moholinushk artspace launches with the exhibition trilogy Beyond the Frame
A new space for contemporary art is taking shape in a former office in the heart of Zurich's Binz district. moholinushk artspace, initiated by Matti Weinberg in memory of his wife, artist Annick Tonti (1951-2023), makes a strong curatorial statement: instead of a classical retrospective, Tonti's body of work - developed under the name moholinushk, and known for its quiet precision - becomes the starting point for new artistic dialogues.
Curator and transformation expert Dorothea Strauss has developed the artistic concept for the space. At its heart lies a trilogy of exhibitions titled Beyond the Frame: three curated encounters between moholinushk's drawings and contemporary positions from different cultural backgrounds and artistic disciplines. The first exhibition, The Beauty of Nature, combines works by moholinushk, Winnie Huang, and Ekrem Yalçındağ.
The Beauty of Nature - The First Exhibition
The first exhibition of the trilogy presents three distinctive artistic voices in a focused dialogue about observation, nature, structure, and transformation:
- Winnie Huang, musician, performer, and artiste étoile of the 2025 Lucerne Festival, presents four new video works. These poetically compressed miniatures explore the interplay of sound, gesture, and perception in a tension-filled dynamic.
- Ekrem Yalçındağ's current series Natures fuses floral structures with conceptual precision. Traditional printmaking techniques meet intricate oil painting. His works follow an internal logic - rhythmic, structured, open.
- moholinushk forms the quiet centre. Her drawings, often rooted in natural forms, express an inner stance. Lines become movements of thought; reduction becomes expression.
moholinushk artspace
moholinushk artspace is a curated space for reflection and resonance: precise, intimate, and focused on exchange. It combines the concentration of a cabinet exhibition with the openness of a thinking space. Here, art stands for encounters - with the works, with oneself, and with the world.
The space is built on the conviction that art has transformative potential: thought, feeling, and action. Art opens new perspectives and invites us to approach complex questions not with quick answers, but with openness, curiosity, and imagination.
In a time of profound disruption, moholinushk artspace aims to sharpen perception and widen perspectives. A space that shows how enlightening, constructive, and even joyful it can be to hold ambiguity. Art here is understood as a training ground for imagination, resonance, and transformative thought.
The Trilogy - Beyond the Frame
The trilogy Beyond the Frame brings moholinushk's work into dialogue with other artists. Each exhibition explores different questions. The series describes a movement: away from the single artwork and toward the in-between - between drawing and sound, body and gesture, memory and imagination.
Beyond the Frame proposes working with open boundaries, both formally and thematically. It invites us to encounter moholinushk in a new company - and to perceive ourselves beyond familiar categories.
Together, the exhibitions form a curatorial appeal: for art as a space of thinking and experience.
The Three Positions: Huang, Yalçındağ, moholinushk
Winnie Huang - Four video pieces and a wall paper work between sound, gesture, and perception
Born in China, raised in Australia, and now based in Europe, Winnie Huang is one of the most distinctive voices of a young generation working across music, performance, and video.
Initially known as a violinist, composer, and performer, Huang appears internationally and explores sound as a physical-spatial experience. In summer 2025, she was invited by Michael Haefliger as artiste étoile at the Lucerne Festival, where her performances expanded far beyond conventional concert formats.
For The Beauty of Nature, Dorothea Strauss invited Huang to present four new video works, developed in the context of those performances. In the moholinushk artspace, they unfold another layer: in dialogue with works by Ekrem Yalçındağ and moholinushk, a complex field of tension emerges.
Huang's artistic language is both poetic and precise. She explores our relationship with nature in fragmented gestures, sensually charged compositions, and subtle sound layers - not as landscape motifs, but as a bodily and perceptual presences.
Huang herself appears in all four videos: a foot crushes an orange, a mouth bites into an apple, a face disappears behind a bouquet. Each scene is precisely choreographed. Her voice reframes the everyday and shifts perception.
In her own words:
"The visuals are a homage to being human: to the ways we inhabit, express, and adore the world - sometimes actively, sometimes silently. It embraces a sense of childlike wonder and innocent discovery, reminding us of the fresh, curious eyes with which we can always approach the world anew."
Ekrem Yalçındağ - Structure, ornament, infinity
Ekrem Yalçındağ's works combine two seemingly opposite principles: conceptual clarity and sensual opulence. His large-scale paintings unfold in vibrant fields of colour - each shape based on a floral form he has developed since the early 1990s, inspired by intense botanical studies at Frankfurt's Palmengarten.
For Yalçındağ, these forms are not decorative but intellectual tools - "thinking cells", as he calls them. "I think with these forms," says the artist, who describes himself not as a painter, but as a "conceptual artist with special skills."
His works follow strict rules and multi-step processes involving assistants. They combine woodblock printing, screen-printing, and freehand drawing. And yet, they resist final interpretation. Many paintings feel like fragments of a much larger whole - their visual logic expands infinitely.
In series like Infinities or Natures, perception, memory, and imagination are all activated.
Of his latest series, Natures, nine works are presented. Yalçındağ combines woodblock, silkscreen, and oil painting. The works begin with elaborate print processes; then, silver lines are drawn by hand onto the canvas. The final layer is completed in oil - precise, restrained, vibrant. These works radiate a strong physical presence and almost meditative calm.
His idea of nature is not illustrated, but structurally, emotionally, and materially explored.
moholinushk - Drawing as thought, nature as inner stance
Over eight years, Annick Tonti, under the name moholinushk, created around 160 watercolours, charcoal, and pencil drawings. To preserve this legacy, her husband, entrepreneur Matti Weinberg, founded the moholinushk archive, and later the moholinushk artspace. Over 130 works were reproduced in a high-quality limited edition and are exhibited, while the originals remain in the archive for now.
moholinushk artspace is dedicated to curating and contextualizing her work - as a space of memory, opening, and development.
Tonti was born in France in 1951 and raised in an intellectual, multicultural family. Influenced early by her father's architecture, she developed a strong interest in the Gesamtkunstwerk and the permeability between fine and applied arts. After studying architecture, she turned to art history and later social anthropology. Empathy and keen observation shaped her worldview.
She came to artistic creation late - but with clarity and determination. Drawing became her language.
Her artist name, moholinushk, references Bauhaus pioneer László Moholy-Nagy. Her connection to the movement was structural: her work embodies an architectonic sensitivity - disciplined, open, and deeply grounded in the relationship between line, space, and gesture.
Her drawings contain quiet but intense energy. They invite viewers into an alert stillness. Titles like Visions of Japan or Separation reveal an inward focus. These are not illustrations but distilled inner landscapes.
In The Beauty of Nature, moholinushk's works form the still centre.