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56th Art Biennale: Swiss Pavilion and Salon Suisse
On 8 May, Alain Berset inaugurates the Swiss Pavilion, where Pamela Rosenkranz is showing “Our Product”. He defends a promotion of culture that opens spaces to thought-provoking works whose primary purpose is not to respond to the market. The exhibition speaks of the loss of physical autonomy, of the boundary between illness and health, of nature and artifice.
He visits the pavilion with the Austrian Minister of Culture, Josef Ostermayer; they discuss the promotion of culture and international exchanges.
On the 9th, at the Palazzo Trevisan, he opens Pro Helvetia’s Salon Suisse, “S.O.S. Dada – The World Is a Mess”. Speech in German, every sentence launched with “DA”: “Dada is never right”, proclaimed a Paris leaflet of 1921; for a politician, that is convenient.
Friday 8 May 2015 — Venice
- Visit to the Swiss Pavilion with the curator, Susanne Pfeffer, and the artist, Pamela Rosenkranz
- Meeting with Josef Ostermayer, Austrian Minister of Arts and Culture
- Inauguration of the Swiss Pavilion: speeches by Charles Beer, President of Pro Helvetia, and Alain Berset
Saturday 9 May 2015 — Venice
- Opening of the Salon Suisse “S.O.S. Dada – The World Is a Mess”, Palazzo Trevisan
- Visit to the Biennale (Arsenale, Austrian Pavilion)
Speeches on this site
- 56e Biennale de Venise : inauguration du pavillon suisse (French-language page)
- Biennale de Venise : ouverture du Salon Suisse « S.O.S. Dada – The World Is a Mess » (in German, French-language page)
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