Shanghai is hosting the largest ever world exhibition, with the theme,’Better City, Better Life’. 70 million visitors are expected over the next six months, and the Swiss pavilion has already proved to be a major attraction. (SF, swissinfo.ch)
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Pius Knüsel also discusses his plans for video games and the controversial Basel artist Christoph Büchel, who recently ruffled feathers at a contemporary art venue in Vienna where part of his project involved a real sex club. Pro Helvetia has run a cultural exchange programme with China for two years. At its annual news conference…
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Mountains and landscape are a big theme. But the stands belonging to Switzerland and the cities of Basel, Geneva and Zurich are hoping to go beyond Heidiland and the typical Swiss clichés. The Swiss Pavilion certainly cuts a dash. It’s a huge raw concrete building, covered with a lattice work of thousands of LED cells.…
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