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AFZ 2025 - CREATIVE MARKETPLACE
Discover unique creations. Shop original designs. Collect artworks. Learn. Be inspired.
EN: Join us at the Creative Marketplace, where over 30 artists, architects, and designers showcase their work through a curated selection of artworks, prints, photography, books, original designs, installations, and more—brought together exclusively for this occasion. Explore how architecture sparks creativity and new ways of working across creative practices. See something you love? Join on-the-spot conversations and hands-on sessions, where exhibitors share their work, stories, and techniques. Meet the people shaping today’s architectural and design culture, support their creativity, and be part of the very first Creative Marketplace—celebrating architecture in all its forms.
Saturday, Oct 18, 12–8 PM
Sunday, Oct 19, 11–5 PM
Location: Zentralwäscherei
// Free Entry
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DE: Besuchen Sie den Creative Marketplace, auf dem über 30 Künstler:innen, Architekt:innen und Designer:innen ihre Arbeiten präsentieren – von ausgewählten Kunstwerken, Drucken, Fotografien, Büchern und Originalentwürfen bis hin zu Installationen und mehr, eigens für diesen Anlass zusammengestellt. Entdecken Sie, wie Architektur Kreativität inspiriert und neue Arbeitsweisen über verschiedene kreative Disziplinen hinweg ermöglicht. Gefällt Ihnen etwas besonders? Nehmen Sie an Gesprächen vor Ort und praktischen Sessions teil, in denen die Aussteller:innen ihre Arbeiten, Geschichten und Techniken teilen. Lernen Sie die Menschen kennen, die die heutige Architektur- und Designkultur prägen, unterstützen Sie ihre Kreativität und seien Sie Teil des allerersten Creative Marketplace – eine Feier der Architektur in all ihren Facetten.
Samstag, 18. Oktober, 12–20 Uhr
Sonntag, 19. Oktober, 11–17 Uhr
Ort:Zentralwäscherei
// Eintritt frei
Participants Creative Marketplace:
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ARTWORKS, PRINTS & PHOTOGRAPHY
Daniela Bozzetto / db_design
Microcosmic – subtle, natural, arboresque
HAND MADE OBJECTS | PHOTO PRINTS
Under the title ‘Microcosmic’ artist Daniela Bozzetto presents a series of hand made objects, photo prints, and ‘tattooed’ garments. Intricate and delicate structures oscillate between figurative and abstract, often evoking phytomorphic elements. In her artistic practice—especially through installation and photography—Bozzetto explores the poetical and evocative potential of ordinary materials. Transcending their physical aspects and connotations, she brings to life atmospheres suspended between reality and vision, ambiguous spaces, and ephemeral hanging constructions. Her work seems to declare the power of small things over grandiosity, of grace over force, of transcendence over materiality.
Mahroo Movahedi
Memories Flow
PAINTING | INSTALLATION
Mahroo Movahedi is an Iranian, Swiss-based interdisciplinary artist and researcher whose transdisciplinary practice bridges fine arts, visual anthropology, and sensory ethnography. Holding a PhD in Visual Anthropology from the University of Bern, her research and artistic work intertwine embodied experience, memory, and landscape to explore the interrelations between ecology, culture, and belonging. Through drawing, printmaking, installation, and experimental audiovisual media, she creates poetic, multilayered narratives that reveal the porous boundaries between the visible and invisible, tradition and modernity. Movahedi’s works often emerge from long-term artistic inquiries, most notably The Life-Giving River project, which examines the cultural and ecological life of the Life-giving River in Iran. Exhibited internationally, her art invites viewers into sensorial dialogues about place, displacement, and the politics of memory. She has received several awards, including the Young Art Award Ute Barth Gallery (2016) and the EthnoKino Visionary Talk Award (2024).At the architectural festival, she presents a series of abstract, minimalistic landscape works that explore the dialogue between form, memory, and spatial perception.
Michaela Medea
Levels of perception: between form and imagination
IMAGE-BASED EXPERIMENTS
Michaela Medea works in painting and drawing. Her artistic practice is rooted in her training in product and spatial design, where she initially explored form, material and structure in a precise and functional manner. From this founda- tion, she developed a free, instinctive visual language characterised by memory, emotion and the tension between chaos and order. Her works create experi- mental visual worlds that unfold depth and movement through layers of colour and material. They may be reminiscent of landscapes, bodies or architectural spaces, but always remain open to the viewer‘s perception. Fragile balances often form between form, fragment and structure – like visual fragments of a non-verbal memory. Today, Michaela Medea works in her studio in Zollikerberg near Zurich and understands her art as an open process of discovery: not cons- tructing, but revealing – spaces that make intuition and imagination visible.
