ZÜRICH.- % for Art: Regulating Civic Space in Zurich pairs archival research on the relationship between public artworks and architecture in Zurich with an installation by the artist Coumba Samba, titled The National Expo, in which the artist questions our everyday interaction with public objects that exist as signifiers of histories and national identity. The exhibition is realized in collaboration with André Bideau, gta Archives, and students of the Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) in History and Theory of Architecture.

Bettina’s (1927–2021) conceptual practice unfolds across sculpture, photography and a mural that wraps around the entire exhibition space. Titled Expression Repression Digression Supression Depression Oppression Regression Aggression, the exhibition includes a mural with photographs of the United States flag swaying in the wind, or rather, its distorted reflection in the glass façade of a Manhattan high-rise building.

Meanwhile, The Mushroom and the Cloud by Oxana Gourinovitch, presenting results of the research conducted during the Egon Eiermann Fellowship, investigates the spatial legacy of Soviet-German uranium mining during the Cold War in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), which echoed global patterns of spatial reconfiguration inflicted by industrial extractives worldwide.

These exhibitions are indebted to the Artist-in-Residence Program made possible by the Thomas and Doris Ammann Foundation.