Institute for Land and Environmental Art

29/05/2026

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🚶‍♀️ Walking is thinking in motion.
Join us in Zurich for 3 days of talks, walks, exchanges and shared reflections on walking as artistic practice, research method and cultural tool.
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WALKING. Thinking in Motion.
Symposium and Walkshops.
5 to 7 June 2026.
Zurich, Oerlikon.
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📌 A few places are still available for attendees and participants.
Apply now with:
✍️ short letter of motivation + 📄 CV
Participation is free of charge.
An administrative fee of CHF 80 applies.
Food and drink vouchers are included.
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We’re happy to announce all contributors for the Zurich edition:
Annemarie Bucher .annemarie
Violeta Burckhardt
Francesco Careri
Sharon Chan .sharon
Gabriyel Dari
Anke Domschky
Fabian Gutscher
Dennis Häusler
Johannes M. Hedinger .m.hedinger
Charles Kwong
Marie-Anne Lerjen
Anneke Lubkowitz
Manuela Morales Délano
Mona Neubauer
Aisling O’Carroll /
Jana Orb .ch/
Ella Prokkola
Julia Rüegger
Heiko Schmid
Young Jae Shin
Franziska Spring
Jan-Noël Thon
Nazli Tümerdem
Geert Vermeire
Moritz Wahl
Nikolaus Wyss
Maxime Zaugg
Mingyue Zhang
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Full program:
www.ilea.art

Curated by: , .m.hedinger
Organization: ILEA , 
Cooperations: .ch, .ethz , DSI Community Gaming, and others
Supported by: Lucius & Annemarie Burckhardt Stiftung, and others
       

04/05/2026

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Dritte Orte. Neue Räume für Zusammenhalt.
Treffe und vom 5.–6.Mai an der Konferenz «Dritte Orte» im Theater Basel.
Immer deutlicher zeigt sich: Die Zukunft von Kulturinstitutionen hängt auch davon ab, wie offen sie sich als gemeinschaftliche Räume verstehen. Orte also, die nicht nur Kunst zeigen, sondern an denen Austausch, Begegnung und Teilhabe selbstverständlich sind. Genau hier setzt das Konzept der «Dritten Orte» an – und sie entwickeln sich zusehends von einer schönen Ergänzung zu einem zentralen Bestandteil kultureller Arbeit.
An der Konferenz kommen Expert:innen, Praktiker:innen und Entscheidungsträger:innen aus Kulturinstitutionen, Architektur, Stadtplanung und Zivilgesellschaft zusammen. Gemeinsam erkunden sie, wie Kulturorte zu echten Dritten Orten werden können – zu Räumen, die Begegnung, Austausch und gesellschaftliche Teilhabe ermöglichen.
https://www.dritteorte.ch/
Wir freuen uns mit dabei zu sein und uns mit anderen Projekten zu vernetzen.
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27/03/2026

📣 OPEN CALL
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👣 WALKING. Thinking in Motion
Symposium and Walkshops

🗓 ZURICH: June 5–7, 2026
📍 Labör at MFO-Areal, Oerlikon, Zürich

🗓 BASEL: September 11–13, 2026
📍 Holzpark, Klybeck, Basel
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WALKING continues in 2026. Following the successful first edition in 2025, two further editions will take place, each consisting of a symposium and walkshops. Drawing on Annemarie and Lucius Burckhardt’s concept of promenadology, the science of walking, we invite artists, researchers, and walkers to explore walking as a critical, spatial, and artistic practice.

🧭 Formats: Walkshops, performative walks, lecture performances, roundtables, and talks.
👉 Free participation, food at your own expense
👥 Maximum 30 participants per location

📌 Register by April 30, 2026 for Zurich
📌 Register by June 30, 2026 for Basel
🎯 Submit your own contributions by April 30, 2026

🔗 Link in bio. Registration: https://ilea.art/walking-denken-in-bewegung-3/

Curatorial team: , Johannes M Hedinger
Organization: ILEA Institute for Land and Environmental Art,
Cooperations: , Holzpark Klybeck, , ETH (D-ARCH), Ponyhof 34, DSI Community Gaming, Swiss Game Hub, ISEK, ZHdK, Hafechäs, Gannet, and others.
Support: Lucius & Annemarie Burckhardt Stiftung, and others.

27/03/2026

WALK & TALK with Ernst Bromeis
🌊 A site-specific audio walk along the River Limmat. The pilot episode of ILEA’s new format combines conversation and movement in public space.

