In our event calendar you will find Chinese cultural events 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 Chinese cultural events in Switzerland. We are thankful for your tips regarding interesting events.
Please send your information to info@sinokultur.ch.
sinokultur would like to invite you to our Salon on Friday, May 24 at 18.30 for the talk Concepts on the Move with the Hong Kong cross-disciplinary artist and artist-curator Wong Chi-yung.
Wong Chi-yung will talk about experiential installations, lighting installations, and creative education, emphasizing the communication between arts and sciences. He will explain to everyone how he wanders between art creation and scientific research, and then responds to his exploration with art creation. How to stimulate cooperation, creation, and research through the exploration of cross-disciplinary collaboration, and promote public awareness of mental health.
Wong Chi-yung was born in Hong Kong, and now lives in Zurich and Hong Kong. In the past four years, Chi-yung has actively promoted artistic and academic exchange. His collaborators include: Theatre of Liege, Belgium, West Kowloon Cultural Authority District, Hong Kong Arts Center, ETH Zurich, and the Artists-in-Labs Program at the Institute of Cultural Studies of Zurich University of the Arts, the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, etc. Recently, he was selected as one of the Art Fellows 2020 by Yale University in the United States, where he developed arts and mental health projects.
The talk will be moderated by Yunlong Song. After the talk everyone is invited for an Apéro.
The talk will be held in English.
Location: sinokultur, Klosbachstrasse 109, 8032 Zurich
Das Literaturhaus Zürich führt am Mittwoch 15. Mai um 19.30 Uhr in Kooperation mit sinokultur ein Gespräch mit dem chinesischen Autor Yan Lianke über seinen neuen Roman "Der Tag, an dem die Sonne starb" durch.
In "Der Tag, an dem die Sonne starb" (Matthes & Seitz 2024, aus dem Chinesischen von Marc Hermann) versinkt ein Dorf zunehmend im Traum. Zwar weiss schon der vierzehnjährige Erzähler Li Niannian: "Im Traum wollen die Leute ihre Wünsche wahrmachen" – doch so einfach ist es nicht. Der chinesische Autor Yan Lianke, der nicht nur mit bedeutenden chinesischen Literaturpreisen ausgezeichnet ist, sondern mit mehreren Texten auch auf dem Index seines Heimatlandes steht, beschreibt in unheimlichen Bildern, wie das Dorf von Schlafwandler*innen regelrecht heimgesucht wird. Statt kollektiver Wunscherfüllung droht den Dorfbewohner*innen grosses Chaos: "So einfach ist es mit dem Schlafwandeln: Die Vögel fliegen einem in den Kopf. Und bringen dort alles durcheinander."
Moderation: Manfred Papst, Lesung: Claudia Jahn
Übersetzung in Kooperation mit sinokultur: Yun Long Song
Sprache: Das Gespräch findet auf Chinesisch mit deutscher Übersetzung (Yunlong Song), die Lesung auf Deutsch statt.
Ort: Literaturhaus Zürich, Limmatquai 62, 8001 Zürich
Tickets: zwischen CHF 12 und CHF 22
Tickets: https://literaturhaus.ch/programm/
The Chinese artist Ni Daodao is delighted to invite you to the opening of his solo exhibition 'EARTH Notes of a Chameleon' at Kompass Space in Zurich on Thursday, April 18 from 6-9pm. The exhibition will be open until May, 25, 2024.
NOTES OF A CHAMELEON
As the inaugural “Earth” exhibition of ΚΟΜΠΑΣ / Kompass space, Notes of a Chameleon spotlights the work of Ni Daodao, an artist deeply concerned with eco-friendly living and notions of care. Conceived for Dienerstrasse’s vitrine format, Notes of a Chameleon evokes the immersive, porous atmosphere of Daodao’s garden studio at home in Uster, Switzerland, where their conceptual universe, Rabbonia, blooms year-round through material and sensorial engagement. Somewhere between a moon gate, a portal, and a peephole, this springtime installation stages the artist’s story-spinning works with the peppery flair of a chameleon, or even their beloved “chameleon plant,” indigenous to Southeast Asia: as fluid, nomadic ornaments of playful transformation.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Born in Chongqing, China and presently working in Switzerland, Ni Daodao 倪島島 engages with the world as a “skeptical inquirer.” An artist of “no gender, no nationality, no age,” their practice is defined by a commitment to ecological sensitivity and intimate, everyday narration.
ΚΟΜΠΑΣ / KOMPASS
Part of the ZHdK Department of Fine Arts, ΚΟΜΠΑΣ / Kompass (Elena Barba and Moselle Kleiner) is a curatorial initiative for approaching contemporary exhibition-making with a poetics of levity and rhythm. The Kompass programme at Dienerstrasse 33 includes five presentations focusing on ancient elements: Earth, Water, Air, Fire, and Metal, considered from diverse vantage points. The programme examines seasonal lifecycles and the essential interconnectedness of all things.
Drinks performance at 8 PM; to participate, we kindly request that you bring your own glass.
For any inquiries, please contact kompassspace@gmail.com
Credits: Photo by Arthur Heck; Graphic Design by Blaž Rojs
Date: April 18 until May 25
Location: Kompass Space, Dienerstrasse 33, Zurich, Switzerland
The American artist Maggie Lee is exhibiting her solo show MAGAZINE at Kunsthalle Zurich until May 20th.
The exhibition MAGAZINE was born out of the artist’s long-held desire to publish her own magazine – a very personal magazine that would nonetheless circulate further than just her own circle of friends. Maggie Lee’s passion for this medium of distribution was inspired by her work in copy stores, and above all by creating zines since her teenage years in New Jersey.
