Arty Show offers a walk through the town of La Chaux-de-Fonds, with works of 24 artists from Canton Neuchâtel, presented in shopping-windows.   The Grand BazArt of advent project invested four windows of a building near the Market Square. According to the calendar, the windows will unveil four installations of recent and old works, one Sunday after the other. Surrender Nov. 28 and Dec. 4, 12 and 19.   Vitrine 17 rue de la Balance 6 2300 La Chaux-de-Fonds   November 28, 2021 to January 14, 2022 Opening, December 4, 2pm, Station Square > ArtyShow-PlanParcours-2021 (FR) > Amstutz-ArtyShow-priceList-window1-3 (FR) Contact at 078 628 12 72   Project realised with the support of Christophe Dupont and Sylvain Amstutz. Thanks to the Queloz-Lecourt family for the space provided!

The forest has always occupied a special place in society and culture, whether in myths, popular beliefs or by marking the boundary between the the savage and the civilized. The exhibition brings together works by Swiss artists Julian Charrière, Teresa Chen, Marianne Engel, Alex Hanimann, Angela Lyn, Marcus Maeder, Luca Mengoni, Nico Müller, Felix Studinka and Esther van der Bie, who refer to the theme of the forest, as a space of peaceful nature, terror, resourcing or representing an economic factor.   Bahia Drake and Jungles series are exhibited.   Kunsthaus Grenchen Bahnhofstrasse 53 CH – 2540 Grenchen +41 32 652 50 22   March 6 to July 18, 2021 Wed-Sat, 2-5 pm, Sun, 11 am-5 pm Open haus, Saturday June 12, 11 am-5 pm > www.kunsthausgrenchen.ch/imWald

  2021   While museums throughout Switzerland are closed to the public, due to the federal directives taken against the pandemic, the Jenisch Museum Vevey open it doors to artists. With a view to maintaining its spaces as a place of life, exchange and creation, the museum invites into its walls, artists who practice visual arts, living arts, literature, music or design, for a one-week residency.   In recidency from February 22 to 26, 2021.   Musée Jenisch Vevey avenue de la Gare 2 CH – 1800 Vevey > www.instagram.com/Jenisch

Large-format drawings show portions of the primitive forest in Costa Rica. Made from photographs taken by the writer Julien Burri, the illustrations are produced from the projection of the photographic image on the paper support. The process is based on a technique borrowed from analog photographic printing, through the use of a matrix (here, the negative is replaced by a photocopy, a positive image, partially altered), which allows an enlarged reproduction of the photographic subject, made possible by the use of an overhead projector.

The illustrations show a dense vegetation, which tends towards abstraction and are made from photographs taken in Switzerland, in natural spaces that reminds of primary forests. The production process of the drawings is based on a technique borrowed from the analog photography, using a matrix (here, the negative is replaced by a photocopy of the photographic image in positive), from which the forest representations are revilled by decalking with graphite and carbon pencils, and made possible, thanks to a light source diffused by a luminous table.

Dans la forêt exposure presents four new series, which forge links between organic matter and rituals. Drawings, photographs and engraved woods dialogue, create bridges between the visible and the invisible, the light and the dark, the secular and the sacred. The set is presented in a scenography which interweave the mediums and resonate with some of the intrinsic qualites of the space which welcomes it. Video interview (3’53”)   abstract Côtes-de-Montbenon 3 CH – 1003 Lausanne +41 79 696 20 39 facebook.com/EspaceAbstract/expo   Novembre 29 – Decembre 22, 2018 fri-sat, 4-6 pm Opening, Saturday December the 1st, 3pm Closing show, Saturday December 22, 5pm performance in collaboration with Julien Burri facebook.com/EspaceAbstract/perfo

The shadows of endemic plants, such as brambles, ferns, rosehips, hawthorns, dogwood, pine, hazel, oak, are drawed at the edge of forests. Of a rough construction, the charcoal drawings – branches of calcined willows – are imprints of an ephemeral state, which are embodied on a fragile support of tissue paper that had previously been used for the drying of prints, which retained the folds and embossing of the matrix plates used. All these representations of plants in negative, evokes to faith a theatre of primitive shadows, projected on the walls of a cave, but also the medium of the engraving, from which are borrowed remnants of the printing process, which allow to fix in matter, the organic forms in motion.

