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Swiss Institute
Swiss Institute / Contemporary Art New York (SI) is an independent non-profit contemporary art organization founded in 1986. SI is located at 38 St Marks Pl, the corner of Second Avenue and St Marks Place in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan. History The Swiss Institute was founded in 1986 by a group of Swiss expats looking to highlight their country’s artists and culture. It originally had headquarters at the Swiss Townhouse at 35 West Sixty-seventh Street. It moved to the third floor of the New Era Building at 495 Broadway in Soho in 1994. From 2011 to 2016, the Swiss Institute was located in a space at 18 Wooster Street. During that time, it showed its inaugural design exhibition in 2014. In addition to hosting art exhibitions, the space became the venue for the fall/winter 2016 presentation of New York City-based accessories brand Mansur Gavriel, which enlisted a handful of collaborators to turn the space into a domestic scene. From 2016, the Swiss Institute ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contemporary Art
Contemporary art is the art of today, produced in the second half of the 20th century or in the 21st century. Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world. Their art is a dynamic combination of materials, methods, concepts, and subjects that continue the challenging of boundaries that was already well underway in the 20th century. Diverse and eclectic, contemporary art as a whole is distinguished by the very lack of a uniform, organising principle, ideology, or " -ism". Contemporary art is part of a cultural dialogue that concerns larger contextual frameworks such as personal and cultural identity, family, community, and nationality. In vernacular English, ''modern'' and ''contemporary'' are synonyms, resulting in some conflation and confusion of the terms '' modern art'' and ''contemporary art'' by non-specialists. Scope Some define contemporary art as art produced within "our lifetime," recognising that lifetimes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc-Olivier Wahler
Marc-Olivier Wahler (born 1964, in Neuchâtel, Switzerland) is a Swiss curator and contemporary art critic and art historian. He is the director of the MAH Musée d’art et d’histoire in Geneva. He is the former director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, the former director of Palais de Tokyo, Paris, the former director of the Swiss Institute, New York, and the co-founding director of the Centre d’art Neuchâtel, Switzerland. He is also the former artistic advisor of De Appel Arts Center, Amsterdam, the former artistic advisor for CI Contemporary Istanbul, the founding editor of ''Palais/'' magazine], the founding director of the Chalet Society and PAL (Paris Art Lab), Paris; and founding director of Transformer Sculpture Park, Melides, Portugal. Life and career After having studied philosophy and art history in Neuchâtel, Lausanne and Geneva, he began his career as a museum curator in 1992 at the Cantonal Museum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bice Curiger
Beatrice "Bice" Curiger (born 1948 in Zurich, Switzerland) is a Swiss art historian, curator, critic and publisher who has been the Artistic Director of the Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles since 2013. In 2011 she became only the third woman to curate the Venice Biennale. Early life Curiger was born in 1948 in Zurich, Switzerland. She studied art history at the University of Zurich.Mijuk, Goran"Profile: Venice Biennale Curator Bice Curiger's Tranquil Voice of Reason" ''The Wall Street Journal'', Retrieved 9 May 2014. After graduation she became an art critic at the Swiss daily newspaper ''Tages-Anzeiger''. Career Co-Founder and Chief Editor of the art magazine Parkett from Zurich (since 1984); Independent Curator for various international art galleries, museums and exhibitions, including for the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (France), the Hayward Gallery in London (UK), the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the 54th Biennale di Venezia (Italy); Curator of the Kunsthaus Zü ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iwan Wirth
Iwan Wirth (born 1970) is a Swiss art dealer and the president and co-founder of Hauser & Wirth, a contemporary art gallery. Life and career Iwan Wirth was born in 1970 and spent his early life in St. Gallen, Switzerland, where his father was an architect and his mother was a schoolteacher. Wirth opened a commercial gallery in 1986 at the age of sixteen, and began working as a private dealer in Zurich in 1990. Hauser & Wirth In 1992, Wirth opened the Hauser & Wirth gallery together with Manuela and Ursula, heirs to the Fust retail fortune.Dan Duray (17 January 2012)The Constant Gardener: Iwan Wirth’s Hauser & Wirth Gallery Will Open a 15,000-Plus-Square-Foot Space Downtown This Year''The New York Observer''. Other activities In addition to his commercial activities, Wirth holds a variety of advisory positions, including: * California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), member of the board of trustees (since 2016) * Swiss Institute Contemporary Art New York, member of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uli Sigg
Uli Sigg (born 1946) is a Swiss businessman, diplomat and art collector. He served as the Swiss Ambassador to China, North Korea and Mongolia from 1995 to 1998. He serves as the vice chairman of Ringier, the largest media company in Switzerland. He made a large donation of contemporary Chinese art to the Hong Kong-based M+ museum in 2012. Early life Uli Sigg was born in 1946. He received a PhD in Law from the University of Zurich. Career Sigg started his career as a business journalist. By 1977, he worked for the Schindler Group, where he was an expatriate in China. He left the company in 1990. He was a company director for the next five years, serving on the boards of Swiss corporations. Sigg served as the Swiss Ambassador to China, North Korea and Mongolia from 1995 to 1998. As of 2009, he served as the vice chairman of Ringier, a media company. He also served on the advisory board of the China Development Bank. Art collection Sigg became the largest private collector of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Ringier
Michael Ringier (born 30 March 1949) is a Swiss publisher. He is the Chairman of Swiss media company Ringier. Life Born in Zofingen, his parents are Hans and Eva Ringier (born Landolt). Ringier attended the University of St. Gallen from 1970 to 1972. In 1973, he began to work as a journalist for the Münchner Abendzeitung. After attending courses at a journalism school and editorial stations in his family's media company, Ringier completed a trainee program at Heinrich Bauer Verlag in Hamburg in 1976/77. He then worked for the business editorial staff of the Stern and conceived (also for Gruner + Jahr) the magazin impulse. In the Cologne editorial department, he headed the department of "Business Administration and Business" from 1980 onwards. Private life Ringier is married to the law graduate Ellen Ringier (born Lüthy) and has two adopted daughters. Ringier is considered a proven art collector with a collection of more than 4,000 works of contemporary art and lives in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolf Ogi
Adolf Ogi (born 18 July 1942) is a Swiss politician from the village of Kandersteg in the Swiss Alps. He was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on 9 December 1987, as member of the Swiss People's Party from the Canton of Berne. He handed over office on 31 December 2000. During his time in office, he was in charge of the following departments: * Federal Department of Transport, Communications and Energy (1988 – 1995) * Federal Military Department (from 1996), later named Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sports (1998 – 2000) He was President of the Confederation twice in 1993 and 2000. From 2001 to 2008, Ogi was a ''Special Adviser on Sport for Development and Peace'' to the United Nations Secretary-General. Ogi is today an ambassador for Peace and Sport, a Monaco-based international organization, committed to serving peace in the world through sport. Ogi was awarded an honorary doctorate by the European University EU Business School is a private bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulrich Bremi
Ulrich Bremi (6 November 1929 – 17 June 2021) was a Swiss politician who served as member (1986–1989) and List of presidents of the National Council of Switzerland, President of the National Council (Switzerland), National Council. References 1929 births 2021 deaths Swiss politicians Swiss publishers (people) Swiss military personnel Presidents of the National Council (Switzerland) Members of the National Council (Switzerland) Free Democratic Party of Switzerland politicians ETH Zurich alumni Credit Suisse people Politicians from Zürich {{Switzerland-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
