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SWISS EVENTS
IN NEW YORK AND IN THE NORTHEASTERN PART OF THE U.S.
for the period of October 16 29, 2013

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

HIGHLIGHT
Thursday, October 23 Saturday, October 26 7:30pm ZIMMERMANN & DE PERROT NY PREMIERE In this trailblazing work directed by the inventive Swiss duo Zimmermann & de Perrot, seven performers inhabit a topsyturvy world where, at any moment, the ceiling can become a floor, a floor can become a wall, and a door can become a chasm. Conceived by choreographer Martin Zimmermann and composer Dimitri de Perrot, who performs his ecstatic original scores, Hans was Heiri offers a hilarious portrait of human relationships conveyed through a witty scenic language all its own. Image: Hans was Heiri, photo by Mario del Curto. BAM Harvey Theater Brooklyn, New York www.bam.org/theater

FILM
Thursday, October 17 8:30pm Friday, October 18 8pm SAGRADA ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL AND DESIGN FILM Tribeca Cinemas 54 Varick Street New York, NY www.adfilmfest.com

La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona is a unique and fascinating building project with Antoni Gaudi, an enormous number of workers and a history full of extreme highs and lows. The history of this building, which has been under construction since 1882 and is today only half finished, is the point of departure for a film about this mysterious process of creation, the question of our human creative power and to what ends it is used. The dirctor Stefan Haupt will be present for a Q&A prior to the screening. Image: Sagrada Mystery of Creation, Stefan Haupt, Switzerland, 2012, 95 min.

Friday, October 18 10pm Sunday, October 20 9:30pm

THE INTERIOR PASSAGE ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN FILM FESTIVAL Told through the eyes of Yumiko Yamada, a young Japanese architect living in Lausanne who narrates the film, the viewer becomes acquainted with the players of a major architecture adventure: the construction of the Learning Center at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. Through Yumikos encounters we learn more about the architectural and technical tour de force embodied in this avant-garde building designed by the Japanese architecture firm SANAA, and how important the educational, symbolic, financial and political deliberations were for this enterprise. Image: The Interior Passage, Pierre Maillard, Switzerland, 2010, 82 min. JEAN-LUC GODARD RETROSPECTIVE AT NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL Beginning in the second week of the 51st New York Film Festival and continuing through the end of October, Film Society of Lincoln Center presents a retrospective of one of the greatest artists at work in any medium, Jean-Luc Godard. Image: Jean-Luc Godard's Vivre sa vie. Image courtesy of Films de la Pleiade / The Kobal Collection.

Tribeca Cinemas 54 Varick Street New York, NY www.adfilmfest.com

Through October

New York Film Festival Film Society of Lincoln Center New York, NY www.filmlinc.com/nyff2013

MUSIC
Wednesday, October 16 8pm SYLVIE COURVOISIER CONCERT Swiss pianist and composer Sylvie Courvoisier performs Erik Friedlanders Claws and Wings with Iku Mori at The Stone at the corner of Avenue C and 2nd Street. Image: Sylvie Courvoisier. Friday, October 18 7:30pm EMILIE WEIBEL / OMOO CONCERT Swiss singer Emilie Weibel performs with her solo voice project oMoO for The Sound It Out Concert Series at The Greenwich House Music School this coming Friday at 7:30pm followed by singer Sara Serpa and her City Fragmentz. Image: Emilie Weibel. Photo: Jennifer Painter. Saturday, October 26 2pm CHARLES DUTOIT CONCERT Charles Dutoit conducts the Saturday Matinee Pictures at an Exhibition at Avery Fisher Hall on Saturday, October 26. Image: Charles Dutoit. Sunday, October 27 5pm MAURICE STEGER TRIO NY DEBUT The Maurice Steger Trio performs A Baroque Musical Journey to Southern Italy at the Frick Collection with Phoebe Carrai. Image: Maurice Steger. The Stone Avenue C and 2nd Street New York, NY www.thestonenyc.com

Greenwich Music House School 46 Barrow Street New York, NY www.emilieweibel.com

Avery Fisher Hall 10 Lincoln Square New York, NY www.nyphil.org

The Frick Collection 1 East 70th Street New York, NY www.frick.org

VISUAL ARTS
Saturday, October 19 7pm Thursday, October 24 9pm MUELLER / KUNTNER PERFORMANCE German artist Jusha Mueller and Swiss sound artist Christian Kuntner present two sound driven painting performances at Bond Street Studio on Saturday October 19 and at Frosch & Portmann on Thursday, October 24. Image: Sound-Driven-Painting Performance. Bond Street Studio 235 Bond Street Brooklyn, New York www.bondstreetstudio.com Frosch & Portmann 53 Stanton Street New York, NY www.froschportmann.com

Saturday, October 19 Sunday, October 20 7 9pm

EUGEN MEIER MATHEVIE EXHIBITION THE BARN presents the works of Swiss artist Eugen Meier Mathevie from Zurich on Saturday October 19 and Sunday October 20 in Middletown, New York. Image: Drawing by Eugen Meier Mathevie.

