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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 EVENTS
Film | 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 22 Sunday, February 24 FESTIVAL NEUE LITERATUR 2013 READINGS + DISCUSSIONS Festival Neue Literatur features Germanlanguage authors Clemens Setz and Cornelia Travnicek (Austrian), Leif Randt and Silke Scheuermann (German), Ulrike Ulrich and Tim Krohn (Swiss), as well as U.S. authors Joshua Ferris and Justin Taylor. Under the curatorial direction and moderation of Susan Bernofsky and Claudia Steinberg, this years festival will feature panel discussions on dystopianism and modern travelogues alongside a conversation with Columbia University grad students and the ever-popular Frhschoppen brunch readings. All Festival Neue Literatur events are free and open to the public. Please visit the website or see the LITERATURE section for details. Image: Ulrike Ulrich Ute Schendel. Tim Krohn Jonas Knecht. Thursday, February 21 6pm GIMME MORE RECEPTION + PANEL DISCUSSION From February 21 through March 2, 2013, a new exhibition will enable visitors to explore the link between the physical and digital worlds via augmented reality-based immersive installations that fascinate, engage and delight. The Gimme More exhibition was created by Swiss design EPFL+ECAL Lab and was awarded the DMY International Design Festival Berlin Prize 2010. FNL 2013 Various locations in Manhattan and Brooklyn www.festivalneueliteratur.org

EYEBEAM 540 West 21st Street New York, NY www.eyebeam.org

FILM

Friday, March 1 3:45pm

ARCHITECTURE ON SCREEN FILM SCREENING Center for Architecture presents the documentary film Le Paysage Interieur by director Pierre Maillard as part of the Architecture on Screen film festival. Filmed between 2007 and 2010, the documentary records the building of the Rolex Learning Center at the cole Polytechnique Fdrale in Lausanne, the library of the future, combining a learning laboratory, a library, and an international cultural center. This distinctly innovative building, in the shape of a huge wave, sprang from the imagination of Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa from SANAA, winners of the 2010 Pritzker prize. Image: Le Paysage Interieur by Pierre Maillard (Switzerland). 82 min. / 2010 / French, English, Japanese; English subtitles

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

MUSIC
Tuesday, February 26, March 5, March 26 10pm BONAPARTE CONCERTS Dont miss Bonapartes solo sets at Pianos on 26 and at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn on February 20. Bonaparte will also perform with Divas at Pianos on March 5th and on March 26. Image: Bonaparte Pianos 158 Ludlow Street New York, NY www.pianosnyc.com Knitting Factory 361 Metropolitan Avenue Brooklyn, NY www.bk.knittingfactory.com

Wednesday, February 20 8pm

Friday, March 1 7:30pm Saturday, March 2 9pm

BOY CONCERTS The duo BOY (Valeska Steiner and Sonja Glass) gets your toes tapping, mind playing, feet moving, emotions travelling, head thinking, hips jerking. But above all, they make music that brings a smile to your face. BOY performs at Joes Pub on Friday, March 1 and at Union Hall in Brooklyn on Saturday, March 2. Image: BOY

Joes Pub 425 Lafayette Street New York, NY www.joespub.com Union Hall 5th Ave and 702 Union Street Brooklyn, New York www.unionhallny.com

VISUAL ARTS
Thursday, February 21 6 8pm KHNE / KLEIN EXHIBITION OPENING Pavel Zoubok Gallery is pleased to present the exhibition Somewhere Only We Know by Swiss artist-duo HENDRIKJE KHNE and BEAT KLEIN. Their intricately wrought collages and sculptures of cut postcards create spatial environments that are at once familiar and fantastical. Image: Khne/Klein, Andys Girls, 2011. Pavel Zoubok 531 West 26th Street New York, NY www.pavelzoubok.com

Thursday, February 21 6 8pm

FRANCOISE & DANIEL CARTIER EXHIBITION OPENING House Project is pleased to present f&d cartiers solo exhibition veni etiam. The opening reception will take place on Thursday, February 21 from 6 8pm and the exhibition will be on view until April 20th. Image: f&d cartier, Barbara, 2002

