Freq

March 15 – May 11, 2025
Opening: March 14, 2025, 8 pm

Zurich DJ and music producer Nicola Kazimir brought the manga Freq to life in 2024. The manga is set in a dystopian future world that is based on sound frequencies and particularly inspired by club culture and electronic music history. In 2022, armed with this concept and an extensive world-building, Kazimir approached renowned anime author Dai Sato (Cowboy Bebop, Ergo Proxy, Samurai Champloo), who quickly became enthusiastic about joining the project. In close collaboration with Sato and together with the Milan-based illustrator Good News For Bad Guys, the first volume – volume zero – of a promising new manga series has now been published.

With original drawings, concept art, notebooks, references, animations and sound, the exhibition at Backrooms demonstrates the creation of a new manga, one developed in a manner analagous to music production.

More info: www.freq.industries

The newly released publication will be available to purchase or can be ordered here.

Venue:
Kunsthalle Zürich, basement

Afterparty:
Mikro, Sihlquai 125, 8005 Zurich

After the opening, the space will be open by appointment only. For visits after March 14, we ask for a timely request via backrooms [at] kunsthallezurich.ch

Backrooms

A whisper behind a hand, a hatched plan, an embarrassing slip of the tongue, unexpected inspiration: these happen in the gaps, corridors and brief interactions on the way to other activities. In these liminal spaces — places as well as states — emerge zones of reverie with a psychological and social threshold character. They are marginal areas of ambiguous limbo where back doors are left open and free spaces unconstrained, thus generating potential for experimentation as well as for failure.

Under the title Backrooms, a programme of events, readings, performances, screenings, concerts and other artistic formats will take place, organised by Otto Bonnen. The Löwenbräukunst offers various architectural and social spaces that Backrooms will engage with. Hidden, unoccupied spaces and informal break out rooms provide physical and structural spaces as well as collaborations that go beyond our walls with collectives or extra-institutional locations.

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