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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 October 29 November 12, 2014

UPCOMING/ONGOING EVENTS

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

Dates, locations and ticket prices are subject to change. Please confirm before visiting events!
HIGHLIGHT
Sunday, November 2
9am 1pm


SWISS CORNER AT NYC MARATHON
COMMUNITY

Join us on Sunday, November 2nd from 9am
to 1pm to cheer on the Swiss runners in the
NYC Marathon! Well be at the corner of
South 1
st
and Bedford Avenue in
Williamsburg, Brooklyn again this year,
distributing fun, new cheer items and red t-
shirts to Swiss supporters (first come, first
serve) as well as providing coffee and
specially made red-glazed and white-
sprinkled doughnuts from Dun-Well!
Swiss Corner
South 1
st
and Bedford Ave.
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
www.swisscgny.tumblr.com
FILM
Wednesday, October 29

GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE 3D
THEATRICAL OPENING

The 43
rd
feature by Jean-Luc Godard
Goodbye to Language alights on doubt and
despair with the greatest freedom and joy.
Richard Brody, The New Yorker film critic
and author of Everything Is Cinema: The
Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard, will give an
introduction on Sunday, November 2
nd
at
7:30pm before the screening.
Image: Goodbye to Language 3D by Jean-
Luc Godard, 2014, France, French with
English subtitles 70 minutes.
Francesca Beale Theater
144 West 65
th
Street
New York, NY
www.filmlinc.com
MUSIC
Wednesday, October 29 +
Wednesday, November 5
9:30pm

AS LOLAS
CONCERTS

All female AS LOLAS perform 70ties
psychedelic Rock at NUBLU on Wednesday,
October 29 and on November 5
th
with
Fabiana Masili, Eliane Amherd, Eliane
Delage, Dawn Drake and Rosa Avila.
Image: AS LOLAS Soblue Weina
NUBLU
Ave C b/w 4
th
and 5
th
Street
New York, NY
www.nublu.net
Monday, November 3
7:30pm

LUZ DE LUNA
PIANO CONCERT + GALA DINNER

LUZ DE LUNA, a piano, violin, and dance
concert, brings together four artists for a
night of contemplation and celebration. Swiss
pianist Jorge Viladoms Weber, Herv
Moreau of the Paris Opera Ballet; and
violinist Charlie Siem share the stage as they
interpret moon-inspired pieces by Debussy,
Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, and Ponce.
Proceeds benefit the Crescendo con la
Musica Foundation (CCLM) to support the
Foundations efforts to provide musical
education to underserved children in
Guadalajara, Mexico, as well as future
projects across Latin America.
Image: Jorge Viladoms.
Carnegie Zankel Hall
881 7
th
Avenue
New York, NY
www.carnegiehall.org
VISUAL ARTS
Thursday, October 30
6 8pm

MARKUS BAENZIGER
OPENING RECEPTION

The Edward Thorp Gallery is pleased to
announce an exhibit of recent works by
Swiss-born artist Markus Baenziger.
Uncommon Ground will be his third one-
person exhibition with the gallery.
Baenzigers sculptures integrate the artists
love of nature with a vision of a gritty,
imperfect and industrialized world,
constructed with a mastery of design and an
exacting attention to detail.
Image: Markus Baenziger, In the Making,
2014.
Edward Thorp Gallery
210 Eleventh Avenue
Floor 6
New York, NY
www.edwardthorpgallery.com

Thursday, October 30
6 8pm

KLAUS LUTZ
OPENING RECEPTION

The exhibition features a selection of Klaus
Lutzs 16mm film loops, as well as some of
his meticulous work on paper and artist
books. Shot almost entirely in the artists tiny
East Village apartment with Lutz performing
as his protagonist, the films depict quasi-
mythological tales that, while reminiscent of
Georges Mlis and the 1920s avant-garde,
ultimately look to develop new visual sign
systems for the future. Curated by Matthew
Lyons
Image: Klaus Lutz, Film still from Field of
Powder, c. 1993. Courtesy of Rotwand,
Zrich / The Estate of Klaus Lutz The
Estate of Klaus Lutz.
The Kitchen
512 West 19
th
Street
New York, NY
www.thekitchen.org

Wednesday, November 5
6 8pm

JACQUELINE REAL
EXHIBITION

On November 5, 2014, Artifact Gallery New
York opens its definitive exhibition,
Jacqueline Reals solo show, which will
explore the ongoing impact of the mid-career
contemporary Swiss painters art.
Image: Jacqeline Real, Blue World.
ARTIFACT Gallery
84 Orchard Street
New York, NY
www.artifactnyc.net
Thursday, November 6
6 8pm

