In unserer Agenda findest du aktuelle kulturelle Veranstaltungen mit Bezug zur chinesischen Kultur in der Schweiz. Wir bemühen uns interessante Anlässe in unsere Agenda aufzunehmen und sind für Hinweise dankbar.
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sinokultur would like to invite you to a tour with Chinese-German artist Xianwei Zhu at HeLai Art Gallery on April 25th from 11am to 1pm.
The artist will be present and guide us through the show.
Xianwei Zhu (b. 1971) is a German based contemporary Chinese artist whose work explores the philosophical and spiritual dimensions of landscape. Inspired by classical Chinese poetry, Daoist thought, and the tradition of shan shuipainting, his works evoke mountains, water, clouds, and atmospheric spaces that move between abstraction and landscape.
Born in 1971, Zhu belongs to a generation of artists who reinterpret traditional Chinese aesthetics within a contemporary global context. His paintings emphasize silence, emptiness, and contemplation, transforming natural forms into meditative visual experiences.
Working primarily with acrylic on canvas, Zhu creates layered, atmospheric compositions that suggest landscapes emerging from memory and imagination rather than direct observation.
His work has been exhibited internationally, including exhibitions at the Caspar David Friedrich House Museum in Greifswald, Germany, where his paintings entered into dialogue with the legacy of European Romantic landscape painting.
The tour will take place at HeLai Art Gallery (founded 2023 by Emma Ho), which is more than just an exhibition space; it’s a vibrant platform that nurtures connections between contemporary creativity and cultural heritage.
The tour will be held in English/German and will be followed by a light Asian style brunch.
Date: Saturday, April 25th from 11am to 1pm
Location: HeLai Art Gallery, Hammerstrasse 21, 8008 Zürich
sinokultur would like to invite you to our first Salon this year with writer, filmmaker and translator Jialu Zhu on Saturday, May 16th from 6 to 9 pm. The title of her presentation is Between Home and the World: A Personal Journey Reflected in Academic Research.
For Jialu, her academic journey corresponds to her personal journey. Having grown up in a small town in north China, she moved to south China to pursue her BA studies and then traveled further to Switzerland for her MA and PhD. Every departure from the place she was familiar with distanced her from her past and opened up new possibilities for exploration. And interestingly, the further she expands her horizon, the closer she feels to home because of all the comparisons made possible by her changes of geographical location.
This habit and experience of cultural comparison then played a seminal role in her PhD research, which accentuates the depiction of home in films from different cultures.
In Jialu’s project, the case studies include American Westerns, Hong Kong gangster films, and Chinese melodramas. Why can cowboys never go home? Why do gang members turn away from home? Why will common residents have no families to belong? What are the connections between these characters’ sense of belonging? What are the social-cultural reasons that don’t allow them to enjoy happiness at home?
Date: Saturday, May 16th from 6-9pm
Location: sinokultur, Klosbachstrasse 109, 8032 Zurich
Galerie Urs Meile Zurich Beijing is pleased to present 'Color to Quiet', a group exhibition that brings together a selection of works on paper by eight artists from the gallery’s program. Presented across two floors, the exhibition unfolds as a sequence of shifting tones and textures - from luminous color to quiet monochrome.
Groupshow with works on paper by Mirko Baselgia, Klodin Erb, Urs Lüthi, Qiu Shihua, Shao Fan, Rebekka Steiger, Julia Steiner and Mai Ta.
Qiu Shihua’s (1940-2025) monochrome watercolors Untitled (2000) radiate light from what at first glance appears to be a completely white canvas; the viewer’s gaze gradually unravels their hidden dimensions - a quiet invitation to contemplation. Throughout his work, Qiu Shihua sought to dissolve the boundary between object and space, creating meditative landscapes where subtle shifts of tone evoke a sense of infinite depth.
Shao Fan’s (1964, Beijing, China) Black Hare, Landscape Hare and Snow Rabbit (2011) takes center stage. The hare seems to move from shadow toward light, embodying the dialogue between darkness and illumination. In Shao Fan’s vision, rooted in Chinese aesthetics, beauty does not emanate from the object itself but resides in the patterns of shadow - a serene counterpoint to Western notions of clarity and brightness.
Mai Ta, temple, 2026, gouache on watercolor paper in artist's frame, ca. 12.2 x 15.5 cm (gouache), 37 x 40 cm (framed)
Dates: April 1st to May 23rd
Location: Galerie Urs Meile, Rämistrasse 33, 8001 Zürich
You are invited by founder, host and curator Chen Liu @mooorningl to visit the exhibition "This Moment, and the Rest of Time" at MEP @themep.ch, a new space in Lucerne for contemporary art and cultural encounters.
Bringing together works by Zhang Yunfei and @tetiana_kartasheva , 'This Moment, and the Rest of Time' invites visitors into a shared field of presence, where artworks, artistic process, and everyday life take shape within the same temporal flow.
Rather than presenting works as fixed or finished outcomes, the exhibition understands each form as a temporary state within longer trajectories of material transformation, bodily memory, and repeated practice. It is shaped by a curatorial framework informed by Daoist thought, where harmony does not arise from force or control, but through attentiveness, responsiveness, and an openness to change.
For Zhang Yunfei, form emerges through a sustained negotiation with clay — with gravity, moisture, collapse, and recovery. His works hold time within matter, carrying the traces of touch, resistance, and the intelligence of making.
For Tetiana Kartasheva, time and space are experienced physically. Her abstract compositions and spatial arrangements invite a heightened awareness of rhythm, balance, and perception, moving between discipline and intuition, control and instinct, nature and architecture.
Set within MEP, a space shaped by daily use and shared rituals, the exhibition moves away from the neutrality of the white cube. Here, art does not stand apart from everyday life; it arises from within it.
Chen Liu, founder, host and curator at MEP, has a background in Museum Studies at University College London. She has worked with contemporary art institutions across London, Bath, Shanghai, and Switzerland, and has long been engaged in bringing Asian art into dialogue with European cultural contexts.
Duration: 21 March – 21 April 2026
Vernissage: Saturday, 21 March · 2:00 PM
Venue: MEP, Bürgenstrasse 6, 6005 Luzern
Es müssen alle Felder ausgefüllt werden.
