Finissage

To mark the end of the exhibitions at the ZAK Center for Contemporary Art, we cordially invite you to the closing event, where visitors will have the opportunity to experience the works on display one last time and look back on the exhibition together with the artists.

3:30 p.m. Guided tour of the exhibition ‘Life in Focus – Vera Mercer’ with curator Jens Pepper.

4:30 p.m. In a conversation with Robin Mallick (director of the Goethe Institute Beijing) in the exhibitions ‘gold’ by Pfelder and ‘Urban Reflections’ by Simone Zaugg, we’ll explore where and how art – in the context of the city, politics, science, everyday life, and digitalisation – creates friction and constructively addresses and conveys socially relevant topics.

5:30 p.m. A reading with Sharon Kivland from her book ‘ALMANACH’ in her exhibition ‘The Bloody Radicals’.
Sharon Kivland will read from her book Almanach. A Year in the French Revolutionary Calendar (Grand Iota, 2025), extracts from the first and final chapters, each titled ’Nivôse’. The poet Lucy Mercer writes: ‘To be carried about and read as a companion throughout the year, Almanach is a visionary grafting of the furtive, fertile, metamorphosis of things both personal and nonhuman onto the political; global conflicts, violence against women. As she documents a continuous activity of living inside a revolutionary time where saints, rose de Berne tomatoes coiled around spiralled tuteurs, Rosa Luxemburg, archives, wounds, hens, abundance of all kinds, mortality, and ‘women’s work’ constellate a coexistence of temporal intersections without bourgeois taming, Sharon Kivland allows us to hold the conjunction of opposites in resistance, always in service to the work that extends outside books.

6:00 p.m. Following the reading, Laurie Schwartz will present the music performance ‘les sansculottides’ from the series ITINERANT INTERLUDE # 234.
With: Kinga Ötvös – performance / Silke Lange – accordion / Burkhard Beins – drums

7:00 p.m. The concert ‘Drunk at your wedding’ in Simone Zaugg’s exhibition features ‘street music’ and accompanying drinks.