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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 March 4 18, 2015

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

HIGHLIGHT
Wednesday, March 11
6 7:30pm

VOIX DE FEMMES
STAGED READING + DISCUSSION
In celebration of Mois de la Francophonie
2015, Maison Franaise at Columbia
University presents Voix de Femmes (Voices
of Women). Voix de Femmes 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,
and
Switzerland,
alternating with Malian music by Awa
Sangho. Each of these women, in her own
time, world and words, refers to Freedom,
Sensuality and the idea of the feminine
invisible universe. Voix de Femmes, directed
by Elonore Dyl, is originally inspired by Dyl
and Mathilde Schennen. Actresses are
Schennen and Lola Diane.
Image: Hlne Valenzuela

Columbia Maison Franaise

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

FILM
Thursday, March 5
9pm

PARVANEH
SHORTFILM SCREENING
BAM Rose Cinemas presents a showcase of
works nominated for this years Academy
Award for Best Live-Action Short Film
including Parvaneh directed by Talkhon
Hamzavi
and
Stefan
Eichenberger,
depicting a young Afghan immigrants travels
to Zurich.
Image: Film still Parvaneh, directed by
Talkhon Hamzavi, Switzerland, 2012.

Friday March 13
11:00am

KEEP ROLLIN
NY PREMIERE

Saturday March 14
8pm

Reelabilities New York Disabilities Film

Festival is pleased to present the film Keep
Rollin by Stefan Hillebrand and Oliver
Paulus on Friday, March 13 at Hunter

Tuesday March 17

BAM Rose Cinemas

Peter Jay Sharp Building
Brooklyn, NY
www.bam.org

Hunter College Main Campus

424 Hunter North Building
www.newyork.reelabilities.org
JCC Manhattan
334 Amsterdam Ave
www.newyork.reelabilities.org

2pm

College, Saturday, March 14 at JCC

Manhattan and on Tuesday, March 17 at
Pace University.
Image: Film still Keep Rollin directed by
Stefan
Hillebrand,
Oliver
Paulus
/
Switzerland / Germany, 95 min.

Pace University
3 Spruce St
www.newyork.reelabilities.org

MUSIC
Thursday, March 5
7pm

BEAT KAESTLI
CONCERT
Swiss jazz singer Beat Kaestli performs
selections from his recent release, a French
tribute entitled Collage, with Jesse Lewis
(guitar), Will Holshouser (accordion), Gary
Wang (bass) and Fred Kennedy (drums and
percussion) at Brooklyn Public Library on
Thursday March 5.
Image: Beat Kaestli.

Friday, Mach 6
9pm

EMILIE WEIBEL
CONCERT
Emilie Weibel sings with her minimalist
vocal project oMoO at the Steampunk
Masquerade Ball at The Lovecraft Bar in the
Lower East Side on Friday, March 6 at 9pm.
Image: Emilie Weibel.

Sunday, March 14
8:30 + 10:30pm

ALEX BUGNON
CONCERT
Swiss jazz pianist Alex Bugnon performs at
Iridium on Sunday, March 14 at 8:30pm and
10:30pm. Bugnon has been a prolific,
energetic force on the contemporary music
scene for more than two decades and is a
renowned
musician,
composer,
and
bandleader.
Image: Alex Bugnon.

Wednesday, March 18

CLAUDE DIALLO
CONCERT
Swiss jazz pianist Claude Diallo performs
with Luques Curtis (bass) and tba (drums) at
Happy Ending on Broome Street on
Wednesday, March 18. Please check the
website for updates.
Image: Claude Diallo.

Thursday, March 5
9pm

LINUS WYRSCH
CONCERTS

Saturday, March 7
8:30pm

Swiss Jazz musician Linus Wyrsch

performs on Thursday, March 5 at Zinc Bar
with Gregorio Uribe Big Band at 9pm, on
Saturday, March 7th at Opia Restaurant and
Renaissance Hotel with Violette & La Vie En
Rose at 8:30pm, on Tuesday, March 10 at
The Princeton Club with Linus NYC Duo at
6:30pm, on Saturday, March 14 at Roulette
with Gregorio Uribe Big Band at 8pm and on
Sunday, March 15 with Violette & La Vie En
Rose at the Highline Ballroom at 12:30pm.
Image: Linus Wyrsch. Photo credit: Diogo
Barcellos.

