In unserer Agenda findest du aktuelle kulturelle Veranstaltungen mit Bezug zur chinesischen Kultur in der Schweiz. Wir bemühen uns interessante Anlässe in unsere Agenda aufzunehmen und sind für Hinweise dankbar.
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sinokultur invites you to our very special members-only art tour with the fabulous artists Rebekka Steiger and Angela Lyn at the Kunstmuseum Thun on Saturday, May 24th.
Two artists, two generations, two worlds - united. The parallel exhibitions by Rebekka Steiger and Angela Lyn bring together two women from different backgrounds who live in Switzerland and share a love of painting, China, their homeland and nature.
Rebekka Steiger (*1993) is both a painter and a storyteller who takes us into strange and colourful dream worlds. Sometimes flowery, sometimes eerie, her paintings are characterised by a dialectic of simultaneous movement and statics. Steiger’s paintings contain unfinished narratives – one discovers landscapes, trees and figures. Drawing brushstrokes, painterly gestures, surfaces and objects are applied to the canvases in overlapping layers of colour.
For Angela Lyn (*1955) cultural diversity is the core of what she is and what she does. Combining her Eastern and Western heritage into a unique and engaging language, the artist strives to explore the universal and encourage viewers to reflect on the complexity of the world we live in. Through careful observation, clear composition and the attentive use of her medium, Lyn’s paintings, sculptures, objects and performances create an inner resonance.
The tour will be in English.
Photo Rebekka: Anne Morgenstern, Photo Angela: Chambers Fine Arts
Date: Saturday, May 24 from 1pm to 2.30pm museum tour with artists, 4pm-6pm Apéro at lakeside
Location: Kunstmuseum Thun, Thunerhof, Hofstettenstr. 14, Thun
This event is for members-only.
The Swiss artist Valentin Rilliet is excited to invite you to his first exhibition in Paris with Galerie Peter Kilchmann. The solo show "The Dream Synopsis" will be open from May 24th to July 19th.
Raised in Geneva by a Chinese mother and a Swiss father, Rilliet’s work is deeply informed by a bicultural identity, which he neither simplifies nor resolves but rather uses as a creative and driving tension in his practice.
"The Dream Synopsis" is Valentin’s first exhibition in Paris. The exhibition’s title refers to his approach to creating his recent works through a more open, associative, or dreamlike perspective, moving away from the site- and source-specific themes that characterized his previous series. In these new oil paintings and works on paper, the artist opens the narrative field of his practice, playfully creating a unique mythology through which he continues to develop his visual language.
There are ten paintings on canvas and nine works on paper presented in the exhibition. Each piece contains a magic realist vision, uniquely composed and skillfully balanced. Central to each painting is a figure, usually in motion, that animates a distinct scenario. These figures often serve as protagonists within mysterious or ambiguous scenes that obscure the line between memory and imagination.
A particularly experimental aspect of his new series was his application of Tibetan paper, ordered from Lhasa. The paper, thick and durable like scrolls for sacred texts and archival literature, is traditionally made from Daphne bush bark that makes it poisonous to insects, preserving it from decay.
Valentin Rilliet (b.1996, Geneva, Switzerland), lives and works in Geneva. In 2023, he graduated from ZHdK (Zurich University of the Arts) with an MFA in Fine Arts and graduated with a BFA in Fine Arts from The Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, UK, in 2020. Text: Courtesy of @galeriepeterkilchmann
Artist talk with art critic and curator @mariemaertens Sat, May 24, 5pm
Location: Galerie Peter Kilchmann Paris, 11-13, Rue des Arquebusiers, 75003 Paris
Galerie Urs Meile is very excited to invite you to the opening of it's second gallery space in Zurich at the new location Ankerstrasse 3 on Friday, June 13th from 6-9pm.
Galerie Urs Meile opens its new Zurich headquarters with "Anker Protocol – 1.0", the first edition of a recurring exhibition series that offers expansive insights into the gallery’s program and wider curatorial perspectives. Emphasizing dialogue across generations, cultures, and disciplines, the format reflects the gallery’s ongoing commitment to artistic curiosity and exchange.
Artists: Antonio Ballester Moreno, Cao Yu, Klodin Erb, Hu Qingyan, Urs Lüthi, Miao Miao, Rosalind Nashashibi, Shao Fan, Rebekka Steiger, and Alice Wang.
