22 May–4 October 2026
Exhibitions and Events by Lisa Schiess, Cyril Kennel, Maud Châtelet, Aio Frei
Location
Zweierstrasse 177
8003 Zurich
Open at all times
In person: by appointment via email
outofoffice.zweierstrasse177.ch
Formerly a shop for prints and frames, it has been a shared office for over 15 years now. Sounds include: the running water of a fountain, dogs and cats, birds, and voices. People passing through the forecourt on the phone or sitting on a bench to eat. Animals drinking. A space dedicated to art that is also meant to temporarily suspend certain expectations regarding workplace, status, and availability.
Lisa Schiess, Money Laundering, 22 May–20 June
Opening: 21 May, 6 p.m.
Meet the artist at Zurich Art Weekend special opening hours: Friday, 12 June, 18-20:00/Saturday, 13 June, 14-18:00
In her observations of everyday life, Lisa Schiess’s conceptual work engages with the unfinished and the ever-changing. Schiess, who lives in the immediate vicinity, often wanders past the square and the office window on her walks through the neighborhood. In a performative work, Schiess will wash prints of the historic 50-franc note in the fountain and then hang them in the window to dry for the duration of the exhibition. The illustrations on the 1990s banknote include Saint-Exupéry’s children’s book character The Little Prince—a tongue-in-cheek reference to the children’s author’s critique of capitalism and to today’s plans by Silicon Valley billionaires to escape the world.
Cyril Kennel, 26 June–22 August
Opening: Thursday, June 25, 2026, 6:00 p.m. followed by a discussion in German with Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen (gta exhibitions), Giulio Galasso (studio continentale) and Cyril Kennel (postmoderne.ch)
On his photographic forays through the periphery of German-speaking Switzerland, Cyril Kennel explores the sculptural qualities and playful visual productivity of postmodern forms in Stäfa, Wetzikon, and Kloten. In doing so, Kennel focuses on an experimental everyday architecture for housing developments, shopping malls, and industrial buildings that never made it to the centers of Switzerland and continues to lead a shadowy existence to this day.
Aio Frei, 3 September, 7 p.m., sound installation
Aio Frei’s sound installation translates the interdependent relationships in the square. Leaves of the linden tree in the water are brought to life by those who are present; the water flows through the vessels to the linden tree; and as the eyes are soothed and sharpened, the “inner ear” comes to the fore. The fragile soundscape—composed of water, ceramics, a linden tree, wind, and visitors—hovers in a state of constant uncertainty, continually changing and rearranging itself.
Maud Châtelet, 11 September–4 October
Opening: 10 September, 6 p.m.
Maud Châtelet unfolds potential spaces in small-scale paper forms that exist somewhere between two-dimensional outline drawings and spatial models. These are curious outlines that, through overhangs, overlays, and empty spaces, almost become rooms. As part of OoO, the plan is to create provisional connections between the spatial codes linked here—such as office and shop window display, public space and office space—in a site-specific installation using different scales and materials.
With generous support:
Stiftung temperatio
Stiftung Erna und Curt Burgauer
Ernst und Olga Gubler-Hablützel Stiftung
Kulturstiftung des Kantons Thurgau
Amt für Kultur Appenzell-Ausserrhoden
Rheintaler Kulturstiftung