HT KUNStprojekt
HT Kunstprojekt is the exhibition, editorial, and research platform directed by artist and editor Honys Torres. Based in Zurich, it develops contemporary projects that integrate archival practices, visual research, and cultural mediation, articulating a hybrid methodology that connects artistic creation, critical thinking, and editorial strategies.
The platform operates as an experimental space where the following converge:
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Exhibition projects that explore Neo Pop through critical, political, and narrative perspectives.
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Artist’s books and publications that merge image, text, and editorial processes as forms of thought.
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Visual research focused on archive, memory, migration, and the economy of images.
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Cultural mediation aimed at building bridges between artworks, territories, and communities.
HT Kunstprojekt consolidates the work of Honys Torres as an artist‑researcher, establishing an approach in which the archive becomes narrative, editing becomes method, and artistic practice becomes a tool for reading contemporary culture.
HT Kunstprojekt – 2026 Expansion
In 2026, HT Kunstprojekt expands into new challenges, embracing larger‑scale exhibition projects and broader curatorial collaborations. This new phase includes the development of an online space dedicated to presenting, promoting, and supporting contemporary artistic practices connected to visual research, archive, and editorial experimentation.
As part of this expansion, HT Kunstprojekt invites the community to submit project proposals for consideration in upcoming exhibitions and curated programs. The platform aims to foster dialogue, visibility, and collaboration across diverse artistic and cultural contexts.
In a cultural context often associated with neutrality, redART emerges as a gesture of excess. The exhibition asks what it means to “see red” in a society that values composure: which bodies, histories, and symbols are activated when red occupies the space.
Some works burn, others bleed, others seduce. All insist. Red appears as an emotional archive, a language without diplomacy, a form of presence. The exhibition traces an affective and aesthetic map where red operates simultaneously as memory and manifesto.
The project is accompanied by a catalogue produced by Honys Torres, featuring curatorial texts, high-quality photographic documentation, and a careful editorial design that preserves the intensity of the project.
“Red is not painted, it is breathed.”
„Rot wird nicht gemalt, es wird geatmet.“
redART – Curated and produced with the Verein Salz in der Suppe
Curated and catalogue produced by Honys Torres
redART is a project developed by Honys Torres in collaboration with the Verein Salz in der Suppe, bringing together ten artists who explore the color red as a territory of memory, intensity, and manifesto. The exhibition approaches red not as decoration but as a detonator—an emotional, political, and symbolic force unfolding across desire, protest, celebration, and warning.
The participating artists present a vibrant cross-section of contemporary visual practices in Switzerland, spanning abstract and figurative painting, mixed techniques, fire arts, neo-pop approaches, digital experimentation, and object-based work. Together, they reveal the expressive richness and aesthetic plurality that define the current artistic landscape.
Im Zwischenraum
Exhibition organized by HT Kunstprojekt in collaboration with Asheé Connecting Art & Cultures
Im Zwischenraum is an exhibition project developed by HT Kunstprojekt in collaboration with Asheé Connecting Art & Cultures, a platform dedicated to cultural exchange and dialogue between Latin America and Europe. The exhibition brings together artists from diverse geographic and aesthetic backgrounds, creating a space where the works inhabit the “in‑between”: that liminal territory where tensions, resonances, and new forms of perception emerge.
The project functions as a meeting point to explore identity, migration, memory, belonging, and intercultural dialogue. Each artist contributes a singular voice that, positioned at the threshold between disciplines, cultures, or sensibilities, expands the understanding of space as a living and constantly transforming territory. This collaboration with Asheé —an organization committed to diversity, creativity, and the circulation of contemporary artistic practices— enriches the exhibition and strengthens its spirit of exchange and openness.
Curatorial Approach
The curatorial work of Honys Torres is built around the idea of the “in‑between space” as a metaphor for contemporary experience: a place of transition, negotiation, and crossing between the intimate and the social, the material and the symbolic. The curatorial path allows the works to breathe, encounter one another, and activate questions about how we inhabit these intermediate spaces.
