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SWISS EVENTS

IN NEW YORK
AND CT/ ME/ MA/ MI/ MN/ NH/ NJ/ ND/ OH/ PA/ RI/ SD/ VT/ WI/ BM/ PR/ VI

for the period of September 18 October 1, 2014

UPCOMING/ONGOING EVENTS

Film | Music | Visual Arts | Architecture | Literature | Above and Beyond | Coming Soon | Meanwhile in Switzerland

Dates, locations and ticket prices are subject to change. Please confirm before visiting events!
HIGHLIGHT
Thursday, September 25
Sunday, September 28


NEW YORK ART BOOK FAIR 2014
FAIR + PERFORMANCE

Printed Matter presents the ninth annual NY
Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1 featuring 11 art
book publishers from Switzerland. Boabooks
/ Edition Fink, ECAL (Ecole cantonale d
art de Lausanne), Edition Patrick Frey,
Hakuin Verlag, JRP|Ringier, Kodoji Press,
Nieves, Pop Up Press, Rollo Press, Sal
Distribution, and Spheres Publication. A
preview will be held on Thursday, September
25 with special performance by Swiss artist
Nicole Bachmann from 6:30 8:30pm.
Image: ABC, Artists Book Cooperative (2013)
MoMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Ave
Long Island City, NY
www.nyartbookfair.com
www.performanceaspublishing.c
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FILM
Friday, September 26
7pm



THE LITTLE BEDROOM
NY THEATRICAL RELEASE

Cinema Village presents The Little Bedroom
by directors Veronique Reymond and
Stephanie Chuat featuring Michel Bouquet,
Florence Loiret Caille, and Eric Caravaca.
The directors will be present for a Q&A
following the screenings on September 26
and 27.
Image: The Little Bedroom by Stphanie
Chuat, Vronique Reymond, Switzerland /
Luxembourg, 2010, 87 min.
Cinema Village
22 East 12
th
Street
New York, NY
www.cinemavillage.com
Saturday, September 27
5:30pm

HIRSCHHORNS GRAMSCI MONUMENT
SCREENING

Join Art 21 and the Consulate General of
Switzerland in New York for a special
preview screening of Art in the Twenty-First
Century season 7 featuring Thomas
Hirschhorns Gramsci Monument.
Image: Thomas Hirschhorn
Forest Houses
McKinley Community Center
751 East 16
th
Street
Bronx, NY

RSVP required
events@art21.org or
212 620 0635

MUSIC
Sunday, September 21
6pm

BEAT KAESTLI
CONCERT

Swiss Jazz vocalist Beat Kaestli performs
with Will Holshouser (accordion), Jesse
Lewis (guitar), Gary Wang (bass) and Fred
Kennedy (drums) on September 21 at
Birdland.
Image: Beat Kaestli
Birdland
315 W 44
th
Street
New York, NY
www.birdlandjazz.com
Wednesday, September 24
9 10:45pm

CLAUDE DIALLO
CONCERT

Swiss Jazz pianist Claude Diallo performs
with Curtis Ostle (bass) and Lee Fish (drums)
at Somethin Jazz Club on Wednesday,
September 24.
Image: Claude Diallo
Somethin Jazz Club
212 E. 52
nd
Street 3
rd
Floor
New York, NY
www.somethinjazz.com

Wednesday, September 24
8pm

Monday, September 29
8:30pm

SEBASTIEN AMMANN
CONCERTS

Polite Meters featuring Nicolas Lettman
(bass), Sebastien Ammann (piano) and
Chris Caroll (drums) perform at Bar Chord in
Brooklyn on September 24
th
and the
Sebastien Ammann Quartet play at Cornelia
Street Caf on Monday, September 29
featuring Ohad Talmor (saxophone),
Sebastien Ammann (piano), Dave Ambrosio
(bass) and Eric McPherson (drums).
Image: Sebastien Ammann
Bar Chord
1008 Cortelyou Road
Ditmas Park, Brooklyn
www.barchordnyc.com

Cornelia Street Caf
29 Cornelia Street
New York, NY
www.corneliastreetcafe.com

VISUAL ARTS
Thursday, September 18

MAOS GOLDEN MANGOES AND THE
CULTURAL REVOLUTION
EXHIBITION OPENING

The China Institute is pleased to present the
exhibition Maos Golden Mangoes and the
Cultural Revolution exploring the interaction
of material culture and politics during the time
of the Cultural Revolution. The exhibition is
organized by the Museum Rietberg Zrich
and is curated by Alfreda Murck and
Alexandra von Przychowski.
Image: June 1969, colour printing on paper.
China Institute
125 65
th
Street
New York, NY
www.chinainstitute.org
Thursday, September 18
6 8pm