There is a special appeal to the creative self-realisation in self-publishing, which has developed into a scene of its own ever since cheap reproduction became accessible. This appeal is also reflected in Lee’s artistic practice: she collects material, cuts out, scans and copies, paints backgrounds, adds text or decorates with stickers and fabric remnants, then puts the finished pages back on the scanner, laminates them or cuts them into a different shape. Here, magazine-making becomes an artistic method: all her collages, installations, videos and sound works function via this technique of montage, associative arranging and the concomitant fun of disseminating the self-made.
The exhibition at Kunsthalle Zürich can be read like a walk-in version of the imagined magazine: at the center of the room is the desk at which the magazine is created, with inspirations and ideas scattered around it like will-o’-the-wisp. On the walls are paintings like layouted magazine pages, graffiti akin to overlooked advertisements and, lastly, a strange horror film that attracts attention like a sophisticated editorial. (Text: Kunsthalle Zurich)
Maggie Lee (born 1987) lives and works in New York, USA.
The exhibition is curated by Otto Bonnen, Assistant Curator Kunsthalle Zürich.
Location: Kunsthalle Zürich, Limmatstrasse 270, CH-8005 Zürich
The Zurich Galerie Lange + Pult is inviting you to the opening of the group exhibition BEYOND THE LOOKING GLASS on Thursday, April 18 from 6-9pm. The exhibition will be open until May, 25th.
In the exhibition “Beyond the Looking Glass” – inspired by Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking-Glass” – Works will be exhibited that deal with following thematic areas: Transformation and Metamorphosis, Technological Interventions, Mirrors and Reflections (Simon Würsten Martin).
Among the exhibiting artists is Chinese artist Xu Yang. She (b.1996, Shandong) is a London-based Chinese multi-disciplinary artist creating artwork with political undercurrents. Inspired by and referencing 17th and 18th century western art history, often seen via the male gaze, Xu is also influenced by drag performance, theatre and cabaret. Using herself as a model, Xu explores through painting, performance and photography the position of women in contemporary society and pop culture.
Among the other artists are: Alfredo Aceto, Victoria Cantons, Sylvie Fleury, Dorota Gaweda, Egle Kulbokaite,Thomas Julier, Klaudia Schifferle, Sinae Yoo.
Curated by Doris Son
Xu Yang, Gaze 2024, oil, watercolour, pencil and glass paint on lime wood panel, 17 x 13 cm
Location: Galerie Lange + Pult, Rämistrasse 27, 8001 Zurich
Das Literaturhaus Zürich präsentiert am Samstag, 13. Juli um 20 Uhr im Rahmen des Literaturfestivals Zürich den US-Pulitzerpreisträger HUA HSU mit seinem Buch des Jahres "Stay True".
Hua Hsu, 1977 in den USA geboren, Sohn taiwanesischer Einwanderer, ist Autor und Professor für Anglistik am Bard College. In seiner Arbeit befasst er sich unter anderem mit Immigration sowie der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung von Diversity und Multikulturalismus. Mit dem autobiographischen Roman "Stay True" ist ihm eine literarische Sensation gelungen: Das Buch avancierte zum New-York-Times-Bestseller und wurde von zahlreichen Zeitungen und Magazinen zum besten Buch des Jahres gewählt. Auch von den US-Literaturkritikern gab es die Höchstnote: den National Book Critics Circle Award. Und als wäre das alles nicht schon genug, kam auch noch der renommierte Pulitzer-Preis obendrauf!
"Stay True" ist ein aufrichtiges, zartes und berührendes Memoir über das Erwachsenwerden, in dem es um intensive Jugendfreundschaften und die Suche nach Sinn und Zugehörigkeit geht: Die japanisch-amerikanische Familie von Ken lebt seit Generationen in den USA. In den Augen des achtzehnjährigen Hua Hsu besteht das Problem mit Ken darin, dass er genau so ist wie alle anderen: Mainstream – wie öde! Hua, der Sohn taiwanesischer Einwanderer, der Zines macht und in Plattenläden stöbert, sieht sich als das genaue Gegenteil. Und doch nähern sich die beiden an und werden beste Freunde – bis Ken gewaltsam und sinnlos aus dem Leben gerissen wird.
Ort: Alter Botanischer Garten, Talstrasse 71, 8001 Zürich // bei unsicherer Witterung: im Kaufleuten // Türöffnung um 19 Uhr //
Sprache: Das Gespräch findet auf Englisch statt. Lesung ausgewählter Textstellen auf Deutsch.
Mehr Info/Tickets: https://literaturhaus.ch/veranstaltungen/literaturfestival-zuerich-hua-hsu/
The Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich is showing the exhibition "Looted Goods? 5 Questions on Objects from China at the End of the Imperial Era" until May, 12, 2024.
The 1900/01 Boxer Rebellion in China resulted in the deaths of more than 100,000 people, massive damage to cultural heritage in Beijing and countless looted objects that eventually ended up in museums and collections across the West. A new workspace exhibition at the Ethnographic Museum at the University of Zurich now shines a light on objects that may have been looted from China.
Ever since the Boxer Rebellion ended, researchers in China have frequently investigated the whereabouts of objects of Chinese cultural heritage. Only very few objects have so far been returned, but recent auctions selling goods that had obviously been looted have caused uproar, both in the Chinese government and among the public. Mareile Flitsch, museum director and curator, and her team at the Ethnographic Museum are working together with Chinese guest curator Yu Filipiak to investigate the history of objects held in Switzerland and explore their significance for Chinese people today.
Location: Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich, Pelikanstr. 40, 8001 Zurich
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