Fird edition of artists sketch books presented at the Art center of Halle Nord. 253 sketch books of 179 artists, living for most of them in Geneva or in France are shown and it will be possible to consult them, under the supervision of gardiens.   Halle Nord 1, place de l’Ile CH – 1211 Genève +41 22 312 12 30   July 14 juillet to August 26, 2018 Tus-Sat, 2-6 pm Opening on Friday July 13, 6 pm > www.act-art.ch/event/carnets-2

In echo of the exposure Vous êtes ici [You are here], presented from March 2 till 25, 2018, the present show Vous êtes ailleurs [You are somewhere else] proposes works that suggest a distance, a movement or an intervening period. A space which indicates a different place than that where we are (or about which it is question) and engages a movement, which can be geographical, metaphoric, fictional or metaphysical.   With works by Anaïs Aik, Mael Madouri and Igor Denegri, Gaël Epiney, Yann Haeberlin, Laurette Le Gall, Katerina Samara et Lucie Schaeren.   Presentation of four series realised in collaboration with Audrey Guiraud, as well with Julien Burri and Marc Frochaux.   Villa Dutoit 5, ch. Gilbert-Trolliet CH – 1211 Geneva +41 22 733 05 75   April, 20 – May 13, 2018 Opening, Thursday, April 19, 6 pm

2018   At the same time informal and friendly, PechaKucha Night wishes to offer the possibility to gather locals and internationals around the presentation of about ten French-speaking and English-speaking invited speakers. The lectures, brief and visual, are under the format of 20 images presented in 20 seconds each, which means a little less than seven minutes by speaker.   Under the title Ici et ailleurs (Here and somewhere else) I propose a presentation of my artistic approach as well linked with Geneva’s cultural actors, such as the Villa Dutoit, the Geneva contemporary engraving studio and the Halle Nord art centre.   Spaces Quai de l’ile 13 CH – 1204 Genève   Thursday April 12, 7pm > www.pechakucha.org/cities/geneve

Collective exposure presenting videos by about sixty swiss artists, for the publication of the “Catalogue des artistes neuchâtelois” by Quartier Général, Contemporary art center in La Chaux-de-Fonds.   Quartier Général Centre d’art contemporain Les anciens abattoirs Rue du Commerce 122 CH-2300 La Chaux-de-Fonds +41 32 924 41 65   Avril 7 – May 6, 2018 Opening, Friday, April 6 > www.q-g.ch/exposition/mise-a-nu

«From NE with Love» is an illustrated dictionary, lists the work of 211 alive artists aged from 27 to 91 years old, as well as 39 artistic cultural institutions of the canton of Neuchâtel. The publication, the first one of the kind for the canton, aims to be as Mach as possible, unifying and accessible.   Edited on 500 copies, book is on sale at QG and Payot bookshop in La Chaux-de-Fonds and Neuchâtel.

To observe the landscape implicates a temporality different than it is that imposed by the city. As we live in a constant acceleration of evenements and an intense reproductibility of objects we daily use, the feeling that the time is over passing us, provoque a loss of our spatiotemporal landmarks. With the current communications media, we can echange in the immediatety, even with far away geografical distance persons.   Concived by the reunion of photographs taken in our familiar areas of life, the serie offers an incarnation of fictitious landscapes. The peculiar light presents in these pictures exists only, thanks to the the assemblage of two photographs of natural places, that nothing could predict the meeting. The evanescent landscapes created, make up new territories manipulated by men, at the time protective, imaginary and timeless.   Realised in collaboration with Audrey Guiraud..

