“Cosmos Archaeology: Exploring the Universe Through Art & Science”, as a pre-Chinese New Year special exhibition, co-presented by EPFL Pavilions and Guangdong Science Center (GDSC), was officially opened in the GDSC on January 10, 2025.
With their unique instrumental lineup and timbre, which often feature a percussive piano against a melodic percussion, the Makrokosmos quartet has collaborated with contemporary composers such as Heinz Holliger, Brian Ferneyhough, and Stefano Gervasoni, whilst inspiring more new commissions for the setting. Under Hathut Records, the quartet has also produced some phenomenal interpretations of works by Nik Bärtsch, Ivan Fedele, Guillermo Gregorio and Stefan Wirth.
Location: Grand Hall, Lee Shau Kee Lecture Centre, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
The Dördüncü sisters have mesmerized classical music lovers with their “flawless technique, delivering vigorous and evocative performances”. Over the years, the Swiss piano duo has ventured from classical repertory to the contemporary musical landscape, earning equally successful receptions worldwide. Following the great success of their 2006 recording Rendez-Vous Avec l'Enfance, a compilation of piano 4-hands works by French composers, the Dördüncü Piano Duo has further captured positive feedbacks with their new releases on works by Brahms, Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Stephano Gervasoni.
Location: Grand Hall, Lee Shau Kee Lecture Centre, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
The aesthetic of Swiss style is the famous model of graphic design of the 1950s and 1960s, best known for its use of minimal grid-based systems and its cold, impersonal approach. It was born during an era of heavy industrialization when there was a need for a simple visual language that could be understood by many within international trades. Today, design and advertising has changed but Swiss graphic design, with its important role in design history, is still often reduced to those clichés. The philosophy of the pioneers of Swiss design, with their strict rules and grids, has had an influence on contemporary Swiss designers, but the Swiss style today is much more diverse, emotional and fun.
Location: Tap Seac Gallery, 95 Avenida Conselheiro Ferreira de Almeida, Macau
Much-loved works by Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Saint-Saëns played by the renowned Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra (VFCO) together with two of the most sought-after soloists of this generation – the French cellist Gautier Capuçon and the Hong Kong pianist Rachel Cheung. A stellar concert to relish!
Location: Concert Hall, Hong Kong City Hall, 5 Edinburgh Place, Central, Hong Kong
Philippe Caretti, a Swiss artist also an architect by profession, used a unique and unusual tool – syringes to create his art pieces of this exhibition. The paint is first drawn into the syringe, and afterwards, skillfully expelled to form the envisaged lines, swirls, dots, blotches, or patterns. To the artist, the unpredictability of mishaps in the process of artistic creation resembles the uncontrollable in one’s life, and the challenge of creating something from those unpredictable moments is an invigorating and eye-sharpening processes.
Location: Oi Ling Antiques, 72 Hollywood Rd, Central, Hong Kong
LE ROI ANGUS is a Swiss rock band, formed in 2014 in an underground club in Geneva. During its first year, the newly-formed band locked themselves in a studio to record their first album, "Iles Essentiel". It was released in the autumn of 2015 on Cheptel Records. LE ROI ANGUS has since toured heavily in Switzerland and released their record in France. LE ROI ANGUS is inspired by a mysterious mix from Birgitte Fontaine to Melody Nelson, Jacco Gardner and Morrissey.
Location: Mom Livehouse, 7 Seas Shopping Center, B/F, 113-121 King's Road. MTR Fortress Hill
A project by Michael Spranger and Stéphane Noël, questioning the ways in which we interact with machines in the age of AI. Das Fremde is a mind-blowing immersive installation featuring a ‘tribe’ of artificially intelligent robots that invent their own language and culture in real-time, with intricate scenography courtesy of Hong Kong artist Pauline Yau. Featuring a blend of major sound, visual and interactive installations and performances, the artistic portion of Sónar+D highlights the connections between technology, music, creativity, innovation and science.
Location: Hong Kong Science Park, Shatin, N.T, Hong Kong
Saturday, 17.03.2018
– Saturday, 17.02.2018
Literature
Undergraduate students studying German at colleges, universities and higher education institutions in Hong Kong and Macau now have the opportunity for the first time to demonstrate their language proficiency at the level A1 to B1 in a German Language Olympics for the academic year 2017/2018.The final competition for will be held at the University of Hong Kong and our Deputy Consul General will be on the judging panel. Come and support all the finalists!
Location: Cho Yiu Hall, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
Wednesday, 14.03.2018
– Wednesday, 14.03.2018
Movie
For one and a half years, the filmmaker follows three ski mountaineers as they prepare for the Patrouille des Glaciers, an incredibly tough race across the Swiss Alps. Florence wants to take part in memory of her father, but she is not used to engage in a team. Guillaume is an accomplished competitor. He struggles to find a balance between family, work and his passion. Antoine is emerging from a difficult period. Now he’s eager to prove his worth to the world. A raw and intimate journey into the three protagonists' innermost motivations and the story of how this adventure transforms them.
Location: Alliance Francaise Library, 1/F, Jordan Centre, Kowloon, Hong Kong
The China Women’s Film Festival in Hong Kong is hosted by the China Women's Film Festival Limited and co-organized by the Diversity Independence Education, the Gender Studies Programme and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Location: HK 01 Space, 127 Queen's Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong
The European Film Festival presented by the Minor in European Studies, Department of English has chosen 7 films from The Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, Sweden, Germany and France for the HK PolyU European Film Festival 2018. You can register for the session that you are interested in. It's free, so please come and join us! We are looking forward to seeing you at the film festival.
Location: AG710, The Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon
The Swiss Film "The Devine Order" opens this year's EU Film Fesitval.
Nora is a young housewife and mother, living in a quaint little village with her husband and their two sons. The Swiss countryside is untouched by the major social upheavals the movement of 1968 has brought about. Nora’s life is not affected either; she is a quiet person who is liked by everybody – until she starts to publicly fight for women’s suffrage, which the men are due to vote on in a ballot on February 7, 1971.
Location: Broadway Cinematheque, Prosperous Garden, 3 Public Square Street, Yau Ma Tei, Hong Kong
