swiss events in new york: february 20 - march 5 2013

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SWISS EVENTS

IN NEW YORK

AND IN THE NORTHEASTERN PART OF THE U.S.for the period of February 20 March 5, 2013

UPCOMING/ONGOING EVENTSFilm| Music | Visual Arts | Architecture| Literature | Design | Above and Beyond | Coming Soon | Meanwhile in Switzerland

Dates, locations and ticket prices are subject to change. Please confirm before visiting events!

HIGHLIGHTS

Friday, February 22Sunday, February 24

FESTIVAL NEUE LITERATUR 2013READINGS + DISCUSSIONS

Festival Neue Literatur features German-language authors Clemens Setz andCornelia Travnicek (Austrian), Leif Randtand Silke Scheuermann (German), UlrikeUlrich and Tim Krohn (Swiss), as well asU.S. authors Joshua Ferris and Justin Taylor.Under the curatorial direction and moderationof Susan Bernofsky and Claudia Steinberg,this years festival will feature panel

discussions on dystopianism and moderntravelogues alongside a conversation withColumbia University grad students and theever-popular Frhschoppen brunch readings.All Festival Neue Literatur events are freeand open to the public. Please visit thewebsite or see the LITERATURE section fordetails. Image: Ulrike Ulrich Ute Schendel.Tim Krohn Jonas Knecht.

FNL 2013Various locations inManhattan and Brooklynwww.festivalneueliteratur.org

Thursday, February 216pm

GIMME MORERECEPTION + PANEL DISCUSSION

From February 21 through March 2, 2013, anew exhibition will enable visitors to explore

the link between the physical and digitalworlds via augmented reality-basedimmersive installations that fascinate,engage and delight. The Gimme Moreexhibition was created by Swiss designEPFL+ECAL Lab and was awarded theDMY International Design Festival BerlinPrize 2010.

EYEBEAM540 West 21st StreetNew York, NYwww.eyebeam.org

FILM
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Friday, March 13:45pm

ARCHITECTURE ON SCREENFILM SCREENING

Center for Architecture presents thedocumentary film Le Paysage Interieur bydirector Pierre Maillard as part of theArchitecture on Screen film festival. Filmedbetween 2007 and 2010, the documentaryrecords the building of the Rolex Learning

Center at the cole Polytechnique Fdralein Lausanne, the library of the future,combining a learning laboratory, a library,and an international cultural center. Thisdistinctly innovative building, in the shape ofa huge wave, sprang from the imagination ofJapanese architects Kazuyo Sejima andRyue Nishizawa from SANAA, winners of the2010 Pritzker prize.Image: Le Paysage Interieur by PierreMaillard (Switzerland). 82 min. / 2010 /French, English, Japanese; English subtitles

Center for Architecture536 La Guardia PlaceNew York, NYwww.cfa.aiany.org

MUSIC

Tuesday, February 26,March 5, March 2610pm

Wednesday, February 208pm

BONAPARTECONCERTS

Dont miss Bonapartes solo sets at Pianoson 26 and at the Knitting Factory in Brooklynon February 20. Bonaparte will also performwith Divas at Pianos on March 5th and onMarch 26.Image: Bonaparte

Pianos158 Ludlow StreetNew York, NYwww.pianosnyc.com

Knitting Factory361 Metropolitan AvenueBrooklyn, NYwww.bk.knittingfactory.com


Saturday, March 29pm

BOYCONCERTS

The duo BOY (Valeska Steiner and SonjaGlass) gets your toes tapping, mind playing,feet moving, emotions travelling, headthinking, hips jerking. But above all, theymake music that brings a smile to your face.BOY performs at Joes Pub on Friday, March1 and at Union Hall in Brooklyn on Saturday,March 2.Image: BOY

Joes Pub425 Lafayette Street

New York, NYwww.joespub.com

Union Hall5th Ave and 702 Union StreetBrooklyn, New Yorkwww.unionhallny.com

VISUAL ARTS

Thursday, February 216 8pm

KHNE / KLEINEXHIBITION OPENING

Pavel Zoubok Gallery is pleased to presentthe exhibition Somewhere Only We KnowbySwiss artist-duo HENDRIKJE KHNE andBEAT KLEIN. Their intricately wroughtcollages and sculptures of cut postcardscreate spatial environments that are at oncefamiliar and fantastical.Image: Khne/Klein, Andys Girls, 2011.