XANTI SCHAWINSKY
OPENING RECEPTION

First generation Bauhaus artist Alexander
Xanti Schawinskys prolific oeuvre
encompasses a range of social and political
investigations. The Drawing Centers
exhibition will focus on Schawinskys work on
paper from the 1940s, particularly the Head
Series and Faces of War.
Image: Xanti Schawinsky, The Warrior
(Faces of War), 1942. Mixed media,
watercolor and black pen on paper. 29 x 21
3/8 inches (73.7 X 54.2 cm). Courtesy of The
Xanti Schawinsky Estate and BROADWAY
1602.
The Drawing Center
35 Wooster Street
New York, NY
www.drawingcenter.org
Monday, September 22
6 10pm

CHRISSY ANGLIKER
OPENING RECEPTION

Kinfolk 94 presents new paintings by Swiss
artist Chrissy Angliker & and Japanese
artist Meguru Yamaguchi, curated by
Jeremiah Mandel. Meguru and Chrissy share
a stylistic vocabulary; yet speak in their own
technical dialects. There is a shared
infatuation with acrylic paint, emotional
honesty, impressionistic influence, and a
psychedelic and textural nature to their
painting.
Image: Chrissy Angliker, Untitled I, 2014.

KINFOLK 94
94 Wythe Ave.
Brooklyn, NY
Kinfolk+Brooklyn
Sunday, September 28
4pm

VIVIANE ROMBALDI SEPPEY
EXHIBITION + ARTIST TALK

Kentler International Drawing Space is
pleased to present the work of New York
based Swiss artist Viviane Rombaldi
Seppey. An artist's talk will be held on
September 28 at 4 pm.
Image: Viviane Rombaldi Seppey, Who Said
it Was Easy.
Kentler
International Drawing Space
353 Van Brunt Street
Brooklyn, NY
www.kentlergallery.org

Through September 28

FRANCO MUELLER
EXHIBITION

Pentimenti Gallery is delighted to present the
paintings of Swiss artist Franco Mueller for
the month of September. The exhibit
entitled, Transferable Views, will be open
from September 1 to September 28 with an
artist reception on September 5, from 6:30 -
8:30 pm. Franco Mueller is a self-taught artist
and the recipient of many awards and
honors: Paul Zuppinger Prize; Malerei
Kanton Solothurn Prize and
Wekjahresbeitrag Kanton Solothurn.
Image: Franco Mueller, Adjoining Lot #6.
Pentimenti Gallery
145 North Second St.
Philadelphia, PA
www.pentimenti.com
Through October 7

CHRISTOPH DRAEGER
EXHIBITION

Y Gallery is pleased to present Garage Sale,
a site-specific installation by Christoph
Draeger. Draeger created a monument to
informal trading by setting up a thrift store
with his own stuff -things he made, things he
owned, the expensive and the cheap-.
Image: Christoph Draeger, The Scream L.A.,
2014.
Y Gallery
165 Orchard Street
New York, NY
www.ygallerynewyork.com
Through October 19

OLAF BREUNING
PUBLIC ART INSTALLATION

Public Art Fund presents a playful new
commission by Olaf Breuning entitled
Clouds installed at the southeast entrance to
Central Park. The artists largest public art
installation in the United States to date, the
work features six clouds rendered as childlike
drawings made of polished blue aluminum
towering nearly 35 feet above the plaza and
mounted on seemingly makeshift steel
supports.
Image: Olaf Breuning, Clouds.
Central Park
Doris C. Freedman Plaza
60
th
Street and 5
th
Avenue
New York, NY
www.publicartfund.org
Through October 18

NIGHTLIGHT
EXHIBITION

Fresh Window Gallery is proud to present
Nightlight, a two person exhibition featuring
the work of Marc Egger and Miya Ando.
Nightlight examines the ubiquity of artificial
light in our metropolitan lightscape. Eggers
phosphorescent paintings and Andos
chemically treated sculptures focus on
reclaiming the dark, the quiet and the
restfulness of our original nocturnal
experience.
Image: Marc Egger Tula (Nightlight)
Fresh Windows Gallery
56 Bogart Street
Brooklyn, NY
www.freshwindow.org

Through November 1

WORLD OF MATTERS
EXHIBITION

James Gallery is pleased to present Ursula
Biemann in the group exhibition World of
Matters. World of Matter is an international
art and media project investigating primary
materials (fossil, mineral, agrarian, maritime)
and the complex ecologies of which they are
a part.
Image: World of Matters.
James Gallery, CUNY
Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY
www.centerforthehumanities.org
/james-gallery
www.worldofmatter.net