Tuesday, March 10
6:30pm
Saturday, March 14
8pm
Sunday, March 15
12:30pm

Brooklyn Public Library

10 Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn, NY
www.bklynlibrary.org

The Lovecraft Bar

50 Avenue B
New York, NY
www.eventbrite.com

Iridium
1650 Broadway
New York, NY
www.theiridium.com

Happy Ending
302 Broome Street
New York, NY
www.happyending-nyc.com
www.claudediallo.com

Zinc Bar
82 W 3rd Street
www.gregoriouribebigband.com
Opia Restaurant
130 E 57th Street
www.opiarestaurant.com
The Princeton Club
15 W 43rd Street
www.princetonclub.com
Roulette
509 Atlantic Ave. Brooklyn
www.roulette.org
Highline Ballroom
431 W 16th Street
www.highlineballroom.com

VISUAL ARTS
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.

Thursday, March 5
Sunday, March 8

SWISS GALLERIES
AT THE ARMORY SHOW

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

THE ARMORY SHOW

New York, NY
www.thearmoryshow.com

The Armory Show is a leading international

contemporary and modern art fair and one of
the most important annual art events in New
York. Dont miss the Swiss galleries: Galerie
Peter
Kilchmann,
Galerie
Eva
Presenhuber
and
Skopia
Art
Contemporain. For more information about
the fairs, exhibitors and artists, please visit
the website.
Image: The Armory Show.
Thursday, March 5
5 9pm

OUSMANE DIA
OPENING RECEPTION
Ray Gallery presents The Renaissance, an
exhibition by Senegalese-Swiss artist
Ousmane DIA. Ousmane DIA works with
wood and recycled metals, demonstrating his
respect for the environment and man-made
materials. The solo exhibition will be on view
until March 31, 2015
Image: Ousmane DIA.

Friday, March 6
7pm

CLAUDIA COMTE
SCREENING
Join Swiss Institute for a color-coded cocktail
soire and the premiere of Tornado
Kit (2014) by artist Claudia Comte on Friday,
March 6 at 7pm. Tornado Kit is a comic
universe, populated by real-life hockey
players who glide around a fictional board
game, which was installed last year on the
central ice rink in Gstaad, Switzerland as part
of Elevation 1049.
Image: Claudia Comte Tornado Kit

Monday, March 9
7pm

MAI-THU PERRET + FABRICE STROUN

IN CONVERSATION
Swiss Institute presents artist Mai-Thu
Perret in conversation with Fabrice Stroun,
who has co-curated with Mai-Thu Perret
close to twenty exhibitions. Mai-Thu Perret
is known for her multidisciplinary, installationbased practice that combines feminist politics
with literary texts, homemade crafts and 20th
century avant-garde aesthetics.

Ray Gallery
55 Washington Street
Brooklyn, NY
www.raygalleryny.com

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

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

Saturday, March 14
1 4pm

FERDINAND A. BRADER
LECTURE + EXHIBITION CLOSING
The Swiss American Historical Society
invites you to a lecture by Kathleen
Wieschaus, exhibition curator of The Legacy
of Ferinand A. Brader at the Canton Museum
of Art. Ferinand 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.
Image: Ferdinand A. Brader.

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.

Canton Museum of Art

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

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

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.

Through March 27

KITCHEN GIRLS + TOY BOYS

GROUP EXHIBITION
On February 26th, 2015 through March 7th,
2015, Berlin-based artist and curator, Jonny
Star, presents a new iteration of her
interdisciplinary
SUPERUSCHI
shows
entitled kitchen girls & toy boys featuring
Swiss artist duo Monica Germann & Daniel
Lorenzi at Rush Arts Gallery in Chelsea.
Image: kitchen girls & toy boys

Through March 27

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.

Through March 29

CHINA BLUE
GROUP EXHIBITION
Art League of Rhode Island presents the
group exhibition Explored and Envisioned
featuring Swiss artist China Blue at The Vets
Gallery. Curated by Uli Brahmst.
Image: Photinus Muybridgeous by China
Blue.

