Thursday, 10.10.2024
– Thursday, 10.10.2024
Swiss community event
The Ambassador of Switzerland to China, H.E. Jürg Burri, and the Science, Technology and Education Section of the Embassy of Switzerland in Beijing invite you to the All Swiss Public University Alumni Gathering 2024. Stay up to date with the latest news and enjoy a pleasant evening with old friends and classmates!
Saturday, 30.05.2015
– Monday, 08.06.2015,
Pro Helvetia
Countries; Exhibition
MoCA Pavilion will present the new project from 30th May：Orbit 2046 Together we will travel to the future - A solo project by Urs August Steiner.This project is supported by Swiss Art Council Pro Helvetia Shanghai’s Artist in Residency project,in collaboration with MoCA Shanghai. As is characteristic of Urs August Steiner’s work, Orbit 2046 makes reference to the fantasies of cinema. Taking inspiration from Wong Kar-wai’s 2004 film, 2046, in which a train hurtles inexhaustibly through time, the work explores the postmodern complexities in establishing a grounded reality.
On the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the establishment of the diplomatic relations between Switzerland and China, the Consulate General of Switzerland in Guangzhou, in co-operation with the Swiss Foundation for Photography in Zurich, is showing the exhibition “CHINA BETWEEN YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW” with 65 photographs by the Swiss photographer Fernand Gigon from the 1950s.
Besides getting a glimpse of the diverse Swiss cultures, visitors to the event organized by the Consulate General of Switzerland in Guangzhou will also acquire practical knowledge of Switzerland as an attractive investment location, appealing travel destination and leading country in energy utilization following three seminars on trade, travel and energy.
The exhibition will show work and projects by Venezuelan-born, Swiss-based architect Christian Kerez who seeks to elucidate his particular approach, which emphasises how architecture does not exist in and of itself, but is rather a reflection of a practice of questioning, and of working with the unexpected. At its core, the things we take for granted must be seen again, in a new light. The exhibition will present examples of his designs together with his photography and video works, among them models of a high-rise in Zhengzhou, the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Leutschenbach School, House with one wall.
Thursday, 21.05.2015
– Sunday, 31.05.2015,
Pro Helvetia
Countries; Exhibition
Curator: Mei HuangLecture: 2015. 5. 20 18:30 Lecture Venue: CAFA MuseumOpening: 2015. 5. 21 15:30Duration: 2015. 5. 21 15:30－5. 31People generally think of China’s contemporary abstract art as an import from the West, while the contemporary art in the West is no longer figurative. Through reverse thinking, Curator Mei Huang has built a bridge for the Chinese and Swiss artists to have an in-depth dialogue on the contemporary art, with the Chinese artist Tan Ping elucidating his abstractness and Swiss artist Luciano Castelli exploring his figurativeness. The exhibition has offered a rare visual feast for audience to enjoy the clash of and the resonance in different cultures.
Location: National Art Museum of China, hall 5 No.1 Wusi Dajie, East District, Beijing, China
The New Zurich Orchestra (NZO, Neues Zürcher Orchester) is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. On this occasion, the orchestra is planning a special Asia Tour in collaboration with the Swiss Philharmonic Academy. In April 2015, the Chinese music lovers will have the opportunity to enjoy its concert in Shanghai, with a rich program featuring flutist Philippe Jundt as soloist and Spanish composer Rodrigo who will give a concert for flutes, just to mention a few.
For the 65th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Switzerland and the People's Republic of China, and as part of the partnership signed in 2013 between Geneva and the city of Beijing, the Capital Museum China, in cooperation with the Geneva Museum of Art and History (MAH) and the Manufacture Vacheron Constantin, presents "Geneva at the Heart of Time - The Origin of Swiss Watchmaking Culture" from April 23rd to August 12th 2015.
Monday, 30.03.2015
– Monday, 30.03.2015
Cultural event
RAM in cooperation with BANK presents Vive Le Capital, an evening where art meets global commerce that explores, celebrates, and critiques the omnipresent power of global finance through the perspectives from artists and others that examine the momentous and intimate experiences with multi-national capitalism. Creative practices will be considered as impressed in the world of global capital and finance, rather than reducing them to vapid gestures of political correctness or over-simplifying dichotomies of morality.
Basel Symphony Orchestra is to visit China again to celebrate the 65th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relationship. Dennis Russell Davies will conduct the orchestra to play a concert in Beijing's Forbidden City Concert Hall on 23rd March and a concert in Oriental Art Center in Shanghai on 25th March.
Location: Beijing Forbidden City Concert Hall; Shanghai Oriental Art Center
Tuesday, 17.03.2015
– Saturday, 28.03.2015,
Fête de la Francophonie
Movie
As part of the “Rencontres du Cinéma Francophone”, in the setting of the 20th “Fête de la Francophonie”, Switzerland is delighted to present for the first time in China Swiss Director Dominique Othenin-Girard’s movie Henry Dunant: Red on the Cross. This impactful artwork, which is inspired by a true story, has already thrilled and moved viewers in more than 40 countries. To celebrate this happening Henry Dunant: Red on the Cross will be screened in a dozens of cities across China.
Music has always been a part of Bastian Baker life,even as a young boy when music wasn’t at the centre of his preoccupations, he lent his voice to a school choir. Today, at only 24, he already sings on Switzerland and Europe’s biggest stages with the self-confidence of experienced performers. Over two years, he performed hundreds of times. Among the list, very prestigious venues: Montreux Jazz Festival, Paleo Festival and Francofolies de la Rochelle. This is his first tour in China.
Inspired by Romain Gary’s 1964 novel The Ski Bum (or Adieu, Gary Cooper in French), the rock band Adieu Gary Gooper has been invited by the Embassy of Switzerland to participate to the 8th edition of the French speaking music festival, Mars en Folie. Organized with the Alliance Française network, the embassies of Canada, Switzerland and Belgium as well as Wallonia-Brussels Delegation and Quebec government offices in China as a Part of the Fête de la Francophonie, Mars en Folie stages 4 bands which are soon going to stir up young Chinese music fans.
Location: Hong Kong; Macau; Guangzhou; Beijing; Wuhan; Shanghai