As they walk along the river, Johannes M. Hedinger and water ambassador Ernst Bromeis talk about water, activism, and Bromeis’ long-term water projects. Voices and the sounds of the river landscape come together in an immersive listening experience shaped by water, ecological transformation, and urban coexistence.

📍Start: Ampèresteg, GZ Wipkingen side, Breitensteinstrasse 19a, Zurich
⏱ approx. 50 minutes
↔️ Route: Ampèresteg, Hardturmsteg and back
🎧 Bring your smartphone, headphones, weather-appropriate clothing
🔗 Access via QR code on site or the link in bio/below

🚶Live Walk & Talk with Ernst Bromeis and Johannes M. Hedinger
📅 March 28, 2026, 3:30 pm
📍 Meeting point: Ampèresteg

Production: ILEA
Sound design: Fabian Gutscher
Part of Urban Waters 2026 at ZHdK, supported by .
Co-produced by River Landscapes, supported by Pro Helvetia Synergies.

ℹ️Info and audio file: link in bio + https://ilea.art/walk-talk/

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23/03/2026

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📣 OPEN CALL
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👣 WALKING. Denken in Bewegung
Symposium und Walkshops

🗓 ZÜRICH: 5. bis 7. Juni 2026
📍 Labör im MFO-Areal, Oerlikon, Zürich

🗓 BASEL: 11. bis 13. September 2026
📍 Holzpark, Klybeck, Basel
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WALKING geht 2026 in die nächste Runde. Nach der erfolgreichen ersten Durchführung im Jahr 2025 folgen zwei weitere Ausgaben mit jeweils einem Symposium und Walkshops. Ausgehend von der Promenadologie (Spaziergangswissenschaft) von Annemarie und Lucius Burckhardt laden wir Künstler:innen, Forscher:innen und Spaziergänger:innen ein, das Gehen als kritische, räumliche und künstlerische Praxis zu erkunden.

🧭 Formate: Walkshops, performative Spaziergänge, Lecture Performances, Roundtables und Talks.
👉 Teilnahme kostenlos, Verpflegung auf eigene Kosten
👥 Maximal 30 Plätze pro Ort

📌 Anmeldung bis 30. April 2026 für Zürich
📌 Anmeldung bis 30. Juni 2026 für Basel
🎯 Eigene Beiträge einreichen bis 30. April 2026

🔗 Link in Bio. Registration: https://ilea.art/walking-denken-in-bewegung

Kuratorium: , .m.hedinger
Organisation: ILEA ,
Kooperation: , , , ETH (D-ARCH), Ponyhof 34, DSI Community Gaming, Swiss Game Hub, ISEK, ZHdK, Hafechäs, Gannet u.a.
Support: Lucius & Annemarie Burckhardt Stiftung u.a.

11/02/2026

Last week, the workshop “ART & SUSTAINABLE FUTURES” took place as part of the ZHdK Winter School. We were hosted at Labör in Oerlikon, which we used as a base for neighbourhood research, reflection, and hands on workshop work. On the final day, participants tested potential transformation ideas for the MFO site through temporary, site specific interventions in the area around Labör.
Facilitation: Johannes M. Hedinger (ILEA) and Annemarie Bucher (ETH)

Letzte Woche fand der Workshop „ART & SUSTAINABLE FUTURES“ im Rahmen der ZHdK Winter School statt. Wir waren zu Gast im Labör in Oerlikon, das wir als Ausgangspunkt zur Quartierrecherche, Denk- und Werkstatt nutzen konnten. Am letzten Tag erprobten die Teilnehmenden mittels temporärerer ortsspezifischer Eingriffe im Umraum von Labör potentielle Transformationsideen für das MFO-Areal.
Leitung: Johannes M. Hedinger (ILEA) und Annemarie Bucher (ETH)

Images:
1 - 15: Spatial interventions by the participants
16 - 20: Excerpt from Nina Dornbusch’s perception log

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ZHdK Zürcher Hochschule der Künste

28/12/2025

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As the year comes to a close, we thank our partners, artists, researchers, collaborators, students, alumni, institutions, visitors and friends who have engaged with our program throughout the year.
2025 was a year of transition for ILEA. We reorganised the association with a new board and revised articles of association. Several new formats were implemented this year. See slides and REVIEW + PREVIEW in the >comments.
Stay up to date with our program on our website www.ilea.art, via our newsletter, and on Instagram .
Here’s to new ideas, shared moments, and exciting collaborations in 2026!
We look forward to reconnecting and wish you a hopeful start to the New Year.
Johannes and the ILEA team

