8 February 2008 – 25 May 2008

Wouldn't it be nice… - 10 utopias in art and design

Art and design have had an enduringly productive relationship. Artists and designers, as well as graphic artists, fashion designers, and architects, share common strategies, methods, and aims. While some artists employ design strategies to make socially critical statements, others use design as a way of reflecting everyday phenomena, emotions, or conceptual approaches. Many designers on the other hand, having dispensed with any belief in the ideal of neutrality, intervene increasingly in social, political, ethical, or ecological discourses. This exhibition confronts ten contemporary positions on the edge of reality, on the border of what is possible. Featuring: Jurgen Bey (NL), Bless (FR/DE), Dexter Sinister (GB/US), Dunne & Raby and Michael Anastassiades (GB), Alicia Framis (ES), Martino Gamper (IT/GB), Ryan Gander (GB), Martí Guixé (ES), Tobias Rehberger (DE) and Superflex (DK). A co-production with the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève and the Haute école d’art et de design Genève.

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Museum für Gestaltung
Ausstellungsstrasse 60
8005 Zürich
phone +41 43 446 67 67
http://www.museum-gestaltung.ch

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Tuesday-Thursday 10 a.m. - 8 p.m., Friday-Sunday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.; closed on Monday.

The Poster Collection and the Design Collection are located in different houses.

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