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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 July 23 August 19, 2014

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

HIGHLIGHT

Saturday, July 26 12 5pm

SWISS NATIONAL DAY 2014 CELEBRATION Get ready to celebrate our Swiss heritage with family, friends and colleagues. Exciting highlights of this year's Swiss National Day Celebration include: Katharina Hasler & Dominik Kempf from Switzerland performing Swiss Folklore music, Eliane Amherd performing national anthems, food service including Swiss sausage, raclette, beverages, coffee & cake, Children's Corner (arts, crafts, Zumbatomic, and face paint by Agostino Arts). Dont miss the speech by Ambassador, Consul General Franois Barras at 2pm and a chance to win the grand prize of 2 Airline Tickets by Swiss + first Class 8 day rail passes by Switzerland Tourism, a Nespresso Coffee Machine, a Swiss Watch and many more great prizes through the annual Raffle at 4pm. See you at the Swiss National Day!

Studio Square Beer Garden 35-33 36

th Street

Long Island City, NY www.swissconsulatenyc.org www.studiosquarebeergarden.com

FILM

Saturday, July 26 10:30am

THE CIRCLE SCREENING A Teddy Award winner at this years Berlin Film Festival, The Circle captures an extraordinary romance set against the backdrop of Switzerlands thriving post-WWII underground gay movement. Director Stefan Haupt has fashioned a gorgeous hybrid of a film, uncovering a vibrant love story between a singer and schoolteacher who bravely defied the constraining laws of their era. Image: The Circle, Stefan Haupt, 2014 Switzerland, 101 minutes.

Walter Reade Theater 165 West 65 Street 4

th Floor

New York, NY www.filmlinc.com

Tuesday, August 19 6pm

PAPER BOATS SCREENING NewFilmmakers at Anthology Film Archives presents Paper Boats Caroline M. Stucky, a

Anthology Film Archives Courthouse Theater 32 Second Ave & 2nd Street New York, NY www.newfilmmakers.com

9 minute video about a boys fear of time passing by. Image: Paper Boats, Caroline M. Stucky, 2014, 9 minutes.

Through August 25

THE CLOCK SCREENING Winner of the Golden Lion award at the 2011 Venice Biennale, The Clock by Christian Marclay samples thousands of excerpts from the history of film that indicate the passage of timefrom clock towers to wristwatches to buzzing alarm clocksthat the artist has edited together to unfold on the screen in real time as a 24-hour montage. Image: Christian Marclay, The Clock, 2010 (video still). Courtesy the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.

The Walker Art Center 1750 Hennepin Avenue Minneapolis, MN www.walkerart.org

MUSIC

Saturday, July 19 10:30pm

JOJO MAYER / NERVE CONCERT Swiss electro trio Jojo Mayer / Nerve perform at Mercury Lounge on Saturday, July 19 at 10:30 pm. Image: Jojo Mayer / Nerve.

Mercury Lounge 217 E Houston Street New York, NY www.mercuryloungenyc.com

Monday, July 28 8:30pm Saturday, August 9 12am

ELIANE AMHERD CONCERT Swiss singer Eliane Amherd performs with her own trio at Bar Next Door on Monday, July 28 at 8:30 pm and at Nublu on August 9 with AS LOLAS at 12 am. Image: Eliane Amherd.

Bar Next Door 129 MacDougal Street New York, NY www.lalanternacaffe.com Nublu Ave C b/w 4th and 5th Street New York, NY www.nublu.net

Wednesday, July 30 7:30pm Thursday, July 31 6:30 + 9:30pm

ALEX BUGNON CONCERTS Swiss Jazz pianist Alex Bugnon performs with Jonathan Butler and Norman Brown at Chene Park Amphitheater in Detroit on July 30 and at Smooth Cruise on Hornblower Infinity on July 31 as part of the Love&Soul tour. Image: Alex Bugnon.

Chene Park 2600 E Atwater Detroit, MI www.ticketmaster.com Smooth Cruise on Hornblower Infinity 40 West Houston Street New York, NY www.ticketmaster.com

Friday, August 8 7:30pm

GREGOIRE MARET + CASSANDRA WILSON CONCERT Gregoire Maret performs with Cassandra Wilson at Damrosch Park Bandshell at Lincoln Center on Friday, August 8 at 7:30pm. Image: Gregoire Maret Ingrid Hertfelder

Lincoln Center Damrosch Park Bandshell New York, NY www.gregoiremaret.com

VISUAL ARTS

Through July 27

SUSANNE HOFER EXHIBITION Fresh Window Gallery is pleased to present the exhibition Light Bulb Magic by Swiss artist Susanne Hofer. Peter Plagens for the

Fresh Window 56 Bogart Street Brooklyn, NY www.freshwindow.org

Wall Street Journal writes: A well-crafted and rigorous exhibition...very well done...the two Corner Pieces are incisively novel...the pieces work, and so does the show. Light Bulb Magic is on view through July 27, 2014 Image: Susanne Hofer Light Bulb Magic.

