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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 April 2 15, 2015

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

HIGHLIGHT
Tuesday, April 7
Sunday, April 12

LORD OF THE RINGS

FILM SCREENING + CONCERT

David H. Koch Theater

New York, NY
www.davidhkochtheater.com

For the first time ever in North America the

complete film trilogy The Lord of the Rings is
presented live in concert from April 7-12,
2015. The Lord of the Rings at the David H.
Koch Theater at Lincoln Center features the
21st Century Symphony Orchestra &
Chorus of Lucerne, Switzerland, conducted
by Ludwig Wicki, which specializes in
bringing films and their scores to life and
performs an annual program of film concerts
at the KKL Luzern.
Image: Lord of the Rings at David H. Koch
Theater.

FILM
Sunday, April 12
4pm

CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA

FILM SCREENING

Wednesday, April 15
7:10pm

Director Olivier Assayas takes pleasure in

being coy with Juliette Binoche and Kristen
Stewart as he knowingly layers references to
their own lives and roller coaster careers in
Clouds of Sils Maria. The film is coproduced
by France, Switzerland, Germany, USA, and
Belgium.
Image: Film still Clouds of Sils Maria, Olivier
Assayas, 2014.

Sunday, April 12
3:30pm

SHANA: THE WOLFS MUSIC

MINNESOTA PREMIERE

Saturday, April 18
1pm

Filmed by Swiss director Nino Jacusso with

the Salish People of the Creeks, Lower
Nicola Indian Band near British Columbia,
Shana: The Wolfs Music tells the story of a
young girls unexpected quest to reconnect
with her ancestors. The film is coproduced by
Nation of the Interior Salish peoples of British
Columbia, Switzerland, and Canada
Image: Film still Shana: The Wolfs Music,
Nino Jacusso, 2014.

34th Annual Minneapolis St.

Paul Film Festival
www.mspiff.org

34th Annual Minneapolis St.

Paul Film Festival
www.mspiff.org

Monday, April 13
2:40pm

UNLIKELY HEROES
MINNESOTA PREMIERE

Friday, April 24
7pm

Unlikely Heroes by Swiss director Peter

Luisi tells the story of Sabine, a housewife
who has recently separated from her
husband and decides to stage the story of
William Tell with a group of asylum seekers.
Image: Film still Unlikely Heroes, Peter Luisi,
2014, Switzerland.

34th Annual Minneapolis St.

Paul Film Festival
www.mspiff.org

MUSIC
Thursday, April 2
9pm

LINUS WYRSCH
CONCERTS

Sunday, April 5
12:30pm

Linus Wyrsch performs with Gregorio Uribe

Big Band at Zinc Bar April 2, with Violette &
La Vie En Rose at the Highline Ballroom on
Sunday, April 5 and with Allyson Briggs &
Fleur Seule at Swing 46 Jazz and Supper
Club on Thursday, April 9.
Image: Linus Wyrsch. Photo credit: Diogo
Barcellos.

Thursday, April 9
8pm

Thursday, April 2
7:30pm

SWISS CHARITY CONCERT 2015

BENEFIT CONCERT
The Swiss Society of New York presents the
Swiss Charity Concert conducted by Victor
Dijon de Monteton with violinist Koh Gabriel
Kameda and Gina Keiko Friesicke. The
program, performed by Orchestra of St.
Lukes includes A. Salieri Sinfonia Veneziana
in D Major, Mozart Violin Concerto No. 3 in G
Major, K. 216, Bach Concerto for Two Violins
in D Minor, and Tchaikovsky Serenade for
Strings in C Major, op. 48.
Image: Victor Dijon de Monteton.

Thursday, April 2
7:30pm

GILLES VONSATTEL
CONCERT
The CMS New Music series champions
modern composers of chamber music and
invites listeners to witness musical innovation
in the stunning Kaplan Penthouse. On
Thursday, April 2nd Swiss pianist Gilles
Vonsattel and fellow musicians perform
works by Tiensuu ...kahdenkesken. (Two of
Us) for Piano, Four Hands (1983), Widmann
Selections from 24 Duos for Violin and Cello
(2008), Bermel Death with Interruptions for
Piano, Violin, and Cello (CMS CoCommission, New York Premiere) (2014),
Kernis Two Movements (with Bells) for Violin
and Piano (2007), and Kirchner Trio No. 1 for
Piano, Violin, and Cello (1954).