Pavel Zoubok531 West 26th StreetNew York, NYwww.pavelzoubok.com
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Thursday, February 216 8pm

FRANCOISE & DANIEL CARTIEREXHIBITION OPENING

House Project is pleased to present f&dcartiers solo exhibition veni etiam. Theopening reception will take place onThursday, February 21 from 6 8pm and theexhibition will be on view until April 20 th.Image: f&d cartier, Barbara, 2002

House Project31 Howard StreetNew York, NYwww.housprojects.com

Saturday, February 233pm

HANS ULRICH OBRISTCONVERSATION

In 1993, Hans Ulrich Obrist started do it, anexhibition in progress that is now twentyyears old. The conversation withMassimiliano Gioni, Associate Director andDirector of Exhibition at the New Museum willexplore the projects beginnings, itsliterations, and its repercussions in thecontext of the cultural and politicaldevelopments of the early 90s. Moderated

by Kate Fowle, Executive Director ofIndependent Curators International.Image: Hans Ulrich Obrist Yang Fudong,Shanghai, 2009

New Museum235 BoweryNew York, NYwww.newmuseum.org

Through March 2 ILLUSTRATORS 55EXHIBITION

The exhibit Illustrators 55 Part 2 featuresworks by leading contemporary illustratorsworldwide, selected by a prestigious jury ofprofessionals. Gold Medal winners in theBook category include Anna and ElenaBalbusso for their image Tatyana, VictoNgai's Jacks and Queens at the Green Mill,and Sam Weber for Lolita. Silver Medals are

awarded to Julianna Brion's Wirefox, EtienneDelessert's Ionesco Stories 2, and YukoShimizu for her piece The Unwritten.Image: Illustration by Etienne Delessert

Museum of AmericanIllustrationSociety of Illustrators128 East 63rd StreetNew York, NYwww.societyillustrators.org

Through April 1 [UN]NATURAL LIMITSEXHIBITION

This international group exhibition gatherstogether different artistic reactions to thealienating effects of the unfettered globalexploitation of resources, and offers insightinto the denial and myopia of current politicalresponses to what increasingly appears to bea perpetual crisis. Artists include DesireMachine Collective, Thomas Hirschhorn,Mathias Kessler, Superflex, Mierle LadermanUkeles, and Lois Weinberger. Curated byDieter Buchhart and Arnaud Gerspacher.Image: Thomas Hirschhorn, Resistance-Subjecter 2011, Courtesy of the artist &Gladstone Gallery, NY. Photo by AnnaKowalska.

Austrian Cultural Forum11 East 52nd StreetNew York, NYwww.acfny.org
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Through April 13 DIETER ROTH, BJRN ROTHEXHIBITION

On 23 January 2013, Hauser & Wirth NewYork will open Dieter Roth. Bjrn Roth, alandmark exhibition of masterworks thathighlights this remarkable twenty-yearcollaboration and, through it, the diversity ofthe practice that has established Dieter Roth

as one of the most inventive and influentialartists of the second half of the 20th century.Dieter Roth. Bjrn Roth culminates Hauser &Wirths 20th anniversary and inaugurates theopening of the gallerys new, secondexhibition space in New York City, at 511West 18th Street, between Tenth andEleventh Avenues.Images: The Floor II (Studio Floor fromMosfellsbaer, Iceland). 1977 1998. Photoby Jens Kirchner.

