"Zardoz" by Monster Chetwynd, 2025. Photo: Augustina Zeya Behind the new building of the Kunsthaus Zürich stands an unusual presence: a colossal, open-mouthed head emerging from the ground. The sculpture, titled Zardoz , was created by Monster Chetwynd and installed in 2025 in the museum’s outdoor Garden of Art. At first glance its grotesque surrealism appears almost absurd. At the second glance – too. Zardoz is a monstrous face scaled to architectural proportions. More tha

Fourth Plinth, Mil Veces un Instante by Teresa Margolles. London, October 2024. Photo: Johannes Mar Trafalgar Square is the beating heart of London’s civic and cultural life, long serving as a gathering place for rallies, celebrations, and the annual unveiling of Norway’s gifted spruce. Once an unused pedestal, the Fourth Plinth has become one of the city’s most compelling platforms for public art, a locus where public memory and contemporary concerns converge. Unveiled in S

Iván Argote’s Dinosaur, New York, 2025. Photo: Augustina Zeya If you find yourself driving up 10th Avenue toward 30th Street in New York City, you may get the strange feeling you’re being watched — by a giant pigeon. Taking a stroll on the High Line, a public park made from a two kilometre stretch of the city’s decommissioned railway, you can stand beside this colossal bird: an aluminum, hyperrealistic sculpture by artist and filmmaker Iván Argote (b. 1983, Bogotá). With dust

BILLBOARD , 91 Zollstrasse, 8005 Zürich. Photo by Katharina Lütscher I first noticed the installation in February on my commute home from Basel. Still wallowing in my latest identity crisis, I was momentarily caught off guard by a familiar phrase leaping out at me – the striking font, New Edge 666, was created by Charlotte Rohde in 2021. Stark white against a darkening sky, the words 'Que la honte change de camp' (Shame must change sides) seemed to beckon to train passengers

CLEARINGS by Michel Comte. Photo: Olena Iegorova Along a three-kilometer forest trail in Dietikon, the art intervention CLEARINGS  emerges from a collaboration between Michel Comte and Yuichi Kodai and is part of the Art Flow project. The work was catalysed by their mutual fascination with the Katsura Imperial Gardens, a masterpiece of Japanese architecture and landscape design, where built structures stand in harmony with the environment without overpowering it. Rooted in th