Founded in 1992 in Lucerne, Galerie Urs Meile has cultivated a distinctive position over the past three decades, deriving its significance from a steadfast commitment to fostering contemporary art in China and Europe and facilitating meaningful exchanges between the two. As one of the first Western galleries to enter China, Galerie Urs Meile began its activities there in 1995 and has maintained a permanent space in Beijing since 2005, now led by René Meile.
Since 2020, under the directorship of Karin Seiz-Meile, the gallery has broadened its Swiss presence through an exhibition space in Ardez, in the Engadin region. In 2023, it opened a permanent exhibition space on Rämistrasse in Zurich—a move that laid the foundation for deeper connections within the city’s vibrant and internationally engaged art ecosystem.
The new Ankerstrasse space offers a flexible, adaptive architectural approach: the fluid layout allows for reconfiguration and subdivision, supporting diverse exhibition formats—from intimate presentations to multi-part installations. The gallery envisions Ankerstrasse as an evolving platform where artistic inquiry expands through collective dialogue, fostering experimental, interdisciplinary, and cross-cultural practices.
Date: Friday, June 13th, 2025 from 6-9pm
Location: Galerie Urs Meile, Ankerstrasse 3, 8004 Zurich
sinokultur would like to invite you to an exciting privat tour & lunch with with Hong Kong-born, Helsinki-based, artist Oscar Chan Yik Long in Basel on Thursday, June 19th at 12pm.
Artist Oscar Chan Yik Long and curator Angelika Li from PF25 Cultural Projects will guide us through the exhibition, followed by a light lunch specially prepared by Hedy Leung - artist and certified senior Chinese medicated food dietician - designed to thoughtfully complement the themes of the exhibition.
Exhibition: The exhibition is titled To Sleep and Wake Unafraid. The exhibition draws on the liminal hours before sunrise—moments that stir deep emotional currents in both the conscious and unconscious. For Chan, these early hours resonate with those navigating complexity and difference in their lived realities, while also evoking a universal longing—and right—for safe spaces of self-understanding, healing, and growth.
The exhibition reflects on the relationship between action and identity: how daily gestures and routines shape both body and mind, and how these elements influence and transform one another. Drawing on the philosophy of traditional Chinese medicine, it explores the dynamic interplay between physical and emotional states.
OSCAR CHAN YIK LONG (b. 1988) is a Hong Kong-born artist with a versatile international practice focused on site-specific painting installations and drawing. Although Oscar often uses ink for immersive painted environments and for drawings, and although he often refers to East Asian mythology in his work, he has very little training in classical Chinese ink painting. His image world and his visual handwriting are his own.
The tour will be held in English.
Date: Thursday, June 19th from 12pm to 2pm
Location: PF25 Cultural Projects, Pfeffergässlein 25, 4051 Basel
Galerie Urs Meile is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition of Qiu Shihua (b. 1940 in Zizhong, China) at their gallery at Rämistrasse in Zurich.
Qiu Shihua’s seemingly monochromatic landscapes reveal themselves only through direct encounter with the original—through presence, through careful and prolonged observation. And yet, even as they begin to appear, they seem to slip away again, resisting clear perception. Emergence and disappearance form the threshold through which these works are approached, rendering the habitual, trained process of motif recognition redundant. Though similar in appearance, each painting resists, in its own way, the fast-paced visual consumption so typical of our time. Instead, they demand a slowing down—a moment of stillness that calls for focus, contemplation, and patience. (Text: Galerie Urs Meile)
Qiu Shihua (b. 1940) is a Chinese artist born in the southwestern province of Sichuan. He began painting as a self-taught artist, graduating from the Xi'an School of Fine Arts in 1962. Specializing in oil painting, Qiu Shihua favored plein-air practice at a time when the major trend was towards propaganda painting. He spent most of his career working as a cinema poster artist, before having his first solo exhibitions in China in the 1990s, and in 2001 at the Kunsthalle in New York. In the late 1980s, he made a spiritual journey to the Gobi Desert. Since then, Taoism has played an essential role in his life and art. This thought, which emphasizes the notion of harmony between man and nature, resonates strongly in Qiu Shihua's work. (Text: Camille Despré)
Portrait of Qiu Shihua in his studio in Beijing, 2016 © Qiu Shihua, Courtesy Galerie Karsten Greve Paris Köln St. Moritz – Photo : HuaXia
Open until May 24, 2025
Location: Rämistrasse 33, 8001 Zurich
For more info click here: https://www.galerieursmeile.com
Trigon Film is showing the Chinese film BLACK DOG (2024) by Guan Hu in Swiss cinemas.