House Project 31 Howard Street New York, NY www.housprojects.com

Saturday, February 23 3pm

HANS ULRICH OBRIST CONVERSATION In 1993, Hans Ulrich Obrist started do it, an exhibition in progress that is now twenty years old. The conversation with Massimiliano Gioni, Associate Director and Director of Exhibition at the New Museum will explore the projects beginnings, its literations, and its repercussions in the context of the cultural and political developments of the early 90s. Moderated by Kate Fowle, Executive Director of Independent Curators International. Image: Hans Ulrich Obrist Yang Fudong, Shanghai, 2009

New Museum 235 Bowery New York, NY www.newmuseum.org

Through March 2

ILLUSTRATORS 55 EXHIBITION The exhibit Illustrators 55 Part 2 features works by leading contemporary illustrators worldwide, selected by a prestigious jury of professionals. Gold Medal winners in the Book category include Anna and Elena Balbusso for their image Tatyana, Victo Ngai's Jacks and Queens at the Green Mill, and Sam Weber for Lolita. Silver Medals are awarded to Julianna Brion's Wirefox, Etienne Delessert's Ionesco Stories 2, and Yuko Shimizu for her piece The Unwritten. Image: Illustration by Etienne Delessert

Museum of American Illustration Society of Illustrators 128 East 63rd Street New York, NY www.societyillustrators.org

Through April 1

[UN]NATURAL LIMITS EXHIBITION This international group exhibition gathers together different artistic reactions to the alienating effects of the unfettered global exploitation of resources, and offers insight into the denial and myopia of current political responses to what increasingly appears to be a perpetual crisis. Artists include Desire Machine Collective, Thomas Hirschhorn, Mathias Kessler, Superflex, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, and Lois Weinberger. Curated by Dieter Buchhart and Arnaud Gerspacher. Image: Thomas Hirschhorn, ResistanceSubjecter 2011, Courtesy of the artist & Gladstone Gallery, NY. Photo by Anna Kowalska.

Austrian Cultural Forum 11 East 52nd Street New York, NY www.acfny.org

Through April 13

DIETER ROTH, BJRN ROTH EXHIBITION On 23 January 2013, Hauser & Wirth New York will open Dieter Roth. Bjrn Roth, a landmark exhibition of masterworks that highlights this remarkable twenty-year collaboration and, through it, the diversity of the practice that has established Dieter Roth as one of the most inventive and influential artists of the second half of the 20th century. Dieter Roth. Bjrn Roth culminates Hauser & Wirths 20th anniversary and inaugurates the opening of the gallerys new, second exhibition space in New York City, at 511 West 18th Street, between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues. Images: The Floor II (Studio Floor from Mosfellsbaer, Iceland). 1977 1998. Photo by Jens Kirchner.

Hauser & Wirth 511 West 18th Street New York, NY www.hauserwirth.com

Through June 24

DIETER ROTH EXHIBITION The exhibition Wait, Later This Will Be Nothing: Editions by Dieter Roth focuses on Roths incredibly innovative and prolific period from 1960 to 1975. The centerpiece of the exhibition is an expanded presentation of Snow (1963 69), a Roth artists book in MoMAs collection, featuring many more pages of the book than have ever been exhibited. Image: Dieter Roth, Snow, 1964/69 2013 Estate of Dieter Roth

MoMA Second Floor 11 West 53rd Street New York, NY www.moma.org

Through August 31

JOEL TETTAMANTI EXHIBITION Jol Tettamanti's photographs are a vast archive of the structures, villages and cities that people create and inhabit, and the landforms and climates that shape their culture. Although his photographs are often devoid of people, the focus of his work is the human presence in the landscape and the people who are uplifted and sometimes defeated by the land they inhabit. This contradiction of human frailty and resilience, and the continuities people form with the land, are embedded in Tettamanti's photographic vision. The exhibition Compass Points is on view until August 31, 2013. Image: Jol Tettamanti, Qaqortoq, Greenland, 2004.

