In our event calendar you will find current cultural events related to Chinese culture in Switzerland. We are thankful for your tips regarding interesting events.
Please send your information to info@sinokultur.ch.
Cultural Events ⟩ Agenda
In our event calendar you will find current cultural events related to Chinese culture in Switzerland. We are thankful for your tips regarding interesting events.
Please send your information to info@sinokultur.ch.
sinokultur is very happy to invite you to a private tour with artist Valentin Rilliet on Saturday, September 5 at 11 am at Peter Kilchmann Gallery, Zahnradstrasse 21, 8005 Zurich.
This exhibition brings together new paintings and works on paper that explore themes of life and death, transcendence, and spirituality. Ghostly figures, animated dolls, and fragmented bodies inhabit a world where the everyday merges with the supernatural.
Building on the personal mythology developed in his previous exhibition, The Dream Synopsys (2025), Rilliet continues to expand his distinctive visual language through elements of magical realism.
Drawing on imagery that spans art history and popular theatrical traditions—from Ferdinand Hodler to the Commedia dell'arte—Rilliet creates layered, open-ended narratives. Faces are concealed by hands, hair, or masks, while scenes remain deliberately incomplete, inviting viewers to imagine what lies beyond the visible. Through omission, ambiguity, and movement, his paintings evoke a mysterious world where multiple stories unfold simultaneously.
Valentin Rilliet (*1996, Geneva) lives and works in Zurich. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London (2020) and obtained his MFA in Fine Arts at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (2023).
The tour is held in English.
Date: Saturday, September 5 from 11am-12pm
Location: Peter Kilchmann Gallery, Zahnradstrasse 21, 8005 Zurich
sinokultur would like to invite you to a tour with artist Nina Chen through her exhibition Over Mountains, Across Seas at Kunstraum Aarau on Saturday, September 19th at 2pm.
In her artistic practice, Nina Chen combines photography, installation and video. Through a precise observation of her surroundings, she explores the conditions of the present and reveals the tensions between individual experience and social transformation.
Over Mountains, Across Seas brings together works by Nina Chen that engage with migration, landscape and perception. Between documentary precision and poetic openness, her works create visual spaces where personal experiences intersect with questions of ecological and social change.
Nina Chen (*1980, Hubei, China) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Hubei Normal University. She lived and worked in Shanghai until 2017 and is now based in Aargau, Switzerland.
The exhibition is curated by Roger Wirz (*1970), an artist, curator and co-director of Kunstraum Aarau, where he has been co-running the institution’s independent exhibition programme for contemporary art since 2015.
This project is part of sinokultur's cultural promotion program 2026.
The tour is held in English and German.
sinokultur tour w/artist: Sept 19 from 2 -4 pm, tickets click here
Venue: Kunstraum Aarau, Ochsengässli 7, 5000 Aarau, Switzerland
Wir von sinokultur würden euch sehr gerne zu unserem Salon On the Road mit chinesischer Literatur: Alice Grünfelder im Gespräch mit Übersetzerin Karin Betz am Dienstag, 29. September um 18.30 Uhr einladen.
Literatur aus der VR China, Taiwan und Hongkong ist vielfältig wie nie. Karin Betz hat in den vergangenen Jahren eine grosse Bandbreite von Autoren und Genres übersetzt und sich dabei literarisch an die geographischen und historischen Ränder der sinophonen Kultur begeben: mit Chi Zijians Roman Das letzte Viertel des Mondes zum Nomadenvolk der Ewenken, mit Wang Xiaobo in Das goldene Zeitalter ins Zwangsexil nach Süd-Yunnan, mit Sanmao in Geschichten aus der Sahara in die Westsahara von 1973 und mit Yang Shuang-zis Reise durch Taiwan im Jahr 1938 nach Taiwan in der japanischen Kolonialzeit. Im Gespräch mit Alice Grünfelder berichtet sie über ihre Entdeckungen durch chinesische Literatur im geopolitischen Spannungsfeld.
