Events ⟩ Agenda
In our event calendar you will find current cultural events related to Chinese culture in Switzerland. We are thankful for your tips regarding interesting events.
Please send your information to info@sinokultur.ch.
Together with the visual artist Xinyi Hu (@xinyi_fox_hu) sinokultur would like to invite you to the workshop 'Inventing Ritual Objects' on Friday, July 3rd from 6-9pm at the 25-hours hotel Zurich.
Xinyi has been elected for the Artist in Hotel Residence program of the 25-hours hotel. Artist in Hotel Residence is an art project conceived and curated by Esther Eppstein, commissioned by the 25hours Hotel Langstrasse.
This workshop invites participants to imagine rituals that do not yet exist. Many of the objects that surround us are linked to habits, gestures, and shared practices. But how does a ritual begin? What kind of object might be needed for a ritual that has never existed before? Can a personal desire, a fleeting need, or an everyday situation become the starting point for a new gesture?
Using clay as a tool for thinking and making, participants are invited to invent a ritual object inspired by something they wish for, miss, or would like to transform in their daily lives. Through a process that combines personal reflection, chance, and collective exchange, these ideas gradually take shape as objects.
Rather than focusing on technical skills or practical functions, the workshop explores how objects can carry meanings, support gestures, and give form to imagined rituals. The resulting pieces become traces of individual experiences as well as the collective conversations and transformations that emerge during the workshop.
Xinyi Fox Hu (b. 1992, Guangdong, China) is a visual artist working between France, Switzerland, and China. A graduate of HEAD – Genève (2022) and recipient of the Bruckner Foundation Grant (2023).
The workshop will be held in English and includes drinks and snacks.
Date: Friday, July 3rd 2026 from 6-9pm
Location: 25-hours hotel, Langstrasse 150, 8004 Zurich
You are invited to the exhibition "How to Carry a Mountain" by Chinese artist Jiaxi Han from June 22 to July 11 at the Orangerie & Bonsai Garten in Zurich.
"How to Carry a Mountain" is a site-specific continuation of an ongoing material exploration, developed in dialogue with the bonsai garden and its kare-sansui (dry landscape garden). Using only natural materials, the outdoor installations merge with the existing sand garden and are conceived as evolving formations that continuously respond to natural forces and the passage of time.
Inside the glasshouse, a series of cut textile works extends this investigation. Created from Liang Bu (亮布, “bright cloth”), a labor-intensive textile tradition from the artist's hometown Guizhou, the pieces further reduce and reinterpret traditional Miao motifs through a minimalist visual language. Rather than functioning as representations, they evoke the trace of a breath, a passing thought, or a fleeting moment of attention.
Together the indoor and outdoor works create a dialogue between memory and material, tradition and transformation, inviting reflection on how visual languages travel across cultures, landscapes, and time.
Jiaxi Han(1993), of Buyi ethnicity, was born and grew up in southwest China. She received her Bachelor and Master degree at the Academy of Visual Arts in Hong Kong Baptist University and exchanged at Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna in Italy. She also received a Master of Transdisciplinary Studies at Zurich University of the Arts in 2021.
Date: Vernissage June 22 at 6pm, open until July 11th 2026
Location: Orangerie und Bonsai Garten, Joachim-Hefti Weg 4, 8002 Zürich
Gallery Urs Meile Galerie at Rämistrasse in Zurich is happy to invite you to the exhibition Summer by Chinese artist Ju Ting.
At the center of the exhibition stands the artist’s recent series Deep Waters Run Quiet: new paintings in which Ju Ting builds up dense strata of acrylic paint only to cut, carve and lay them open – staging destruction not as refusal but as a condition for new form.
Ju Ting is part of a new generation of Chinese contemporary artists redefining abstraction through material, texture, and gesture. Her work challenges the conventions of abstract painting by fusing painterly and sculptural approaches. Her practice investigates the material and spatial possibilities of acrylic paint, dissolving the boundary between surface and object.
Ju Ting (b. 1983, Shandong, China) is a Beijing-based artist She graduated from the Printmaking Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, with a BA in 2007, and with a master in 2013.
Date: June 12th August 22nd
Location: Urs Meile Galerie, Rämistrasse 33, 8001 Zurich
The team of Galerie Urs Meile is happy to invite you to the exhibition 'Fugitive Figuration. Paintings 1994 – 2026' by Chinese artist Xie Nanxing on Friday, June 12th from 6-9pm at the Ankerstrasse gallery.
’Fugitive Figuration. Paintings 1994–2026’, is a survey exhibition of works by Xie Nanxing curated by Clémentine Deliss.