VALENTIN CARRON
EXHIBITION OPENING

303 Gallery is pleased to present Music is a
s-s-serious thing the third exhibition of new
work by Swiss artist Valentin Carron. In a
series of paintings, Carron mines the
vernacular of modernist banality and its
psychic, emotional, and behavioral
implications.
Image: Valentin Carron, courtesy 303
Gallery, New York
303 Gallery
507 West 24
th
Street
New York, NY
www.303gallery.com
Wednesday, November 5
6 8pm

HELEN SUTER
OPENING RECEPTION

La MaMa La Galleria is pleased to
present Hawthorne Valley Farm and
Art, an exhibition featuring artists living and
working near Hawthorne Valley Farm, a 400-
acre biodynamic farm in rural Columbia
County, NY. Hudson based Swiss
artist Helen Suter is among 15 artists as well
as the Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School
Class of 2017 exhibiting works relating to
sustainability, ecology and farming. The
Hawthorne Valley Farm & Art exhibit will run
from October 29 to November 15Image:
Helen Suter Landscape ( Idyllic )
Installation of textiles on embroidery hoops.
La MaMa La Galleria
47 Great Jones St.
New York, NY 10003
www.lamama.org
Thursday, November 6
Saturday, November 8

VALERIE SCHALLER
MULTIMEDIA INSTALLATION

Festival of Light is pleased to present Heart
Filling Station by Swiss artist Valerie
Schaller. Spectators are invited to enter a
tent of about 60 square meters to observe a
real life heartbeat projection in dialogue with
a projection of solar flares. A big red carpet
will be placed on the floor between the
projections, encouraging visitors to sit or lie
down and immerse themselves in a strong
poetical, sensual and rhythmical
introspection. Sound for the installation was
created by Adam Weisman.
Image: Heart Filling Station by Valerie
Schaller.
Festival of Light
DUMBO
Brooklyn, NY
www.nyfol.org
Thursday, November 6
Saturday, November 8


UNRULY ENGAGEMENTS
CONFERENCE

The Cleveland Institute of Art presents
Unruly Engagements: On the Social Turn in
Contemporary Art and Design a conference
that examines various approaches to social
practices in both art and design in an effort to
understand the concepts, terms, and
varieties of engagement of the past two
decades or so. Among the invited speakers
is Swiss artist Barbara Caveng.
Image: HEAVEN HEAVEN HEAVEN by
Barbara Caveng, 2013, human bones
original scale of Kalashnikov AK-47. Photo:
Joachim Gern
Cleveland Institute of Art
11141 East Blvd
Cleveland, OH
www.cia.edu
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.
James Gallery, CUNY
Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY
www.centerforthehumanities.org
/james-gallery
www.worldofmatter.net

Image: World of Matters.
Through November 2




CHANTAL BRUCHEZ-HALL
EXHIBITION

Swiss artist Chantal Bruchez-Hall presents
her work in the group exhibition Truth Telling:
Art in Search of Social Justice in Somerville
through November 2.
Image: Chantal Bruchez-Hall, Red 1.


Nave Gallery
155 Powder House Blvd
Somerville, MA
www.navegallery.org


Through November 16

DANIEL V. KELLER
EXHIBITION

SIGNAL is pleased to present
ATTRACTIONS, an exhibition of new works
by Swiss artist Daniel V. Keller, running from
October 17 November 16. Adopting the
architectural tropes of the roadside park or
nature-walk, ATTRACTIONS explores the
man-made structures that delineate a "site"
within an otherwise natural landscape, as a
mediated space for visitation, leisure or
spectating.
Image: Daniel V. Keller.
SIGNAL
260 Johnson Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
www.ssiiggnnaall.com

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 December 14

XANTI SCHAWINSKY
EXHIBITION

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
Through January 7

ZERO
EXHIBITION

From October 10, 2014 to January 7, 2015,
the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
presents ZERO: Countdown to Tomorrow,
1950s60s, the first large-scale survey in a
United States museum dedicated to the
history of the experimental German artists
group Zero (195766) and ZERO, an
international network of artists that shared
the groups aspiration to redefine and
transform art in the aftermath of World War II.
Featuring Swiss artists Christian Megert,
Dieter Roth, Daniel Spoerri, and Jean
Tinguely.
Image: Illustration from ZERO 3 (July 1961),
design by Heinz Mack (detail) Heinz Mack.
Photo: Heinz Mack
Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY
www.guggenheim.org
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
Through April 26

MAOS GOLDEN MANGOES AND THE
CULTURAL REVOLUTION
EXHIBITION

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
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
Sunday, November 2
7pm


DANIELE BERNARDI
READING

Ledig House writers will read at KGB Bar on
Sunday, November 2
nd
. Among the authors is
Swiss poet Daniele Bernardi from Lugano.
Bernardi writes literary criticism and
published two books of poems: Versi come
sassi (2009) and Ballata/e degli alberi solitari
(2012).
Image: Daniele Bernardi
KGB Bar
85 E 4th Street
New York, NY
www.kgbbar.com

