KUNSTSURFER

KUNSTSURFER is a browser-based art space. It runs on an add-on that recognises advertisements and replaces them with digital exhibitions. KUNSTSURFER brings art into your daily browsing. It plays with the ways online advertisements look and work. It takes over commercial space to host experimental, digital site-specific curatorial and artistic projects.‍

KUNSTSURFER was founded in 2021 by a collective composed of Chiara Giardi, Evita Verbrugge, Heiko Schmid, Itay Blaish and Ugo Pecoraio, five curators who are mostly based in Switzerland.June 2022 Itay Blaish left the collective. The add-on was programmed and is technically supported by the artist Michael Aschauer.‍

KUNSTSURFER was funded by the city of Zurich (Creative Tech for Good), ZHdK Fonds/Mercator Foundation and the Taiwanese Ministry of Culture.

The current curatorial collective consists of:

Chiara Giardi is an independent curator and art educator interested in research-based, transdisciplinary artistic and curatorial practices with a focus on digital collaborative processes. She holds an MA in Art Education, Curatorial Studies (Zurich University of the Arts) and a BA in Liberal Arts and Sciences, major Culture and History (University College Freiburg, DE). She worked at institutions like documenta fifteen (DE), videocity (CH) and the National Gallery San Marino (SMR).

Evita Verbrugge is a cultural mediator, curator, DJ and event organizer based in Lucerne. She completed her B.A. in International Arts & Culture Studies in Rotterdam and Istanbul and her MA in Curatorial Studies at Zurich University of Arts (CH). She is currently working as art mediator at Kunstmuseum Luzern.

Dr. Heiko Schmid is an art historian, curator and author. He currently is employed as a lecturer in the Master Art Education Curatorial Studies at Zurich University of the Arts as well as a lecturer in the Bachelor in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at Luzern University of applied Sciences and Arts. Furthermore Heiko Schmid is chairman of the commission KiöR (art in public space) of the city of Zurich. Heiko Schmid lives and works in Zurich (Switzerland).

Ugo Pecoraio is an independent curator, specialized in blockchain and crypto projects and the strategic planning and conception of digital exhibition formats as well as the development of innovative positioning options for artists and designers. He is currently employed at HEK (House of Electronic Arts) as head of communications and is involved in all web 3 and blockchain based projects. Ugo Pecoraio lives and works in Basel (Switzerland).

Jana Vanecek & Benjamin Egger

physical group exhibition at VC7 openspace, Zürich

upcoming 16 November 2023

Group Exhibition / IRL
Place: VC7 openspace, Zürich
Artists: Jana Vanecek, Benjamin Egger
Curators: Heiko Schmid
Date: 16. November 2023

TWILIGHT OF IDOLS: A Simlacrum within Simulacra

solo exhibition with artist Jana Vanecek

live on KUNSTSURFER

Solo Exhibition / online
Artists: Jana Vanecek
Curators: Heiko Schmid
Date: 16.09.2023

AND THEN WE TOUCH

solo exhibition with artist Benjamin Egger

live on KUNSTSURFER

Solo Exhibition / online
Artists: Benjamin Egger
Curators: Heiko Schmid
Date: 11.06.2023

Soft Narratives

an exhibition organized and curated by Panke Gallery

live on KUNSTSURFER

Group Exhibition / online
Artists: Molly Soda, Maya Man, Chia Amisola,
Curators: Noemi Garay (Panke Gallery)
Date: 04.05.2023

KUNSTSURFER install party

an installation at Helmhaus Zürich with all the exhibitions.

physical KUNSTSURFER presentation / online & RIL
Place: Helmhaus Zürich
Curators: Evita Verbrugge, Heiko Schmid, Ugo Pecoraio
Date: 18.08.2022

Framed Wormhole

a Taiwanese-Swiss collaborative exhibition in Zürich and Taipei.

live on KUNSTSURFER

Group Exhibition / online & IRL
Artists: LIN Yu Liang, HOU Ssu Chi, TUAN Mu, PENG Si Qi, CHANG Ting Chen, WEN Gum Gum, Funnysandwich
Curators: Chiara Giardi & Kenneth Ting Yu LIN
Date: 16.-22.06.2022

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for 24h IRL at Dynamo Zürich and online on «The Wrong»

live on KUNSTSURFER

Group Exhibition / online & IRL
Artists: Bianca Kennedy, Johanna Bruckner, Jonas Blume, Molly Dario, Till Langschied
Curators: Chiara Giardi, Evita Verbrugge, Itay Blaish, Heiko Schmid, Ugo Pecoraio
Date: 26.02.2022