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My new letter is out, about Tracey Emin's major exhibition, A Second Life. I was lucky enough to see it at Tate Modern in London. It has just opened at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. Louisiana, Humlebæk, 8.10.2026 to 18.4.2027 zohner.com/lettere/?src=ig-reel #zohnerarts

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Markus @zohner.com · 04/10/2026

Il tuo amore è la mia bellezza. Your love is my beauty. Deine Liebe ist meine Schönheit. Lamak with the figure of Dewi Sri, «TRAME», MUSEC Museo delle Culture, Lugano, until 25 October 2026. zohner.com/lettere/?src=ig-reel #zohnerarts

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Markus @zohner.com · 02/10/2026

Went to see the rōnin and discovered a goddess. «I 47 rōnin», until 4 October 2026; «TRAME. Capolavori di arte tessile», until 25 October 2026. MUSEC Museo delle Culture, Lugano. zohner.com/lettere/?src=ig-reel #zohnerarts

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Markus @zohner.com · 01/10/2026

The beginning of a performance. Jannis Kounellis, «Io sono un pittore», Collezione Giancarlo e Danna Olgiati, Lugano, until 17 January 2027. zohner.com/lettere/?src=ig-reel #zohnerarts

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Markus @zohner.com · 30/09/2026

With my friend Santiago Bello I am developing a new culture project: video, language, art. More soon on this platform. Santiago Bello · Bogotá · Lugano Lugano 2026 zohner.com/lettere/?src=bluesky #zohnerarts

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Markus @zohner.com · 29/09/2026

The daily repeated act of creation. Rituals. Perhaps they cannot save our lives. But they certainly save our souls. · Kaari Upson. Dollhouse – A Retrospective MASI Lugano, LAC 6.09.2026–10.01.2027 zohner.com/lettere #zohnerarts

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Markus @zohner.com · 28/09/2026

Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. — Rumi Lugano 2026 ♪ Francesco Cilea, «Io son l'umile ancella» (Adriana Lecouvreur) · Claudia Muzio, 1921 zohner.com/lettere/?src=bluesky #zohnerarts

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Markus @zohner.com · 26/09/2026

Kaari Upson at the LAC in Lugano. An exhibition I still have to tell you about. Una mostra di cui devo ancora raccontarti. Eine Ausstellung, über die ich dir noch erzählen muss. «Dollhouse» · MASI Lugano Lugano 2026 zohner.com/lettere/?src=bluesky #zohnerarts

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Markus @zohner.com · 25/09/2026

La dolcezza dell'estate se ne va la speranza che rimane sono due granelli di sabbia in bocca. Lugano 2026 zohner.com/lettere/?src=bluesky #zohnerarts

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Markus @zohner.com · 24/09/2026

Switch out the lights and I am gone. Lugano 2026 zohner.com/lettere/?src=bluesky #zohnerarts

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Markus @zohner.com · 16/09/2026

L'artista Nando Snozzi è morto il 19 agosto 2026 e ci ha lasciati orfani. Cinque testi di Markus Zohner e Patrizia Barbuiani, in tre lingue, e due registrazioni della sua voce: zohner.com/it/company/nando-snozzi

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Markus @zohner.com · 02/08/2026

The opposite of Beauty is Fear. #zohnerarts

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Markus @zohner.com · 27/07/2026

We are pleased to have renewed the funding convention between our Associazione artistica PETRUSKA and the City of Lugano for 2026 and 2027. With it, the City guarantees the non-profit association continued support. Video still from RADIO FRANKENSTEIN #zohnerarts

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Markus @zohner.com · 18/07/2026

It's about the Water. It's about the Sky.

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Markus @zohner.com · 16/07/2026

Ritrovare il piacere di scrivere: una settimana di scrittura creativa a Villa Ciani, Lugano.

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Markus @zohner.com · 07/07/2026

Spesso delle storie cominciano con un incontro.

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Markus @zohner.com · 05/07/2026

Everything is always more than the sum of the parts. Mere addition only exists in mathematics. In reality, any two or more things form something infinitely bigger, more precious than the single elements. The best example: Gin and Tonic. The Black Friar, London #zohnerarts

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Markus @zohner.com · 01/07/2026

Cosa serve per scrivere una storia? Bisogna cominciare: da un posacenere, una nuvola, un insetto. Corso intensivo di scrittura creativa, 20-24 luglio, Villa Ciani, Lugano. Iscrizioni: zohner.com/it/workshops/villa-ciani…

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Markus @zohner.com · 30/06/2026

Fra Memoria e Immaginazione. Settimana di corso intensivo estivo di scrittura creativa con Patrizia Barbuiani e Markus Zohner. Villa Ciani, Lugano, 20-24 luglio 2026, nell'ambito di LongLake Festival. Iscrizioni: zohner.com/it/workshops/villa-ciani-07-2026 #scritturacreativa #zohnerarts

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Markus @zohner.com · 16/06/2026

Hackney Half 2026. The half marathon you signed up for a year ago had, until today, been a distant fixed star, one that made it easier to find your bearings. Now, all at once, it stands before you, huge and dazzling, and demands your full concentration.