Hauser & Wirth511 West 18th StreetNew York, NYwww.hauserwirth.com

Through June 24 DIETER ROTHEXHIBITION

The exhibition Wait, Later This Will BeNothing: Editions by Dieter Roth focuses onRoths incredibly innovative and prolificperiod from 1960 to 1975. The centerpiece ofthe exhibition is an expanded presentation ofSnow (1963 69), a Roth artists book inMoMAs collection, featuring many morepages of the book than have ever beenexhibited.Image:Dieter Roth, Snow, 1964/69 2013Estate of Dieter Roth

MoMASecond Floor11 West 53rd StreetNew York, NY

www.moma.org

Through August 31 JOEL TETTAMANTIEXHIBITION

Jol Tettamanti's photographs are a vastarchive of the structures, villages and citiesthat people create and inhabit, and thelandforms and climates that shape theirculture. Although his photographs are oftendevoid of people, the focus of his work is thehuman presence in the landscape and thepeople who are uplifted and sometimesdefeated by the land they inhabit. Thiscontradiction of human frailty and resilience,and the continuities people form with theland, are embedded in Tettamanti'sphotographic vision. The exhibition CompassPoints is on view until August 31, 2013.Image: Jol Tettamanti, Qaqortoq,Greenland, 2004.

MIT Museum265 Massachusetts AvenueCambridge, MAwww.mit.edu

ARCHITECTURE


ARCHITECTURE ON SCREENFILM SCREENING

Center for Architecture presents thedocumentary film Le Paysage Interieur bydirector Pierre Maillard as part of theArchitecture on Screen film festival. Filmedbetween 2007 and 2010, the documentaryrecords the building of the Rolex LearningCenter at the cole Polytechnique Fdralein Lausanne, the library of the future,combining a learning laboratory, a library,

and an international cultural center. Thisdistinctly innovative building, in the shape ofa huge wave, sprang from the imagination of

Center for Architecture536 La Guardia PlaceNew York, NYwww.cfa.aiany.org
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Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima andRyue Nishizawa from SANAA, winners of the2010 Pritzker prize.Image: Architecture on Screen Poster

LITERATURE

Friday, February 211 5pm

ENCOUNTERS ACROSS THE OCEAN

All six novelists from Germany, Austria, andSwitzerland will present their latest work in adiscussion with Columbia University graduatestudents from the Department of GermanicLanguages and the Creative WritingProgram. Students include Hannes Bajohr,who will present Silke Scheuerman, MichaelLipkin, who will present Ulrike Ulrich, SophieAlexander, who will present Tim Krohn,Benjamin Dorvel, who will present ClemensSetz, Nika Knight, who will present LeifRandt, and Bryan Quick, who will presentCornelia Travnicek. Image: Clemens Setz

Paul Schirnhofer / Ulrike Ulrich UteSchendel

Deutsches Haus at ColumbiaNew York, NYwww.festivalneueliteratur.org

Saturday, February 236:30 8:30pm

CLOSED CIRCUITS

Dystopias used to be grand affairs,encompassing entire planets, but now youcan find one contained in a suburban blockon the outskirts of Frankfurt, an uncannilyodd resort town in a mysterious locale, or ahome for children suffering the worldsstrangest disorder. Dysfunction is the newdystopia, and these subtly wry to bitinglyironic commentaries uniquely encapsulatethe post-modern condition. Moderated bySusan Bernofsky with authors Leif Randt,

Silke Scheuermann, Clemens Setz, andJustin Taylor. In English. Image: Leif Randt Simon Vu / Justin Taylor Bill Hayward

powerHouse ArenaBrooklyn, NYwww.festivalneueliteratur.org

Sunday, February 2412pm

FRHSCHOPPEN

The six German-language authors of FestivalNeue Literatur give a sampling from theirwork, providing a taste of new writing fromAustria, Germany and Switzerland.Traditional German fare will be served.Image: Joshua Ferris Nina Subin / SilkeScheuermann Kirsten Bucher