MIT Museum 265 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA www.mit.edu

ARCHITECTURE
Friday, March 1 3:45pm ARCHITECTURE ON SCREEN FILM SCREENING Center for Architecture presents the documentary film Le Paysage Interieur by director Pierre Maillard as part of the Architecture on Screen film festival. Filmed between 2007 and 2010, the documentary records the building of the Rolex Learning Center at the cole Polytechnique Fdrale in Lausanne, the library of the future, combining a learning laboratory, a library, and an international cultural center. This distinctly innovative building, in the shape of a huge wave, sprang from the imagination of Center for Architecture 536 La Guardia Place New York, NY www.cfa.aiany.org

Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa from SANAA, winners of the 2010 Pritzker prize. Image: Architecture on Screen Poster

LITERATURE
Friday, February 21 1 5pm ENCOUNTERS ACROSS THE OCEAN All six novelists from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland will present their latest work in a discussion with Columbia University graduate students from the Department of Germanic Languages and the Creative Writing Program. Students include Hannes Bajohr, who will present Silke Scheuerman, Michael Lipkin, who will present Ulrike Ulrich, Sophie Alexander, who will present Tim Krohn, Benjamin Dorvel, who will present Clemens Setz, Nika Knight, who will present Leif Randt, and Bryan Quick, who will present Cornelia Travnicek. Image: Clemens Setz Paul Schirnhofer / Ulrike Ulrich Ute Schendel Saturday, February 23 6:30 8:30pm CLOSED CIRCUITS Dystopias used to be grand affairs, encompassing entire planets, but now you can find one contained in a suburban block on the outskirts of Frankfurt, an uncannily odd resort town in a mysterious locale, or a home for children suffering the worlds strangest disorder. Dysfunction is the new dystopia, and these subtly wry to bitingly ironic commentaries uniquely encapsulate the post-modern condition. Moderated by Susan Bernofsky with authors Leif Randt, Silke Scheuermann, Clemens Setz, and Justin Taylor. In English. Image: Leif Randt Simon Vu / Justin Taylor Bill Hayward Sunday, February 24 12pm FRHSCHOPPEN 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. Image: Joshua Ferris Nina Subin / Silke Scheuermann Kirsten Bucher Deutsches Haus at Columbia New York, NY www.festivalneueliteratur.org

powerHouse Arena Brooklyn, NY www.festivalneueliteratur.org

Deutsches Haus at NYU New York, NY www.festivalneueliteratur.org

Sunday, February 24 6 8pm

BREAKING AWAY Here today, there tomorrow. Old-style travel stories seemed always to be about characters in search of themselves as inscribed in foreign landscapes. But what if the point of the travel is more escapist than exploratory? In these novels of discoveryavoidance an avoidance not always successful the journey is both more and less than a destination. Moderated by Claudia Steinberg with authors Tim Krohn, Cornelia Travnicek, Ulrike Ulrich, Joshua Ferris. In English. Image: Tim Krohn Jonas Knecht / Cornelia Travnicek Volkskultur

McNally Jackson New York, NY www.festivalneueliteratur.org

DESIGN
Thursday, February 21 6pm GIMME MORE RECEPTION + PANEL DISCUSSION From February 21 through March 2, 2013, a new exhibition will enable visitors to explore the link between the physical and digital worlds via augmented reality-based immersive installations that fascinate, engage and delight. The Give Me More exhibition was created by Swiss design EPFL+ECAL Lab and was awarded the DMY International Design Festival Berlin Prize 2010. EYEBEAM 540 West 21st Street New York, NY www.eyebeam.org

ABOVE AND BEYOND

Through Monday, April 1 ALBERT GALLATIN EXHIBITION 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
Thursday, March 7 Sunday, March 10 THE ARMORY SHOW ART FAIR The Armory Show, a leading international contemporary and modern art fair and one of the most important annual art events in New York, takes place every March on Piers 92 & 94 in central Manhattan. The Armory Show is devoted to showcasing the most important artworks of the 20th and 21st centuries. In its fifteen years the fair has become an international institution, combining a selection of the world's leading galleries with an exceptional program of arts events and exhibitions throughout New York during the celebrated Armory Arts Week. Check the Piers 92 & 94 New York, NY www.thearmoryshow.com

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MEANWHILE IN SWITZERLAND
ZURICH MARC CHAGALL FEBRUARY 8 MAY 12, 2013 The Kunsthaus Zrich is staging an exhibition featuring some 90 paintings and works on paper by Marc Chagall (18871985). Chagall is one of the best known and most popular artists of the 20th century. His images of Russian village life, floating figures, flying cows and roosters are world-famous. Now the Kunsthaus Zrich is dispelling some of the clichs on which his belated fame is based and recognizing his contribution to the avant garde. www.kunsthaus.ch Image: Marc Chagall, I and the Village, 1911

Contact :
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