Across 70+ venues, the curated program features 75+ exhibitions and 150+ events, bringing together over 150 artists alongside international cultural practitioners. Exhibitions form the core, unfolding across a connected, walkable city, while talks, guided tours, performances, art walks, workshops, and interdisciplinary formats create the conditions for direct encounters and exchange between artists, curators, collectors, and audiences.
Free and open to the public, Zurich Art Weekend offers access to a highly interconnected art ecosystem—uniting institutions, galleries, off-spaces, publishers, editions, universities, collections, and foundations. It is a platform for exchange at the crossroads of the international art world, where ideas, perspectives, and practices meet and circulate.
Together with institutions, galleries, universities, off-spaces, collections, foundations, editions and publishers, Zurich Art Weekend presents 75+ exhibitions across the city.
Amongst the 150+ curated events hosted across the city, ZAW25 showcases key international artists, alongside returning event formats such as art walks, guided tours, artist talks, performances, gallery breakfasts, interdisciplinary events, workshops, brunches, cocktail parties, and much more…
ACCESS
Get the free Public Pass to Zurich Art Weekend 2026. The program is free and open to all and spontaneous attendance is always welcome. As some events have limited capacity, we recommend securing your spot by registering in advance. Please note a few institutions require entrance fees and for some events, tickets must be purchased.
Zurich Art Weekend takes place across venues citywide, with information points at Löwenbräukunst, Kunsthaus Zürich, Helmhaus and Museum Rietberg. Program booklets are available at all participating venues.
PLAN YOUR STAY
Book with code 25_zurichart for 15% off the best available rate at the hotel website for the whole month of June at 25hours Hotel Langstrasse and 25hours Hotel Zürich West. 25hours hotels
Press and media professionals are warmly invited to reach out to the Zurich Art Weekend Press Team for any inquiries, interview requests, or further information. Discover our PRESS KIT 2026 and contact us at press@zurichartweekend.com.
To explore more about Zurich Art Weekend’s media presence and discover our past press clippings, please click on the following link visit our dedicated Press page.
Zurich Art Weekend is rooted in intellectual inquiry and artistic experimentation. If Basel is where the market convenes, Zürich is where ideas crystallize.
– Whitewall
Zurich Art Weekend is considered the best art weekend in Europe
– Conceptual Fine Arts
It starts with Zurich. In the days leading up to Art Basel, the art world flocks to Switzerland’s other art hotspot for a weekend of openings that highlight major contemporary voices and long-overlooked pioneers.
– Family Style
Zurich: Europe’s new capital of cool
– Financial Times
Zurich proves that art doesn’t live only in fair pavilions, but is intertwined with the urban fabric, often in unexpected corners.
– ELLE Decor
Finally Zurich gets the attention it deserves
– Institutional Director
Faster, Bigger, better.
– VIP Visitor
Between new galleries, non-profit spaces and alternative fair formats, the city shows all its cultural dynamism and quality art.
– Il Sole 24 Ore
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