Kunsthaus Zürich: Vilhelm Hammershøi Exhibition Entry Ticket

Your experience

Explore Kunsthaus Zürich with entry to the Vilhelm Hammershøi exhibition, Glacier Dreams, Pixelwald Turicum, the museum collection, and an audio guide.

Getting started

Enter Kunsthaus Zürich with your booked ticket for the Vilhelm Hammershøi exhibition. Once inside, collect your audio guide and get familiar with the museum layout. You can then choose to start with the temporary exhibition, explore the collection and smaller exhibitions, or head to the immersive installations, moving through the museum at your own pace.

What to expect

Kunsthaus Zürich: Vilhelm Hammershøi exhibition

Discover the work of Vilhelm Hammershøi, one of the leading Danish painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This is the first comprehensive museum exhibition of Hammershøi's work in Switzerland, organised by Kunsthaus Zürich in collaboration with the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid.

Features

• Step into Hammershøi's quiet interiors, with closed doors and figures seen from behind creating a restrained, almost meditative atmosphere. Subtle shifts in colour, light, and space shape the mood rather than a conventional narrative.

• See interiors, portraits, cityscapes, and landscapes displayed together, allowing you to notice the quiet intensity of his work and the subtle variations in motifs that appear repeatedly across his paintings.

• Explore the relationship between painting and music in Hammershøi's works, where instruments such as cellos and pianos evoke the expectant stillness of the moments before a concert begins.

• Use the included audio guide to explore the exhibition's formal themes and learn how Hammershøi's restrained colour palette and compositions connect with artists such as James McNeill Whistler.

Kunsthaus Zürich: collection and small exhibitions

Your ticket also gives you access to the wider Kunsthaus Zürich collection and its smaller exhibitions. Continue beyond the main exhibition to discover artworks spanning different periods, styles, and artistic approaches.

Features

• Explore the permanent collection and smaller exhibitions at your own pace, extending your visit beyond Hammershøi to works from other eras and artistic movements.

• Use the audio guide in selected parts of the collection for additional context, choosing how much time and attention you want to give each section.

Glacier Dreams and Pixelwald Turicum

Your visit also includes access to two immersive installations at Kunsthaus Zürich: Refik Anadol's Glacier Dreams and Pipilotti Rist's Pixelwald Turicum. You can experience them at any point during your museum visit.

Features

• Enter Refik Anadol's Glacier Dreams, where AI-generated, data-driven imagery creates an immersive visual environment that contrasts with Hammershøi's quiet painted interiors.

• Walk through Pipilotti Rist's Pixelwald Turicum, a poetic spatial installation combining light, colour, and sound to create a multisensory experience.

• Experience Glacier Dreams and Pixelwald Turicum alongside the Vilhelm Hammershøi exhibition, collection, and smaller exhibitions, combining traditional gallery spaces with immersive media art in one visit.