ARCHITECTURE

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

Rush Arts Gallery

526 W 26th Street # 311
New York, NY
www.rushphilanthropic.org

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

The Vets Gallery

One Avenue of the Arts
Providence, RI
www.artleagueri.org

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.

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.

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

University of Puerto Rico

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

LITERATURE
Tuesday, March 17
6:30pm

LETA SEMADENI
READING + DISCUSSION
Swiss poet and current Pro Helvetia writer-inresidence Leta Semadeni reads from and
discusses her latest work with Consul
Thomas Schneider, Head of the Culture and
Education Department at the Consulate
General of Switzerland on Tuesday, March
17 at Deutsches Haus at NYU. Semadeni is
the author of the collection of poems In mia
vita da vuolp / In meinem Leben als Fuchs
written in Rhaeto-Romanic and German.
Image: Leta Semadeni Yvonne Bhler

Deutsches Haus at NYU

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

THEATER
Saturday, March 14
Sunday, March 29

REMOTE NEW YORK

INTERACTIVE THEATER
NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
presents a pedestrian based live art
experience Rimini Protokolls Remote New
York. Directed by Stefan Kaegi, Rimini
Protokoll is an art collective that utilizes the
tools and techniques of theater to develop
works inventing unusual perspectives on
reality. Participants will be emailed
the starting location 48 hours prior to the start
time.
Image: Rimini Protokoll.

DESIGN

New York, NY
www.nyuskirball.org

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 18
8:30pm

CHLO LVY
CONCERTS

Sunday, March 22
8:30pm

Swiss musician Chlo Lvy (vocals,

kalimba) performs solo at Seeds Brooklyn on
March 18 at 8:30pm, at Bowery Arts &
Science in the East Village on March 22 and
with Ben Monder at Firehouse Space in
Brooklyn on March 27th at 8pm.
Image: Chlo Lvy

Friday, March 27
8pm

SEEDS BROOKLYN
617 Vanderbilt Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
www.seedsbrooklyn.org
Bowery Arts & Science
308 Bowery
New York, NY
www.boweryartsandscience.org
THE FIREHOUSE SPACE
246 Frost Street
Brooklyn, NY
www.thefirehousespace.org

Thursday, March 19
Saturday, March 21
8:30pm

SEBASTIEN AMMANN
CONCERTS
Color Wheel presents new music for three
nights at Ibeam Brooklyn from March 19th to
March 21st at 8:30pm. Michal Attias - alto
saxophone, Sebastien Ammann - piano,
composition, Noah Garabedian bass, and
Nathan Ellman-bell drums.
Image: Sebastien Ammann.

Thursday, March 19
9:15pm

CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA

FILM SCREENING

Sunday, March 22
9:15pm

Hecho en Europa: 6 Festival de Cine

Europeo presents Clouds of Sils Maria, a
coproduction directed by Olivier Assayas
starring Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart.
Image: Filmstill Clouds of Sils Maria, directed
by Olivier Assayas, May 2014, France /
Germany / Switzerland.

Tuesday, March 24
4:15pm

IBeam Brooklyn
168 7th Street
Brooklyn, New York
www.ibeambrooklyn.com

Hecho en Europa
Fine Arts Caf Miramar
San Juan, Puerto Rico
www.festivaldecineeuropeo.com

MEANWHILE IN SWITZERLAND
LUCERNE

FUMETTO INTERNATIONAL COMIX FESTIVAL

MARCH 7 15, 2015
The 24th edition of the international festival for comic art will take place in Lucerne
this march with a wide range of exhibitions, student workshops, lectures, talks

and concerts. As a platform for influential and innovative comic art, Fumetto
gathers the works by the most famous graphic novel artists, such as French artist
Tardi who presents his first retrospective.
Image: Tardi au Fumetto 2015.
BERN

40th INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL BERN

MARCH 16 MAI 24, 2015
Now in its 40th edition, the International Jazz Festival Bern presents renowned
Jazz, Blues and Soul musicians from all over the world. This years opening night
features Michel Camilo & Tomatito and Stefano Bollani & Hamilton DeHolanda.
Visit the festival website for a complete list of concerts and events.
Image: Stefano Bollani & Hamilton DeHolanda pietropreviti.
www.jazzfestivalbern.ch

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