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Opening CLEARINGS - Michel Comte & Yuichi Kodai - Wasserkirche Zürich & Finissage ART FLOW

Ope­ning ​“CLEA­RINGS” – a pro­ject by Michel Comte & Yuichi Kodai
& Finis­sage ART FLOW

Was­ser­kir­che, Lim­mat­quai 31, Zurich

Friday, 12 Decem­ber 2025, from 6 pm

At the Was­ser­kir­che in Zurich, inter­na­tio­nally acclai­med mul­ti­me­dia artist Michel Comte pres­ents his instal­la­tion CLEA­RINGS, crea­ted in col­la­bo­ra­tion with Japa­nese archi­tect Yuichi Kodai – mar­king the final chap­ter of the three-year art pro­ject ART FLOW.

Crea­ted in 2024 for ART FLOW, CLEA­RINGS was first rea­li­sed as a site-spe­ci­fic land-art instal­la­tion in the forest of Die­ti­kon. Inspi­red by the motto of the local forest cor­po­ra­tion – ​“Schö­ner Wald in treuer Hand labt das Aug’ und schirmt das Land” (“A beau­tiful forest in faithful hands delights the eye and pro­tects the land”) – Comte explo­red the natu­ral cycles of beco­ming, being and decay.

After a year in the forest, CLEA­RINGS now takes on a new form. A cen­tral ele­ment – a twelve-metre tree trunk shea­thed in copper – is trans­por­ted to Zurich and pre­sen­ted in the Was­ser­kir­che over the Christ­mas period. The instal­la­tion moves from nature to the sacred realm, trans­forming into a con­tem­pla­tive reflec­tion on space, mate­rial and rene­wal.

With this pre­sen­ta­tion, ART FLOW cele­bra­tes both the ver­nis­sage and its finis­sage: after three years and more than two dozen site-spe­ci­fic art­works across the Lim­mat­tal region, the pro­ject rea­ches its con­clu­sion in the Was­ser­kir­che.

🕒 Ope­ning hours: 13 Decem­ber 2025 – 4 Janu­ary 2026, daily except Monday, 2 – 5 pm (closed 24 / 25 Decem­ber)

📄 All details on the exhi­bi­tion, finis­sage and pro­gramme available [down­load]

This pro­ject is a col­la­bo­ra­tion bet­ween ART FLOW and the Was­ser­kir­che Zurich. Our spe­cial thanks go to Michel Comte, Yuichi Kodai, Ayako Yoshida, and the Holz­kor­po­ra­tion Die­ti­kon for their valuable col­la­bo­ra­tion and sup­port of the pro­ject CLEA­RINGS.