DANCE
Tuesday, November 4
Friday, November 7
8pm

SALLY SILVER: ACTUAL SIZE
PERFORMANCE

Sally Silverss award-winning choreography
comes out to play to subterfuge the films and
motifs of Alfred Hitchcock. In ACTUAL SIZE,
shes funscaping, teasing romance with fear,
and jumpcutting many of his classic looks
and obsessions. Sally Silvers
choreography, Ursula Scherrer - video and
scene design, Bruce Andrews - text/sound
design and Michael J. Schumacher - sound
design.
Image: Melissa Toogood and Dylan
Crossman in ACTUAL SIZE.
Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
www.roulette.org

ABOVE AND BEYOND
Tuesday, November 4
6 8pm

UELI STECK THE SWISS MACHINE
LECTURE

World renowned Swiss alpinist and record-
breaking rock climber Ueli Steck will present
his legendary experiences at the Explorers
Club on November 4th from 6pm-8pm. In this
lecture, the "Swiss Machine" - whose rapid
ascents of classic routes are just as
demanding as three-minute miles - will share
stories of his extreme expeditions all around
the world. Join us in listening to tales of his
rocky adventures and meet the Swiss
Superman in person! Space is limited and
the event is free to attend. Reservations
through the Explorers Club required.
Explorers Club
46 East 70
th
Street
New York, NY
www.explorers.org

RSVP required
reservations@explorers.org
COMING SOON
Monday, November 17
7:30pm

NEGATIVE: NOTHING
FILM SCREENING

Due to the sold out New York Premiere of the
documentary film Negative: Nothing Step
by Step for Japan on Monday, November 3
rd
,
UnionDocs added an additional screening on
Monday, November 17 with director Stephan
Knuesel in person.
Image: Film still Negative: Nothing Step by
Step for Japan by directors Jan Knuesel and
Stephan Knuesel, 78min, 2013, Japan /
Switzerland.
UnionDocs
322 Union Avenue
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
www.uniondocs.org
November 22 May 10, 2015

UNEVEN GROWTH
EXHIBITION

Uneven Growth brings together six
interdisciplinary teams of researchers and
practitioners to examine new architectural
possibilities for six global metropolises: Hong
Kong, Istanbul, Lagos, Mumbai, New York,
and Rio de Janeiro. Following the same
model as the exhibitions Rising Currents and
Foreclosed, each team will develop
proposals for a specific city in a series of
workshops that occur over the course of a
14-month initiative. The Rio de Janeiro team
features RUA Arquitetos, Rio de Janeiro, and
MAS Urban Design, and ETH Zurich.
Image: Morro do Alemo, Rio de Janeiro,
2012. Photograph by Pedro Rivera, RUA
Arquitetos.
MoMA
11 West 53
rd
Street
New York, NY
www.moma.org
MEANWHILE IN SWITZERLAND
WINTERTHUR

INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL WINTERTHUR
NOVEMBER 4 9, 2014

The Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur (International Short Film Festival
Winterthur) is an annual highlight among short film festivals in Switzerland and
enjoys an excellent reputation among filmmakers, the industry and audiences
alike. The festival takes place each year in November and attracts an average of
16,000 spectators for national and international competitions, as well as 650
participants from the film industry.
Image: Songe d'une nuit by Josua Hotz, Switzerland 2013
www.kurzfilmtage.ch
BASEL

POETRY OF THE METROPOLIS. THE AFFICHISTES
THROUGH JANUARY

One of the most radical and at the same time most poetic approaches to reality
was made from 1950 onwards by the Affichistes. Jacques Villegl, Raymond
Hains and Francois Dufrne belonged, like Tinguely, to the Nouveaux Ralistes
group of artists. The exhibition Poetry of the Metropolis. The Affichistes at the
Museum Tinguely is arranged in the form of a course, presenting the urban
space as a place for flaneurs and of manifold inspiration, which creates places
for encounters with the radical inventions of these 5 artists; be these dcollages,
filmic, photographic or also poetic experiments.
www.tinguely.ch
BERN

IN THE HERE AND NOW! SWISS ART OF THE LAST 30 YEARS
THROUGH ARPIL

From 1982 through 2013, the Kunst Heute Foundation gathered an outstanding
collection of Swiss contemporary art. In 2003, the entire collection was donated
to the Kunstmuseum Bern as a gift, including further acquisitions made by the
foundation until it terminated its activities in 2013. With a selection of around 30
artworks, by artists such as Thomas Hirschhorn, Pipilotti Rist, Fischli/Weiss,
Roman Signer and Christian Marclay, this exhibitions gives a representative
overview of Swiss contemporary art from the early 1980s through to the present,
while paying tribute to the Kunst Heute Foundations pioneering role.
Image: Thomas Hirschhorn, Collage Truth, Nr. 37, 2012
www.kunstmuseumbern.ch
Contact :

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

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