After his release from prison, Lang returns to his hometown on the edge of the Gobi Desert. As part of a dog patrol tasked with clearing the town of stray dogs ahead of the 2008 Olympic Games, he forms an unexpected friendship with a greyhound. Director Guan Hu has created a visually stunning work between western and neo-noir, with laconic humor and characterized by the social realism of Jia Zhangke, who shines in a supporting role alongside superstar Eddie Peng.
Guan Hu, born in Beijing in 1968, is not only considered one of the most influential film directors and screenwriters in contemporary Chinese cinema. He graduated from the Beijing Film Academy and, like Jia Zhangke, belongs to the so-called “Sixth Generation”, a movement of filmmakers characterized by a realistic, often gloomy view of modern China.
Cannes 2024: Prix Un Certain Regard
Playing @riffraff.houdini in Zurich and other cinemas in Switzerland.
Duration: 110 Min.
Language: Mandarin/d/f
Actors: Eddie Peng (Lang), Liya Tong (Grape), Jia Zhangke (Uncle Yao), Yi Zhang (Manager), You Zhou (Nie), Xin (black dog)
For tickets click here: https://www.riffraff-houdini.ch/de-ch/film/black-dog.html
The Fondation Baur Geneva would like to invite you to the exhibition "Femmes Chinoises" (Chinese Women).
The exhibition 女 Chinese Women delves into various aspects of the lives of women in Chinese culture, evoking through a selection of poems written by women the tensions inherent in their status. The visit begins with a presentation of their traditional depiction in art, from the evolution of beauty standards embodied by funerary figurines of the Tang dynasty (618-907) to the hieratic portrait of an elderly lady of the Qing (1644-1911), an anonymous witness to ancestor worship in China. Beyond the country’s borders, a certain image of the Chinese woman reached Europe through export porcelain, and spread there as an idealised model in the Chinoiserie of Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) and François Boucher (1703-1770).
The second section is centred on a magnificent wedding bed of carved and gilded wood, symbolising that crucial moment in a person’s life that represents marriage. In a centuries-old patriarchal society, numerous decorative motifs relate to marital bliss, fertility, and the desire for male offspring. The importance of marriage, whether experienced as an obligation or as a happy union, is widely echoed in literature, notably through the well-known classic Story of the West Chamber (Xixiang ji 西廂記), frequently illustrated on ceramics.
A third section explores women's ornaments and attire, but also deals with the painful practice of foot binding, a form of mutilation considered a status symbol and a mark of feminine beauty.
The fourth part is dedicated to female deities who provide special protection to women and children, as well as popular beliefs related to childbirth. The exhibition closes with the works of several women painters from the Ming period (1368-1644) to the present day. Dong Xiaowan 董小宛 (1625-1651), the Empress Dowager Cixi 慈禧 (1835-1908), Ling Shuhua 凌書華 (1900-1990), as well as the artist Peng Wei 彭薇 (born in 1974), each tell, in their own manner, a tale about the status of women.
Location: Baur Foundation, 8 rue Munier-Romilly, 1206 Geneva
Dates: April 16 - July 20
For more info click here: https://fondation-baur.ch/en/expositions/chinese-women
Der Schweizerischer Quanzhen-Daoismus Verein lädt ein zu einem exklusiven Sommerkurs 2025 mit dem Thema "Gesundheit und Wohlbefinden: Der daoistische Weg zu einem gesunden und erfüllten Leben" vom 2. bis 6. Juli in Zürich.
Der hochgeschätzte Meister Meng wird die daoistische Philosophie aus erster Hand vermitteln und die daoistischen Weisheiten in ihrer Tiefe erfahren lassen.
