Swiss Arts center

The Swiss Arts center of Paris, located at 38 rue des Francs-Bourgeois, in the district of Subdued (3 {{E}} district is a cultural organization whose objective is to be a window of the Swiss culture in the capital of the France. Financed by Pro Helvetia, Swiss foundation for the culture, it inaugurated in 1985.

Presentation of the Swiss Arts center

Operation

Since 2002 and until its sudden death on May 1st 2007, the Swiss Arts center was directed by Michel Ritter, and was managed by Katrin Saadé-Meyenberger.

Former directors of the Center:

Werner Düggelin (1985 - 1991)
Daniel Jeannet (1991 - 2002)

Mission and activities

The Arts center has the role to make known in France the various fields of the Swiss creation, there to support the insertion of the artists and Swiss professional environments and to connect multilingual cultural Switzerland with the cultures present in Paris.

Spaces of the Center include/understand a theater of a hundred places, two showrooms and a Bibliothèque which is also the information center of the public.

The theater allows to present spectacles of small size (Théâtre, Danse), concerts (traditional and contemporary, Jazz), to project films and to organize meetings.

The programming of the exposures privileges the Contemporary art and transmits the memory of the Swiss cultural history by exposures sets of themes and documentary.

The library

With the 32 Street of Francs-Bourgeois (direct access since the street), the Bibliothèque of the Arts center proposes in free consultation on the spot, a bottom of more than 8.000 Livres and Revue S on fields varied concerning the Suisse: Literature (German, French, Italian and Romanche), visual Arts, Architecture, Photography, Cinema, Music, Dance, Theater, Geography, History, Social sciences.

The library also proposes a bottom of more than 1.000 audio CD of Swiss musics in free listening.

