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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 February 4 18, 2015

UPCOMING/ONGOING EVENTS
Music | Visual Arts | Architecture | Design | Above and Beyond | Coming Soon | Meanwhile in Switzerland
Dates, locations and ticket prices are subject to change. Please confirm before visiting events!

HIGHLIGHT
Wednesday, February 11
5:30pm

SWISS POSITIONS
EXHIBITION OPENING + LECTURE
The School of Architecture at the University
of Puerto Rico, the Consulate General of
Switzerland in New York and the Honorary
Consulate in Puerto Rico present the
opening of the architectural photography
exhibition Swiss Positions: 33 takes on
sustainable approaches to building, curated
by Nathalie Herschdorfer. A lecture will be
held in conjunction with the opening by
LOCALARCHITECTURE from Lausanne on
Wednesday, February 11 at 5:30pm. The
exhibition will be on view through March 31.
Image:
Chapel
St-Loup
by
LOCALARCHITECTURE. Photo: Milo Keller.

University of Puerto Rico

School of Architecture
Puerto Rico
www.localarchitecture.ch

MUSIC
Thursday, February 5
8pm

JASON PAUL PETERSON

PERFORMING SWISS MASTERWORKS
Presented by Peter Mieg-Stiftung and the
City of Baden, pianist Jason Paul Peterson
performs a program devoted to masterworks
of Swiss piano literature. These rarely
performed pieces range from the inventive,
playful character pieces of Werner Wehrli
(Von einer Wanderung, Op. 17) to the
virtuosic and lyrical sonatas of Emil Frey
(Sonata no. 2) and the world premiere of
Sonata IV by Peter Mieg.
Image: Pianist Jason Paul Peterson.

Sunday, February 8
8pm

SALOME SCHEIDEGGER
CONCERT
Chroma, MADArt Creatives first concert
event, features solo pianist Salome
Scheidegger with Iktus Percussion. An
accomplished and internationally renowned
pianist, Salome is always looking to create
new possibilities in the way classical music is

Carnegie Hall
Weill Recital Hall
New York, NY
www.carnegiehall.org

Mary Flagler Cary Hall

The DiMenna Center for
Classical Music
450 West 37th Street
New York, NY
www.artful.ly

presented. On February 8, Salome will

perform a program of new music, including
the New York premiere of works by Eve
Beglarian, and a concert version of Alex
Westons Chroma, commissioned for Salome
and Iktus Percussion by MADArt.
Image: Salome Scheidegger.
Monday, February 9
10pm

POETRY OF RIDDIM
CONCERT
Drummer, composer, music director and
producer Swiss Chris presents Poetry of
Riddim, a multicultural musical event
featuring Swiss Chris with special guest
VINX (Vocals/Percussion), special guest
Mino Cinelu (Percussion), Akim Funk
Buddha (MC/Beatbox/Dance), Poet Tree
(Poetry),
Malik
Work
(MC),
Mazzi
(MC/Dance), Brandee Younger (Harp), Pupa
Bajah
(MC/Vocals),
Michel
Kunz
(Guitar/Composer), Tanya Dutt (Vocals),
Amanda Ruzza (Bass), Lenny Underwood
(Keys), Cole Williams-X (Vocals), Belinda
Becker (Dance) and Shannon Songbird
Gibbons (Vocals) at Blue Note on Monday,
February 9.
Image: Dan Newman

Blue Note
131 W. 3rd Street
New York, NY
www.bluenote.net

VISUAL ARTS
Thursday, February 5
5pm

ZIMOUN
OPENING RECEPTIONS

Saturday, February 7
2 6pm

Three solo exhibitions are dedicated to the

Swiss sound architecture and installation
artists Zimoun. The Simons Center Gallery
will celebrate their exhibition opening on
Thursday, February 5, the Knockdown
Center in Flushing on Saturday, February 7
with a live performance at 6pm and bitforms
gallery in the Lower East Side on Sunday,
February 8. An artist talk by Zimoun will take
place on Thursday, February 5 at Stony
Brook University at 4pm.
Image: Courtesy of bitforms gallery, New
York. Photo by Studio Zimoun.

Sunday, February 8
4pm 7pm

Saturday, February 7
4:30pm

HANS ULRICH OBRIST ON DAVID WEISS

TALK
Please join us for this talk in which Hans
Ulrich Obrist will speak about his close
friend and mentor, David Weiss. Obrist will
discuss Weiss's life, his solo work and
collaboration with Peter Fischli, as well as his
legacy. The lecture will also cover the many
collaborations between Hans Ulrich Obrist
and Fischli/Weiss including Hotel Carlton
Palace: Chambre 763, Kitchen Show, Unbuilt
Roads and Cloaca Maxima, and feature a
screening of never-before-seen video
footage.