Museography
The museographic design —developed together with the Asheé team and with spatial design by Federico Guerrero— supports the central concept of the exhibition. The placement of the works, the lighting, and the circulation rhythms create zones of pause and transition that invite visitors to experience the “in‑between” as a sensitive and reflective space.
Catalogue
The project includes a catalogue produced by HT Kunstprojekt and Asheé, designed by Tojunto Soluciones and Honys Torres. The catalogue serves as a shared space for documentation and reflection, bringing together curatorial texts, artist biographies, high‑quality photography, and an editorial design that preserves the conceptual and visual depth of the exhibition.
Im Zwischenraum presents itself as a territory of encounter —a liminal space where works, bodies, and stories move, transform, and enter into dialogue.
Frauenzone
FRAUENZONE is a group exhibition organized by HT Kunstprojekt, dedicated to making visible and celebrating contemporary practices by women artists who work with image, body, memory, and everyday experience as territories for critical creation.
The exhibition brings together the artists Alejandra Patricia, Asya B., Honys Torres, Iris Liechti, Isabel Vogt Guerrero, Julia Nissimoff, Painting Queen, Maria Fernanda Schulz, and Nina P. Velasco. Each contributes her own visual language, exploring different painting techniques and diverse genres, all articulated around a shared theme: the feminine presence as an aesthetic, political, and narrative force.
Curatorship
The curatorship, led by Honys Torres, is built from a sensitive and rigorous reading of the works, shaping a pathway that connects the intimate with the political. The curatorial approach highlights the diversity of pictorial styles — from figurative to abstract, from expressive to conceptual — and proposes a space where feminine narratives are presented with clarity, strength, and autonomy.
Museography
The museography is conceived as a device that accompanies and enhances each work. Spatial arrangement, lighting, and circulation rhythms are designed to allow pauses, resonances, and encounters between pieces, generating an immersive and coherent experience. The result is a carefully crafted space, precise and respectful of each artist’s materiality and discourse.
Catalogue
As a fundamental component of the project, HT Kunstprojekt produces an editorial catalogue that documents the exhibition in its entirety. The catalogue includes curatorial texts, short essays, high‑quality photographs, and complete technical records, establishing itself as a reference document that preserves the memory of the project and extends its reach beyond the exhibition space.
FRAUENZONE is presented as a living space, a territory of dialogue, and a platform that affirms the strength of contemporary artistic practices created by women.
Fico Love
Fico Love es el nombre artístico de Federico Guerrero, ilustrador y narrador visual cuya obra combina humor, estética pop y personajes profundamente expresivos. Su estilo se caracteriza por líneas enérgicas, colores vibrantes y una sensibilidad que mezcla lo urbano, lo fantástico y lo cotidiano.
Trabaja desde la exageración, la ternura y la irreverencia, creando universos visuales donde cada personaje tiene una personalidad marcada y una historia propia. Su producción abarca ilustración, cómic, narrativa gráfica y proyectos editoriales colaborativos.
Vampire Maids
Concept and graphic design: Honys Torres Story and illustrations: Federico Guerrero (Fico Love)
Vampire Maids is an illustrated story created by Fico Love and developed in collaboration with Honys Torres, who defines the editorial concept and graphic design of the book. The work presents a humorous and vibrant vampire universe populated by expressive characters who move through everyday and fantastical situations with a contemporary pop aesthetic.
Honys Torres’ design shapes the visual narrative, organizes the reading rhythm, and enhances the personality of the characters, creating a dynamic, colorful, and coherent book. Each page functions as an autonomous scene within a larger story, blending elements of comics, illustrated albums, and contemporary fanzine culture.
Vampire Maids is a fresh, playful, and visually striking work born from the collaboration between Fico Love’s imaginative world and the conceptual and graphic direction of Honys Torres.
