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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 19 March 4, 2015

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

HIGHLIGHT
Friday, February 20
1pm

FESTIVAL NEUE LITERATUR 2015

READINGS AND DISCUSSIONS

Saturday, February 21
12:30pm
6pm

Now in its sixth edition, the Festival Neue

Literatur
presents
emerging
Germanlanguage authors Marjana Gaponenko (Wer
ist Martha?) and Anna Weidenholzer (Der
Winter tut den Fischen gut) from Austria,
Matthias Nawrat (Unternehmer) from
Germany, Jonas Lscher (Frhling der
Barbaren)
and
Monique
Schwitter
(Goldfischgedchtnis) from Switzerland as
well as American authors Adam Haslett
(Union Atlantic) and Tiphanie Yanique
(Land of Love and Drowning). Curated by
eminent translator and writer Tess Lewis,
this year's festival features readings and
discussion on Love and Money. For details
about the festival see the LITERATURE
section or visit www.festivalneueliteratur.org
Image: Swiss authors Monique Schwitter and
Jonas Lscher.

Sunday, February 22
12pm
6pm

Deutsches Haus at Columbia

420 West 116th Street
New York, NY
www.columbia.edu
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery
New York, NY
www.boweryartsandscience.org
PowerHouse Arena
37 Main Street,
Brooklyn, NY
www.powerhousearena.com
Deutsches Haus at NYU
42 Washington Mews
New York, NY
www.deutscheshaus.as.nyu
McNally Jackson Books
52 Prince Street
New York, NY
www.mcnallyjackson.com

MUSIC
Tuesday, March 3
7pm

DER WAWAWA
CONCERT
Swiss band Der Wawawa with Ben lick on
sax, Matthew Taylor on bass and Tim
Berkman, drums perform at Something Jazz
Club on Tuesday, March 3 at 7pm.
Image: Der Wawawa

SOMETHIN Jazz Club

212 East 52nd Street,
3rd Floor
New York, NY
http://www.somethinjazz.com/ny
/

Sunday, March 1
7 + 8:30pm

SONIC CALLIGRAPHY
CONCERT
Sonic Calligraphy, a jazz duo from Zurich,
Switzerland with Chinese American vocalist
Peggy Chew and Swiss pianist, Adrian Frey
will play in trio with composer, violinist Jason
Kao Hwang at Whynot Jazz Room.
Image: Adrian Frey

Whynot Jazz Room

14 Christopher Street
New York, NY
www.whynotjazzroom.com

VISUAL ARTS
Thursday, February 19
7pm

PETER FISCHLI + NANCY SPECTOR

CONVERSATION
Please join the Swiss Institute for the final
event of David Weiss: Works, 1968-1979, a
conversation between Weiss's longtime
collaborator and friend, artist Peter Fischli
and Nancy Spector, Deputy Director and
Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator
of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation,
in advance of a major retrospective of
Fischli/Weiss at the Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum in Spring 2016.

Thursday, February 19
6 10pm

AFLOAT
INSTALLATION
Artist Ursula Scherrer presents afloat, an
extended form installation event for one night
featuring a near-holographic, animated,
multiple projection video environment and
live sound performed by percussionist Brian
Chase (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and bassist Kato
Hideki (of the Tokyo and New York noise
scenes).
Image: Installation by Ursula Scherrer.

Friday, February 20

MEDIUMS
EXHIBITION OPENING
For the group exhibition Mediums, curator
Michael Hambouz enlisted a team of artists
each highly skilled in a specific medium, and
arranged for all to have consultation sessions
with psychic medium and healer Hank
Hivnor. The group show features works by
Swiss artist Chrissy Angliker.
Image: Chrissy Angliker. Sand and Water,
2015.

Tuesday, March 3
6 8pm

VALENTIN CARRON
EXHIBITION OPENING
Work Hard, the graffiti message enhancing
this Lausanne public sculpture from 1945 by
Pierre Blanc is the title of Swiss Institutes
latest exhibition and curatorial debut of
celebrated artist Valentin Carron. Carron,
who represented Switzerland at the 2013
Venice Biennale, selects an exceptional
range of seminal artworks combining his key
homegrown
influences
and
inspiring
contemporaries.
Image: Pierre Blanc, Taureau et Berger,
1945. Photo courtesy Kevin Seisdedos,
FAP.

Swiss Institute
18 Wooster Street
New York, NY
www.swissinstitute.net
RSVP
to rsvp@swissinstitute.net

Pioneer Works
159 Pioneer Street
Brooklyn, New York
www.clocktower.org

Calico Gallery
67 West Street, #203
Brooklyn, NY
www.calicobrooklyn.com

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

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

ZIMOUN
EXHIBITIONS
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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

ARCHITECTURE
Through March 31

SWISS POSITIONS
EXHIBITION
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.
Image:
Chapel
St-Loup
by
LOCALARCHITECTURE. Photo: Milo Keller.

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

University of Puerto Rico

School of Architecture
Puerto Rico www.uprrp.edu
www.localarchitecture.ch

MoMA
11 West 53rd Street
New York, NY
www.moma.org

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.