Images:
1: Sromowce Wyzne + Tatras, PL
2: WALKING: walkshop Nazli Tschoepe
3: WALKING: walkshop Johannes Hedinger
4: WALKING: walkshop Jana Orb + Mingyue Zhang
5: WALKING: lecture performance San Keller
6: WALKING: walkshop Aylin Tschoepe
7: WALKING: walkshop Marie-Anne Lerjen
8: WALKING: Preview Edition Zurich + Basel
9: PARTNER: LABÖR Oerlikon
10: EVENT: Opening Labör
11: EVENT: Art Walk Labör
12: EVENT: Eufonic Festival, Institutional Exchange
13: RESIDENCY: Indranjan Banerjee and Ralph Tharayil
14: RESIDENCY: Work presentation at Kunstgarage Versam
15: RESEARCH: River Landscapes. A new Glossary. Conference Bangelore
16: RESEARCH: Art, Space + transformation, HKB Bern
17: EDUCATION: Art & Sustainable Futures, ZHdK Winterschool
18: OPEN CALL: Fluxus Score + Activation, HKB/Cabaret Voltaire
19: BOOKS: ILEA Book 1+2, Landscape
20: IN MEMORIAN: Gian Pedretti .

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02/12/2025

Join this ZHdK Winter School 2026
> ART & SUSTAINABLE FUTURES <
Current Ecological and Societal Discourses and Practices
Block seminar (3, 6, 7 February 2026)

Climate justice, sustainable lifestyles, socioecological transformation and care for the planet shape current public debates and appear in contemporary artistic practices. The traditional divides between nature and culture, city and countryside, art and society dissolve. A new sensitivity for environmental and spatial experience emerges that needs attention.
At the start of this module you gain a historical and theoretical introduction to key terms and fields of action in the context of art, ecology and the city. You explore forms of environmental experience, concepts such as NatureCulture and approaches to artistic environmental crisis management.
Practical exercises, talks with experts, excursions and experimental formats help you test how these ideas transfer to your own practice. Introductory readings are provided.

Instructors:
Johannes M. Hedinger (ILEA), Annemarie Bucher (FOA-FLUX) + guest lecturers
Dates:
Tue 3 Feb, 6 to 9pm / Fri 6 Feb, 9am to 5pm / Sat 7 Feb, 9am to 5pm

Information and registration (until 9 Jan 2026):
https://www.zhdk.ch/weiterbildung/sws/baustein-16-art-sustainable-futures-aktuelle-oekologische-und-gesellschaftliche-diskurse-und-praktiken-26025
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images:
1. Ernesto Neto: From Earth to Earth, Art Safiental 2024
2. Jeremy Deller: Sacrilege, 2012
3. Com&Com: Baum 7, 2025
4. Willi Dorner: Bodies in Urban Spaces, seit 2014

25/09/2025

Excerpt from Pablo Helguera's keynote speech at our WALKING conference earlier this month at ILEA
https://pablohelguera.substack.com/p/when-pilgrimage-becomes-form?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=2cese0&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&fbclid=IwY2xjawNCBohleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFiYUd4OXVjeWZ1dW03N3hzAR54yButPomVFz2MVwPBvoeJhy6czTaJHet0lhorLoB5XlTLYBuyvmC-gm5zYw_aem_OR-ielHigyN-ZclVnDfJAw

On peripatetic practices.

16/09/2025

Review of the WALKSHOPS at the symposium
👣 WALKING – Thinking in Motion.
Lucius Burckhardt and the Future of Perception
from last week in Safiental / Switzerland.

🙏 We would like to thank all participants, speakers, workshop leaders, and co-organizers who made these three days so unique.

🥾WALKSHOPS by:
1/8: Jana Orb & Mingyue Zhang: When the landscape moves through the body
2: Annemarie Bucher: WALK-THINK
3: Marcus Maeder: ACLA Soundwalk
4/5: Johannes M. Hedinger: ACLA Tunnelwalk
6/7: Nazli Tümerdem: Walking as Guests
9/10: Linard Bardill: Ruhe und Bewegung als Hebammen für Lernen, Kreativität und spirituelle Erfahrung.
11: Othmar Arnold: Carrying a load. Experiences from a Transatlantic hike
12: San Keller: Keep on Talking
13: Lisa Lee Benjamin: Walking and Cording
14: Aylin Tschoepe: Kritisches Flânieren als Übersetzungspraxis
15/16: Martin Ott: Geführtes in-Beziehung-Treten zur Schönheit, Fülle und dem SEIN um uns herum.
17-19: Marie-Anne Lerjen: The Closing Round
20: Group Photo

Infos + Program: https://ilea.art/walking-thinking-in-movement/

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