In the 2024/2025 season, the night walks will follow the A1 highway in six stages from St. Margrethen to Zurich-Seebach. After 24 stages, the walks are expected to arrive in Geneva in April 2028.
The night walks start at 11 PM at the linked highway on-ramps heading west and end at 6 AM at the exit.
For traffic updates, San Keller is available 24/7: +41 79 542 49 67
Night Walks through Distribution Landscapes
San Keller’s Night Walks through Distribution Landscapes is a unique artistic format that has opened up a fascinating dialogue between individual expectation and nocturnal reality since the 1990s. These winter walks focus on the invisibility of modern logistics along accessible infrastructure—in dark spaces and ticking time. They invite participants to understand the supposed monotony and rhythm of the night as a stimulus and to reflect on the biological cycles and mental response patterns of their bodies. In the upcoming 2024/25 season, the journey will start along Highway A1, from St. Margrethen towards Geneva. The work will be accompanied by an artistic intervention in the exhibition Vorortschweiz at Kornhausforum Bern.
With Night Walks, San Keller has created a format that has redefined the boundaries between art and everyday life since the late 1990s. The walks not only pose a physical challenge but also encourage reflection on infrastructure and human movement within urban landscapes. The term Distribution Landscape describes the connection between goods logistics, industry, and urban spaces, offering a new perspective on our surroundings.
The routes often follow rivers along which industries have historically settled. But it's about more than just movement; the walks make the participants' relationship with nocturnal work worlds visible—worlds that typically remain hidden. How do people behave at night? What impressions and stories do the darkness and often windowless logistics buildings, which shape the landscape, leave behind? The participants themselves become part of this system by planning and utilizing their path, movement, and body for this Night Delivery.
Over the next four winter seasons, the Night Walks will follow Highway A1, the first national road in Switzerland, stretching from St. Margrethen (SG) to Geneva (GE). The entire 410-kilometer route will be divided into 24 stages. Participants will meet from November to April on the first Wednesday of each month at 11 PM at the designated highway on-ramp to begin the walk. The walks last into the morning, so participants can return in time for the start of their workday.
As part of the Vorortschweiz exhibition at Kornhausforum Bern, the project Let it Become Night will be artistically staged. This intervention emphasizes the difference between real and artificial night, between the everyday experience of darkness and the staged night as a magical moment. The boundaries blur, and visitors are invited to perceive this artificial darkness as an extension of the real night: Fiat Nox.
The Night Walks are more than just physical excursions; they are a subversive commentary on the modern work world and the concept of work-life balance. In the darkness, a cognitive reconnection is revealed, in which the body’s response patterns and sensory processing are recalibrated. Each night thus becomes a personal adventure, and participants return to their daily lives exhausted but sensitized—ready to go through the chill of the night again and receive new impulses on the next walk.
Night Walks through Distribution Landscapes
In the 2024/2025 season, the night walks will follow the A1 highway in six stages from St. Margrethen to Zurich-Seebach. After 24 stages, the walks are expected to arrive in Geneva in April 2028.
November 6/7, 2024:
St. Margrethen —
Meggenhus (21km)
December 4/5, 2024:
Meggenhus —
Gossau (23km)
January 8/9, 2025:
Gossau —
Münchwilen (25km)
February 5/6, 2025:
Münchwilen —
Oberwinterthur (24km)
March 5/6, 2025:
Oberwinterthur —
Effretikon (19km)
April 2/3, 2025:
Effretikon —
Zürich-Seebach (18km)
The night walks start at 11 PM at the linked highway on-ramps heading west and end at 6 AM at the exit.
For traffic updates, San Keller is available 24/7: +41 79 542 49 67
Night Walks through Distribution Landscapes
San Keller’s Night Walks through Distribution Landscapes is a unique artistic format that has opened up a fascinating dialogue between individual expectation and nocturnal reality since the 1990s. These winter walks focus on the invisibility of modern logistics along accessible infrastructure—in dark spaces and ticking time. They invite participants to understand the supposed monotony and rhythm of the night as a stimulus and to reflect on the biological cycles and mental response patterns of their bodies. In the upcoming 2024/25 season, the journey will start along Highway A1, from St. Margrethen towards Geneva. The work will be accompanied by an artistic intervention in the exhibition Vorortschweiz at Kornhausforum Bern.
With Night Walks, San Keller has created a format that has redefined the boundaries between art and everyday life since the late 1990s. The walks not only pose a physical challenge but also encourage reflection on infrastructure and human movement within urban landscapes. The term Distribution Landscape describes the connection between goods logistics, industry, and urban spaces, offering a new perspective on our surroundings.
The routes often follow rivers along which industries have historically settled. But it's about more than just movement; the walks make the participants' relationship with nocturnal work worlds visible—worlds that typically remain hidden. How do people behave at night? What impressions and stories do the darkness and often windowless logistics buildings, which shape the landscape, leave behind? The participants themselves become part of this system by planning and utilizing their path, movement, and body for this Night Delivery.
Over the next four winter seasons, the Night Walks will follow Highway A1, the first national road in Switzerland, stretching from St. Margrethen (SG) to Geneva (GE). The entire 410-kilometer route will be divided into 24 stages. Participants will meet from November to April on the first Wednesday of each month at 11 PM at the designated highway on-ramp to begin the walk. The walks last into the morning, so participants can return in time for the start of their workday.
As part of the Vorortschweiz exhibition at Kornhausforum Bern, the project Let it Become Night will be artistically staged. This intervention emphasizes the difference between real and artificial night, between the everyday experience of darkness and the staged night as a magical moment. The boundaries blur, and visitors are invited to perceive this artificial darkness as an extension of the real night: Fiat Nox.
The Night Walks are more than just physical excursions; they are a subversive commentary on the modern work world and the concept of work-life balance. In the darkness, a cognitive reconnection is revealed, in which the body’s response patterns and sensory processing are recalibrated. Each night thus becomes a personal adventure, and participants return to their daily lives exhausted but sensitized—ready to go through the chill of the night again and receive new impulses on the next walk.