schwarzescafé by Heimo Zobernig / HOME

LUMA Foundation is pleased to announce schwarzescafé, a new café by Heimo Zobernig.

Austrian artist Heimo Zobernig, has been commissioned for a new café located in the LUMA Westbau, part of the Löwenbräu arts complex in Zurich.

schwarzescafé is primarily a coffee house and bar with an interior by Zobernig; it is an ideal place to meet and relax. As an architectural intervention, the café serves multiple functions: hospitality, screening and lecture hall, display setting for future exhibitions and reading room, hosting Kunsthalle Zürich’s library.

Opening: May 11, 6–9pm 
With an introduction by architectural theorist Mark Wigley, concert by Florian Hecker and book launch of Albert Oehlen’s AÖ, published by Kunsthalle Zurich

HOME
Opening on June 11, 2016, schwarzescafé will host the group exhibition HOME. This is the first iteration of an exhibition programme taking place in the new display setting by Heimo Zobernig. HOME presents newly produced works that deal with various aspects of domesticity and the representation of the interior space. "Home" denotes a specific architectural typology that implies a comfort zone. At the same time "Home" has an uncanny and mysterious side, recalling intimate sceneries but also possible conflict. The environment created at LUMA Westbau shifts between an intimate living room, a public café  and a themed exhibition. Including works by Morag Keil, Karen Kilimnik, Georgie Nettell, Sam Pulitzer, Emily Sundblad, Frances Stark, Phillip Zach and more.

schwarzescafé by Heimo Zobernig and the thematic exhibition HOME are initiated and curated by Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen, part of an ongoing collaboration with LUMA Foundation and gta exhibitions, ETH Zurich.

This year, the 11th edition of Manifesta, the roving European Biennial of Contemporary Art, will be held in Zurich from June 11–September 18, 2016 across various venues in the city. The LUMA Foundation is pleased to support Manifesta 11 and to host some of their projects at the LUMA Westbau within the Löwenbräu arts complex. 

About LUMA Foundation
The LUMA Foundation was established in 2004 by Maja Hoffmann in Switzerland to support the activities of independent artists and pioneers, as well as institutions working in the fields of visual arts, photography, publishing, documentary, and multimedia. The foundation commissions, produces and supports challenging artistic projects combing a particular interest in environmental issues, human rights, education, and culture in the broadest sense.

The LUMA Foundation and LUMA Arles, the executive entity founded in 2014 in support of the project in Arles, are currently developing an experimental cultural center in the Parc des Ateliers in the city of Arles, France, with a core group of artistic consultants and the architects Frank Gehry and Annabelle Selldorf.

Construction started after the ground-breaking ceremony in April 2014; the opening of the main building on site is scheduled for 2018, while an artistic programme is already presented every summer in the refurbished former railway warehouses.

The foundation’s headquarters and exhibition spaces in Zurich are part of the refurbished and expanded Löwenbräukunst art complex. LUMA Westbau opened in 2013, presenting international projects, exhibitions and events commissioned and produced by the LUMA Foundation.