THE BARN 2 Decker Drive Middletown, NY www.thebarn-art.com

Tuesday, October 29 Thursday, October 31

MALIN ARNELL ACTION For the three-day action I am not quite sure. This is an arduous terrain Malin Arnell has invited nine lives to each spend an hour in silence in the foyer of Swiss Institute. I am not quite sure. This is an arduous terrain is part of the group show Descartes Daughter. Curated by Piper Marshall.

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

Through October 19

PATAPHYSICS GROUP EXHIBITION Sean Kelly announces Pataphysics: A Theoretical Exhibition, a group exhibition with artists Olaf Breuning and Fischli and Weiss (among others) focusing on pataphysical sensibilities in contemporary art, exploring the impact of this quirky and deeply influential philosophy originated at the end of the 19th century by the French poet and playwright Alfred Jarry. Image: Kris Martin, Apocalypse, 2008.

Sean Kelly Gallery 475 Tenth Avenue New York, NY www.skny.com

Through October 26

DEATH OF A CAMERAMAN EXHIBITION apexart is pleased to present Death of a Cameraman featuring works by Broomberg & Chanarin, Harun Farocki, Rabih Mrou, Hrair Sarkissian, and Swiss artist Rudolf Steiner, organized by Martin Waldmeier. On view through October 26. Image: Rudolf Steiner, Pictures of me, shooting myself into a Picture (2), 1997, Farbdia Fujichrome RDPII, 25.5 x 20.5 cm.

apexart 291 Church Street New York, NY www.apexart.com

Through October 29

CORINNE LACIGA EXHIBITION Swiss artist Corinne Laciga presents her photographic work at ARTIFACT Gallery on Orchard Street throughout October. Image: Photograph by Corinne Laciga.

ARTIFACT Gallery 84 Orchard Street New York, NY www.artifactnyc.net

Through October 29

WHATS YOUR SPIEL? EXHIBITION Whats your Spiel? is an exhibition of independent computer games made in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland featuring Feist an exploratory game designed by Zurich based Florian Faller and Adrian Stutz and Krautscape a muliti player racing game designed by Swiss game designer Mario von Rickenbach. Image: Krautscape by Mario von Rickenbach.

Deutsches Haus at NYU 42 Washington Mews New York, NY www.deutscheshaus.as.nyu.edu

Through November 2

JOHN ARMLEDER EXHIBITION Nahmad Contemporary is pleased to present a solo exhibition of the Swiss artist John Armleder. The exhibition spans the last two decades of artists career, showing a number of pieces for the first time in New York. Image: John Armleder, Chabasite, 2008.

Nahmad Contemporary 980 Madison Avenue 3rd Floor New York, NY www.nahmadcontemporary.com

Through November 3

DESCARTES DAUGHTER EXHIBITION Swiss Institute is pleased to present the exhibition Descartes' Daughter, featuring works by Malin Arnell, Miriam Cahn, John Chamberlain, Hanne Darboven, Melanie Gilligan, Rochelle Goldberg, Nicols Guagnini / Jeff Preiss, Rachel Harrison, Lucas Knipscher, Jason Loebs, Ulrike Mller, Pamela Rosenkranz, Karin Schneider, Sergei Tcherepnin, Charline von Heyl. Curated by Piper Marshall. Image: Detail of Hanne Darboven, Urzeit/Uhrzeit, Fisch und Vogel, la, lb, 1986.

