Swissart News RSS News Feed 20.02.2012 Kunsthaus Zürich presents ‘Winter Tales. Winter in art from the Renaissance to Impressionism’ From 10 February to 29 April 2012 the Kunsthaus Zürich is staging a thematic exhibition focusing on depictions of winter from the Renaissance to Impressionism. Entitled ‘Winter Tales,’ it includes over 130 works by artists such Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Jacob van Ruisdael, Francisco de Goya, Kazimir Malevich, Claude Monet, Edvard Munch and many other European painters. For the first time in a Swiss art museum, it brings together the hand-carved, opulently gilded sleighs of Austria’s ruling family and sumptuous Flemish tapestries. Continue.... 04.02.2012 Kunstmuseum Bern 2012: Art analog and digital The Kunstmuseum Bern is presenting a highly varied exhibition program in 2012. With our guests Sean Scully, Antonio Saura, and Zarina Bhimji, we are featuring internationally renowned artists. Furthermore, we will be presenting artists closely affiliated to Bern, as is the case with Meret Oppenheim, Johannes Itten, Paul Klee, Hermann Hesse, and Otto Nebel. The photographers Marco Grob, Fritz Hiepler and David Brunier will launch our annual program. In 2012, the Kunstmuseum Bern is pursuing new avenues by expanding its use of social media channels to bring art analog and digitally to a broader audience. Continue.... 04.02.2012 ROMAN SIGNER Street Views and Super 8 Films in the Aargauer Kunsthaus The Aargauer Kunsthaus kicks off the new year with a large one-man exhibition of internationally renowned Swiss artist Roman Signer. The idea for this monographic exhibition at the Aargauer Kunsthaus arose from a desire to introduce a wider public to the artist’s photo series Street Views, which was acquired in 2011. The photographs of this series are juxtaposed with thirty-six projections of super 8 films that Roman Signer made between 1975 and 1989 to document actions, in most cases quite spectacular ones. Continue.... 16.01.2012 Au fil des collections from Tiepolo to Degas With over a hundred works, Au fil des collections, de Tiepolo a Degas sheds new light on the rarely shown collection of the Fondation de l'Hermitage. Focusing ... >>Continue 22.12.2011 Suspension of the Lacoste Elysée Prize 2011 The Musée de l’Elysée has decided to suspend the organisation of the Lacoste Elysée Prize 2011. Introduced in 2010 to sustain young photographers ... >>Continue 22.12.2011 Kunsthaus Zürich presents Albert Welti – Landscape in Pastel From 16 December 2011 to 4 March 2012 the Kunsthaus Zürich is staging a cabinet exhibition of colourful landscapes by the Swiss painter, graphic artist ... >>Continue

Headlines RSS Headlines Feed 21.02.2012 State-of-the-Art: A profile of Hans Erni's century of creative artistry Washington Times Erni's museum, the Hans Erni Haus, is located on the shores of Lake Lucerne on the outskirts of town beside the Swiss Transportation Museum . The purpose for my visit was a project I was doing about the art and culture of Switzerland . Continue... 21.02.2012 Einstein letter lauding Swiss system set for sale AFP The letter is from a private collection and will be auctioned by the Fischer Gallery in Lucerne where it is expected to attract bids of between 25000 and 35000 Swiss francs (20800 to 29100 euros, $27500-38450). In 2009, the gallery sold Einstein's ... Continue... 21.02.2012 A Return to Artistic Roots, to Stand Out in the IT Age New York Times GENEVA — MC Escher, the Dutch graphic artist whose mind-bending prints straddle the boundaries between art and science, once observed that he felt “more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists.” Historically, most watchmakers would ... Continue... 19.02.2012 Learning from Swiss: how to support promising artists Korea Times The gallery specifically invited Swiss artists who have received support from Pro Helvetia, or Swiss Arts Council, through the program Cahier d'Artistes which translates to artists' notebooks. Each year, the council chooses promising artists and ... Continue... 18.02.2012 A Lonely Gaze on The Times and Its City New York Times (blog) In 1958, the promotions department of The New York Times hired a young Swiss expat to take pictures that were collected in a slim hardcover book for prospective advertisers. The book, “New York Is,” extolled the virtues of the city and ... Continue... 16.02.2012 Culture close to nature The Korea Herald The art exhibition is a part of the “Swiss Weeks in Seoul” project launched by the Embassy of Switzerland in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Korea-Switzerland diplomatic relations. The project, which aims to show the lesser known aspects of ... Continue... 16.02.2012 Bacon's Nude Model Sells for $33.3 Million at Christie's London San Francisco Chronicle The seller was Sheldon Solow, a prominent Manhattan real estate developer and art collector, who had bought the work from Galerie Beyeler, Switzerland, in 1983, dealers said. Christies refused to comment on ownership. Solow was also the seller of a ... Continue... 15.02.2012 Reto Thuring of Switzerland starts in May as the Cleveland Museum of Art's new assistant curator of contemporary art Plain Dealer CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Cleveland Museum of Art's new assistant curator of contemporary art will trade the Swiss Alps for the Great Lakes when he starts work here in May. Reto Thuring, 31, is a soccer-playing, snow-boarding art critic and freelance ... Continue... Agenda Art Exhibitions in Switzerland Newest Artist Member Jasmine Meier Newest Gallery Member espaceL