Through February 4

RASCAL HOUSE
GROUP EXHIBITION
Half Gallery is pleased to present Rascal
House, a collaborative project conceived by
and including Blair Thurman along with John
Armleder, Justin Adian, and Stphane
Kropf. The exhibition is the result of a
strange confluence of memory, sensory

Simons Center Gallery

Stony Brook University
Long Island, NY
www.scgp.stonybrook.edu
Knockdown Center
Flushing, NY
www.knockdowncenter.com
bitforms gallery
Lower East Side
New York, NY
www.bitforms.com

Swiss Institute
18 Wooster Street
New York, NY
www.swissinstitute.net

Half Gallery
43 East 78th Street
New York, NY
www.halfgallery.com

perception, and association (both free and

mediated): a 3-D painting installation-cumdiner booth born of historical, personal,
aesthetic and ulterior connections.
Through March 21

CLAUDIA COMTE
OPENING RECEPTION
Gladstone Gallery is pleased to present NO
MELON NO LEMON, Claudia Comtes first
U.S. solo exhibition. The Swiss artist will
create a site-specific environment comprising
paintings and chainsaw-cut sculptures. Each
work functions as part of a modular system of
intricately connected elements.
Image: Claudia Comte at Gladstone Gallery.

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.

Through February 22

DAVID WEISS
EXHIBITION
David Weiss (1946-2012) was worldrenowned for his sculptural, photographic
and video work, made as Fischli/Weiss in
collaboration with Peter Fischli beginning in
1979. This exhibition focuses on the lesserknown solo career of David Weiss, made
prior to his ongoing collaboration, and is
comprised of an exceptional group of works
on paper from 1968-1979, previously
exhibited at the Bndner Kunstmuseum in
Chur, Switzerland in Spring 2014. David
Weiss: Works, 1968-1979 at Swiss Institute
will also include additional, never-beforeseen material from the artist's archive that
provides unprecedented insight into his
formative years.
Image: David Weiss, Giacometti, 1978.
Watercolor, ink and pen on paper, 9.3 x 6.5
in.

Through March 8

40 YEARS / 40 ARTISTS
EXHIBITION
40 Years/40 Artists is an exhibition of work
by renowned local, national, and international
artists who, at crucial moments in their
careers, had exhibitions at the University
Museum of Contemporary Art. In recognition
of the 40th anniversary, artists participating in
this exhibition have generously donated their
works of art to the UMCAs permanent
collection, to serve as a legacy and to help
continue UMCAs role as an inspirational
teaching resource. The exhibition includes
works by Swiss artists Beat Streuli and
Peter Wuethrich.
Image: Jenny Holzer, Talking Politics, 2008.

Gladstone Gallery
530 West 21st Street
New York, NY
www.gladstonegallery.com

Contemporary Arts Center

212 E. 14th Street
Cincinnati, OH
contemporaryartscenter.org

Swiss Institute
18 Wooster Street
New York, NY
www.swissinstitute.net

UMCA 40
University Museum of
Contemporary Art
Amherst, MA
www.umass.edu/umca

Through March 14

MOUNTAIN VIEWS
EXHIBITION
The International Print Center New York is
pleased to present the exhibition Mountain
Views: Swiss Travel Posters from the
Dana/Spencer Collection, featuring nine
color lithographs from Swiss artists working
in the 1930's and 40's. The exhibition will be
on view through March 14, 2015.
Image: Erich Herms "Hotels Seiler/Zermatt",
circa 1930s Color, lithograph 50 x 35
inches Printed by Sauberlin & Pfeiffer,
Vevey, photo by Paul Rogers, Courtesy of
Alice Dana Spencer.

Through March 15

FERDINAND A. BRADER
EXHIBITION OPENING
Ferdinand A. Brader came to the United
States from Switzerland in the early 1870s,
and
travelled
extensively
throughout
Pennsylvania and Ohio, supporting himself
by creating large pencil drawings of the farms
and properties where he was given
temporary residence and payment.
His
drawings are startlingly accurate and
detailed, mostly taken from an imaginary
aerial vantage point, as though viewed from
a tall tower or a balloon. The exhibition The
Legacy of Ferinand A. Brader will be on view
from December 4 to March 15, 2015 at the
Canton Museum of Art.
Image: Ferdinand A. Brader.

Through March 15

MODERN ALCHEMY
EXHIBITION OPENING
The exhibition Modern Alchemy focuses on
20th and 21st century artists who have
pushed the boundaries of photography in
myriad ways, creating images that have a
complex
relationship
to
objective
reality. Artists in include Andreas Rentsch,
Harry Callahan, Robert Heinecken, Chris
McCaw, Abelardo Morell, Floris Neusss,
Mariah Robertson, Grete Stern, Hiroshi
Sugimoto, Maggie Taylor, Edmund Teske,
Raoul Ubac, and Jerry Uelsmann among
others.
Image: Andreas Rentsch.

IPCNY
508 West 26th Street, 5th Floor
NY, New York
www.ipcny.org

Canton Museum of Art

1001 Market Avenue North
Canton, Ohio
www.cantonart.org

The Heckscher Museum of Art

2 Prime Avenue
Huntington, NY
www.heckscher.org

ARCHITECTURE
Through May 10

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 53rd Street
New York, NY
www.moma.org

DESIGN
Friday, February 13
7 8pm

BERENIK AW 15 RTW
RUNWAY SHOW PRESENTATION
The Swiss fashion label BERENIK is pleased
to present their Autumn Winter 2015 ReadyTo-Wear Collection during the New York
Fashion Week. The runway show will take
place at The Designer Loft in Chelsea on
Friday, February 13 from 7 to 8pm and will
feature 25 models and edgy live music by
Swiss musician Bit-Tuner.
Image: BERENIK.

