I am participating in the 9th edition of Hybrid Art Fair in Madrid, with a new series called "Se Abre El Telón" (The curtain opens) presented by Zurich-based art space Window of Fame.
Hybrid Art Fair
6. - 9.03.2025
Window of Fame / Room 213
Hotel Petit Palace Santa Barbara
Plaza de Sta. Bárbara, 10
28004 Madrid
Performance: Friday 7 March, 13:00 h
Alicia Velázquez. Unsere Zeit
4.–20.10.2024 Wasserkirche, Zurich (daily 14–18 Uhr, Mondays closed)
Vernissage Thursday 3.10.2024, from 16.30 H
If we were landscapes, what would we be? - Between February and March 2023, Alicia Velázquez conducted interviews with 13 residents of the Bürgerasyl-Pfrundhaus retirement home in Zurich. In these encounters, she learned about personal highs and lows, flowing and fading dreams, new corners and similar edges. She then listened to the recordings of what was said, noted down her impressions, and translated her own and collected memories into unglazed clay objects. Adding then acrylic colored brushstrokes to the fired objects.
"Unsere Zeit" links Velázquez's practice between performance and visual art and invites an exchange between the generations. In a society that likes to relegate ageing to the margins of coexistence, there are few places for images of people that remind us of the limitations of our time. Velázquez's 13 abstract portraits ignore superficialities and conveniences and instead show living imprints of time that resonate in the here and now.
Text (translated from original): Bassma el Adisey, curator of the exhibition
Project and exhibition supported by:
Covid-Arbeitsstipendium 2022 der Stadt Zürich Kultur, Cassinelli-Vogel-Stiftung, Wasserkirche Zurich.
Exhibition introducing a group of interventions in public space, in the area of Zurich West.
Organized by Hartdurm Art Space. Curated by Lorenzo Ballotti & Daniel Imbach (Hartdurm), Mischa Camenzind.
Exhibition "Sharing intimacies. (Ex-?)architects explore the self"
21 May - 27 June 2024
Delft University of Technology
Curated by Javier Arpa Fernández and Kornelis Fragakis.
Beyond the usual focus on art related to design, the exhibition (organized by BK Public Programs) explores art and intimacy. While recognizing the value of art interventions in the public realm, the exhibition engages with intimacy as a form of communication, that not only includes but also requires a sense of community.
Sharing Intimacies features five artists with backgrounds in architecture who will offer unique perspectives and expressions on themes such as human connection, body, identity, empathy, and storytelling.
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22 - 24 February 2024
The art collective Sihlquai253 presents a group "Stellung" (mixed form of exhibition and statement).
• Thursday 22.02 Presentation
• Friday 23.02 Auction
• Saturday 24.02 Performance
I participate with a drawing from the ritualistic, ongoing series “Periscope”.
Recent and past stories on paper, clay and canvas.
January 25 - 27, 2024
Schoffelgasse 10, 8001 Zurich
Opening times:
Donnerstag 25.01 16:00 - 21:00 (Vernissage)
Freitag 26.01 15:00 - 20:00
Samstag 27.01 14:00 - 19:00
This exhibition is part of the series FRISCH Visarte.
Starting the new year strong! With a selection of works on paper, and a live-drawing session, I gathered in Madrid some of my favorite people among colors, lines, and food. In the kitchen, literally.
The showroom of Kitchen for Life generously hosted my open studio. The colorful stories of the series “Liquid Moments”, “Periscope”, and “Body Parts” were boldly fitting the themes of nutritious art and social togetherness.
Visarte Zurich is once again organizing a major exhibition at the Photobastei at the end of the year. Entitled "Insights 2023: Visarte Zürich & Friends", the exhibition brings together over 200 artists and works that provide an insight into Zurich's diverse art scene. It is curated by Nicolas Bischof, Tanja Breu, Clare Goodwin, Lorenzo E. Metzler, Sandi Paucic, Len Schaller.
I participate with a ceramic sculpture from the project-in-progress “Unsere Zeit” (Our Time).
