Switzerland is world-renowned for its winter sports culture. The Swiss Chalet is a pop-up bar that brings the essence of Swiss alpine winter to Beijing. Located at the Houhai Lake, one of the most ideal natural ice rinks in Beijing, the pop-up bar will serve as a gateway to Switzerland’s winter culture, tourism, and innovation, kickstarting the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Switzerland and China in 2025.
“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.
From late August to early September, the band, consisting of Vincent Membrez, Luca Sisera, Norbert Pfammatter and Michael Jaeger, will demonstrate their mastery of the music, improvise and perform at four Chinese cities during the Jazz Improvise Meeting Festival. Along with Chinese and other international jazz musicians and bands, they together will explore the new possibilities of the dynamic jazz music.
As one of the"few outstanding formations of their kind" (Basler Zeitung), the Eos Guitar Quartet has been casting spells on their fans for almost 30 years. Marcel Ege, Martin Pirktl, replaced today by Julio Azcano, David Sautter and Michael Winkler founded the quartet in 1985, taking their name from the Greek word of dawn. With six CDs, programs full of variety and many concerts to count, the four guitarists from Switzerland have won the respect and enthusiasm of critics. Whether it’s classical, jazz, rock, modern avant-garde or flamenco—the Eos Guitar Quartet is comfortable playing in many styles. Since 2011, Eos Guitar Quartet's musicians have also been working as event organ- izers, their IN GUITAR Festival in Winterthur attracts every year a large audience.From Antonio Vivaldi to Astor Piazzola, the Eos Guitar Quartet will charm the Chinese audience next July in many cities with the virtuosity and intensity of their music. They also play repertoires of Swiss composers such as Pierre Favre or Andreas Vollenweider.
The Swiss saxophonist and composer Juliane Rickenmann began her music career at an early age. She was 18 when she began her international career; she travelled to Australia and managed to finance her trip by playing in the street and in jazz clubs of Melbourne. She then continued her musical journey to Japan and New York where she met and co-operated with numerous international artists. In 2000, after several international musical tours and experiences, Juliane came for the first time to China, precisely in the southwest city of Chengdu where she got hired as saxophonist for two years. She will be back in China in June 2015 with her new album « EMEI » - homage to the Mount Emei in Sichuan. She will play with her group J. Richenmann 4tet together with Ornella Ponnaz (piano), Pierre Kuthan (bass) and Giacomo Reggiani (percussion). « EMEI » invites the listeners to discover various kind of music which inspired Juliane during her stay in China. It refers to the Mount Emei, one of the 4 sacred Buddhist Mountains in China with a massive ten-faces statue of Buddha Samantabhabra on its summit mounted on the back of a giant white elephant. When Juliane climbed Emei and reached the Golden Summit, she was profoundly touched by his radiance and energy. She later decided to name her son and her new album “Emei”.
Swiss conductor Emmanuel Siffert is at the moment Principal Conductor at the San Juan Symphony Orchestra in Argentina, he has been Principal Conductor of the European Chamber Opera, London; Swiss Chamber Orchestra, Aosta Symphony Orchestra, Italy and the National Symphony Orchestra of Ecuador and is appointed as Principal Guest conductor, starting in 2012, for the Wales Concert Orchestra, as well he conductis regulary ballets at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires.On 11 June, he conducts China National Symphony Orchestra to play a concert of Chinese composer Wang Xilin's works.
Tuesday, 09.06.2015
– Thursday, 18.06.2015,
Pro Helvetia
Countries; Theater
Supported by Pro Helvetia Shanghai, Black Out, choreographed by Swiss choreographer Philippe Saire, is an elegy to our darker side and an appeal for self-contemplation.
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.