Deutsches Haus at NYUNew York, NYwww.festivalneueliteratur.org

Sunday, February 246 8pm

BREAKING AWAY

Here today, there tomorrow. Old-style travelstories seemed always to be aboutcharacters in search of themselves asinscribed in foreign landscapes. But what ifthe point of the travel is more escapist thanexploratory? In these novels of discovery-avoidance an avoidance not alwayssuccessful the journey is both more andless than a destination. Moderated byClaudia Steinberg with authors Tim Krohn,Cornelia Travnicek, Ulrike Ulrich, JoshuaFerris. In English. Image: Tim Krohn JonasKnecht / Cornelia Travnicek Volkskultur

McNally JacksonNew York, NYwww.festivalneueliteratur.org
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DESIGN

Thursday, February 216pm

GIMME MORERECEPTION + PANEL DISCUSSION

From February 21 through March 2, 2013, anew exhibition will enable visitors to explorethe link between the physical and digitalworlds via augmented reality-basedimmersive installations that fascinate,engage and delight. The Give Me More

exhibition was created by Swiss designEPFL+ECAL Lab and was awarded theDMY International Design Festival BerlinPrize 2010.

EYEBEAM540 West 21st StreetNew York, NYwww.eyebeam.org

ABOVE AND BEYOND

Through Monday, April 1 ALBERT GALLATINEXHIBITION

New York University Libraries will host anexhibition Albert Gallatin: a Genevan at the

Heart of the American Dream in theMamdouha Bobst Gallery in the BobstLibrary beginning December 7, 2012 throughApril 1, 2013. The exhibition will feature themany roles Gallatin played in the UnitedStates as statesman, diplomat,ethnographer, and founder of New YorkUniversity. The original exhibition wascurated by the Library of Geneva and was ondisplay there last year. The exhibit is open tothe public from 9:30am-6:00 pm, Mondaythrough Saturday.Image: Albert Gallatin statue in Wash. DC.

New York UniversityMamdouha Bobst GalleryNew York, NYwww.nyu.edu

COMING SOON

Thursday, March 7Sunday, March 10

THE ARMORY SHOWART FAIR

The Armory Show, a leading internationalcontemporary and modern art fair and one ofthe most important annual art events in NewYork, takes place every March on Piers 92 &94 in central Manhattan. The Armory Show isdevoted to showcasing the most importantartworks of the 20th and 21st centuries. In itsfifteen years the fair has become aninternational institution, combining a selectionof the world's leading galleries with anexceptional program of arts events andexhibitions throughout New York during thecelebrated Armory Arts Week. Check the

Piers 92 & 94New York, NYwww.thearmoryshow.com
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website for Swiss galleries.

MEANWHILE IN SWITZERLAND

ZURICH MARC CHAGALLFEBRUARY 8 MAY 12, 2013

The Kunsthaus Zrich is staging an exhibition featuring some 90 paintings andworks on paper by Marc Chagall (18871985). Chagall is one of the best knownand most popular artists of the 20th century. His images of Russian village life,floating figures, flying cows and roosters are world-famous. Now the KunsthausZrich is dispelling some of the clichs on which his belated fame is based andrecognizing his contribution to the avant garde.www.kunsthaus.chImage: Marc Chagall, I and the Village, 1911

Contact :

Contact:Consulate General of Switzerland in New York, Cultural Department:[email protected]

Swiss Links:Consulate General of Switzerland in New York:www.swissconsulatenyc.org Embassy of Switzerland and Swiss representations in the USA:www.swissemb.orgGeneral Information on Switzerland:www.switzerland.com,www.swissworld.orgwww.switzerlandportal.usSwiss NewsWorld Wide:www.swissinfo.org Government:www.admin.chTourism:www.myswitzerland.comPresence Switzerland (PRS) US-Programs:www.image-switzerland.ch ThinkSwiss:www.thinkswiss.orgSwissnex- Swiss network for science and technology:www.swissnex.orgTrade and Investment:www.osec.ch

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