Through November 5


SLEUTHING THE MIND
EXHIBITION

Pratt Manhattan Gallery is pleased to present
the works of Swiss artists Nicole Ottiger and
Jill Scott in the group exhibition Sleuthing
The Mind. Through video, performance,
human-computer interface, virtual reality, and
traditional artistic approaches, this exhibition
explores the mind's many facets, presenting
an expanded field of artistic practice informed
by neuroscience.
Image: Kurt Hentschlger, HIVE, 2011, 3D-
animated audiovisual installation
Pratt Manhattan Gallery
144 West 14th Street
New York, New York
www.pratt.edu

Through November 23

ANNUAL DESIGN SERIES
INAUGURAL EDITION

Swiss Institute announces the inaugural
edition of its Annual Design Series, an
exhibition curated by renowned Greek-
Norwegian architect Andreas Angelidakis
entitled Fin de Sicle. A curatorial homage to
Eugne Ionescos 1952 absurdist play The
Chairs, the exhibition includes an eclectic
array of late 20th century design pieces
sourced from museum and private
collections. Presented in an immersive mise-
en-scne, this unique selection of chairs
resonates with the drama of Ionescos tragic
farce, 20 years after the celebrated avant-
garde playwrights passing.
Image: Alessandro Mendini, NONCHAIR, c.
1981. Courtesy Dennis Freedman.
Swiss Institute
18 Wooster Street
New York, NY
www.swissinstitute.net
Through January 11

URSULA BIEMANN
EXHIBITION

As part of its newly inaugurated artists
residency and commissioning program, the
Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at
Michigan State University presents the
exhibtion The Land Grant: Forest Law by
Swiss artist Ursula Biemann and Paulo
Tavares. The exhibition will be on view
through January 11, 2015.
Image: Ursula Biemann, Forest Law, 2014
(video still) Ursula Biemann.
Eli and Edythe Broad Art
Museum
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
www.broadmuseum.msu.edu
Through February 15

TAIYO ONORATO + NICO KREBS
EXHIBITION

Swiss duo Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs
(both b. 1979) simultaneously explore the
subject of artistic collaboration, as well as the
expansion of photography as an artistic
medium. The One-Eyed is the first major
museum exhibition for Onorato and Krebs in
the United States, and collects a variety of
eclectic, but interrelated bodies of work.
Curated by Kevin Moore for FOTOFOCUS
Image: Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs
Contemporary Arts Center
212 E. 14
th
Street
Cincinnati, OH
contemporaryartscenter.org
ARCHITECTURE
Through October


THE SWISS TOUCH IN LANDSCAPE
ARCHITECTURE
EXHIBITION

The Swiss Touch in Landscape Architecture
provides an insight into the extreme richness
and variety of Swiss landscape architecture
and presents the relevant works of renowned
Swiss architects such as Bernard Tschumi,
Herzog & de Meuron and that of engineer
Jrg Conzett. The exhibition was produced
by Pro Helvetia, curated by Michael Jakob,
and made possible by Presence Switzerland.
Image: Birkenhof, Hotel Greulich, Zrich
Christian Vogt / Vogt Landschaftsarchitekten
AG, Zrich.
Center for Architecture
536 LaGuardia Place
New York, NY
www.cfa.aiany.org
LITERATURE
Friday, September 19
6:30pm

SWISS TALKS: LISA ELSSSER
READING + DISCUSSION IN GERMAN

Deutsches Haus presents a reading and
conversation (held in German) with the Swiss
author and poet, Lisa Elssser and Consul
Thomas Schneider, Head of the Culture and
Education Department at the Consulate
General of Switzerland.
Image: Lisa Elssser, Feuer ist eine
seltsame Sache.
Deutsches Haus at NYU
42 Washington Mews
New York, NY
www.deutscheshaus.as.nyu.edu

ABOVE AND BEYOND
Wednesday, September 24
6pm

NEW NEW TESTAMENT + SELECTED
WRITINGS: 2000 2014
BOOK LAUNCH AND CONVERSATION

ARTBOOK + SWISS INSTITUTE (SI) invite
you to join Paul Chan in conversation with
Simon Castets celebrating two new
publications, New New Testament +
Selected Writings: 2000 2014, published by
Schaulager Laurenz Foundation +
Badlands Unlimited. A selection of recent
books on the artist and from Badlands
Unlimited will also be available.
Swiss Institute
18 Wooster Street
New York, NY
www.swissinstitute.ne

RSVP
swiss@artbook.com

Monday, September 29
6:30pm

CHRISTOF NSSLI + CHRISTOPH
OESCHGER
LECTURE

Miklos Klaus Rozsa: Documentation and
Surveillance with Christof Nssli and
Christoph Oeschger draws on the
documents compiled by photographer and
political activist Mikls Klaus Rzsa from
1971 to 1989. Christof Nssli and Christoph
Oeschger will give an introduction to the
historical and political background of this
project, show film clippings from the Swiss
youth movement in the 1980s, and talk about
their work process and its outcome.
Image: Christof Nssli / Christoph Oeschger
Swiss Institute
18 Wooster Street
New York, NY
www.swissinstitute.net
Through December 22

