An image from “Flora”, a film installation by Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler, shown in the “Women of Venice” exhibition at the Swiss Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2017.
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Amante de Giacometti ‘reimaginada’ en el Pabellón suizo
“Flora” is based on the artists’ research into the largely unknown American artist Flora Mayo, who studied in Paris in the 1920s at the same time as Swiss sculptor and artist Alberto Giacometti. The two became lovers.
Young undocumented migrants gain easier access to vocational training
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Rejected asylum-seekers and young undocumented migrants in Switzerland will have easier access to basic vocational training from June 1.
Migration: Swiss government wants to shorten reunification period for families
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Family members of people temporarily admitted to Switzerland should in future be able to join them after two years instead of three.
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2023 was a record year for the Rhaetian Railway in several respects. Never before has the narrow-gauge railway in Graubünden, eastern Switzerland, transported so many passengers and cars.
Swiss CFOs much more optimistic despite global uncertainty
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The main concerns of business leaders in Switzerland are geopolitical uncertainty and the important trading partners Germany and China.
Record organ donation in Switzerland despite high rejection rates
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More organ donations were recorded in Switzerland in 2023 than ever before. This was despite a high rejection rate of 58% by surviving relatives.
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Seven years after the death of record-breaking Swiss mountain climber Ueli Steck, his estate is going to the Alpine Museum of Switzerland in Bern.
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Swiss curator Obrist tops art world power ranking
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Hans Ulrich Obrist has been named the most powerful figure in the international art world by the influential ArtReview journal.
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The point of departure, shared by all national pavilions, is the theme “Absorbing Modernity 1914-2014”. As director of the 14th International Architecture Venice Biennale, Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas has invited participants to revisit recent architectural history and use it as a toolbox to invent the future. Hans Ulrich Obrist, recognised as one of the most…
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The 36-year-old artist has teamed up with curator Giovanni Carmine, director of the Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen museum, to showcase his work against the modernist architecture of the Swiss Pavilion, designed in 1952 by Bruno Giacometti. Entering Carron’s exhibition we immediately come face to face with an 80-metre-long two-headed, cast-iron snake. While one head looks…
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