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SWISS EVENTS
IN NEW YORK AND IN THE NORTHEASTERN PART OF THE U.S.
for the period of December 5 19, 2012

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

HIGHLIGHT
Tuesday, December 11 Sunday, January 6 MUMMENSCHANZ PERFORMANCE Celebrating 40 years, the internationally acclaimed Mummenschanz is poised to bedazzle a whole new generation of audiences this fall and winter when the legendary mask theater company returns to North America with a special full-length program, from November 2012 to March 2013. The U.S. and Canada performances are part of a larger calendar of worldwide jubilee events for the 40th anniversary to mark the beloved companys four-decade legacy of bringing its uniquely imaginative and ground breaking art form to international stages. As a centerpiece to the U.S. run, Mummenschanz will present a special limited holiday engagement for four weeks at NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, from December 11 through January 6, 2013. Image: Mummenschanz NYU Skirball Center 566 La Guardia Place New York, NY www.nyuskirball.org

MUSIC
Wednesday, December 19 8pm + 10pm BEAT KAESTLI JAZZ CONCERT Beat Kaestli performs all American standards at the Kitano Jazz Club together with Ben Stivers on piano, Matt Wigton on bass, Fred Kennedy on drums and special guest Kenny Rampton on trumpet. Image: Beat Kaestli Kitano Jazz Club 66 Park Avenue New York, NY www.kitano.com

VISUAL ARTS

Thursday, December 6 6 9pm

THE DEATH OF A PRESIDENT, CARPET AND OTHERS STORIES EXHIBITION OPENING The exhibit at Orchard Windows Gallery by Swiss artist Izet Sheshivari exploits the hypothetical value of the classical use of a grey carpet that has already been in use in another gallery on the same street and put in the trash. The artist finds thereby a subtle way to illustrate the use of an artifact. One galleries trash is another artist collection. On view until December 9th, 2012. Image: The Death of the President, Carpet and others Stories by Izet Sheshivari.

Orchard Windows Gallery 37 Orchard Street New York, NY orchardwindowsgallery.com

Saturday, December 8 3 5pm

YOUR SISTER AND OTHER BOB MAYSES ARTIST TALK A.I.R Gallery is honored to host a talk by Swiss artist Elianna Renner and curator Anne Kohl of the feminist gallery, galerie futura located in Berlin, Germany. In the course of this event, artist Elianna Renner will discuss her artwork based on womens oral history, occasionally circling around the recovery of her own familys past. Curator Anne Kohl will introduce the feminist gallery galerie futura and a work of art made by Berlin based artist Annette Knol commissioned by the gallery. Image: Cheerleading Elianna Renner

A.I.R. Gallery 111 Front Street # 228 Brooklyn, NY www.airgallery.org

Saturday, December 8 4 7pm

RUDOLF DE CRIGNIS EXHIBITION OPENING + BOOK LAUNCH Margarete Roeder Gallery is pleased to announce the publication of Rudolf de Crignis New York 1985 2006, published by Radius Books. An exhibition of the same title will include works from the Crignis New York years. The exhibition will be on view until January 12, 2013. Image: Ruldof de Grignis, Painting 02-30, 2002.

Margarete Roeder Gallery 545 Broadway 4th Floor New York, NY www.roedergallery.com

Thursday, December 13 6 9pm

REGIS COLOMBO RECEPTION Sohotel Artspace Gallery is pleased to present NYC out of focus a collective integrated digital fusion show with the Swiss photographer Regis Colombo. Colombo's composition will transport the viewer in an endless, poetic and futurist adventure through his imagination. On view until December 31, 2012. Image: Courtesy of Sohotel Artspace Gallery.

Sohotel Artspace Gallery 345 Broome Street New York, NY www.sohotelartspace.com

Through December 9

FAMILY PORTRAIT GROUP EXHIBITION Carriage Trade Gallery is pleased to present the group exhibition Family Portrait with works by renowned Swiss artist Olaf Breuning, Art Club 2000, Louise Bourgeois, Dan Graham, Carol Irving, Mathias Kessler, Dorothea Lange, Servane Mary, Claes Oldenburg and Hans Op de Beeck. Image: Carol Irving, Me and My Mother, 2012

Carriage Trade 62 Walker Street New York, NY www.carriagetrade.org

Through December 16

KLAER, UGLEE CALLAMARI GROUP EXHIBITION The small downtown exhibition space Ramiken Crucible presents klaer, uglee calamari a group exhibition with Esther Kls, Ugo Rondinone and Matteo Callegari. Image: Klaer, uglee callamari.

Ramiken Crucible 389 Grand Street New York, NY www.ramikencrucible.com

Through January 5

MADELEINE GEKIERE EXHIBITION Fred Torres Collaborations is pleased to present Madeleine Gekiere: A Lifetime of Sketchbooks, featuring 20 sketchbooks compiled by the artist throughout her life. Image: Madeleine Gekiere from Sketchbooks

Fred Torres Collaborations 527 West 29th Street New York, NY www.fredtorres.com

Through January 7

FERDINAND HODLER EXHIBITION Ferdinand Hodler: View to Infinity is the largest American exhibition ever devoted to this major Swiss artist. Hodler was admired by such Austrian artists as Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, whose work is essential to the Neue Galerie collection. The organizing curator for the Neue Galerie is Jill Lloyd, a distinguished scholar who has assembled several important shows for the museum, including Van Gogh and Expressionism. The exhibition is co-organized by the Fondation Beyeler, Basel, where it will be on view from January 27 to May 26, 2013. Image: Ferdinand Hodler, Portrait of Gertrud Mller, 1911.

