Kunsthalle Zürich

The guide to Kunsthalle Zurich starts with the sound of a working brewery, silent since 1988, and the artist Thomas Müllenbach's 1981 push for a Zurich home for contemporary art that would own nothing permanent. It follows the group's 1985 founding show across town, the 1996 move into the old Löwenbräu brewery, and the rhythm of exhibitions that arrive and are dismantled within weeks. Even a long-planned Gilbert and George retrospective ran into the pandemic's disruption. Stand at the bare brick walls and think about how many shows have already come and gone here.