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FEATURES | ZURICH<br />
“YOU CAN’T<br />
COMPARE<br />
ZURICH TO<br />
PLACES LIKE<br />
LONDON<br />
OR BERLIN –<br />
IT’S A MUCH<br />
SMALLER CITY”<br />
➳ PETER KILCHMANN<br />
FOUNDER, GALERIE PETER KILCHMANN<br />
“The move to our new gallery is going<br />
very well – everything is coming<br />
together and it will open on 15 April.<br />
It’s in a converted industrial building<br />
in a district called Maag Areal, not far<br />
from the Löwenbräu building, where<br />
we were before. They used to make big<br />
screws here for ships – it’s one of only<br />
two buildings that remain, so it’s listed.<br />
It’s in a modernist Bauhaus style, and<br />
slightly curved.<br />
“When we moved to Zürich West<br />
more than 15 years ago it was very run<br />
down, and lots of the shops were closed.<br />
It was in a diffi cult situation at the<br />
beginning of the 1990s. The authorities<br />
legalised drugs in a part of Zürich,<br />
and addicts from all over Switzerland<br />
came to the area. But in the mid-1990s,<br />
the music scene and party scene took<br />
over. The Löwenbräu opened, and that<br />
brought the art galleries here. People<br />
realised it was a really central area that<br />
had been neglected.”<br />
➳ AFTER THE ART... “The place where<br />
all the artists go to hang out is Café<br />
Odeon (2 Limmatquai, tel: +41 (0)44<br />
251 1650) – it’s quite stylish, with art-<br />
nouveau decoration and unusual large<br />
red banquettes.”<br />
Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Diagonal<br />
Building, 21 Zahnradstrasse, tel: +41<br />
(0)44 278 1010, peterkilchmann.com<br />
82 | TRAVELLER | MARCH 11
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