Through August 1

THE BIGGER PICTURE EXHIBITION Founded in 1994, the Tanya Bonakdar Gallery celebrates its 20

th anniversary with

the exhibition The Bigger Picture: Work from the 1990s. The show features the work of Hubbard / Birchler (Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler) who have worked collaboratively in video, photography and sculpture since 1990. Image: installation view of The Bigger Picture

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery 521 West 21st Street New York, NY www.tanyabonakdargallery.com.

Through August 3

JOYRIDE EXHIBITION Marlborough Broome Street is pleased to present a special exhibition of works by an international group of artists including Urs Fischer - celebrating the bicycle: a visual expression of the urban cycling movement. Joyride, has been organized by Ed Spurr and Brendt Barbur, and is presented in celebration of the 14th edition of the Bicycle Film Festival. Image: Frank Benson, Locked Frame, 2014

Marlborough Broome Street 331 Broome Street New York, NY www.marlboroughchelsea.com

Through August 3

FIRST GENERATION EXHIBITION Wired Gallery is pleased to present Group Show # 8: Frist Generation, showcasing the work of twelve foreign-born, Hudson Valley-based artists, including Swiss artist Astrid Fitzgerald. Image: Astrid Fitzgerald, detail of No. 358 Collage.

Wired Gallery 11 Mohonk Road High Falls, NY www.thewiredgallery.com

Through August 15

RE-TRACING THE LAND EXHIBTION The New York Art Residency and Studios (NARS) Foundation is delighted to announce the opening of Re-Tracing the Land, a group exhibition curated by Allison Young, winner of the 2014 NARS Emerging Curator Program Open Call, featuring the works of Stephanie Dinkins, Aikaterini Gegisian, Soraya Marcano, Viviane Rombaldi Seppey, and Jared Thorne. Image: Viviane Rombaldi Seppey, What I dont see, 2010.

NARS Foundation 201 46th Street, 4th Floor Sunset Park Brooklyn, NY www.narsfoundation.org

Through August 24

OLAF BREUNING PUBLIC ART INSTALLATION Public Art Fund presents a playful new commission by Olaf Breuning entitled Clouds installed at the southeast entrance to Central Park. The artists largest public art installation in the United States to date, the work features six clouds rendered as childlike drawings made of polished blue aluminum towering nearly 35 feet above the plaza and mounted on seemingly makeshift steel supports. Image: Olaf Breuning, Clouds.

Central Park Doris C. Freedman Plaza 60

th Street and 5

th Avenue

New York, NY www.publicartfund.org

Through August 24

THE ST. PETERSBURG PARADOX EXHIBITION Based on the theory of the same name developed by 18

th century Swiss

mathematicians, brothers Nicolaus and Daniel Bernoulli, The St. Petersburg Paradox invites artists to consider notions of risk aversion, expected value, and gaming. Featuring: Giovanni Anselmo, Jean Arp, Ericka Beckman, Barbara Bloom, Alex Mackin Dolan, Marcel Duchamp, Cayetano Ferrer, Douglas Gordon, John Miller, Kaspar Mller, Sarah Ortmeyer, Tabor Robak, and Amalia Ulman. Curated by Simon Castets. Image: Kaspar Mller, detail of Tropic of Cancer, 2014. Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich.

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

Through August 24

THE INTUITIONISTS EXHIBITION The Intuitionists is a collaborative project by artists Heather Hart, Steffani Jemison, and Jina Valentine. Inspired by Colson Whitehead's novel The Intuitionist, the exhibition considers how the collection, the database, and the aggregate serve as complementary models for the organization of information and objects in flux. Among the artists featured in the exhibition are Elisabeth Eberle and Caroline Tavelli-Abar from Switzerland. Image: Elisabeth Eberle. Foto: H.C. Wepfer.

The Drawing Center 35 Wooster Street New York, NY www.drawingcenter.org

Through August 31

ANDREAS RENTSCH EXHIBITION Helen Day Art Center is pleased to present three of Andreas Rentschs large X-Ray works in the exhibition The Appearance of Clarity: Works in Black and White along with Jenny Holzer, Louis Cameron, Lynn Newcomb, Suzy Spence, Sharan Elran, Marietta Hoferer, Sarah Horne, Chelsea Martin and Nan Tull. Curated by Amy Rahn. Image: Andreas Rentsch, detail of X-Ray # 8, 2013.