LITERATURE
Friday, February 20
1 5 pm

ENCOUNTERS ACROSS THE OCEAN

FESTIVAL NEUE LITERATUR
All six novelists from Austria, Germany, and
Switzerland will present their latest work in a
discussion with Columbia graduate students
from the Department of Germanic Languages
and the Writing Program. Encounters Across
the Ocean features all five German-language
authors and is moderated by festival curator
Tess Lewis.
Image: Austrian wirter Marjana Gaponenko

Saturday, February 21
12:302:30pm

FOR THE LOVE OF TRANSLATION

FESTIVAL NEUE LITERATUR
Featured editors and translators pair off and
discuss a memorable literary translation.
Michael Reynolds (Europa Editions) & Tim
Mohr (translator) discussing The Hottest
Dishes of Tartar Cuisine from the German,
Michael Wise (New Vessel Press) & Ross
Ufberg (New Vessel Press, Translator)
discussing The Good Life Elsewhere from
the
Russian,
Katie
Raissian
(STONECUTTER, Grove Atlantic) & Susan
Bernofsky (translator), discussing The
Beautiful and the Necessary from the
German, and Chad Post (Open Letter) & Lisa
Boscov-Ellen (translator), discussing A
Thousand Forests in One Acorn from the
Spanish. The event is moderated by Sal
Robinson.
Image: American translator Susan Bernofsky

Saturday, February 21
68pm

MONEY CHANGES EVERYTHING

FESTIVAL NEUE LITERATUR
Is money making the world go round or
under? What are the effects of todays ever
more impenetrable financial system on social
mobility and the life of the imagination?
What, exactly, is trickling down? Money
Changes
Everything
features
Anna
Weidenholzer, Matthias Nawrat, Jonas
Lscher, Adam Haslett and moderator Eric
Banks.
Image: American author Adam Haslett

Sunday, February 22
12pm

A LITERARY BRUNCH
FESTIVAL NEUE LITERATUR
The six German-language authors of Festival
Neue Literatur give a sampling from their
work, providing a taste of new writing from
Austria,
Germany,
and
Switzerland.
Traditional German fare will be served. THIS
EVENT IS NOW FULLY BOOKED.
Image: Austrian writer Anna Weidenholzer

Deutsches Haus at Columbia

420 West 116th Street
New York, NY
www.columbia.edu
www.festivalneueliteratur.org

Bowery Poetry Club

308 Bowery
New York, NY
www.boweryartsandscience.org

PowerHouse Arena
37 Main Street,
Brooklyn, NY
www.powerhousearena.com

Deutsches Haus at NYU

42 Washington Mews
New York, NY
www.deutscheshaus.as.nyu

Sunday, February 22
6 8pm

LOVE ITS COMPLICATED

FESTIVAL NEUE LITERATUR
The Ancient Greeks defined seven kinds of
love, but didnt categorize the many subgenres,
variations,
adaptations,
and
permutations.
Lets
talk.
LoveIts
Complicated features Marjana Gaponenko,
Monique Schwitter, Tiphanie Yanique and
Eric Jarosinski.
Image: American author Tiphanie Yanique

McNally Jackson Books

52 Prince Street
New York, NY
www.mcnallyjackson.com

THEATER
Thursday, February 19
6 10pm

AFLOAT
INSTALLATION
Artist Ursula Scherrer presents afloat, an
extended form installation event for one night
featuring a near-holographic, animated,
multiple projection video environment and
live sound performed by percussionist Brian
Chase (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and bassist Kato
Hideki (of the Tokyo and New York noise
scenes).
Image: Installation by Ursula Scherrer.

Pioneer Works
159 Pioneer Street
Brooklyn, New York
www.clocktower.org

DESIGN
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.

Philadelphia Museum of Art

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

COMING SOON
Wednesday, March 11
6 7:30pm

VOIX DE FEMMES (VOICES OF WOMEN)

STAGED POETRY WITH MUSIC
VOIX DE FEMMES (Voices of Women) is an
assemblage of poetry and music, a spotlight
on beautiful and often unknown writings by
women from the Antilles, Belgium, Burkina
Faso, Cameroon, Central Africa, Congo,
Ivory Coast, France, Haiti, Lebanon, Mali,
Quebec, Senegal, Switzerland, alternating
with Malian music by Awa Sangho, recently
called the new voice of Africa. Each of these
women, in her own time, world and words,

Columbia Maison Franaise

East Gallery, Buell Hall
515 West 116th Street
New York, NY
www.maisonfrancaise.org

refers to Freedom, Sensuality and the idea of

the feminine invisible universe. Voix de
Femmes is originally inspired by Eleonore
Dyl and Mathilde Schennen and directed by
Elonore Dyl.
Image: Hlne Valenzuela

MEANWHILE IN SWITZERLAND
ZURICH

XANTI SCHAWINSKY
FEBRUARY 21 MAY 17, 2015
The retrospective unites the artist's creative output from all periods positioning it
within a historical context and in relation to its continuing effect on the present. It
is the first to present the full scope of Schawinskys artistic being showing a wide
variety of pieces that havent been accessible to the public for several decades.
Image: Xanti Schawinsky
www.migros-culture-percentage.ch

BERN

JAZZWERKSTATT BERN
FEBRUARY 25 MARCH 1, 2015
Fostering connections and networks between Swiss musicians / artists as well as
the international Jazz scene is the focus of this festival. Participants form new
musical constellations, compose together, work in existing ensembles featuring
special guest, meaning that there will be plenty of space for artistic experiments.
Image: Sylvie Courvasier
www.jazzwerkstatt.ch

ZURICH

FRATELLI
FEBRUARY 23 MARCH 9, 2015
Fratelli at the Junges Schauspielhaus in Zurich portrays two brothers living
together in a flatshare. One is autistic being absorbed in his world, while the
other tries to support and help managing daily life. Moments of unity turn into
feelings of apartness and vice-versa. Gestures and moves become means of
expression in order to find a communication which denies words and rational
thinking.
Imag: Fratelli
www.junges.schauspielhaus.ch

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