mowe Festival for Art and Urban Culture (2025 - 27), Keyvisual, credit: Studio Itch
Exhibition: Heimspiel with Kurt-Kurt and Simone Zaugg | Kurt-Kurt
‘Heimspiel’ showcases Simone Zaugg’s photographic work – from early self-staging to the confident appropriation of public spaces, always with people as the yardstick and barometer.
10. May 2026
16:00h-19:00h
Guided tour 16:00 (DE/EN)
Projektraum Kurt-Kurt
Lübecker Str. 13, 10559 Berlin
The exhibition *Heimspiel* provides an overview of the development of the artistic processes and strategies underpinning Simone Zaugg’s work, with a particular focus on her photographic oeuvre. In the spaces at Kurt-Kurt, visitors can observe and trace how the latent self-staging of her early works has given way to a self-assured appropriation of public spaces. The artist’s physical involvement is not only the starting point but also the subject of her artistic work, which addresses both personal and collective questions in dealing with socially relevant issues.
The human being is Simone Zaugg’s physical and psychological frame of reference and serves as a yardstick and seismograph in her work.
About the Artist
Simone Zaugg (born 1968 in Bern, lives and works in Berlin and Bern)
1987–92 Studied Art and Education at the University of Bern and the School of Design in Bern
1989–90 Study visit to the University of Kassel, Film and Visual Communication course
1990–92 Video class at the Bern University of the Arts
1992 Diploma AHL/Art and Education (Art and Media)
Numerous solo and group exhibitions in Switzerland and abroad, numerous scholarships and grants: 2026 Zeitfelder, Schaudepot, Spandau Citadel // 2025 Urban Reflections, ZAK Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin // 2023 silent change, Volume Kunstraum, Bern, CH
2006 Co-initiator of Kurt-Kurt, Art and Context at the Stadtlabor Moabit, together with Pfelder