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

Through November 13

REGIS COLOMBO EXHIBITION S Artspace is pleased to announce the selection of Regis Colombo Transparencies at the kick-off party of the 16th edition of the Affordable Art Fair at the Times Square W Hotel New York. This exhibition will focus on New York's love for fashion, travel and design. On view until November 13. Image: Woody Allen by Regis Colombo

W Hotel Times Square 1567 Broadway 7th Floor Living Room New York, NY www.regiscolombo.com

Through November 24

ILL BE YOUR MIRROR EXHIBITION The School at ICP presents Ill Be Your Mirror: Navigating Interaction in the Digital Age, a photographic exhibition examining contemporary forms of contact and communication in an ever-changing media landscape. Featuring works by Swiss photographer Andreas Rentsch and other alumni of the Full-Time Programs, the exhibition critiques various modes of representation and consumption in the digital era. Image: Andreas Rentsch, from X-Ray Series, 2012.

School of the International Center of Photography 1114 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY www.icp.org

Through December 4 6:30 11pm daily

ROMAN SIGNER EXHIBITION For the High Line, Roman Signer presents his celebrated 8mm film Kayak. In the short work, Signer sits in a blue kayak clad in a

High Line Seating Steps at W. 22nd Street New York, NY www.art.thehighline.org

black leather motorcycle jacket and a white helmet. Rather than commence his journey in the water, a truck tows Signer on a dry road as the bottom of the kayak is slowly scraped away. As Signer is dragged along a Swiss country road, a herd of dairy cows gallop alongside him, as if captivated by the surreal scene. By decontextualizing the familiar, Signer expands, in a humorously subversive and poetic vein, our view of the world. Image: Roman Signer, Kayak, 2000. Video Still. Through January 12 BALTHUS CATS AND GIRLS EXHIBITION Focusing on Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski) finest works, the exhibition Cats and Girls Paintings and Provocations at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is limited to approximately thirty-five paintings dating from the mid-1930s to the 1950s. Never before shown in public is the series of forty small ink drawings for Mitsou, in which the elevenyear-old Balthus evoked his adventures with a stray tomcat and which were published by the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke in 1921. This is the first US exhibition of the artist's works in thirty years. Through January 12, 2014. Image: Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski) Thrse, 1938. Through March 16, 2014 2013 CARNEGIE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION Presented every 3-5 years at Carnegie Museum of Art, the Carnegie International is among the leading exhibitions of contemporary art worldwide. Featuring hundreds of works by artists from around the globe, the 2013 International is a catalyst for new ways to present, experience, and think about art. The exhibition is organized by Swiss curator Daniel Baumann along with associate curators Dan Byers and Tina Kukielski and includes two workshop-based projects by Swiss artist Tobias Madison. Image: Tobias Madison, process documentation for the making of Workshop, 2013, video and installation. Photo: David D'Agostino. Metropolitan Museum of Art 100 5th Avenue New York, NY www.metmuseum.org

Carnegie Museum of Art 4400 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA www.cmoa.org

ARCHITECTURE
Wednesday, October 16 6 pm JEAN-LOUIS COHEN ON LE CORBUSIER LECTURE A special lecture in conjunction with Architecture and Design Month by JeanLouis Cohen, Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU on Le Corbusier, an Atlas of Modern Landscape. Open to the public, RSVP required. Image: Publication Le Corbusier an Atlas of Modern Landscape. New York University Institute of Fine Arts New York, NY www.nyu.edu

Thursday, October 24 1pm

U.N. CAPITAL MASTER PLAN TOUR Assistant Secretary-General Michael Adlerstein, Executive Director of the UN Capital Master Plan and AIA Fellow, alongside escort Werner Schmidt, Public Information Officer of the United Nations Capital Master Plan, will lead participants on an exploration of the United Nations architectural history, including Le Corbusiers contentious collaboration with the projects main architect Oscar Niemeyer. The tour will also highlight the recent restoration of the Secretariat, which houses the UN's working spaces, and the historic renovation of the three Chambers of the Conference Building. Image: Le Corbusier.

United Nations First Avenue at 42nd Street New York, NY www.cfa.aiany.org

Through February 2, 2014

CHRISTIAN WASSMANN EXHIBITION Studio Christian Wassmann presents an architectural structure in the form of a star tetrahedron as part of the New York-based fashion collective threeASFOURs latest project MER KA BA, an otherworldly installation that fuses avant-garde couture, architecture, and video projections. Image: threeASFOUR, in collaboration with Bradley Rothenberg; rendering of 3D-printed weave for MER KA BA, 2013 threeASFOUR.