ARTBOOK @ SWISS INSTITUTE
NEW POP-UP BOOKSTORE

A new concept in bookselling, ARTBOOK @
SWISS INSTITUTE will be freshly installed
with an entirely new thematic focus, new
choice of titles, and eclectic selection of
publishers every two months. Browsers and
collectors alike will be treated to a library-
quality display of new releases, classic titles,
museum catalogues, out-of-print and rare
books, hard-to-find treasures, indie
magazines, and limited editions. Each theme
store is conceived in collaboration between
ARTBOOK's Skuta Helgason and the Swiss
Institute's Simon Castets with input from
represented curators and artists.
Image: Paolo Palucco, 100 sedie in una note,
1990.
Swiss Institute
18 Wooster Street
New York, NY
www.swissinstitute.net

COMING SOON
Thursday, October 2
Saturday, October 4

QUANTUM
US PREMIERE

In this collaboration between Swiss
choreographer Gilles Jobin and German
visual artist Julius von Bismarck,
developed while in residency at CERN, the
crackling energy of subatomic particles is
magnified to human scale. Six dancers
vibrate, scatter, and whirl beneath a gyrating
quartet of industrial lamps, programmed to
respond to the slightest movements.
Presented by BAM Next Wave Festival,
FIAFs Crossing the Line Festival and
Fondation dentreprise Herms.
Image: Grgory Batardon
BAM Fisher
Fishman Space
321 Ashland Place
Brooklyn, NY
www.bam.org/dance
www.fiaf.org/crossingtheline

Friday, October 10
6:30pm

Saturday, October 11
4:30pm

Sunday, October 12
7pm

ARNO CAMENISCH THE ALP
READINGS + DISCUSSIONS

Swiss writer Arno Camenisch, who is most
known for his Sez Ner trilogy, will tour the
U.S. with the new English translation of The
Alp. In New York he will read in Romansch,
German and English on Friday, October 10
at 6:30pm at Deutsches Haus at NYU in
conversation with Daniel Kaufman, Executive
Director of the Endangered Language
Alliance and Consul Thomas Schneider,
Head of the Culture and Education
Department, Consulate General of
Switzerland in New York, on Saturday,
October 11 at 4:30pm at Swiss Institute in
conversation with Columbia Professor and
Deutsches Haus at NYU
42 Washington Mews
New York, NY
www.deutscheshaus.as.nyu.edu

Swiss Institute
18 Wooster Street
New York, NY
www.artbook.com

Book Court
163 Court Street
New York, NY
www.bookcourt.com

literary translator Susan Bernofsky and on
Sunday, October 12 at 7pm at BookCourt in
conversation with The Missing Slate editor
Sauleha Kamal and Swiss critic, author and
Professor Hildegard Keller.
Image: Janosch Abel
MEANWHILE IN SWITZERLAND
BIEL

FESTIVAL DU FILM DHELVTIE - 10th EDITION
SEPTEMBER 17 21, 2014

Spread over five days and showing over 50 movies, this established film festival
is characterized by its distinct selection of French-speaking cinema. In
collaboration with Swiss distributors and Unifrance, the organizers invite French
movie makers and artists for special events and panel discussions in conjunction
with the film screenings from September 17 21, 2014.
Image: Film still The Circle by Swiss filmmaker Stefan Haupt.
www.fffh.ch
LAUSANNE

LABEL SUISSE FESTIVAL
SEPTEMBER 19 21, 2014

Taking place in various locations in Lausanne, the festival Label Suisse
represents a variety of Swiss music ranging from rock to French chanson all the
way to choral singing. 86 concerts and projects will be shown in six different
concert venues and one additional large open air square; around 100000
spectators are expected for this years edition. Highlights include: Stress, The
Young Gods, Heidi Happy, and Solange La Frange.
Image: Heidi Happy
http://www.labelsuisse.ch

BASEL

FONDATION BEYELER - GUSTAVE COURBET
THROUGH JANUARY 18, 2015

The exhibition Gustave Courbet at Fondation Beyeler presents pioneering works
from all phases of the artists career, including a number of paintings that have
rarely been seen in public or which indeed for many decades were not publicly
accessible at all.
Image: Gustave Courbet, Flowers on a Bank, 1862 (detail).
www.fondationbeyeler.ch
Contact :

Contact:
Consulate General of Switzerland in New York, Cultural Department: nyc.culture@eda.admin.ch

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