Throughout Perla-Mode, message salon presents wistful last days: In a jumble of photo albums and waste separation, memory and overview, wistfulness and documentation, art and junk, Esther Eppstein invites you to a joint house clearance!
The last exhibition “message salon history 1996-2013”
58 photo albums, each containing one hundred photographs of all the exhibitions at message salon since the opening of Perla-Mode in September 2006, form the centrepiece of the exhibition. The albums show artists, visitors, the countless vernissages, exhibitions, concerts, shows, events, gatherings, parties and, last but not least, Langstrasse in flux.
message salon is Esther Eppstein’s work of art. The photographs capture what is otherwise fleeting and only exists in the moment. Since the opening of the message salon art space on Ankerstrasse in 1996, Esther Eppstein has been photographing the goings-on in her salon with an analogue compact camera. Since then and over the years, the images have appeared in various forms in the context of message salon, in art exhibitions, scenes, interiors or performances. The exhibition at message salon, on the first floor of Perla-Mode, offers an overview and insight into a kind of family album and long-term documentation of a constantly changing and expanding network that influences, shapes and characterises the Zurich art scene. With the installation about the past seventeen years of message salon, Esther Eppstein also reflects on her role as an artist and as an art space operator in the city of Zurich.
Programme, house clearance with Esther Eppstein
Wednesday, 11 and 18 December, Mama Esta’s Soup, from 6 pm and afterwards at 9 pm Langstrassenfilme, 11 December: “Verflixt verliebt”, Peter Luisi, 2004. 18 December: “Filou”, Samir, 1988.
Thursday, 12 December, 10 pm, after the film premiere “Style Wars2” by Veli & Amos at the Riff Raff cinema, Veli & Amos and message salon invite you to a hangout in the salon.
Saturday, 21 December, 12-10 pm “Perla-Mode-Magasin”, message salon end-of-season sale with treasure trove, flea market, attic sale and Langstrasse souvenir shop! Zines, posters, art, sounds, style by Perla-Mode Allstars! With Nieves Publisher, Ron Hunger, Candy Gang, Re-Al, Mark Divo, Sandra Künzi, Yael Wicki, Veli & Amos, Innen Publisher and more!
Saturday, 28 December, 10 pm, the finale!
message salon and Perla-Mode Lichtspieltheater present “La Strada Lunga”, a wintry, melancholy ode to the night and Langstrasse. Limited seating, please book in advance.
Until 31 December, “Memorial Window”, shop window at Brauerstrasse 37, on view throughout.
The good news: the demolition of the building has been delayed. Perla-Mode will continue to be run by the artist collective Friction, Galerie Weiss, the artists Veli & Amos and the fashion designers Re-Al from January 2014 until the building is demolished. Visit your Perla-Mode while it still exists!