Curatorial practice |  projects  | selection:

2022

• 13. PERFORMANCE REIHE NEU-OERLIKON. Performance Art Festival in a public space. Oerliker Park, Zurich/ CH

• BANG BANG – PANCH Social Eleganz. Museum Tinguely Basel. Curation of various events, among others: BANG BANG – translocal hi:stories of performance art 

“Hybrid Forms – Hybrid Practices in Performance Art” –  curated by Verica Kovacevska and Maricruz Peñaloza. With Visible / Invisible, performance by Ana Lazarevska; 30 Ways of showing – Researching pointing out, live performance by Natasha Nedelkova; Late to the Party: Macedonian Performance on Video since the 1990s, talk and video programme curated by Jonathan Blackwood; Round table discussion with Jonathan Blackwood, Natasha Nedelkova, Ana Lazarevska, led by Verica Kovacevska and Maricruz Peñaloza. This the first presentation of contemporary Macedonian art in a major Swiss museum, as well as in Switzerland in general. It is supported by the Südkulturfonds and the Robert Gordon University Aberdeen. 

“Performative artistic action as a place of encounter and confrontation”. Performance video programme with artists from Zurich and Glarus. Curated by Julia Wolf and Maricruz Peñaloza

“Parla Palma: an exchange with artists from Ticino”. A Performative talk with Yara Li Mennel, Natalie Peters, Anna Rigamonti.  “Morphing The Roma Label – Das Buch im Raum” –  Live performance and  launch of the publication with Q & A. With Roma Jam Session art Kollektiv (Mo Diener, RR Marki) and Esther Maria Häusler, Muhi Tahiri.

 

• Co-coordination and curation of the performances in public space at the 20th edition of ACT – Festival of Swiss Universities, for F+F Schule für Kunst und Design Zurich. Biel. Various locations.

2021

• 12. PERFORMANCE REIHE NEU-OERLIKON. Oerliker Park, Zurich/ CH
• 3. Performance Open-Air St.Gallen. Stadtpark- Frauenpavillon, St. Gallen/ CH

2020

• 11. PERFORMANCE REIHE NEU-OERLIKON. Oerliker Park, Zurich/ CH
• Reminiscences – Leftovers – Artifacts – Remains. Objects of the  PERFORMANCE REIHE NEU-OERLIKON 2010-2019. Material Raum für Buchkultur, Zurich/CH 

2018  

• Performance-Open-Air St. Stadtpark | Frauenpavillon, St. Gallen (CH)
• Performances at VOLUMES Independent Art Publishing Fair. Kunsthalle, Zurich (CH)

2017  

• Switzerland – invited country. Kurator. Accion!MAD17-XIV Encuentro de ArteAcción. Naves Matadero. Artistic Director Nieves Correa. Madrid (ES)
• LEGS. Ausstellungsraum Klingental. Together with Olivia Wiederkehr. Basel. (CH)
• 1. Performance Reihe St. Gallen. MoE. Museum of Emptiness. St. Gallen (CH)

2012  

• Remo Fella.  «vom designobjekt zum kulturgut» Photography exhibition. magic box twice is nice. Exhibition space/ concept Store. Zurich/CH
• Luis Lumbreras.  «ex-presion». Photography exhibition. magic box twice is nice. Exhibition space/ concept Store. Zurich/CH

2011  

• Vera Malamud. «Lieblings Luftschlösser». Drawing exhibition.  magic box twice is nice. Exhibition space/ concept Store. Zurich/CH
• Christoph Hauri. «Monotypien und Zoologische Matrizen». Drawing and books exhibition. magic box twice is nice. Exhibition space/ concept Store. Zurich/CH

2010

• PERFORMANCE REIHE NEU-OERLIKON. – until now. Oerlikerpark. Zurich/CH
• Pascal Lampert. Video-installations. Performance. «In Örlikon gits öpis». magic box twice is nice. Exhibition space/ concept Store. Zurich/CH
• Aida Schläpfer. Video and short films. Artist talk. magic box twice is nice. Exhibition space/ concept Store. Zurich/CH
• Did Schaffer/Saskia Lampert. «Entre Deux», Dance.  magic box twice is nice. Exhibition space/ concept Store. Zurich/CH

2009

• Mariann Landolt. Künstlerin. «gefunden. found». Art book. Photography exhibition. magic box twice is nice. Exhibition space/ concept Store. Zurich/CH

2003

• «Technologie & Körper im 21. Jahrhundert » Technology & body in the 21th century. 3 days symposium. Project idea on the occasion of the the jubilee of the  Kanton St. Gallen. In collaboration with René Stettler (Lucern). The project came in to the second round.

2000  

• Chroma Festival Internacional de Video. Curator «Swiss Window». Guadalajara, Mexiko.

1999    

• Co-founder of  K4 Plattform for Performance Art, Zurich | Plattform for well-known and unknown performance artists from Switzerland.  Organisation and Research.

1997 –  2000

• Co-organizator of different exhbitions. Among others «Video unter Grund» in Escher Wyss-Platz. Performance Events, Rote Fabrik,  Zurich (CH)

1995    

• «México en Suiza» Photography and paintings, Mexican artists. Curator-Organiser. Waaghaus. St. Gallen (CH)

Talks / Lectures / Selection

2020

•  PERFORMANCE REIHE NEU-OERLIKON -a decade of performances in public space-. Book presentation and discussion with Linda Cassens Stoian, Daniel Morgenthaler and Maricruz Peñaloza. Helmhaus, Zurich (CH)
• Simposium Internacional y Virtual de Gestion Cultural. Provocando bienestar social. Universidad Juarez Autonoma de Tabasco, Mexico City (MX)

2019

• ‘De ida y vuelta: de Performance Extra a Performance Reihe Neu-Oerlikon’. Artspace Galerie. Mexico City (MX)

2018  

• Artist Talk with Eduardo Briones.  Lumen Consultores. Chiapas (MX)
• Srinagar Biennale. Cultural Hues. Ausstellungsraum Klingental. Basel (CH)

2017 

• «Bosquejos de la performance en Helvetia» . Acción!MAD17- XIV Encuentro Internacional de Arte de Acción.  With the participation of: Gisela Hochuli, Klara Schilliger, Adela Picon and Valerian Maly.  Naves Matadero, Madrid (ES)

2016   

• Presentation and panel discussion about PERFORMANCE REIHE NEU-OERLIKON Festival as part of “Cuerpo a Cuerpo”.  4to. Encuentro de Performance, música video. Centro de Arte La Regenta. Gran Canaria (ES)

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