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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 Saturday, February 21 12:30pm 6pm Sunday, February 22 12pm 6pm

FESTIVAL NEUE LITERATUR 2015 READINGS AND DISCUSSIONS Now in its sixth edition, the Festival Neue Literatur presents emerging German-language 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Through February 22

DAVID WEISS EXHIBITION David Weiss (1946-2012) was world-renowned for his sculptural, photographic and video work, made as Fischli/Weiss in collaboration with Peter Fischli beginning in 1979. This exhibition focuses on the lesser-known 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-before-seen 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Canton Museum of Art 1001 Market Avenue North Canton, Ohio www.cantonart.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.

The Heckscher Museum of Art 2 Prime Avenue Huntington, NY www.heckscher.org

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.

Gladstone Gallery 530 West 21

st 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.

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

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

MoMA 11 West 53

rd 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

Deutsches Haus at Columbia 420 West 116th Street New York, NY www.columbia.edu www.festivalneueliteratur.org

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

Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery New York, NY www.boweryartsandscience.org

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

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

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 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 sub-genres, 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 FranaiseEast 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

Contact : Contact: Consulate General of Switzerland in New York, Cultural Department: nyc.culture@eda.admin.ch Swiss Links: Consulate General of Switzerland in New York: www.swissconsulatenyc.org Embassy of Switzerland and Swiss representations in the USA: www.swissemb.org General Information on Switzerland: www.switzerland.com, www.swissworld.org Swiss News World Wide: www.swissinfo.org Government: www.admin.ch Tourism: www.myswitzerland.com Presence Switzerland (PRS): www.fdfa.admin.ch/presenceswitzerland Swissnex- Swiss network for science and technology: www.swissnex.org Trade and Investment: www.s-ge.com

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