ART AT THE SWISS CHURCH IN LONDON


Current project


Visual Arts Exhibition
Ongoing Exhibition in collaboration with Goldsmith's University   
   
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Exhibition: In Transition, 9 - 25 February 2012
Opening Event: Thursday 9 February 2012, 6.30 pm – 8.30 pm 

Curated by Heidi Brunnschweiler
     
The site-specific intervention IN TRANSITION by Swiss artist Monika Rechsteiner explores the prominent spatial qualities of the Swiss Church in London, through the combination of a balloon sculpture and a video montage. This intervention subtly addresses a possible relation between the field of religion and science reflecting on the condition of progress by evoking a sense of damaged past that mirrors an impossible future. This is the second exhibition in collaboration with MFA in Curating at Goldsmiths College. 

Opening times:
Thursdays: 3 – 7 pm (23 February: 4.30-6.30pm);
Fridays and Saturdays 1 – 6 pm.  

Admission free 
 

  
        
Past projects

Visual Art Exhibition with Karin Ruggaber
   
   
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3 - 19 November 2011
Thursdays 2.00 - 6.00 pm, Fridays - Saturdays 1.00 - 6.00 pm
or by appointment

Opening: Thursday 3 November 2011, 6.30 - 8.30 pm

Presse Release 
 
 
 
 
 
Thursday 9th and 16th June 2011, 7.00pm
Sound Art at the Swiss Church

Sound Art is an art of working with sound that follows neither strictly musical traditions nor is it entirely representative of the conventions of visual art. Thus it allows the practitioner new ways to use instruments, voices, spaces and places, free from the expected, inviting instead a new appreciation of the work and the space within which it is present.

The first evening will involve a composition by British Composer of the Year in Sonic Arts 2009 Mark Peter Wright, and a performance by renowned cellist and live electronics artist Thomas Gardner with improvising group ‘the Automatic Writing Circle’. Mark Peter Wright is a sound artist whose work A Quiet Reverie, made entirely from location recordings of four ruined abbeys in North Yorkshire will resound the church space through association. Thomas Gardner and the ‘Automatic Writing Circle’ will perform with various electronic and acoustic instruments to re-engage the church space and the instruments in a novel way.

On the second evening we will hear three pieces: Improvising Purcell, Partition and Tambourina, chosen, improvised and performed by celebrated author and musician David Toop with Lore Lixenberg, Sylvia Hallet, E.laine and Emi Watanabe, with a video by the renowned photographer and filmmaker Barry Lewis. All three pieces are neither exactly compositions, nor are they exactly sound art installations or improvisations. Toop’s stated interest with these three approaches ‘is listening and how it connects to the other senses, to all aspects of time (including memory), our sense of who we are and how we connect with the rest of the world.’

We hope that many of you will come to enjoy the exciting way all three artist engage in the acoustic singularity and visual particularity of the Swiss Church.

Both performances start at 19:30, doors open at 19:00. 
 
 
 
 
   
 "GallerySoundArt" 
    
  
Thursday 10 February 2011, 6.30 - 8.30pm
Opening Event of the Curating Show

States of Matter is the first exhibition selected by the Swiss Church in London following an open call addressed to MFA students in Curating at Goldsmiths College. States of Matter addresses the encounter between sanctity and aesthetics, tradition and contemporaineity that transfigures the space and shapes its experience. Features of architecture, the church?s function and ideology are articulated and questioned through the artists? works. Ilona Sagar and Davide Cascio take this polymorphic context as content and involve the attributes and various purposes of the space in their works. Instigated by the overlapping, contrasting practices unfolding in church, the artists highlight and reconsider its narratives into a larger sphere of social life.
An exhibition curated by Anca Rujoiu and Manuela Schlumpf.

ADMISSION FREE

Press release
 
 
 
 
 

Flyer "States of Matter"


Ongoing exhibition:
11 - 26 February 2011

Opening Hours for the exhibition:
Thursday, 2.00-7.00pm
Friday-Saturday, 12.00 - 6.00pm or by appointment

ADMISSION FREE

Click here to see the art programme.