SERIA__
Kyiv’s Brutalist Panelkas
URBAN PROJECT | DESIGN & OBJECTS
SERIA__ is a graphic project about brutalist mass housing in Ukraine. It includes collectible design items, printed graphics, and artworks. The so-called “panelkas” (from prefabricated panels) are among the most common building types in Kyiv’s residential areas. With SERIA__, artists Dasha Podoltseva (designer) and Elena Orap (architect), founded in Kyiv in 2018, aim to revalorize the panelkas—the brutalist mass housing complexes long dismissed for their grey appearance and Soviet legacy — as significant architectural heritage.
Built from prefabricated panels to meet urgent post-World War II housing needs, these buildings housed millions of Ukrainians. Since 2022, the project has taken on a new dimension. Originally conceived with an urban improvement spirit, this housing model is now increasingly fragile: protective structures, improvised entrances, silent absences, and partial ruins reveal its precarious condition. Through a selection of screen-printed works, SERIA__ explores the collective memory tied to these architectures and invites reflection on shared heritage, displacement, and the idea of “home”— caught between reality and the threat of disappearance. Faced with recent destruction and upheavals, a question arises — what becomes of this fragile brutalist urban landscape, and what future lies ahead for Ukraine’s “panelkas”?
Simon Deppierraz
Paréidolie – Brussels Art Nouveau Reimagined
LITHOGRAPHS
Following a two-month residency in Brussels in spring 2019, Simon Deppierraz collected a wealth of forms from the city’s Art Nouveau architecture. From 150 photographs of architectural details, he created 55 vector drawings, culminating in a series of 8 abstract lithographs in varying shades of black. The abstraction of the forms evokes pareidolia, the optical illusion that makes us perceive faces or figures in clouds or everyday objects, reimagining Brussels’ architectural details in a new, poetic light.
Tetiana Kartasheva
Lino Printing
HANDS-ON DEMO
Artist Tetiana Kartasheva presents a series of lino print editions alongside a demonstration of her technique. Using hand-cut linoleum shapes, arranged and printed manually, she departs from traditional linocut gravure. The cut-out shapes, free from the constraints of a plate or format, are printed in a variety of combinations, creating layered, dynamic compositions. All prints are produced as Variable Editions. Each one unique and impossible to replicate exactly due to variations in arrangement, inking, and color. On-site, Kartasheva brings her lino printing tools, giving visitors an inside look at her process. On Sunday, she will offer a hands-on demo, inviting visitors to participate in the creation of a collective artwork.
Hands-on Demo: Sunday, Oct 19, 11:00-12:00
Torsten Skoetz
Utopias inspired by Calvino’s invisible Cities and the absurd beauty of imagined worlds
SYNTHETIC UTOPIAS | AI-GENERATED
Architect, photographer, and digital artist Torsten Skoetz presents a series of AI-generated utopias in the Creative Marketplace as part of the Architecture Festival in Zürich.These digital visions—crafted with Midjourney and Photoshop—explore architecture as a phantasmagoria: surreal, poetic, and speculative. Inspired by Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, each image invites viewers into imagined urban landscapes shaped by memory, abstraction, and absurdity. Here, the architect is no longer solely human, but a hybrid intelligence—AI as co-creator—blurring the boundaries between authorship and algorithm. The work resonates with the spirit of Eskapaden des Absurden, the current exhibition with (kat08) Kirstine Ahumada Torres Meyer at Joss Toledo Art Gallery, forming a dialogue between digital surrealism and architectural fantasy. Together, these contributions celebrate the creative potential of emerging technologies in reimagining how we dream, design, and narrate our cities.
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BOOKS & PUBLICATIONS
Christine Heidrich – Raumresonanz
Frauen erneuern Havanna - Female architects, engineers, and their buildings in Havana’s Old Town
BOOK | TRAVELING EXHIBITION
Architect and author Christine Heidrich presents Frauen erneuern Havanna (Kehrer Verlag, 2020), featuring a photo essay by architectural photographer Ewa Maria Wolanska. The book spotlights twelve Cuban female architects and engineers whose projects are transforming Havana’s historic center. Through interviews, photographs, and architectural plans, the publication celebrates women’s achievements in Cuba’s construction industry and encourages future leadership. With additional essays on the role of women in Cuban architecture since the revolution, Frauen erneuern Havanna is the first comprehensive study of female architects in Havana.
