Category Archive: Culture

LiWei29levelsoffreedom
07 Sep

Vevey lives up to its ‘Images’

Branded “City of images”, Vevey lives up to its reputation. “Images” is a free visual arts festival that invades the lakeside city every two years. A myriad of international artists contribute to an ambitious programme that runs indoors and outdoors until September 26, featuring works by cult American film director David Lynch and by French art activist JR, whose monumental frescoes speak louder than words.

September 7, 2010 at 16:55 Leave a Reply
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18 Jun

Delirious musical ‘Silo 8’ lights up summer skies

“Silo 8″, the latest show by the cult Swiss-German Karl’s kühne Gassenschau, packs in crowds of all ages with its distinctive mixture of adventure, comedy, music and fireworks. An abandoned quarry near Aigle serves as an open-sky theatre for adventures that are wild and funny, with no need to understand the words.

June 18, 2010 at 16:05 Leave a Reply
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01 Jun

Museum receives major works as confidence mounts for new home

Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980), Glion, Vue sur le lac Léman, Musée Cantonal des Beaux Arts, Vaud The ill-fated project to move Vaud fine arts museum out of its present premises may…
June 1, 2010 at 15:13 Leave a Reply
Pastori
18 May

Chillon Castle captures Byron legacy

Château de Chillon near Montreux on Lake Geneva has been a source of intense literary inspiration to British and American writers over the last centuries, ever since Lord Byron wrote his epic ‘Prisoner of Chillon’. A just-published anthology reveals how a fortress that has become Switzerland’s most visited monument may owe its world-wide celebrity more to literature than history.

May 18, 2010 at 08:49 Leave a Reply
Schewadron
04 Mar

Lalie Schewadron, rising star of digital art

UK/USA trained Lalie Schewadron is the rising digital art star whose show in Switzerland will shortly be followed by one in the USA. Cultivating the frontiers between art and science, she uses sophisticated algorithms to draw the essence out of the beauty of nature. Her modern-day frescoes will be seen by 5,000 persons a day at the unusual venue of the university hospital in Lausanne.
March 4, 2010 at 11:14 Leave a Reply
element
02 Mar

Sex scandal by Swiss artist threatens art funding

Swiss artist Christoph Büchel pushes hyper-realism to an unexpected extreme by inviting a real life sex club to become an integral part of his exhibition at the Secession gallery in Vienna, home to Gustav Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze that sparked a sex scandal in its own time. Büchel’s provocation sends shock waves through political bodies responsible for the public funding of art, including in Switzerland
March 2, 2010 at 21:36 Leave a Reply
A Green politician, GPS & art
21 Dec

A Green politician, GPS & art

Patrice Mugny, an elected member of the five-person Executive Council of the City of Geneva and a representative of the Green party is the Director of Culture of the City of Geneva.

December 21, 2008 at 11:37 Leave a Reply
28 Aug

Fabien Ruf rocks Lausanne cultural scene with ideas

Fabien Ruf, the Head of the Cultural Services of Lausanne, is not afraid to rock the boat. In just over a year, he has challenged the grants allocation process, is fighting to gain acceptance of culture as an economic driver and is now on a campaign to culturally charm the two out of five foreigners who make up the population of Lausanne.
August 28, 2008 at 20:11 Leave a Reply
11 Jul

Musée cantonal des Beaux Arts, Lausanne

The fate of a new Fine Arts Museum by the lake in Lausanne will lie in the hands of the Vaud population. A referendum against the building designed for Bellerive has obtained 18’000 signatures, a third more than was necessary to succeed.
July 11, 2008 at 16:29 Leave a Reply
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