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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.com

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

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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 Swiss Links: Consulate General of Switzerland in New York: www.swissconsulatenyc.org Embassy of Switzerland and Swiss representations in the USA: www.swissemb.org General Information on Switzerland: www.switzerland.com, www.swissworld.org Swiss News World Wide: www.swissinfo.org Government: www.admin.ch Tourism: www.myswitzerland.com Presence Switzerland (PRS): www.fdfa.admin.ch/presenceswitzerland Swissnex- Swiss network for science and technology: www.swissnex.org Trade and Investment: www.s-ge.com

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