DISTIGMO
TRIAL AND ERROR 1
INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE | PUBLISHER
DISTIGMO is an independent magazine and publisher that emerged through a method of trial and error: also the title and theme of its inaugural issue. Trial and Error focuses on early experiments, mistakes, and unexpected turns, featuring 43 contributors spanning architecture, design, academia, and the arts. Each issue reinforces our central concept through a circular approach, and the identity of the magazine is evolving with the publication of each issue. Therefore, contributors are essential to DISTIGMO’s identity and voice. The articles, essays, sketches and photographs that compose each issue enrich and guide the magazine’s direction and narrative. DISTIGMO will participate in the Creative Marketplace at the Architecture Festival Zurich, presenting its approach to the festival’s community of creative practitioners.
Fabian Hoermann – YR22
The Real Deal – Post-Fossil Construction for Game Changers
BOOK
Architect and author Fabian Hoermann presents The Real Deal, a project highlighting the urgent need for a post-fossil construction industry. The sector must abandon “business as usual,” and architects, builders, investors, and users all have a role to play in addressing climate change.Using a global perspective, The Real Deal presents the economic, social, and ecological changes necessary for the construction industry and society to reverse course. Through thought-provoking essays and inspirational interviews with specialists from different disciplines, the project explores the application of regenerative construction materials and addresses common prejudices that have slowed their adoption. At its core, The Real Deal provides analysis and insights to inspire action among practitioners and policymakers, helping to overcome legal, practical, and mental barriers to sustainable change. For the Creative Marketplace, short statements and longer interviews are presented in parallel on a tower installation of screens with headphones. The featured participants represent diverse stakeholders in the construction industry, each contributing to the urgently needed Bauwende—the transformation of architecture toward a sustainable future.
yr22.eu
therealdeal.earth
HEARTBRUT
Let’s make brutalism unhateable
MAPS | PRINTS I SPECIAL EDITIONS I GUIDED TOURS
HEARTBRUT a fresh and accessible way for everyone to explore Switzerland’s rich brutalist heritage. With its signature range of Carte Brute maps, print editions and guided tours, the format radically redefines the way brutalism is seen and experienced, making it more relatable and connected to everyday life. Founded by Zurich-based writer and photographer Karin Bürki in 2019, HEARTBRUT also seeks to defy genres, fostering a sense of community across disciplines and backgrounds.
Maria Pomiansky:
100% Renaissance
ART BOOK
In the work cycle 100% Renaissance, to which the present publication is dedicated, Maria Pomiansky takes us on a tour of the neighborhood as she perceives and experiences it today. She created her urban portraits of Zurich West between 2013 and 2018. It is a part of town that is full of viaducts, logistics facilities and infrastructures, and at the same time it is in transformation, seeing the emergence of glamorous new buildings. Viewing the large-format paintings, the drawings and pastels, we become immersed in an exploration of the immediate urban and social context of her practice.
Patrick Krecl
Exploring Sustainable Construction
BOOKS | PUBLICATIONS
A curated selection of books and publications on sustainable construction, with a particular focus on building with nature-based materials. These approaches make a significant difference in terms of reducing embodied energy and cutting CO₂ emissions. Among the titles is Stampflehmbau in der Schweiz (2024), which traces rammed earth building from its origins in eastern Switzerland to contemporary practices and offers insights into a broad range of related themes. The selected books are in English, French and German. Clay samples complement the presentation.
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INSTALLATIONS & DESIGN
Anna Kohli – archkolor
Layers of Time: A Color Concept for Roland Cinema
PROTOTYPE
Color designer and student Anna Kohli (archkolor) presents a color and material concept for the 144-year-old Roland Cinema at Langstrasse 111. Developed within the “Colour Design in Construction” program at Haus der Farb, Zurich, the project restores the building's presence through targeted interventions that reveal its multi-layered history. Drawing on archival plans and inspired by artist Zilla Leutenegger, Anna applies the principle “as little as possible, as much as necessary” to preserve heritage and strengthen identity. The presentation includes a 1:50 model with the new color palette, material samples, before-and-after visualizations, historical images, and an animated video tracing the design development.
Hanga Séra
Light, Acrylic and Charcoal
LAMPSHADES | STORYTELLING
Multidisciplinary artist Hanga Séra presents a series of paper lampshades featuring her series “Gaia in my apartment", alongside framed artworks from the same series. Her lamps explore the often-overlooked role of light in architecture: beyond providing daylight, the character, angle, and color of light shape a space’s atmosphere. By filtering light through her artworks, the lamps transform the room’s ambiance and convey subtle narratives, while the accompanying painted drawings provide an additional layer of engagement with her work.
KOLOR.CONCEPT | Sabina Bogacz
her.KOLOR – A color-psychological portrait of a woman, translated into the design of her home.