The exhibition is part of the tradition of annual exhibitions that Visarte Zurich has initiated and successfully organized for several years. The exhibition brings a presentation of works by Visarte Zürich members, and additional guests, exhibition spaces and individual positions who have been invited to present their own curatorial program.
I am participating with a ceramic work from the series Tongues in this exhibition celebrating works and artists from Zurich.
Organized by artist duo Huber Huber.
Between 7.07.2023 and 21.08.2023 an available selection drawings from the ritualistic series “Periscope” are on view in a dedicated page: Little Absurdities collection.
“Little Absurdities” is based on the myriad of tiny details always present in the drawings of the series. Dreamy characters, absurd objects, body parts, and omnipresent cultural symbols are some of the stories inside each of these universes depicted on paper.
All drawings of the collection “Little Absurdities” are available for purchase at a special price.
Curated by 6-1/2.
8 June – 21 August 2022
An exhibition project by Revolving Histories/Performance Chronik Basel and Museum Tinguely
I participate in this vast and exciting exhibition and series of events brought by Window of Fame.
About BANG BANG (source: Museum Tinguely) :
All summer long, Museum Tinguely will be celebrating performance art in the show BANG BANG - translocal hi:stories of performance art. At the heart of this process-oriented exhibition is the Swiss performance scene, its players, and its networks, although the programme will be international in character.
IT’S A SPRING SHOW includes recent works by Alicia Velázquez and Claudia Kübler. In their 150 m2 space Ruettimann Contemporary concurrently exhibit works by Aoife Dunne, Simon Ledergerber, Hannah Parr, Ingo Rasp, and Valentina Pini.
I am showing a selection of works on the weekend of March 3 & 4, at their pop-up space at Weststrasse 145 in Wiedikon.
The presentation will include drawings from my "Periscope" series, the recent ceramic work "Ceramic World N.2", and the altar piece "Ruega por Nosotros" that I created in Spain in 2019. This work has never been exhibited before.
Address
Pop Up: Westrasse 145, 8003 Zurich
Private viewing times
- Friday March 3, from 15 - 20 H
- Saturday March 4, from 12 - 19 H
/ Wine & prosecco will be served on both days as long as available.
/ The artist will be present.
The gallery is concurrently featuring works by Aoife Dunne, Claudia Kübler, Simon Lederberger, Hannah Parr, and Valentina Pini across the two floors of their 150m2 space.
* Additional viewing times by appointment.
www.ruettimanncontemporary.com
“Ceramic World N.2”, 2021
Over 20 artists are participating in this new exhibition organized by 6 1/2 in a 1'000 m2 concrete cathedral in Zurich's Oerlikon.
Atlantis im Sinn
26 Nov - 18 Dec 2021
Opening Friday, November 26
Wolkenwerk, Leutschenbachstrasse 40, 8050 Zürich
Once the exhibition closed, and the series of performative exchanges “What is Our Dream?” therefore finished, something had to be done to release the 76 dreams that had been shared, invented and produced during those 17 performance sessions.
Upon conversations with some of the “dreamers”, as well as with curator and museum director Simon Maurer, we made a ritual of release in three acts letting them go into the air, water and fire.
Group exhibition IN TRANSITION
September 5-29, 2020
Curated and organized by 6 1/2 in cooperation with Oxyd, Lokal 14 and us. – previously TART Zürich.
AVA presents the site-specific work Haus der Geschichten (Haus of Stories).
House of Stories invites to remember some of the stories that happened in the old factory building while it was still active. The installation shows 192 cards with the 192 names of the employees who worked in the factory at the time of the closure of the spinning mill in 2014. The artist sent each of the 147 ex-workers still living in Switzerland a personal letter asking them to send back a story about their time in the factory. Each received memory is then interpreted as a drawing.
Some of the drawn stories will be realized as a live performance during the exhibition. Performance drawing days: 5.09 (opening), 12 and 19.09, between 14-18h.
A selection of #Periscope daily drawing series is to be seen in the walls of beautiful Alpen Lofts in Sent during the winter season 2020.
