Alan Ruiz ‘WS-K80X4,’ 2019 Electrical conduits connected to a building’s power supply, Four LED safety lamps, existing architecture. Photograph: David HaleThe programme invites students and practitioners from architecture, design, art, curating and theory. It reimagines architectural exhibitions, their media, methods and agents. Hosted by the Department of Fine Arts, Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), it draws on the city’s academic and cultural landscape. The programme fosters exchanges with institutions such as ETH Zurich and Kunsthalle Zurich, alongside international guests and speakers. The workshop unpacks media – from models, drawings and photography to oral histories, performances and installations. It moves beyond an object-focused discourse. Each day of the workshop will focus on the characteristics of specific media and curatorial methods, which will be explored through reading sessions and group discussions. Invited curators, theorists, artists and architect will also give lectures, lead conversations and guide exhibition visits. The programme was hosted by Longtange between 2019–20 and by Kunsthalle Zurich between 2021–24.
Lennart Wolff is an architect and curator working at the intersection of art and architecture, with a practice spanning teaching, writing, design and exhibition architecture. His research and exhibitions engage with concepts such as infrastructural critique, examining their influence on architectural exhibition practices that challenge dominant discourse and spatialise counter-histories. He has worked with institutions including the Architekturmuseum Berlin and Kunstverein in Hamburg, and most recently on establishing Limbo Museum in Accra. He leads the Berlin-based studio lennart wolff / wolff:architekten and codirects the curatorial collective km temporaer with Elisa R Linn.
Klaus Platzgummer is a lecturer in History and Theory Studies and a PhD candidate at the AA. His doctoral research excavates histories of archival infrastructures in bureaucracies, aligning with his broader interests in the histories and theories of architecture and media, as well as in discourses on archival politics, epistemic violence, data criticism and in forensic practices. As a research associate at the Department of Architecture Theory at TU Berlin (2018–23), he co-initiated the cross-institutional, international research collaborative 'Building Information' and was part of the Augmented Historiography Collaborative.
The programme is open to current architecture and design students, artists, curators and anyone over 18 with an interest in exhibiting art and architecture.
Fees do not include flights, accommodation or study trip expenses.
To apply for a scholarship, please send a portfolio (two pages) and 300-word statement to Lennart.Wolff@aaschool.ac.uk. Scholarship applications close 1 May 2026.
Applications for this programme close 26 July 2026