Exposures to the Arts center

Monographic exposures

Peter Fischli and David Weiss (September 29th - November 10th, 1985)
Henriette Grindat - the Posterity of the sun (October 14th - November 10th, 1985)
Hannah Villiger (January 7th - February 16th, 1986)
Otto Meyer-Amden (April 15th - May 25th, 1986)
A.L.R Ducros - Landscapes of Italy at the time of Goethe (June 3rd - 13 jullet 1986)
Gerald Chick - Co-Mix-T (September 18th - October 19th, 1986)
Marie-Jose Burki & Erik Lanz (October 28th - November 9th, 1986)
Josef Felix Müller - has let us touch in the light fog of the sensuality (January 14th - March 1st, 1987)
Miriam Cahn - strategic Lieux, place of menstruation (March 11th - April 26th, 1987)
Hommage to Hans Seiler - drawings of 1935-1986 (May 19th - May 31st, 1987)
Jean Tinguely - Pontus Hulten - a magic stronger than death (October 1st - October 31st, 1987)
Flavio Paolucci - Drawing-relief-object-sculpture (November 5th - December 10th, 1987)
Gunter Frentzel (September 29th, 1987 - May 29th, 1988)
Silvie Defraoui and Chérif Defraoui - Orient/Occident (January 26th - February 28th, 1988)
Gianfredo Camesi - Lambda, Space Psycho-Biochromatique (March 8th - April 17th, 1988)
Paul Brühwiler - the Swiss cinema put in posters (March 8th - April 23rd, 1988)
Etienne Delessert - Books and imageries for children (April 26th - May 29th, 1988)
Anselm Stalder (September 30th - November 3rd, 1988)
Bernhard Luginbühl - Ursi Luginbühl (December 10th, 1988 - January 15th, 1989)
Matias Specha - Not Vidal (January 27th - February 19th, 1989)
Peter Knapp - Twilights - To remember (until July 2nd, 1989)
Miriam Tinguely (June 9th - July 2nd, 1989)
Eva Aeppli - Retrospective (September 29th - November 26th, 1989)
Schang Hutter - Where to go? (December 9th, 1989 - January 28th, 1990)
Adrian Schiess & Bernard Voïta (March 9th - April 22nd, 1989)
Paolo Bellini (November 17th, 1990 - January 20th, 1991)
Adolf Wölfli (April 27th - May 26th, 1991)
Anselm Stalder (April 27th - May 26th, 1991)
Meret Oppenheim - One pleasant moment on a planet (June 8th - 7 jullet 1991)
Louis Moilliet - Watercolours - Images of voyage (September 28th - November 10th, 1991)
Gianmarco Torriani - Other flight of Icare (September 28th - November 10th, 1991)
Jürg Moser (November 21st - December 29th, 1991)
Thierry Vernet & Nicolas Herdsman (January 9th - January 19th, 1992)
Rolf Iseli (April 4th - May 24th, 1992)
Emilienne Farny & Alexandre Mairet (June 4th - July 5th, 1992)
Paul-Armand Gette (November 13rd, 1992 - January 17th, 1993)
Aloïse (1886-1964) - Aloïse and the Theater of the Universe (May 7th - July 4th, 1993)
Markus Raetz - Prints 1957-1991 (January 8th - March 13rd, 1994)
Pierre Keller - Ben - a history of bottom ture (May 19th - July 3rd, 1995)
Daniel Humair - recent Paintings and prints, papers of 1964 to 1994 (September 30th - November 6th, 1995)
Jean-François How (November 18th, 1994 - January 8th, 1995)
Friedrich Dürrenmatt (January 27th - March 19th, 1995)
Francine Simonin (March 7th - April 28th, 1996)
Andréas Walser (September 21st - November 10th, 1996)
Rodolphe Töpffer: graphic adventures (1799-1846) (February 14th - April 20th, 1997)
Valerie Favre (September 6th - October 12th, 1997)
Louis Soutter - If the sun returned to me (1871-1942) (October 24th, 1997 - January 25th, 1998)
André Thomkins - Oh! this echo (May 6th - June 28th, 1998)
Michel Huelin (March 6th - June 6th, 1999)
Roger Pfund - work 1969-1999 (October 1st - December 12th, 1999)
Johannes Gachnang (September 16th - October 22nd, 2000)
Anne-Marie Jaccottet-Haesler - Inventory of a fruity campaign (January 19th - February 18th, 2001)
Franz Gertsch - Wood engraved monumental 1986-2000 (February 24th - April 15th, 2001)
Jürg Kreienbühl (September 22nd - December 16th, 2001)
Clement-Olivier Meylan - Trotts in Paris of Swiss the (November 16th - December 16th, 2001)
Werner Strub - Of the mask of theater in the shade of the character (April 27th - June 30th, 2002)
Michele Gleizer - For a smile with Mr Mustapha (April 27th - June 30th, 2002)
Catherine Gfeller - Several versions of it (November 9th - December 15th, 2002)
Christoph Büchel & Gianni Motti - Guantanamo Initiative (September 12th - October 31st, 2004)
Thomas Hirschhorn - Swiss-Swiss Democracy (December 4th, 2004 - January 30th, 2005)
Ian Anüll - To go/return (January 22nd - March 26th, 2006)
Romance To sign - To go/return 3 (September 10th - November 12th, 2006)
Valentine Carron (January 27th - April 6th, 2008)
Fabian Marti (January 27th - April 6th, 2008)
David Hominal (January 27th - April 6th, 2008)

Freehands

Freehand with Peter Fischli & David Weiss: To go/return 2 : Annelise Coste, Andreas Dobler, Andrea Heller, Jason Klimatsas, Peter Regli and David Renggli (April 23rd - July 16th, 2006)

