To each space its own rhythm

(More photos added soon, hopefully)

Concert & Exhibition
Khaled Kurbeh & Ida Lawrence
Curated by Donia Jornod & Jeremy Ratib
Hotti: Freiestrasse 56, 8032 Zürich CH (top floor)
Saturday 6 September 2025
Doors 18:30. Concert starts 20:00.

We are very excited to announce an evening at Hotti with Berlin based artists Khaled Kurbeh and Ida Lawrence on Saturday September 6th. Khaled will interpret his new album Likulli Fadāin Eqāéh / (لكلّ فضاءٍ إيقاعه) / (to each space its own rhythm), recently released on Research Records, alongside an intervention by Ida.

Khaled’s soundscapes find a counterpart in Ida’s landscape variation paintings; together they trace a path and invite us to wander with them, to notice, and to celebrate the beauty in the everyday. The cracking of sunflower seeds, the chirping of nearby swallows, plucked strings and shivering bells are delicate quantum fissures that surprise us along what Khaled describes as an “itinerary”. The album doesn’t suggest a destination to be reached, but rather evokes something cyclical, echoing the passing days in Ida’s paintings.

Ida Lawrence, Likulli Fadāin Eqāéh 2025, installation composed of selected works from the painting series Muhawalāt (for Khaled) 2022, acrylic on unstretched canvas, 10 pieces, various sizes, and:

pine cones from Landenberg Park, Wipkingen-Zürich; sunflower seeds brought from Berlin; used matches from Donia and Jeremy’s windowsill and chewed chewing gum; pen drawings and tape on tissues; tomato stems; note written by Khaled (age 12?) to his mother; pins; pencil drawing and tomato stems on A4 acid free paper; furniture from Hotti / the former art studio of the late Peter Grenacher.

Ida Lawrence, went, were 2017, acrylic on unstretched canvas, 20 cm x 15 cm

The room went quiet.
They were breathing.

Ida Lawrence, It’s raining here in Malaysia, and other watercolours 2013, watercolour on A4 acid free watercolour paper, 6 pieces, on chalk board and furniture from Hotti / the former art studio of the late Peter Grenacher.

Photo: Claudia Breitschmid

Homemade cakes & tarts: Baked by the Hotti team.