Inspired by visits photos-card of XIXth century, the exhibition Galerie de portraits proposes a series of works in the 4 times 6×10 cm size, realised by more than 150 artists.   The series Sang bleu is presented.   Villa Dutoit 5, ch. Gilbert-Trolliet CH – 1211 Genève +41 22 733 05 75   September 15 – Octobre 8, 2017 Opening, Thursday, September 14, 6 pm

Of oral tradition, the wonderful tales (or fairy tales) were the object from the XVIIth century, of a literary transcription by authors as Charles Perrault, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm or Hans Christian Andersen, as weel. Popular in the XIXth century, these narratives are then illustrated by artists as Gustave Doré. The series Curious (the knifed), proposes a free interpretation of the iconography that Doré created for The Bluebeard.

For this exhibition, Héloïse Schibler, Director of the Center gathered a selection of works about fairy tales, which propose links between oral tradition, literature and visual creation.   Works by Zeinab Aghamahdi & Héloïse Pocry, Hélia Aluai, Adrienne Bovet, Jean-Pierre Brazs, Xavier Cardinaux, Véronique Déthiollaz, Adrian Fernandez Garcia, Delia Perrois, Brigitte Ritschard, Miranda Roux, Caroline Sechehaye, Noëlle Sivrière & Marie Christine Zajackowski, Anne Thomas.   The series Curious (the knifed) is presented, taking part at the Contes Doré(s) installation.   Villa Dutoit 5, ch. Gilbert-Trolliet CH – 1211 Genève +41 22 733 05 75   June 2-18, 2017 Opening, Thursday, June 1st, 6 pm

Graphische Sammlung ETH Zürich celebrats in 2017 the 150 years anniversary of its foundation and exhibits a selection of 45 artists works, created during the twenty past years.   Selected series by Emmanuelle Antille, Silvia Bächli, Marc Bauer, Christiane Baumgartner, Daniel Breu, Louise Bourgeois, Silvie Defraoui, Sylvie Fleury, Francesca Gabbiani, Gilgian Gelzer, Fabrice Gygi, Pascal Häusermann, Candida Höfer, David Hominal, Alois Lichtsteiner, Lutz & Guggisberg, Jean-Luc Manz, Raymond Pettibon, Albrecht Schnider, Roman Signer, James Turrell, Luc Tuymans, Cécile Wick among others.   An extract of the series Mascarade.   ETH Zürich / Helmhaus Zürich Rämistrasse 10 / Limmatquai 31 CH – 8092 Zürich / 8001 Zürich +41 44 632 40 46 / +41 44 251 61 77   Mai 24 – April 17, 2017 Opening, Thursday February 23, 6pm > www.stadt-zuerich.ch/kultur/helmhaus

In 2016, on the occasion of 150 years of the creation of Visarte Suisse, Daniel Ruggiero imagined a mobile art gallery, with a delivery tricycle which crosses the country in about twenty spots. Within the Images festival Vevey, the works of nine artists are presented in the vehicle, endowed for the occasion, by a lightbox.   With photographs by Benoît Jeannet, Cyril Porchet, Augustin Rebetez, Maya Rochat, Daniel Ruggiero, Nicolas Savary, Max Siedentopf et Prune Simon-Vermot.   Presentation of Delivery tricycle, extract of the series Nighttime exteriors.   Musée suisse du jeu Au Château 1814 La Tour-de-Peilz   September 10 to October 2, 2016 Every days, 11h-19h Opening, Saturday September 17, 6 pm > www.images.ch/visarte-vaud

It has been 30 years since Suzanne Bolli directs the Grande Fontaine Gallery in Sion, established by Léo Andenmatten and Carlo Olsommer. To celebrate this adventure, the artists exhibited are invited to expose a self-portrait. More than 130 works are hung on cymas.   Presentation of the drawing Garden self-portrait (18 times).   Galerie Grande Fontaine rue de Savièse 4 1950 Sion, Switzerland +41 27 322 43 51   May 29 – June 25, 2016 Prolongation until July 31 Wed-Thu, 2:30-6:30 pm Fri, 10-12 am and 2:30-6:30 pm Sat, 2:30-5 pm Opening and performance, Friday May 28, 4pm