Made up of diverse communities, Zurich is developing many interesting cultural layers. These cultural strata are continuously crossing different fields, spaces, and social classes. While art is an everyday presence in the high-priced, high-quality-of-life city, unlike the flamboyance of London, New York, Paris, and Berlin, Zurich’s art ecology is a gesture of slow advancement.
Zurich does not have a single “art neighborhood,” even if the Westbau building housing the Kunsthalle Zürich, LUMA, Hauser & Wirth gallery, and the Migros Museum exerts an almost-gravitational attraction, such that visitors who come to see a specific show find it difficult not to view each institution’s exhibition, as if one was at an expo. At Zurich’s influential Galerie Eva Presenhuber, American artist Tschabalala Self launched a new large-scale solo exhibition in June, right after…