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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It is a tradition of Shedhalle association to host one annual guestproject. This year the board of Shedhalle has selected the curatorial team of Faculty of Invisibility and is happy to present them and their project:

Shedhalle Guest Project «Faculty of Invisibility: Assembly»
10 July – 8 August 2010
Opening 9 July 2010 7pm, 8pm concert by Singer/Songwriter Clemence Freschard
Curated by Sönke Hallmann and Inga Zimprich

With Benjamin Cölle, Laurie Cohen, Maaike Engelen, Clemence Freschard, Jeanne van Heeswijk, Ingela Johansson, Achim Lengerer, M7red (Mauricio Corberlan, Pio Torroja),
p-r-o-x-y, Dagmar Reichert, Darren Rhymes, Jan Rolletschek, Elske Rosenfeld, Simone Schardt, Johan Siebers, Tanja Widmann and others
Loans by Robert Havemann Gesellschaft, Archiv Grünes Gedächtnis der Heinrich Böll Stiftung
Design by Maartje Dros, Francois Lombarts...

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...