Beat Zoderer - ZACK – A Monument for the Limmat Valley

Beat Zode­rer
ZACK – A Monu­ment for the Limmat Valley

From March 14, 2026

At Kill­wan­gen – Sprei­ten­bach rail­way sta­tion, at the junc­tion Zelg­matt­strasse

With ZACK, Beat Zode­rer rea­li­ses the final pro­ject of ART FLOW. At the sym­bo­lic centre of the Limmat Valley stands an appro­xi­m­ately eight-metre-high sculp­ture made of pain­ted steel.

Loca­ted in close pro­xi­mity to the rail­way line, motor­way and the river Limmat, the sculp­ture beco­mes a new visual land­mark in the valley – a striking excla­ma­tion mark in the land­scape, visi­ble to ever­yone pas­sing through the Limmat Valley.

ZACK brings tog­e­ther move­ment and sta­bi­lity, ever­y­day life and mea­ning. Its shim­me­ring orange form appears like a frozen moment, ope­ning space for mul­ti­ple inter­pre­ta­ti­ons.

As a per­ma­nent instal­la­tion, the sculp­ture also marks the con­clu­sion of ART FLOW. After seve­ral years of tem­po­rary artis­tic inter­ven­ti­ons in public space, ZACK leaves a las­ting sign in the Limmat Valley.

The more than eight-metre-high steel sculp­ture was rea­li­sed in col­la­bo­ra­tion with struc­tu­ral engi­neer Andreas Gal­ma­rini, ROK Archi­tek­ten, and Jör­i­mann Stahl AG.

The artist Beat Zode­rer (*1955), who lives in Wet­tin­gen, is con­side­red one of the most important Swiss artists of his gene­ra­tion. His work is based on the prin­ci­ple of ​“bi” – an explo­ra­tion of ambi­va­len­ces bet­ween art and ever­y­day life, system and chance, eco­nomy and excess.

Zoderer’s works have been exhi­bi­ted inter­na­tio­nally, inclu­ding at Museum Voor­lin­den (Was­sen­aar), Neues Museum Nürn­berg, Mies van der Rohe Haus (Berlin), Boru­san Con­tem­po­rary (Istan­bul), Haus Kon­struk­tiv (Zurich), Watari-um (Tokyo), as well as Kunst­halle Basel and Kunst­mu­seum Bonn.

Photos: ART FLOW / Peter Bar­ac­chi