Saturday, April 11
12 4pm

CLAUDE DIALLO
CONCERTS

Monday, April 13
7:30pm

Swiss pianist Claude Diallo performs with

Mark Wade (bass) at Garage on Saturday,
April 11 and with Cutris Ostle (bass) and Eliot
Zigmund (drums) at Smalls Jazz Club on
Monday, April 13 at 7:30pm.
Image: Claude Diallo.

Zinc Bar
82 West 3rd Street
New York, NY
www.zincbar.com
Highline Ballroom
431 West 16th Street
New York, NY
www.highlineballroom.com
Swing 46
349 West 46th Street
New York, NY
www.swing46.com
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall
881 7th Avenue
New York, NY
www.swiss-charity-concert.org

Kaplan Penthouse
Lincoln Center
New York, NY
www.chambermusicsociety.org

Garage
99 7th Avenue South
New York, NY
www.garagerest.com
Smalls Jazz Cub
183 West 10th Street
New York, NY
www.smallsjazzclub.com

VISUAL ARTS
Wednesday, April 15
12 6pm

INSIDE OUT
EXHIBITION OPENING
Inside Out at Gallery Molly Krom is a group
show of recent photographs by Swiss artist
Francois Ilnseher, Robin Randisi and Eve
K. Tremblay. The opening reception will take
place on Sunday, April 19 from 6 8pm. The
exhibition will be on view through May 10.
Image: Francois Ilnseher, Untitled 2010 Acrylic on Photograph - 8.5 x 11 inches.

Through April 9

ZIMOUN
EXHIBITION
The Simons Center Gallery presents a solo
exhibition by Zimoun, an internationally
acclaimed artist of kinetic sound sculpture,
sound architecture and installation art. KE,
part of the exhibition title, refers to the
physics symbol for kinetic energy describing
the energy an object possesses due to its
motion.
Image: Courtesy of bitforms gallery, New
York. Photo by Studio Zimoun.

Through May 2

POINT OF CONTACT
GROUP EXHIBITION
Swiss artist Pedro Wirz presents his work in
the thesis exhibition Point of Contact as part
of the Moves & Countermoves exhibition
featuring selected works from the Marieluise
Hessel Collection at the Center for Curatorial
Studies and Hessel Museum of Art at Bard
College. Inspired by both the rave party and
the research lab, Point of Contact studies
variables with an ethos of exuberance.
Artists: Gordon Hall, Martin Roth, Naama
Tsabar, and Pedro Wirz, curated by Xavi
Acarin.
Image: Naama Tsabar, Propagation (Opus
2), 2013.

Through May 24

VALENTIN CARRON
EXHIBITION
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.

Gallery Molly Krom

53c Stanton Street
New York, NY
www.gallerykrom.com

Simons Center Gallery

Stony Brook University
Long Island, NY
www.scgp.stonybrook.edu

Bard College
CCS Bard Hessel Museum
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
http://www.bard.edu/ccs/pointof-contact/

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

DANCE
Sunday, April 5
5pm

ALESSIA DELLA CASA

DANCE
Swiss dancer Alessia Della Casa solo work
LINE will be presented on April 5th 2015 at

NYC Dance Arts Dance

Festival
107 Suffolk Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY
www.nycdancearts.com

NYC Dance Arts Dance Festival and on April

28th at Dixon Place. NYC Dance Arts Dance
Festival is an annual showcase dedicated to
the development of emerging artists and
young professional choreographers. The
dance festival is designed to provide the
opportunity
for
dance
artists/dance
companies to present their new work in a
creative environment.
Image: Alessia Della Casa. Photo: Gaetano
Alfano.