Helen Day Art Center 90 Pond Street Stowe, VT 05672 www.helenday.com

ARCHITECTURE

Through August

THE SWISS TOUCH IN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITION The Swiss Touch in Landscape Architecture provides an insight into the extreme richness and variety of Swiss landscape architecture and presents the relevant works of renowned Swiss architects such as Bernard Tschumi, Herzog & de Meuron and that of engineer Jrg Conzett. The exhibition was produced by Pro Helvetia, curated by Michael Jakob, and made possible by Presence Switzerland. Image: Birkenhof, Hotel Greulich, Zrich Christian Vogt / Vogt Landschaftsarchitekten AG, Zrich.

Center for Architecture 536 LaGuardia Place New York, NY www.cfa.aiany.org

THEATER

Thursday, July 24 September 7

DEATHTRAP THEATER PERFORMANCE John W. Engeman Theate presents Deathtrap, a wickedly funny slice of murderous showbiz satire by Ira Levin featuring Sue Mathys as Helga Ten Drop, directed by Richard T. Dolce. Image: Sue Mathys.

John W. Engeman Theater 250 Main Street Northport, NY www.engemantheater.com www.web.ovationtix.com

DESIGN

Through September 14

MULTIPLE EXPOSURES EXHIBITION Multiple Exposures: Jewelry and Photography is the first museum exhibition to explore how contemporary jewelry artists transform and add new meaning to the pervasive images of this digital age. The exhibition features works by more than 80 renowned artists from over 20 countries, including Swiss artists: Esther Brinkmann, Otto Kunzli, Bernhard Schobinger, and Fabrice Schaefer. Image: Lauren Kalman, Tongue Gilding, 2009, Digital video, 12 minutes; Courtesy of the artist and Sienna Patti.

Museum of Art and Design 2 Columbus Circle New York, NY www.madmuseum.org

ABOVE AND BEYOND

Through August 3

BLOCH NORTH DAKOTA INTERACTIVE GLOBAL ART PROJECT BLOCH is an interactive global art project by Com&Com which connects artists and folk traditions to facilitate a worldwide conversation. The core of this unique project is a large tree trunk called Bloch which originates from an ancient Swiss tradition from the Appenzell region. Bloch will travel to North Dakota where local artists add their mark or story to the tree trunk. Image: Bloch at Shanghai Biennale, 2013. Photography by Zhu Hai, PSA, Johannes Hedinger, Fabian Kaiser.

Various locations North Dakota www.bloch23781.com

COMING SOON

Monday, August 25 7pm

CHRISTIAN MARCLAY MUSIC + FILM Join the Walker Art Center for a special evening of playful and conceptually rich works introduced by the artist Christian Marclay and live music by a renowned experimental trio of Laurent Estoppey, Ikue Mori, and Anthony Coleman. Image: Christian Marclay, Screen Play, 2005 Christian Marclay, photo courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.

The Walker Art Center 1750 Hennepin Avenue Minneapolis, MN www.walkerart.org

Thursday, August 28

URSULA BIEMANN EXHIBITION OPENING As part of its newly inaugurated artists residency and commissioning program, the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University presents the exhibtion The Land Grant: Forest Law by Swiss artist Ursula Biemann. The exhibition will be on view through January 11, 2015. Image: Ursula Biemann, Forest Law, 2014 (video still) Ursula Biemann.

Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum Michigan State University East Lansing, MI www.broadmuseum.msu.edu

MEANWHILE IN SWITZERLAND

NYON

PALO FESTIVAL JULY 22 27, 2014 The Pal o Festival has become one of the most popular music festivals in Europe. Every year, more than 200 concerts and shows are performed for the 230,000 spectators gathered on the 84 hectares of festival grounds. Each edition features unforgettable performances and architectural and artistic installations. This years line-up includes: Elton John, James Blunt, M.I.A, The Black Keys, The National and many more. www.paleo.ch Image: M.I.A.

BASEL

GERHARD RICHTER MAY 18 SEPTEMBER 7, 2014 The exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler is the largest ever in Switzerland to be devoted to Gerhard Richter (born in Dresden in 1932, now based in Cologne), arguably the most important artist of our time. It centers for the first time on the artists series, cycles, and interior spaces. A counterpoint to these is formed by a number of single works, many of which have achieved iconic status. Image: 1024 colours (Detail), 1973, lacquer on canvas, 254 x 478 cm, Daros Collection, Switzerland 2014 Gerhard Richter www.fondationbeyeler.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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