Live production of the installation “Mujer Emigrante Mercedes” performance, in tandem with Mercedes Álvarez.
Friday 10 June 2022, 16:00-18:00
Part of the exhibition Found in Translation curated by Alba Chantico Ledesma, Nora von Bergen and Sarah Basyouny. Helmhaus, Zurich.
The performance is also part of the large series of events Zurich Art Weekend, 10 - 12 June 2022.
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
White, Black and Rituals is a public metaphorical meal in which I will invite to savor togetherness through the personal stories of Spanish women.
The event is part of the series Open Futures: a new cultural initiative in Zurich and also a cooperation between the Shedhalle, the Gessnerallee, the Tanzhaus with Newrope, the Architecture and Urban Transformation Laboratory of the ETH.
Open Futures is dedicated to sustainability and at the same time understands itself as sustainable, both towards the artists and the overarching ecosystem.
White, Black and Rituals is part of the series of talks, performances, and exhibitions organized by Club La Fafa.
White, Black and Rituals
Sunday December 5
14-15.30 H
Shedhalle, Seestrasse 395, 8038 Zürich
Open Futures’ full program here.
Clay is another canvas - or, better said, body - on which memories of what was or what could be or could have been appear. They build and display a narrative of the moment. They record it like a book. Perhaps a map. Used to work on paper - a very fast medium for me - clay is an extremely slow material, impossible to control, surprising and very moody and stubborn
Image: detail of Ceramic World N.2 (Rainbow Portal)
Art space Window of Fame
October 1st + 2nd, 2021
The curator duo Barone Breu feature me in the studio in their ARTuesday #13. ARTuesday is an ongoing project they broadcast monthly, in which they present the work of a local artist. To be seen in their Instagram post.
“Teilt deinen Teil” (Share Your Part) was one of the 7 performances part of the 12th edition of Neu-Oerlikon Performance Reihe in Zurich.
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.
I have received a production grant for the realization of the 6-month project “Weiss und Schwarz, Dinge und Rituale” (White and Black, Things and Rituals) in which I will work with performance and ceramics. The work gravitates around the concepts of togetherness and belonging. In it I will invite a group of migrant Spanish women in Switzerland to share and reinterpret their stories together.
Helmhaus Zurich releases on Instagram the last video of this series created during lockdown: Momentum Mori (6/6)
Der Versuch, die Kamera festzuhalten, scheitert an der unnachgiebigen Zeit, die unbeirrt voranschreitet. Alicia Velàzquez kämpft seit fast sieben Jahren und 4000 Selbstbildnissen gegen die Windmühle des Augenblicks. Doch sie lässt sich nicht stoppen, reist gedanklich Richtung Unendlichkeit und hält Ideen, die eigenen und die der Besucher*innen, fest.
Cast:
Alicia Velázquez @avamakes
Besucher*innen
Crew:
Produktion & Regie: Arathy Pathmanathan & Christoph Eisenring
Kamera, Schnitt & Colorgrading: Sarai Aron
Kamera: Samson Film
Tontechnik&-mischung: Remo Clematide
Grafik: Sarah Parsons
** Reopened**
March 4th - April 5th 2021
every
• Thursday 16.00 - 18.30 H
• Saturday 15.00 - 17.30 H
“What is Our Dream?” is a performative exchange in which I invite visitors to sit with me and create a vision for the future. The drawings compose a “matrix” with the sum of individual dreams. Borrowing the concept of social dreaming by W. Gordon Lawrence, the “matrix of dreams” intends to keep the open-endedness to emphasize the “multiversity” (Lawrence) of meaning.
“What is Our Dream?” and installations “Scaffold of Dreams” are part of group exhibition “Am nächsten Tag ging die Sonne auf”
Curated by Nadja Baldini, Vreni Spieser, Simon Maurer & Daniel Morgenthaler.
Photo: Zoe Tempest
Opening December 4th 2020
Curated by Nadja Baldini, Vreni Spieser, Simon Maurer & Daniel Morgenthaler.
20 – 22 Nobember 2020
1 Stadt / 7 private Räume / 14 Künstler*innen
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.