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.
Image: Model of Balancing Tools, 1984
Designed by Claes Oldenburg, American
(born Sweden), born 1929.

Philadelphia Museum of Art

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

ABOVE AND BEYOND

Friday, April 3
9:30 am 1 pm

FROM SGRAFFIO TO GRAFFITI

WORKSHOP
Moderated by Diane Bodart, Columbia
University, and Nomie tienne, Institute of
Fine Arts, From Sgraffio to Graffiti:
Archaeology of a Gesture in the Early
Modern Period is a workshop intended to
create a discussion between scholars who
have investigated early modern practices of
graffiti from several perspectives, in order to
analyze the complexity of this phenomenon
at a time when it had not yet found its current
definition. Speakers include: Francesca
Alberti, Acadmie de France Rome, Juliet
Fleming, New York University, Charlotte
Guichard, CNRS/ IHMC, Paris, Jrmie
Koering, CNRS/ Centre Andr Chastel, Paris,
Vronique
Plesch,
Colby
College,
Alessandra Russo, Columbia University. The
workshop is organized by Diane Bodart.
Image: Nomie tienne.

Through April 12

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.

COMING SOON

Columbia University
934 Schermerhorn Hall
Department of Art History and
Archaeology
1190 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY
www.columbia.edu
RSVP:
db2920@columbia.edu

New York, NY
www.nyuskirball.org

Saturday, April 18
1 6pm

WHERE THE WILD BOOKS ARE

CONFERENCE
Conceived by Swiss illustrator Etienne
Delessert, Where the Wild Books Are
explores and celebrates international picture
books
and
the
publishing industry,
emphasizing their role in promoting global
literacy and creativity. Join critics, authors,
illustrators, publishing professionals, and
educators from Europe, the United States,
and beyond as they introduce audience
members to a diverse array of important
picture books published in France,
Switzerland, Italy, Germany and Japan.
Denise von Stockar, the renowned Swiss
critic of childrens literature will speak on
behalf of German and Swiss childrens
books.
Image: Illustration by Etienne Delessert.

The New School

Auditorium
66 West 12th Street
New York, NY
Register Today:
www.eventbrite.com

MEANWHILE IN SWITZERLAND
BERN

MERET MEYER SCAPA: DEVOTING A LIFE TO ART

APRIL 2 9, 2015
Dont miss the chance to see an exhibition of Meret Meyer-Scapas work at the
Kunstmuseum Bern. Despite the fact that she had many friends in the dance and
art scene, the Bernese artist always kept her own art as a secret and did not
pass any knowledge on to outsiders about the creation, dates, and contents of
her pictures, collages, and three-dimensional objects. In celebration of her 85th
birthday, Meret Meyer-Scapa allows us a glance at her artistic oeuvre.
http://www.kunstmuseumbern.ch/de/sehen/heute/525-eroeffnung-120.html

CULLY

CULLY JAZZ FESTIVAL

APRIL 10 18, 2015
Again this spring, the village of Cully, located on the shores of Lake Geneva, in
the heart of the Lavaux World Heritage site, will be filled with jazz tunes and an
extraordinary atmosphere. In its 33rd edition, the Cully Jazz Festival offers 9 days
of music, 30 paying concerts and 70 free concerts. On three stages, artists such
as Gregory Porter, Stephan Eicher and Big Daddy Wilson will bring blues and
groove to Cully.
http://www.cullyjazz.ch/en/

GENEVA

ALFREDO ACETO
APRIL 15 MAY 5, 2015
The Centre dArt Contemporain in Geneva presents the new exhibition Lavorare,
lavorare, lavorare, preferisco il rumore del mare by the young Italian artist Alfredo
Aceto who is currently in residence at the Centre. As a second instalment of a
previous exhibition, it provides an ironic and friendly response to the Swiss artist
Valentin Carrons exhibition Work Hard at the Swiss Institute in New York. Acetos
homage to Work Hard includes works by French and Italian artists and by Swiss
artist Simon Paccaud.
http://www.centre.ch/en/alfredo-aceto-lavorare-en

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