Jewish Museum 1109 5th Avenue New York, NY www.thejewishmuseum.org

THEATER
Thursday, October 24 7:30pm BETH URECH THEATER Beth Urech performs ActYourAge! in which she reveals her life as a scotch-drinking 16year old who becomes a telephone operator in NYC, an unhappy Hausfrau in the Swiss Alps, a globetrotting entrepreneur and a sailor. Image: Beth Urech Spectrum NYC 121 Ludlow Street New York, NY www.bethurech.com

DESIGN
Thursday, October 24 LAZY BYTES EXHIBITION OPENING As part of its effort to renew our relationship to the digital world, and under the title of Lazy Bytes, the EPFL+ECAL Lab collaborated with the Kudelski Group to invite four major design schools to rethink the remote control: the Royal College of Art in London, ENSCILes Ateliers de Paris, Parsons The New School for Design in New York, and the ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne. To concentrate on the value of the object in relation to the user, the projects were given the freedom to limit the number of functions. The results fit well alongside more complex interfaces for controlling our domestic environment. They aim to challenge and renew our daily relationship with the digital world. The exhibition will be on view until October 31. Parsons The New School for Design 66 Fifth Avenue at 13th Street New York, NY www.epfl-ecal-lab.ch

ABOVE AND BEYOND

Monday, October 21 6pm SETTIMANA DELLA LINGUA ITALIANA LECTURE Switzerland has always occupied a crossroads of Europe with constant movement of cultures and ideas. John Florio, a Protestant Italian migr born in London in 1553, spent his early years in Soglio, Val Begaglia, in the mountainous Italianspeaking region of the canton of Graubnden bordering Italy. Florio would later become a prominent linguist, translator, educator and an ambassador of the Italian language and culture throughout Elizabethan England. Swiss-native Herrmann W. Haller, Professor of Italian at CUNYs Graduate Center, presents the first critical edition of John Florios A Worlde of Wordes (1598), the first comprehensive Italian-English dictionary ever published. A Worlde of Wordes is a remarkable achievement and a tribute to Renaissance Italys rich literary and scientific culture, featuring 46000 Italian entries. Image: A Worlde of Wordes by John Florio. Italian Cultural Institute 686 Park Avenue New York, NY RSVP 212 879 4242 ext. 370 www.iicnewyork.esteri.it

COMING SOON
October 31 November 21 OLIVIER MOSSET EXHIBITION Swiss artist Olivier Mosset presents Exposition de Groupe at the Cultural Services of the French Embassy from Oct 31 - Nov 21, 2013. The exhibition includes an installation of motorcycles and paintings, as well as a video collaboration with Amy Granat and Drew Heitzler. The artist presents what he terms a group show, underscoring how the legibility of any artwork is possible only in the context of a larger and living collectivity. Image: Panhead Olivier Mosset, Vincent Szarek, Jeffrey Schad Monday, November 4 7pm JOEL DICKER TALK & BOOK SIGNING As part of Swiss Series at FIAF, meet Jol Dicker, the 28-year-old Swiss sensation whose second book, La vrit sur laffaire Harry Quebert kicked Fifty Shades of Grey off the bestseller list of Amazon.fr, and has won three major literary prizes, including the novelists award from the Acadmie franaise. Dicker will speak in French about his bestselling novel, a classic, whodunit murder mystery set in New York City. Talk will be followed by a book signing. Presented in partnership with the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York and Vacheron Constantin, the oldest manufacturer of Swiss luxury watches. Image: Jol Dicker Jeremy Spierer. Cultural Services of the French Embassy 972 Fifth Avenue New York, NY www.frenchculture.org

FIAF, Le Skyroom 22 East 60th Street New York, NY www.fiaf.org

MEANWHILE IN SWITZERLAND

BASEL

THOMAS SCHTTE OCTOBER 6 FEBRUARY 2, 2014 Fondation Beyeler presents the figural works of Thomas Schtte, and consequently the human figure and its various forms of expression. Presenting sculptures from the past thirty years inside the museum and outside in the gardens, the show brings together well-known pieces as well as works that are rarely seen in public and others that are brand new. Powerfully expressive women of steel and aluminum, mighty spirits of bronze, doll-like figurines of modeling clay, larger than life heads and figures of ceramic, wood and glass, delicate watercolor portraits, and photographs rich in contrasts Schttes oeuvre testifies to a delight in radical experimentation and defies exact classification. It is this that makes him one of the most fascinating and innovative artists of the present day. Image: Thomas Schtte at Fondation Beyeler. www.fondationbeyeler.ch

Contact :
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