Meister Meng stammt aus der Provinz Shandong. Schon in jungem Alter verehrte er die Natur und suchte nach dem eigentlichen Sinn des Lebens. Im nordostchinesischen Gebirge praktizierte er als Einsiedler die daoistischen Lehren und übte sich in innerer Einkehr. Dadurch erlangte ein tiefes Verständnis des „Handelns im Nicht- handeln“ (Wu Wei) und lernte die Weisheit des Universums und die Einheit von Natur und Mensch in seinem Leben zu verwirklichen.
Derzeit ist Meister Meng Abt des Tempels der Weissen Wolken (Baiyun Guan) in Peking und Vizepräsident der Daoistischen Akademie Peking. Ausgehend vom philosophischen Denken von Zhuangzi und Laozi verfügt er über ein äusserst tiefes Verständnis der Gesundheit und des körperlich-seelischen Wohlbefindens.
Sinologin, Übersetzerin und sinokultur Mitgründerin, Eva Lüdi-Kong, wird für Meister Meng übersetzen.
Gesamter Kurs, 5 Tage (02. - 06. Juli 2025)
Nur Einführung, 2 Tage (02.- 03. Juli 2025)
Nur Vertiefung, 3 Tage (04.- 06. Juli 2025)
Für Anmeldung bei info@mingtao.ch anmelden.
Ort: Schweizerischer Quanzhen-Daoismus Verein Buchgrindelstrasse 28, Wetzikon
Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist will open her exhibition "Your Palm is My Universe" at the Center for Contemporary Art UCCA in Beijing on July, 19th 2025.
In a solo exhibition centered on newly commissioned video installation works, internationally acclaimed Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist takes on the spatial dynamics of UCCA’s Great Hall. These creations further expand Rist's pioneering and incisive visual lexicon, seamlessly integrating her enduring ecofeminist perspectives with Taoist philosophical reflections on nature and the interconnectedness of all life.
The exhibition invites viewers to shift fluidly between intimate microcosms and sweeping macro-perspectives, exploring cycles of ongoing transformation that govern bodily mechanisms, food consumption, digestion, and cultivation within today’s complex ecosystems. A dynamic journey into Rist’s “Total Art,” this exhibition encompasses video, installation, and sculpture in a profound sensory experience.
Rist will present a large-scale, site-specific commission for the Great Hall fully engaging UCCA’s striking public and exhibition spaces with a humorous and immersive experience welcoming audiences of all ages and backgrounds into the vibrant world of Rist’s art. In addition, a concise selection of her most emblematic works will flank the commission. This exhibition is curated by UCCA Curator Yan Fang.
Pipilotti Rist (b. 1962, Grabs, Switzerland; lives and works in Zurich) studied commercial art, illustration, and photography at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna from 1982 to 1986. She furthered her studies with audio visual communications (video) at the School of Design in Basel. Since the mid-1980s, Rist has been exhibiting her work worldwide and became a central figure within the international art scene.
Date: 19. July to 19. Oktober 2025
Location: UCCA Beijing, 798 Art District, No. 4 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District
Am Freitag, 22. August 2025 um 18.30 lädt sinokultur dich zu unserem Salon mit der Architektin Mulan Sun ein. Der Titel ihres Vortrags lautet "Form ist Leere, Leere ist Form".
Wasser, Wohnen und spirituelle Räume sind die Hauptthemen Mulan Suns Forschung und Praxis der letzten Jahre. In diesem Vortrag wird sie die Wohn- und Teehaus Projekte vorstellen und die historischen und theoretischen Forschungen, die diesen Projekten zugrunde liegt. Damit versucht sie die Frage zu antworten: Wie wir immaterielle/unendliche Spiritualität durch materielle/endliche Architektur schaffen?
Mulan Sun ist in China geboren und aufgewachsen. Im Jahr 2005 kam sie in die Schweiz für das Architektur Masterstudium an der ETH Zürich. Seit 2015 ist sie Gründerin und Partnerin von SML Architektur GmbH. Mulan unterrichtete an der ETH Zürich, an der Universität Tianjin, und seit 2020 an der Hochschule Luzern. Sie ist auch Teemeisterin, Gründungsmitglied des ETH Circle und Präsidentin der Schweizerisch-Chinesischen Kammer der Architekten und Künstler (SCAA).
Ort: sinokultur, Klosbachstrasse 109, 8032 Zürich
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