COLOR DESIGN IN ARCHITECTURE
Kolor is more than design, it is resonance, memory, and atmosphere. In her.KOLOR, architect and certified kolor designer Sabina Bogacz explores how kolor and material translate personality into space. Based on a kolor-psychological portrait, the project transforms emotional nuances into architectural moods, zones of calm, strength, and intimacy. Drawing on her architectural background, Sabina bridges the technical and the sensory: she understands how light, proportion, and material interact to form an atmosphere. The installation combines large-scale concept panels, kolor samples, and a 3D-printed model, an invitation to experience kolor as spatial identity. Alongside her.KOLOR, she presents her limited edition Kolor Advent Calendar, celebrating her ongoing dialogue between architecture, kolor, and emotion. A poetic study of how spaces can feel, not just look. Let’s talk KOLOR!
Kouto Alternative Building
Discover samples of construction materials
MATERIALS COLLECTION
Kouto Alternative Building invites you to explore regenerative and recycled construction materials, inspiring sustainable solutions and new perspectives in architecture. He showcases these materials in the form of samples, cards, posters and T-shirts.
Olszewski Architect Studio
Portfolio and design approach
SHOWCASE | STUDIO PRACTICE
Architect Lukasz Olszewski presents a series of small-scale projects through physical models made from concrete, wood, and stone. The exhibition offers a look into his design process and his ongoing exploration of triangular forms and their connection to space and structure. A recurring theme in these works is the idea of the small libraries — a quiet place for reflection, often integrated as part of the design itself. Five models are shown on wooden platforms with short texts and animated films, giving visitors a broader view of the creative process behind each project.
Maria Smigielska, Ana Ascic
Forms in Flux: fragments
ATMOSPHERIC OUTDOORS INSTALLATION MADE OF 3D-PRINTED CERAMICS
Forms in Flux was first conceived for the 2025 Design Biennale Zürich as a water sculpture in the Old Botanical Garden. Rising gently from the pond, its 3D-printed clay vessels echo the logics of aquatic plants, blurring the line between crafted object and living system. Designed to host life, ceramics shelter small creatures below water while their porous surfaces nurture moss and biofilms above. The vessels guide rain and fountain water to create evaporative cooling—a centuries-old technique that refreshes air without machines, resonating today as a response to rising urban heat. Made from locally sourced clay and additively shaped in Basel, the pieces conserve material yet hold remarkable durability. Arranged in groups, they lean and open as if in dialogue, forming a collective body animated by mist, reflection, and light. Indoors, fragments and film recall the sculpture’s original atmosphere of stillness and contemplation.
Patricia Bucher
Construction as an aesthetic medium of reflection and transformation
GEOMETRIC WOODEN SCULPTURES | OBJECT DESIGN
At the intersection of artistic practice and architectural theory, Patricia Bucher explores construction as an aesthetic medium of reflection, creating geometric wooden sculptures and recycled furniture that question space, power, and transformation. For the Creative Marketplace at the Architecture Film Festival Zurich, she presents three large-scale wooden sculptures in warm red tones—geometric, vertical structures rising like pillars or towers, each topped with a signal light oscillating between warning and orientation. Patricia Bucher approaches construction as both an aesthetic and ethical act, addressing questions of power, identity, and responsibility. Alongside the sculptures, she exhibits images and furniture made from reclaimed wood, shaped in the same formal language. The recycling process extends her exploration of spatial and cultural boundaries, revealing their political and transformative potential.
Plastic Studio
Plastic Landscapes – Furniture made from waste
FURNITURE | MATERIAL EXPERIMENTS
Plastic Landscapes is an exploration into the transformative potential of plastic waste within design and architecture. Committed to rethinking resource management, we engage with one of the most pressing environmental challenges: the circularity of plastic. Through an architectural lens, we reimagine waste not as refuse but as a material with inherent value, capable of becoming functional, 100% recyclable furniture. Our featured works, such as the BLU stool and MILA table, are crafted from repurposed hygiene masks, exemplifying the possibilities of modular design without glue or screws. The installation not only showcases completed pieces but also the underlying design process—through prototypes, material samples, and experiments—revealing the iterative nature of transforming waste into value. In a country where only 10% of plastic is recycled, we aim to provoke a dialogue on how architectural thinking can contribute to broader sustainability efforts, while exploring the latent potential of recycled plastic within the built environment.
Sandro Halter
The majesty of the austere, simple and honest
SCULPTURAL OBJECTS | MATERIAL EXPLORATION
Sandro Halter presents Dreh Growth , a series of objects shaped by the raw material's nature, processing methods, and timing. Each piece is influenced by its inherent characteristics, as well as the effects of human handling and weathering. Sun, rain, heat, and cold leave their mark through discoloration, staining, and warping, celebrating the beauty of the imperfect, transient, and incomplete. Halter emphasizes preserving material culture, embracing the uncontrollability of nature, and returning to simple, modest, and natural values.