Karin Betz übersetzt chinesische und englische Literatur, ist Kulturvermittlerin, Dozentin, Moderatorin und DJ. Übersetzt hat sie u.a. Mo Yan, Liao Yiwu, Cixin Liu, Xi Xi, Jin Yong, Can Xue, Wang Xiaobo und Zhang Yueran. Für ihre Arbeit wurde sie mehrfach ausgezeichnet, u.a. mit der August-von-Schlegel Gastprofessur für die Poetik der Übersetzung an der FU Berlin 2020/21, dem Special Book Award of China und dem Helmut-M.-Braem-Übersetzerpreis 2024. 2025 war sie Writer in Residence an der Taiwan Literature Base Taipei.
Alice Grünfelder, Buchhändlerlehre und Studium der Sinologie und Germanistik in Berlin und China (Chengdu), bis 2010 Lektorin beim Unionsverlag in Zürich, Herausgeberin etlicher Asien-Anthologien. Mehrere Veröffentlichungen, u.a. die Road-Novel Wüstengängerin (2018) über Xinjiang, Wolken über Taiwan (Rotpunktverlag) stand auf der Hotlist der Unabhängigen Verlag. 2024 erschienen u.a. bei Hochroth Leipzig Übersetzungen von Lyrik aus Taiwan.
Der Salon findet auf Deutsch statt.
Datum: Dienstag, 29. September 2026 von 18.30 bis 21 Uhr, Türöffnung um 18.15 Uhr
Ort: sinokultur, Klosbachstrasse 109, 8032 Zürich
The team of Galerie Urs Meile is happy to invite you to the exhibition 'Fugitive Figuration. Paintings 1994 – 2026' by Chinese artist Xie Nanxing on Friday, June 12th from 6-9pm at the Ankerstrasse gallery.
’Fugitive Figuration. Paintings 1994–2026’, is a survey exhibition of works by Xie Nanxing curated by Clémentine Deliss.
Tracing the artist’s practice from his iconic paintings of the 1990s to works completed in 2026, the exhibition offers both an introduction to and an appraisal of Xie Nanxing’s singular position within contemporary Chinese and international art.
For the first time, nine paintings from six different series are brought into dialogue, revealing the shifting forms and possibilities of figuration that have emerged throughout his practice over the last three decades.
Born in 1970 in Chongqing, a futuristic industrial city in Southern China, Xie studied printmaking, a technique mirrored in the different ways he manipulates pigment.
The artist will be present.
Date: June 12 to August 29, Vernissage June 12th 6-9pm
Location: Galerie Urs Meile, Ankerstrasse 3, 8004 Zurich
Image: Xie Nanxing, Untitled No. 8, 2025, oil on canvas, 210 x 195 cm
The Kunstmuseum Basel invites you to the exhibit by Chinese artist Cao Fei until October 11th 2026.
Cao Fei (b. 1978, Guangzhou, lives in Beijing) is one of the defining voices of her generation, working across video, digital media, photography, installation, and sculpture. The artist’s works capture the rapid changes that have shaped China, and the Pearl River Delta in particular, since the country’s 1978 policy of Reform and Opening up.
For Cao Fei. Testimonies to the Near Future, her first solo exhibition in Switzerland and largest survey exhibition in Europe to date, the artist transforms the Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart into a total work of art that takes the form of a city blending immersive installations and video universes from her oeuvre of the past thirty years. Cao Fei’s achievement as a pioneering creator of digital worlds is uncontested. Her early works have influenced an entire generation of artists from Asia and beyond. For over two decades, she has made art—from video installations and digital simulations to virtual-reality settings—grappling with the impact on human life of wrenching societal and technological transformations, establishing her renown as a leading thinker about art, media, technology, and the future.
The exhibition, which extends across all four floors of the Gegenwart building, invites viewers to delve deep into Cao Fei’s extensive oeuvre and makes for a singular experience in three dimensions in which the video works are not just on display but become an immersive reality.
Location: Kunstmuseum Basel, St. Alban-Graben 8, Basel
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