Neue Galerie 1048 Fifth Avenue New York, NY www.neuegalerie.org

Through January 12

PROBLEM PLAY EXHIBITION OPENING Leo Koenig Inc. is pleased to present Problem Play, a group exhibition featuring John Armleder, Lara Favaretto, Andrea Fraser, Bethan Huws, Ken Lum, Jonathan Monk, Arnold Odermatt, Pavel Pepperstein, and Ed Ruscha. Image: Problem Play

Leo Koenig Inc. 545 West 23rd Street New York, NY www.leokoenig.com

Through January 27

AMY ONEILL EXHIBITION Amy O'Neill's impressive and varied body of work includes drawings, installations, sculptures, and videos which reference Americana, art history, and folk art. In this exhibition, O'Neill creates a super-sized environment filled with religious and cultural symbols that explore the American penchant for monumentalism in various forms. Image: Amy ONeill, HLUSA

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

ARCHITECTURE
Through January 28 BORN OUT OF NECESSITY EXHIBITION The Architecture and Vision project DesertSeal from the permanent collection of the MoMA New York is on display again this year in the show Born out of Necessity. DesertSeal is an iconic design by Architecture and Vision, an architecture and MoMA 11 West 53 Street New York, NY www.architectureandvision.com

design practice established by the Italian architect Arturo Vittori and Swiss architect Andreas Vogler. The exhibition is organized by Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator, and Kate Carmody, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Architecture and Design. Image: DesertSeal

THEATER
December 13 + December 14 8pm THE MEDEAD PERFORMANCE This premiering collaborative musical version of the 6-play epic The Medead fuses Fiona Templetons multivocal poetic fireworks with Samita Sinhas soaring vocals and instrumentation, layering ancient and future soundscapes. 10 years in the making, The Medead ranges across history and the subconscious to excavate the multi-viewpoint reverberations of a myth of east and west, of a womans power to sing a skin of language over the invisible. With Anna Kohler, Clarinda MacLow, Graziella Rossi, Dawn Saito, Valda Setterfield and Stephanie Silver, all as Medea, Peter Sciscioli as Orpheus, Andrew Zimmerman as Theseus; also featuring Jason and the 4 Fathers. Image: Graziella Rossi Roulette 509 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn, New York www.roulette.org

ABOVE AND BEYOND

Friday, December 7 ALBERT GALLATIN EXHIBITION OPENING New York University Libraries will host an exhibition Albert Gallatin: a Genevan at the Heart of the American Dream in the Mamdouha Bobst Gallery in the Bobst Library beginning December 7, 2012 through April 1, 2013. The exhibition will feature the many roles Gallatin played in the United States as statesman, diplomat, ethnographer, and founder of New York University. The original exhibition was curated by the Library of Geneva and was on display there last year. The exhibit is open to the public from 9:30am-6:00 pm, Monday through Saturday. Image: Albert Gallatin statue in Wash. DC. New York University Mamdouha Bobst Gallery New York, NY www.nyu.edu

COMING SOON
Friday, December 21 THE CLOCK EXHIBITION OPENING Winner of the Golden Lion award at the 2011 Venice Biennale, Christian Marclay's The Clock is a cinematic tour de force that unfolds on the screen in real time through thousands of film excerpts that form a 24hour montage. Appropriated from the last 100 years of cinemas rich history, the film clips chronicle the hours and minutes of the 24-hour period, often by displaying a watch or clock. The Clock incorporates MoMA 11 West 53 Street New York, NY www.moma.org

scenes of everything from car chases and board rooms to emergency wards, bank heists, trysts, and high-noon shootouts. Image: Christian Marclay, video still from The Clock, 2010 single channel video with stereo sound standard definition footage at 1024 x 576 (16:9 aspect ration) 25fps 24 hours, looped Christian Marclay. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.

MEANWHILE IN SWITZERLAND
LAUSANNE FLUX COCOON FOR LAUSANNE LUMIERES THROUGH JANUARY 2013 Installed in the heart of the city of Lausanne, Flux Cocoon is one of the winning projects of the citys first Light Festival: Lausanne Lumieres by Allegory, a Geneva based architecture and design firm. The project is created with a primary wood structure and metal cables and 1100m of Red Led Neon Flex lights. The installation sets foot on the existing bridge structure and connects itself to the vertical building containing the elevators. Image: Flux Cocoon by Allegory www.allegory.ch ZURICH SWISS FEDERAL DESIGN AWARD THROUGH JANUARY 27, 2013 The exhibition Swiss Federal Design Award 2012 presents the works of this years winners of the Swiss Design Award as well as the three winners of the Grand Prix Design. The exhibit includes fashion, graphic design, photography, mediation and product design by young and established designers. Image: Dorade www.museum-bellerive.ch BASEL MARKUS RAETZ THROUGH FEBRUARY 17, 2013 The Department of Prints and Drawings of the Kunstmuseum Basel is dedicating a retrospective exhibition of drawings to the Bernese artist Markus Raetz (b. 1941). Over 200 watercolors, drawings and polaroids, 60 sketchbooks, and an animated film, all created between 1960 and 2012, have been selected for the show in close consultation with the artist. Image: Drawing by Markus Raetz www.kunstmuseumbasel.ch

Contact :
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