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Markus @zohner.com · 15/06/2026

You have seen Giacometti's tall figures in countless contexts, the most breathtaking being here in The Tanks / Tate Modern. But then you step into a tiny circular room. You forget to breathe. The endlessly high walls covered by black iron panels cast for the Bankside Power Station.

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Markus @zohner.com · 11/06/2026

London. A sensational display of Alberto Giacometti's work at Tate Modern. It is the first time I have seen his sculptures in a setting that turns the act of looking itself into an experience. Dark rooms. Raw concrete walls. Precise lighting. Giacometti's sculptures, breathing.

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Markus @zohner.com · 10/06/2026

I am so happy meeting my brother Johannes here. He lives near Aachen, in Germany, a thousand kilometres away from me, but we do everything to meet several times a year. Now: London.

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Markus @zohner.com · 09/06/2026

Stratford, The Shoal. London does not pull down what it would rather not see. It dresses it, and keeps walking. A brutalist shopping centre from 1974, and the unlovely truth of it: the service back, the delivery bays and car-park ramps, faced straight onto the station where the whole city arrives.

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Markus @zohner.com · 07/06/2026

Fermati! Mi dico. Fermati! E poi: Terra! E di nuovo questa storia di quel giovane mi prende. Non l’ho mai conosciuto. Vietato attraversare i binari. Fermati! Anche se dall'altra parte dei binari la tua nuova vita potrebbe aspettarti.

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Markus @zohner.com · 25/05/2026

Hackney. See you in a minute!

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Markus @zohner.com · 05/05/2026

The first Spiegelschrift letter has gone out to my Kompagnons. On what makes wild, immediate, independent work possible. On a small inner circle forming around projects that sit outside the usual cultural funding paths. Parco San Grato, Carona, spring 2026. #spiegelschrift

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Markus @zohner.com · 21/04/2026

APPLE! APFEL! MELO! At 420 metres in Origlio, a Regina delle Renette blooms every April. An old variety, Reine des Reinettes in French, Goldparmäne in German, well suited to the southern Alpine climate.

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Markus @zohner.com · 21/04/2026

Scrittura creativa a Bordei: quando il laboratorio cambia tutto. Paola seguiva il nostro teatro da anni. Poi si è seduta al tavolo del workshop di Villa Ciani e ha scoperto qualcosa che non si aspettava: strumenti concreti, precisi, che hanno trasformato il suo modo di stare davanti alla pagina.

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Markus @zohner.com · 13/04/2026

What tree is this? What fruit will it bear? Origlio, 420 metres. #zohnerarts #origlio #ticino #nature #quiz #swissalps

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Markus @zohner.com · 02/04/2026

PLUM! PFLAUME! SUSINO! At 860 metres in the Centovalli, a wild plum blooms every March. The fruit ripens in August: small, sweet, impossible to catch before the birds do. #zohnerarts #centovalli #ticino #plum #pflaume #susino #nature #swissalps

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Markus @zohner.com · 31/03/2026

What tree is this? What fruit will it bear? Centovalli, 860 metres. #zohnerarts #centovalli #ticino #nature #plum #quiz #swissalps

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Markus @zohner.com · 16/03/2026

QUINCE! QUITTE! MELA COTOGNA! One of the oldest cultivated fruits in Europe. In autumn: golden fruit for marmalade and cotognata. #suffolk #england #spring #nature

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Markus @zohner.com · 14/03/2026

There are moments that simply ought to exist forever. Catapulted from their moment-ness into eternity. Instants where place, inner state, relationships weave themselves into a point of the absolute: this way and no other.

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Markus @zohner.com · 14/03/2026

What tree is this? What fruit will it bear? #suffolk #england #spring #nature #quince

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Markus @zohner.com · 10/03/2026

Fourteen hours on rails from Lugano to Suffolk. The Gotthard swallows us whole. A stranger in Paris sends me to the wrong platform. Fish and chips at the Blackfriars. Last train into dark countryside. ↗ notes.zohner.com/the-man-on-the-wro…

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Markus @zohner.com · 06/03/2026

Salotto di scrittura: lo spazio dove il tuo progetto fiorisce. La primavera apre tutto. I ciliegi, le magnolie. Quella storia che gira in testa da mesi. Open Spaces: scrittura creativa online, ogni martedì e giovedì sera. Con Patrizia Barbuiani e Markus Zohner. links.zohner.com/open-spaces

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Markus @zohner.com · 26/07/2025

[EN] There's a particular quality of silence that falls when someone reads a truth they've just discovered in their own writing.

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Markus @zohner.com · 21/06/2025

[IT] Dall'Italia alla Russia: nove mesi di cammino attraverso Slovenia, Ungheria, Polonia e Stati Baltici. Un viaggio nel cuore sconosciuto dell'Europa. sbee.link/ytmcahg93r #Cammino #Esplorazione #ViaggioAPiedi #ViaAmbra