Six Artists in the Spotlight at Zurich Art Weekend

Zurich Art Weekend sees events and exhibitions across more than 70 commercial galleries and non-profits. Here are six standout solo shows in the festival running June 12–14, a traditional warm-up for Art Basel.

Maria Lassnig - Living with art stops one wilting!

Luma Westbau, June 13 - December 20

This exhibition brings together for the first time Hans Ulrich Obrist’s video interviews with Lassnig and their correspondence, as well as the late Austrian artist’s watercolors and her experimental animations made in the 1970s.

See more on westbau.com

Rosa Barba

Museum Haus Konstruktiv, until August 30

The 2026 Zurich Art Prize winner’s solo show transforms various spaces of the Haus Konstruktiv into a multilayered setting for Rosa Barba's kinetic sculptures, films, haunting soundtracks and the sound of projectors.

See more on hauskonstruktiv.ch

Lily Ludlow - Hunting the Wren

Grieder Contemporary, until September 25

Human figures drift toward animal forms, flowers become bodies and bodies become landscapes in Lily Ludlow's shapeshifting paintings.

See more on grieder-contemporary.com

Michel Perez Pollo - Double Gaze

Mai 36 Galerie, until August 8

The Cuba-born, Madrid-based artist Michel Pérez Pollo unveils new paintings that transforms the work of the Spanish Baroque masters into biomorphic abstractions.

See more on mai36.com

Valie Export

Karma International, until September 5

A posthumous show of the feminist artist known as VALIE EXPORT, who used film, video and radical performances to challenge the patriarchy in the post-war years.

See more on karmainternational.ch

Laura Langer - Parts Unknown

Galerie Oskar Weiss, until July 25

The Argentina-born, Berlin-based artist Laura Langer presents a new series of landscapes inspired by the point of view of someone in an aeroplane.

See more on oskarweiss.com