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FEATURES | ZURICH<br />
➳ BEATRIX RUF<br />
DIRECTOR, KUNSTHALLE ZURICH<br />
“I’m so looking forward to moving<br />
back to the Löwenbräu. We moved out<br />
for a couple of years while it was being<br />
renovated and extended, but when<br />
we go back we’ll have new exhibition<br />
spaces, a bookshop and better offi ces.<br />
It will be a long-term home for the<br />
arts. My original plan for while we<br />
were homeless was to show work in<br />
temporary spaces around Zürich,<br />
but the city found us an abandoned<br />
museum. Our fi rst exhibition opened<br />
in January and we’ll be here until next<br />
year. All the redevelopment in Zürich<br />
West is moving the centre of the city –<br />
for a long time Zürich has been seen as<br />
an international but moderately sized<br />
place. These changes will make it feel<br />
more like a big city.”<br />
➳ AFTER THE ART... “My old favourite<br />
– now everybody’s favourite – is the<br />
Kronenhalle restaurant (4 Rämistrasse,<br />
tel: +41 (0)44 262 9900). It has original<br />
artworks by Picasso and Chagall<br />
hanging on the walls, and when<br />
smoking was banned in Zürich last year<br />
they opened up a fumoir on the fi rst<br />
fl oor. That’s where we all hang out.”<br />
Kunsthalle Zürich, currently<br />
at Museum Bärengasse, 20-22<br />
Bärengasse, tel: +41 (0)44 272 1515,<br />
kunsthallezurich.ch<br />
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