Through April 26

VITRA
EXHIBITION
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is pleased to
present the exhibition Vitra Design,
Architecture, Communication: A European
Project with American Roots from November
22, 2014 - April 26, 2015. Established in
1950, the family-owned Swiss company Vitra
is one of the most innovative design firms in
the world. Renowned for its functional yet
inspiring interior designs, furniture, and
accessories,
Vitra
is
internationally
recognized for its creative partnerships with
design visionaries such as Philippe Starck,
Ron Arad, and Verner Panton. The exhibition
tells Vitras story through an immersive
presentation of furniture and design objects,
models and material studies, drawings, aerial
photographs of its campus, and videos.
Image: Eames Elephant, Designed 1945
Designed and made by Charles Eames,
American, 1907 1978.

The Designers Loft

450 West 31st Street
12th Floor
New York, NY
www.berenik.ch
RSVP
berenik@omenpr.com
(212) 431 6636

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Collab Gallery, First Floor
Perelman Building
www.philamuseum.org

ABOVE AND BEYOND

Friday, February 6
7 8pm

LIN YILIN + GIANNI JETZER

A CONVERSATION
For Le Mouvement, a three-part exhibition
which examined the nature and uses of the
body, sculpture and public space, the
Chinese artist Lin Yilin presented his latest
piece The Departure From Her Feet, in which
the artist slowly rolled down the streets
toward the town hall from three different sites
in three consecutive days. Join the Asia Art
Archive in America for a conversation with
the artist and Gianni Jetzer, co-curator of Le
Mouvement, to discuss their collaboration.
Image: Lin Yilin, The Departure From Her
Feet, 2014,
performance,
Biel/Bienne,
Switzerland.

Asia Art Archive in America

43 Remsen Street
Brooklyn, NY
www.aaa-a.org
RSVP
info@aaa-a.org

Saturday, February 7
6:30pm

SWISS BALL 2015

HONORING MARTHE KELLER
Join the Swiss Society on Saturday,
February 7 for a wonderful evening at the
legendary Plaza Hotel, enjoying fine dining,
entertainment, dancing and a silent auction.
This years Ball will honor Swiss Actress and
Opera Director Marthe Keller for her lifetime
achievements.
Held under the patronage of Ambassador
Andr
Schaller,
Consul
General
of
Switzerland in New York, the Swiss Ball is
the Swiss Societys primary fundraiser and,
together with the Silent Auction, supports the
Fellowship Endowment Fund and charitable
activities throughout the year.
Image: Marthe Keller.

Plaza Hotel
768 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY
www.swisssociety.com

COMING SOON
Friday, February 20
Sunday, February 22

FESTIVAL NEUE LITERATUR

LITERARY FESTIVAL

FNL 2015
www.festivalneueliteratur.org

Now in its sixth edition, the Festival Neue

Literatur presents German-language authors
Marjana
Gaponenko
and
Anna
Weidenholzer (Austria), Navid Kermani and
Matthias
Nawrat
(Germany),
Jonas
Lscher
and
Monique
Schwitter
(Switzerland). Curated by eminent translator
and writer Tess Lewis, this year's festival
theme is Love and Money.
Image: Swiss authors Monique Schwitter and
Jonas Lscher.

MEANWHILE IN SWITZERLAND
GENEVA

ERNIE GEHR, RAPHAEL HEFTI, ALFREDO ACETO

JANUARY 30 APRIL 26, 2015
The Centre dArt Contemporain Genve is pleased to present three solo
exhibitions: the first ever exhibition of the American experimental director Ernie
Gehrs video installations in an art institution, one of the most relevant exhibitions
ever held by Swiss artist Raphael Hefti and the first solo show in an institution by
Italian artist Alfredo Aceto.
Image: Alfredo Aceto, Shoot Me, Dont Criticize, 2014. Photo by Alberto Risi
www.centre.ch

ZURICH

SWISS CONTEMPORARY DANCE DAYS

FEBRUARY 19 22, 2015
The 10th edition of the Swiss Contemporary Dance Days features 14 companies
from all over Switzerland showing their latest works to audiences and industry
experts from all over the world. The official selection of the jury will be
complemented by a side program including symposiums and project
presentations.
Image: Arts Mouvements / Yasmine Hugonnet, Le Rcital des Postures
Anne-Laure Lechat
www.swissdancedays.ch

BERN

HENRY MOORE
THROUGH MAY 25, 2015
Radical, experimental and avant-garde - Henry Moore is the center of this
exhibition at the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern showing selected masterpieces from
the collection of the Tate. With only a few exceptions, Moore remained faithful to
the technique of figuration - a passion he shared with Klee. The exhibition with 28
sculptures and 42 works on paper provides an overview of the work of one of the
most relevant sculptors of the 20th century.
Image: Henry Moore (1898 - 1986), Half-Figure, 1929 The Henry Moore
Foundation
www.zpk.org

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