Collective exposures

Company of the painters, sculptors and architects Swiss (SPSAS) - Routes drawings (May 19th - May 31st, 1987)
Swiss Paintings of the 20th century of the collection of the Swiss Main road (September 22nd - November 4th, 1989)
Charles de Montaigu, Peter Roesch, Hans Schärer, Rolf Winnewisser - Artists of the gallery Anton Meier (February 1st - March 22nd, 1992)
Bruno Beusch and Tina Cassani, Menga Dolf, Renee Levy, Marie Vieli, Maurice Vouga - “Pied-à-terre I” (March 5th - March 28th, 1993)
Caprez and Schuler, Groune de Chouque, Christiane Lovay, Peter Radelfinger, Bruno Reutimann, Gaudenz Signorell - “Pied-à-terre II” (April 9th - April 30th, 1993)
Francoise-Anne Dupertuis, Clement-Olivier Meylan, Pavel Schmidt - Pied-à-terre III, Young Swiss artists of Paris (April 8th - May 8th, 1994)
Bernard How, Reto Emch, Richard Müller & Jan Kopp, Marie-Helene R. - Pied-à-terre IV, Young Swiss artists of Paris (June 2nd - July 2nd, 1995)
Mariapia Borgnini, Flaya Arnoldi, Daniele Garbarino, Maurice Hoderas - Pied-à-terre V (January 19th - February 25th, 1996)
Comix: new emergences of the Swiss cartoon (April 14th - April 20th, 1997)
Fred-Andre Holzer, Philippe Monod, Louis Schopfer (May 10th - June 29th, 1997)
“Impulses”: Judith Albert, Emmanuelle the Antille, JOKO, Chantal Michel, Elena Montesinos, Nathalie Novarina, Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger, Alexia Walther, Pascale Wiedemann, Esther Eppstein (January 27th - April 9th, 2000)
the cantonal School of art of Lausanne in the Swiss Arts center (January 26th - March 24th, 2002)
Mursollaici (January 19th - March 30th, 2003)
“How to remain Zen? ”: Michael Biberstein, Balthasar Burkhard, Pierre-Andre Ferrand, Sylvie Fleury, That Floyer, Vidya Gastaldon, Sarah Glaisen, Jürg Hassler & Hannes Bossert, Nick Hess, David Lamelas, Zilla Leutenegger, Elodie Pong, Didier Rittener (April 27th - September 28th, 2003)
“World”: Martin Hess, Cyrill Schläpfer, Peter Regli, Marianne Müller, Daniel Affolter, Segu, Ur Musig, El Solitario, Ds Uri (November 9th - December 14th, 2003)
“Without Title”: Jean-Frederic Schnyder, Jacques Chessex, Hans-Peter Litscher (February 1st - April 4th, 2004)
“More or less young”: Walter Pfeiffer, Teresa Hubbard & Alexander Birchler, Thomas Galler, Julika Rudelius, Sigalit Pram (May 2nd - July 11th, 2004)
“invisible Architecture” (March 12th - May 15th, 2005)
“Daily Signs” (June 19th - October 9th, 2005)
“Scenes of life” (October 30th - December 18th, 2005)
“Paintings Outward journey/return”: Richard Paul Lohse, Verena Loewensberg, Christoph Gossweiler, Luigi Lurati, Olivier Mosset, Peter Stämpfli, Francis Baudevin, Stephan Dafflon, Philippe Decrauzat, Christian Floquet, Laurence Pittet (December 3rd, 2006 - March 11th, 2007)
“Worker Queen Drone”: Carol Bove, Vidya Gastaldon, Amy O' Neill and May-Thu Perret (April 15th - July 15th, 2007)
“Europe in becoming (part 1)”: Ursula Biemann, Laurence Bonvin, Peter Spillmann, Christian Philipp Müller, Hinrich Sachs, the USSR Lehni, Nika Spalinger, Yves Mettler, Gianni Motti, daN Perjovschi (September 9th - October 28th, 2007)
“Europe in becoming (part 2)”: Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkáèová, Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil, Nicoleta Esinencu, Marcelo Expósito, Laura Horelli, Pravdoliub Ivanov, daN Perjovschi, Raluca Voinea, Bojana Pejic, Barbara Cassin, Ruedi Imbach, Innate Kappert, Hito Steyerl, Jasmila Zbanic, Katrin Klingan, Selimir Zilnik (November 11th - December 30th, 2007)

Exposures sets of themes

Swiss Stained glasses of the Museum of Cluny - Paris (June 10th - July 19th, 1987)
Jewels - News tendencies, new materials (November 5th, 1987 - January 24th, 1988)
the collection of rough art - Posters, photographs, publications, audio-visual, vidéos (January 26th - March 5th, 1988)
Around Emma Kunz, 40 artists - Oh! this echo! (September 19th - November 1st, 1992)
the Last Continent or Waldeau, asylum of art (May 11th - June 30th, 1996)
“Of the corner of the eye” - Switzerland of 1848 to 1998 (September 25th - November 22nd, 1998)
“Dogdays are over” - video like artistic practice in the Swiss contemporary art: Alexandre Bianchini, Olaf Breuning, Sylvie Fleury, Fabrice Gygi, Pipilotti Rist, Ugo Rondinone, Erik Steinbrecher, Sidney Stucki (December 11th, 1988 - February 14th, 1999)
“Gallimard and Switzerland, one century of literary affinities” (May 12th - July 2nd, 2000)
Paris - Godard the city the policy the language (November 4th, 2000 - January 7th, 2001)
Matter of art - contemporary architecture in Switzerland (May 5th - July 1st, 2001)

External bonds

site of the Arts center

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