Talk

Sunday, 21 September 2025, 4:30 pm

Glacier Sounds. Science and Sound Art in Dialogue

Costs: museum admission, no booking required, in German


Inspired by Julian Charrière’s attempt to show how deeply our existence is intertwined with distant places, this conversation turns to a landscape that is familiar to us—yet holds more secrets than we often assume: the glaciers of Switzerland.

Together with glaciologist Leo Hösli and sound artist Ramon Landolt, we will explore how the retreat of glaciers can be made both visible and audible, how we can—and must—respond to it, and what deep-frozen, hidden stories lie buried within the ice. In dialogue with the exhibition Julian Charrière: Midnight Zone, we set out to explore a cultural approach to dealing with glaciers. How can glaciology, art, and environmental conservation work together to build resilience in the face of catastrophic glacial melt?

The event is part of a collaboration with the Association for Knowledge Culture science and fiction as part of the KONTAKT Festival of Sciences. science and fiction developed and organized this event and will also host the evening. The Festival of Sciences will take place from October 30 to 2 November 2025, at Unternehmen Mitte.

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Photo: Caterina Viguera


Julian Charrière. Midnight Zone
11 June - 2 November 2025

Julian Charrière. Midnight Zone

A core concern of French-Swiss artist Julian Charrière is how human beings inhabit the world and how the world, in turn, inhabits us. The comprehensive solo exhibition at Museum Tinguely presents photographs, sculptures, installations and new video works that deal with our relationship to Earth as a world of water—a liquidity that covers most of our planet with seas, lakes and ice, both habitat for a myriad of organisms and host to circulatory systems critical for the stability of our climate. Reflecting upon its flow and materiality, profundity and politics, its mundane and sacral dimensions, the solo show acts as a kaleidoscope, inviting us to dive deep.


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