Alexandra Bachzetsis: A Piece Danced Alone, 2011 (Foto: M. Hofmann) / Ariane Andereggen: Collaps of absolute Values 1, in the Style of Nauman, 2008
The F-Word
Nevin Aladağ, Ariane Andereggen, Alexandra Bachzetsis, Michaela Melián
12 May – 22 July, 2012
Vernissage & Performances 11 May, 2012, 7 p.m. on-time
curator: Anke Hoffmann
“The F-Word” is a project presenting four women artists – Nevin Aladağ, Ariane Andereggen, Alexandra Bachzetsis and...
Forms of Participation
Tellervo Kalleinen/ Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, JOKAklubi and YKON
4 February - 15 April 2012
Curator: Yvonne Volkart
Artists: Tellervo Kalleinen/ Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, JOKAklubi and YKON
Opening reception: February 3, 2012, 7 pm with a winter buffet
9.30 pm, Ziegel oh Lac, Rote Fabrik: “Off_Art Talent Show“, by JOKAklubi, and guests
Finissage: Sunday, April 15, 3-6 pm, with a participatory game by YKON
Guided tours: Thursday, February 23, 6 pm and March 15, 6pm
We presented Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen (*1971) and Tellervo Kalleinen (*1975), the artist duo from Finland, already in “Im/Possible Community”, our first exhibition...
Live Wire. Art and Electricity
8. October – 18. December 2011
Curators: Anke Hoffmann und Yvonne Volkart
Artists: Julieta Aranda, Evelina Domnitch & Dmitry Gelfand, HeHe, Christina Hemauer & Roman Keller, Hörner/Antlfinger, Karl Heinz Jeron, Party Manual, Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag, Alexander Tuchacek (knowbotic research), Clemens Winkler
Opening: 7 October, 7 pm with performances by Karl Heinz Jeron (Fresh Music for Rotten Vegetables) & by Hemauer/Keller (Die Unfreiheit der Elektronen) & by Alexander Tuchacek (Temporäre Präsenzen - Freie Energie) & Party Manual with selfempowered DJing
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Connect. Art between Media and Reality
An exhibition with Media Art from the Sitemapping-Programme (BAK) 2005 - 2011
Opening: 13 July 2011, 7 pm
Exhibition: 14 July – 11 September 2011
special programme 3 September 2011, 7 pm - 2 am (Night of the Museums Zurich)
During the Lethargy the exhibition is closed on August 11th – 14th.
with: Stefan Baltensperger, Maia Gusberti, Felix Stephan Huber, Esther Hunziker, Anja Kaufmann and Roman Häfeli, knowbotiq, Marcus Maeder and Jan Schacher, Norient (Thomas Burkhalter with Michael Spahr and Simon Grab), Max Rheiner, Myriam Thyes, Ubermorgen.com, Christoph Wachter and Mathias Jud
Curators: Anke Hoffmann, Yvonne Volkart
Dump Time. For a Practice of Horizontality
Opening: Friday 4 March 2011, 7pm
Exhibition: March 5 – May 15, 2011
Curated by Anke Hoffmann and Yvonne Volkart
Events:
/ Performance “Pink Noise/Fishing for Sound”, Friday March 4, 8 pm
/ Lecture Alexei Penzin “Sleep, Politics and Subjectivity” (in English), Wedn. March 30, 7 pm
/ Dance Performance “Dumped Dreams”, Wednesday March 30, 9 pm
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Cross-fades. Reconstructing the Future
New: Prolongation of exhibition time until 30 january 2011
Exhibition: October 9, 2010 – January 30, 2011
Curated by Anke Hoffmann und Yvonne Volkart
Events:
/ Film and Talk with Sarah Vanagt, Friday November 12, 7–9 pm
/ Cross-Talk “Art, Science, History”, Saturday Nobember 13, 4 pm
/ Performance & Lecture: “Atlas of Transformation”, Thursday January 20, 7 pm
Guided Tours:
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Lands End. Landscape as Image and as Space
Curators: Anke Hoffmann and Yvonne Volkart
20 March until 16 May 2010
Opening reception: Friday 19 March 2010, 7pm
With a cooking performance by the guerilla gardener and cook Maurice Maggi, Zurich
In art, the most melancholic landscapes were created at a time when the natural of nature was surmised as something irretrievably lost, something endangered by industrialisation. Once more, one tried to halt the ravages of time and evoke an idyll that had never existed the way it was depicted. Those were the times of romanticism. What is the significance of landscape in art nowadays, 200 years later, in the year of biodiversity and hybrid artistic practices? What will happen if the social, economic, and cultural transformation processes in the terrain of landscape become topics of art? What if nature and technology no longer will be perceived as irreconcilable opposites but as mutually depending on...
Im/Possible Community
Opening: 6 November 2009, 7pm
Exhibition: 7 November 2009 – 31 January 2010
Curated by Anke Hoffmann and Yvonne Volkart
Artists: Nevin Aladag, Ulf Aminde, Sabina Baumann, Perry Bard, Bureau d'Etudes, Hassan Khan, Korpys/Löffler, Heimo Lattner, Naeem Mohaiemen, p-r-o-x-y, Isabelle Stever, Tellervo Kalleinen/ Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, Juliane Zelwies
The present times of crisis and fear of the future increasingly spawn a desire for communality. After having reached the bottom of the scale, notions like “solidarity” or “hospitality” are becoming far more seducing than e. g. “speculation” or “in for greed”. What would happen to us, flexible human beings getting accustomed to being made ever more flexible, if common social grounds didn’t give protection, especially in difficult times? What would...
