For Zurich Art Weekend 2026, our gallery on Bahnhofstrasse celebrates the centenary of the Polish artist Alina Szapocznikow’s birth with an autobiographical exhibition.

Opening  Reception
Thursday, 11 June
6 – 8 pm  

RSVP is not required

Hauser & Wirth Zurich, Bahnhofstrasse
Bahnhofstrasse 1
8001 Zürich

+41 43 547 18 99

Special Opening Hours
During Zurich Art Weekend & Art Basel
Fri 12 – Sat 13 June, 11 am – 8 pm
Sun 14 June, 11 am – 6 pm

Mon 15 – Fri 19 June, 10 am – 6 pm
Sat 20 June, 11 am – 5 pm

About the Artist
Born in Poland to a Jewish family in 1926, Alina Szapocznikow survived internment in concentration camps during the Holocaust as a teenager. Immediately after the Second World War, she moved first to Prague and then to Paris, studying sculpture at the École des Beaux Arts. In 1951, suffering from tuberculosis, she was forced to return to Poland, where she expanded her practice. When the Polish government loosened controls over creative expression following Joseph Stalin’s death in 1953, Szapocznikow moved into figurative abstraction. By the 1960s, she was radically re-conceptualizing sculpture as a record not only of her memory but also of her own body.