Message Salon

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message salon is an off- space in Zurich and an interdisciplinary art project by Esther Eppstein .

History and locations

In 1995, Eppstein founded the independent art space Monotony on Rennweg in Zurich, where the boundaries between exhibitions , concerts and community are already fluid. A year later she opened the message salon in Dreispitz between Ankerstrasse and Zweierstrasse . The name arises from the neighborhood of numerous massage parlors and from Eppstein's desire, inspired by Gertrude Stein , to run her own kind of artistic salons. Eppstein wants to make exhibitions and art in the gray area between art production, art education, event and social hub.

From the very beginning, a core of artists such as Nik Emch , Franziska Koch, Laurent Goei, Ruth Erdt, Lutz / Guggisberg, Robert A. Fischer , Susann Walder, Andrea Muheim , Ingo Giezendanner, and Kerim formed around the message salon Seiler.

In the summer of 1998 the message salon is a guest at the Kunsthaus Zürich . The show Free View of the Mediterranean , curated by Bice Curiger , divides the subculture. Some artists who had exhibited at Eppstein became better known. Eppstein deliberately withdrew from circulation. From 1998 to 2000 she tinged around the country in an art caravan. The mobile exhibition space is now in the collection of the Migros Museum of Contemporary Art .

In 2001, Eppstein moved into a shop on Rigiplatz, before moving her message salon to Perla-Mode on Langstrasse in 2006 for the next seven years . In between, the message salon is always “en route”.

In 2015, Eppstein founded the message salon embassy as “Madame l'Ambassadeur Esther Eppstein” , an artist in residence program that she herself curated as an art ambassador. From May to September, a commercial building on Zurich's Grubenstrasse serves as a residence for four artists from Israel. In 2017 the embassy will move into the newly built 25hours Hotel at Langstrasse 150 in Zurich, where artists from different areas live and work for around a month each.

Exhibitions

Exhibitions message salon embassy (selection)

  • 2017 Welcome the artist! - message salon embassy welcomes Lukatoyboy
  • 2015 The last reception . message salon embassy, ​​Zurich.
  • 2015 Notes from the Alps - Ella Spector . message salon embassy, ​​Zurich.
  • 2015 Señor Sandwich - The Sandwich Experience . message salon embassy, ​​Zurich.

Exhibitions «en route» (selection)

  • 2016 text tape again. Wild Card - message salon as a guest at the Strauhof , Museum Strauhof, Zurich.
  • 2016 literature for what happens. Wild Card - message salon as a guest at the Strauhof , Museum Strauhof, Zurich.
  • 2015 The Zurich remaining games . Factory theater. Rote Fabrik, Zurich.

Exhibitions at the Perla-Mode location (selection)

Exhibitions at the Rigiplatz site (selection)

Exhibitions at the Ankerstrasse location (selection)

  • 1997 Esther Eppstein: No tears
  • 1997 Laurent Goei: autumn collection
  • 1997 Ruth Erdt: Maybe life is an adventure
  • 1997 Ingo Giezendanner: Glotzkiste
  • 1997 Nik Emch: Panasonic
  • 1997 Barbara Landi: Anyway You Want Me
  • 1997 Isabel Truniger, Pirmin Rösli: Photographs
  • 1997 Treppstein: Treppstein Casting
  • 1997 Co Gründler, Gabi Deutsch: The picture moves
  • 1997 Martin Stollenwerk: Trans Tokio Optics
  • 1997 Jules Spinatsch: Digital Memory
  • 1997 Kerim Seiler: Acrylic on Pavatex
  • 1996 Andres Lutz, Anders Guggisberg, Roland Widmer, Peter Weber: Living Room
  • 1996 Manuela Ledermann: Tour de Suisse
  • 1996 Treppstein: Treppstein Cool
  • 1996 Laurent Goei: Laurent Jalabert
  • 1996 Edit Oderbolz, Brigitte Meier: Lust im Lenz

literature

  • Nadine Olonetzky (Ed.): Esther Eppstein - message salon. The album . Zurich: Scheidegger & Spiess, 2016.
  • Esther Eppstein: message salon . Zurich: Andreas Züst Verlag, 1998.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ «Sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn't». Bice Curiger in conversation with Esther Eppstein. In: Esther Eppstein: message salon (page 18). Zurich: Andreas Züst Verlag, 1998.
  2. ^ Esther Eppstein: message salon (page 4). Zurich: Andreas Züst Verlag, 1998.
  3. ↑ Tobi Müller: Away from the boom . Neue Zürcher Zeitung 18./19. August 2001, page 44.
  4. ↑ Simon Maurer: "I feel a countermovement" . Day indicator. May 3, 2001. page 74.
  5. ↑ Messagesalon.ch/locations , accessed on March 5, 2016.
  6. ^ Ambassador between Tel Aviv and Zurich, Philipp Meier , accessed on May 11, 2017.