Tracing the artist’s practice from his iconic paintings of the 1990s to works completed in 2026, the exhibition offers both an introduction to and an appraisal of Xie Nanxing’s singular position within contemporary Chinese and international art.
For the first time, nine paintings from six different series are brought into dialogue, revealing the shifting forms and possibilities of figuration that have emerged throughout his practice over the last three decades.
Born in 1970 in Chongqing, a futuristic industrial city in Southern China, Xie studied printmaking, a technique mirrored in the different ways he manipulates pigment.
The artist will be present.
Date: June 12 to August 29, Vernissage June 12th 6-9pm
Location: Galerie Urs Meile, Ankerstrasse 3, 8004 Zurich
Image: Xie Nanxing, Untitled No. 8, 2025, oil on canvas, 210 x 195 cm
The Kunstmuseum Basel invites you to the exhibit by Chinese artist Cao Fei until October 11th 2026.
Cao Fei (b. 1978, Guangzhou, lives in Beijing) is one of the defining voices of her generation, working across video, digital media, photography, installation, and sculpture. The artist’s works capture the rapid changes that have shaped China, and the Pearl River Delta in particular, since the country’s 1978 policy of Reform and Opening up.
For Cao Fei. Testimonies to the Near Future, her first solo exhibition in Switzerland and largest survey exhibition in Europe to date, the artist transforms the Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart into a total work of art that takes the form of a city blending immersive installations and video universes from her oeuvre of the past thirty years. Cao Fei’s achievement as a pioneering creator of digital worlds is uncontested. Her early works have influenced an entire generation of artists from Asia and beyond. For over two decades, she has made art—from video installations and digital simulations to virtual-reality settings—grappling with the impact on human life of wrenching societal and technological transformations, establishing her renown as a leading thinker about art, media, technology, and the future.
The exhibition, which extends across all four floors of the Gegenwart building, invites viewers to delve deep into Cao Fei’s extensive oeuvre and makes for a singular experience in three dimensions in which the video works are not just on display but become an immersive reality.
Location: Kunstmuseum Basel, St. Alban-Graben 8, Basel
Wir von sinokultur würden euch sehr gerne zu unserem Salon On the Road mit chinesischer Literatur: Alice Grünfelder im Gespräch mit Übersetzerin Karin Betz am Dienstag, 29. September um 18.30 Uhr einladen.
Literatur aus der VR China, Taiwan und Hongkong ist vielfältig wie nie. Karin Betz hat in den vergangenen Jahren eine grosse Bandbreite von Autoren und Genres übersetzt und sich dabei literarisch an die geographischen und historischen Ränder der sinophonen Kultur begeben: mit Chi Zijians Roman Das letzte Viertel des Mondes zum Nomadenvolk der Ewenken, mit Wang Xiaobo in Das goldene Zeitalter ins Zwangsexil nach Süd-Yunnan, mit Sanmao in Geschichten aus der Sahara in die Westsahara von 1973 und mit Yang Shuang-zis Reise durch Taiwan im Jahr 1938 nach Taiwan in der japanischen Kolonialzeit. Im Gespräch mit Alice Grünfelder berichtet sie über ihre Entdeckungen durch chinesische Literatur im geopolitischen Spannungsfeld.
Karin Betz übersetzt chinesische und englische Literatur, ist Kulturvermittlerin, Dozentin, Moderatorin und DJ. Übersetzt hat sie u.a. Mo Yan, Liao Yiwu, Cixin Liu, Xi Xi, Jin Yong, Can Xue, Wang Xiaobo und Zhang Yueran. Für ihre Arbeit wurde sie mehrfach ausgezeichnet, u.a. mit der August-von-Schlegel Gastprofessur für die Poetik der Übersetzung an der FU Berlin 2020/21, dem Special Book Award of China und dem Helmut-M.-Braem-Übersetzerpreis 2024. 2025 war sie Writer in Residence an der Taiwan Literature Base Taipei.
Alice Grünfelder, Buchhändlerlehre und Studium der Sinologie und Germanistik in Berlin und China (Chengdu), bis 2010 Lektorin beim Unionsverlag in Zürich, Herausgeberin etlicher Asien-Anthologien. Mehrere Veröffentlichungen, u.a. die Road-Novel Wüstengängerin (2018) über Xinjiang, Wolken über Taiwan (Rotpunktverlag) stand auf der Hotlist der Unabhängigen Verlag. 2024 erschienen u.a. bei Hochroth Leipzig Übersetzungen von Lyrik aus Taiwan.
Der Salon findet auf Deutsch statt.
Datum: Dienstag, 29. September 2026 von 18.30 bis 21 Uhr, Türöffnung um 18.15 Uhr
Ort: sinokultur, Klosbachstrasse 109, 8032 Zürich
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