MigrArt is Cultural Infrastructure for Zurich and is at risk of closure – Call to Action!
MigrArt is a community rooted art and culture space in Zurich, created and led by people who seek refuge and other BIPoC artists. MigrArt exists to make culture accessible for communities who often face barriers in institutional white structures and to create a place of encounter, cultural production, and public life that Zurich needs.
What MigrArt is and why it matters?
MigrArt is not only a venue. An Artist collective that build and provide infrastructure where different artists with limited resources rehearse, produce, meet, and keep community alive. Bringing people affected by racism and non-affected people into shared cultural and political processes, with a clear focus on anti-racist and intersectional practices.
When spaces like this disappear, a city doesn’t only lose a venue. We lose access and participation for underrepresented and marginalized communities, an Affordable and safer production space (rehearsal, recording, making), and continuity, trust, and community networks built over years.
When spaces like this disappear, it’s not just a venue that’s lost. Underrepresented and marginalized communities lose access and participation, as well as affordable and safer production space for rehearsing, recording, and creating.
Our Cultural Contribution to Zurich
Our work is not internal, we actively contribute to Zurich’s cultural landscape and reach audiences beyond our space through diverse artistic productions and publications. Our activities include audio and knowledge formats such as the Talk Talk Talk podcast and the experimental sound platform Acusmo. Independent publishing and editorial projects including Red Tagging(2022) and the upcoming Antenna Magazine (2026). Our music production and releases include, most notably, the collaborative LP Sonosynthesis, developed through residencies and presented across Swiss venues, and interdisciplinary theater and performance works such as Fractured Spine (2021), The Labyrinth (2023), My Body’s Immortal Language, and Whispers of Belonging (2025). Through these projects, we support artists in creating, producing, and presenting new work while strengthening a diverse, independent, and community-rooted cultural ecosystem in Zurich.
What Is Happening Now
Our current space is under immediate threat due to the upcoming end of use and the planned demolition of the site. Without a transition solution, Zurich will lose a unique community-based cultural space built and maintained through years of sustained collective work, trust, and collaboration.
We are not asking for symbolic support. We are working toward a concrete solution.
What We Need
We are actively looking for a new space in Zurich to continue our work. We are looking for a place that can support our core activities and function as:
- Community and public program space (approx. 120 m²)
- Atelier space (approx. 30 m²)
- Studio space for sound production and rehearsals (approx. 30 m²)
- Storage space (approx. 30 m²)
Minimum requirements:
- Safe electricity
- Basic water access
- Heating
- Usable for rehearsals, workshops, and small public events
Temporary solutions (12–18 months or longer) as well as long-term options are welcome.
Call to Action
If you believe Zurich should be a city where culture is accessible “not only for some” you can support us by:
- Sharing this page within your networks
- Connecting us with available spaces (property owners, interim-use opportunities, institutions)
- Opening doors to conversations with responsible bodies and decision-makers
MigrArt is here.
Our work continues.
Now we need a place to continue it.