volumes 2025 Saturday & Sunday 22. & 23. November 2025 Gessnerallee Zürich

Zine Me Softly invites visitors to make A4-sized woven pages using scrap fabric and chicken wire. Through simple weaving gestures, discarded textiles turn into small, tactile narratives, soft zine pages shaped by touch, rhythm, and shared Material.
Each woven page, unique and imperfect, becomes a personal document of time and memory. What one person cuts away becomes part of someone else’s work, forming a shared pool of cloth and stories. The process is intuitive, slow, and open to all. Participants are welcome to take their finished zine pages home.

Zurich-based artist Seda Hepsev works with embroidery, weaving, sculpture, and installation, exploring the body through monstrous, animal-like figures that defy orderly depictions. Her work often combines body parts, animals, distorted forms, and traditional motifs, evoking a delicate tension of fragility, incompleteness, and complexity.

Puzzeln feiert die Langsamkeit, Puzzeln ist Fokus, Puzzeln ist frei von Wettbewerb.
Denise Wintsch‘s Puzzletisch schlägt wie ein kollidierter Meteorit an belebten Orten in
der Öffentlichkeit ein. Der Puzzletisch, eine entrückte Oase der Ruhe die Raum für
Begegnungen schafft - niedrigschwellig und offen für alle. Ein Campingtisch, vier
Stühle, ein Puzzle und Zeit - mehr braucht es nicht, um gemeinsam einzutauchen in
die heilige Kleinteiligkeit eines 1‘000-er Puzzles. Piece!
 

denisewintsch.ch 
Instagram: @denisewintsch
 

A reading and short talk around the release of Die Alp an sich with Rachel TonThat and Tobias Bärtsch.
Die Alp an sich is a bilingual collection of literary translations of Swiss folklore from the Sarganserland region by Rachel TonThat and Tobias Bärtsch. Translated from Swiss German and High German into English for the first time, the book dwells on the lifespan of the stories through time with past versions paired with historical context, new retellings, and excerpts from 19th to 21st century folklorists, including an essay by contemporary folklorist Dr. Meret Fehlmann at the University of Zurich.

We invite you to the presentation of Art Paper, a new publication by JAS that highlights remarkable contemporary artists and supports voices whose work deserves wider visibility but is often limited by geographic, political, or structural barriers. 
Based in Europe, JAS works closely with artists across Iran in Tehran, Isfahan, and Qeshm, helping to bring their work to broader audiences. Art Paper extends this mission by offering a platform that combines images with the stories, ideas, and contexts behind the work.
The first issue goes beyond visuals. It features conversations, interviews, and curatorial reflections. Readers can discover insights from current exhibitions, explore intimate discussions on artistic practice and daily life, learn about ecological and socially engaged approaches, and take a close look at contemporary printmaking in Tehran. We hope you’ll join us to explore the project and reflect on how art can foster meaningful cultural connections.

Alex Schauwecker liest The Whaleboy. Im Anschluss singt er noch zwei Lieder und ein Dinosaurier kommt auf Besuch.

(Foto by Yves Suter)

 

Puzzeln feiert die Langsamkeit, Puzzeln ist Fokus, Puzzeln ist frei von Wettbewerb.
Denise Wintsch‘s Puzzletisch schlägt wie ein kollidierter Meteorit an belebten Orten in
der Öffentlichkeit ein. Der Puzzletisch, eine entrückte Oase der Ruhe die Raum für
Begegnungen schafft - niedrigschwellig und offen für alle. Ein Campingtisch, vier
Stühle, ein Puzzle und Zeit - mehr braucht es nicht, um gemeinsam einzutauchen in
die heilige Kleinteiligkeit eines 1‘000-er Puzzles. Piece!
 

denisewintsch.ch 
Instagram: @denisewintsch
 

Kreuzfalz, Loch, Naht und Leim – Buchbinden mit Ingo
Alles Material vorhanden. Du darfst aber gerne auch eigene Papiere (A3, bedruckt oder farbig) mitbringen... 
 

Presentation of the new OtherEyes book about the Francis Hallé and other NGOs fighting for rewilding forest landscapes.
 

Presentation of the photobook "the black rat has died" by Misha Bushkov published by Ciao Press and Witty Books in November 2025 with Misha Bushkov, author and Nicolas Polli,designer and publisher.

@misha_olga_bushkovs, @ciaopress
 

Le Macaco Press Book est né du désir de célébrer et de partager l’histoire d’un collectif artistique explorant la relation entre auto-édition et performance. Ce livre est composé de récits collectifs qui jouent avec les notions d’identité et d’auteur, en s’appuyant sur des stratégies de visibilité et d’invisibilité, de production légale et illégale.

À l’image d’un collectif en constante mutation, cette publication ouvre un espace au sein de l’art imprimé et se conçoit comme un champ élargi des arts visuels, entrelaçant disciplines et pratiques hybrides. De l’édition à l’art imprimé, en passant par la performance et les actions menées dans l’espace public — le top-manta comme manière de s’infiltrer —, MACACO Press multiplie les formes d’intervention.

Depuis 2015, MACACO Press fonctionne également comme une plateforme collaborative, impliquant de nombreux artistes, ami·e·s, collectifs, chercheur·euse·s, curateur·rice·s et lieux d’art. Tous et toutes ont contribué à la rédaction de ce livre, tissant un réseau affectif porteur de nouvelles possibilités d’action pour faire du publishing partout : des marchés de fruits et légumes aux galeries d’art contemporain.

Pour Volumes 2025 à la Gessnerallee Zürich, le collectif présentera également une édition limitée à 15 exemplaires, accompagnée d’un mini drapeau.

Presentation of the book "Daughterland" by Ruth E. Herzka, published by edition clandestin, October 2025

@edition.clandestin
 

Gentle Fire Basel

Dito Publishing, 2025  // Gentle Fire Basel is a rework by Ivan Liuzzo and Simone Spampinato initiated in 2021, based on Alvin Lucier’s composition Gentle Fire (1971). The piece consists in transforming a sound image, present in a list, into another sound image, part of a second list. Following this process, included in Lucier’s original score, Ivan Liuzzo and Simone Spampinato decided to extend and rework the composition into a series, in which each version focuses, evaluates and explores sound images in specific spaces/places. The transformations of the ‘sound images’ are recorded within their contextual environment, seen as ‘instruments’ that dialogue with the space. The book contains photographs by Tzuchi Su, who reinterpreted the path taken during the sound source recording phase, and two essays by Emiliano Turazzi, and Daniela Gentile.

@ivan.liuzzo; @mevlido_;@dito.publishing; @dito.s.t.u.d.i.o, @tzuchi.su