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Linked Objects

Nine Dragon Heads

34 Videos / Performances / 120 min Video Loop

September 26. / September 30. 2020

“Linked Objects” is initiated by the International Environmental Art Symposium Nine Dragon Heads’ international artists. The project comprises an exhibition and conference dedicated to the wider perception of the COVID-19 consequences in contemporary culture and art and other art events researching the influence of outbreak.

We say that digital communication made the world smaller meaning that we are interconnected through our avatars in the virtual world. What the outbreak of the COVID-19 clearly showed is that we are connected through our real bodies as well in an analog world. This bond turned out to be no less solid or mutually influential than any world wide web.

Today in lockdown, we are linked to each other not only through social networks, messages and emails but also the shared fears and hopes for medical treatment that can bring rapid change back to normal. We try to understand and assess the situation we found ourselves in. In our bizarre life-saving encapsulation, with numerous questions and expectations in the background, we attempt to cope with separation, staying still and non-involvement in the stopped world.

The world that has stopped feels especially challenging for creative communities and the artists of projects similar to Nine Dragon Heads (NDH) working in post-studio, experimental or performative modes of art-practice whose activity and creative impulse has always been linked to travel, close contact with nature, researches, exhibitions, and events at various corners of the world and inspirational encounters with thought-provoking people and places.

Art is the best means to reflect on or at least represent emotions, feelings, and thoughts in every possible life situation, so in current lockdown as well. The project “Linked Objects” is an offer to meditate on our interconnectedness in times of isolation and forceful separation in the condition similar to what German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher Karl Jaspers calls a limit situation. The term describes the situations that disturb us, force us towards somewhat alternative self-identifications, which eliminates us from social connections, obliges us to survive and makes us seek alarming ways of communication. In the electronic world, on the other hand, the linked object is an object such as a graphic etc., which is included within a document in such a way that it is linked to the source file, so that whenever the source changes, the object automatically updates.

Performances
Susanne Muller / Calculated Risk
Daniela de Madalenna / Art is about gardening

Artists
Ali Bramwell (NZ), Alois Schild (AT), Antti Tenetz (FI), Biro Jozsef (HU), Bruce Allan (GB), Brigitte & Gabriela (AT), Channa Boon (NL), Christophe Doucet (FR), Daniela de Maddalena (CH), Denizhan Ozer (TK), Enrique Muñoz García (CL/CH), Diek Grobler (ZA), Fred Luide (CH), Gabriel Adams (US), Gordana Andjelic (B&H), Harold de Bree (NL), Hannes Egger (IT), Iliko Zautashvili (GE), Ingrid Rollema (HL), Jason Hawkes (AU), Jayne Dyer (PT) Jessy Theo Rahman (SR), Josephine Turalba (PH), Kelli Sharp (AU), Lois Schenk(AU), Magda Guruli(GE), Max Buhlmann(CH), Mike Watson & Jussi (IT/FI), Nandin Edrene (MO), Oona Hyland(IR), Pang Hyosung(KR), Paul Donker Duyvis(NL), Park Byounguk (KR), Pietertje V. Splunter (NL), Phil Dadson (NZ), Rosh Abdelfatah (SY), So Young(KR), Susanne Muller CH), Thom Vink (NL),Yoko Kajio (JP)

Terapia

Presencia Parte 2

Nora Renaud

Video Loop, 3m

September 01. 2020

The artist Nora Renaud makes her second presence, based on the video material, captured by her phone in the performance made a month before in the art space juraplatz.

Terapia

One night Stand

Nora Renaud

Presencia

August 01. 2020

JURAPLATZ presents TERAPIA_finissage: a "one night stand" presence of swiss artist Nora Renaud's avatar called : Quietapina that will be present to create a link between "The Silence Festival" : a group show taking place at the same time in Mexico City Where the public encounters works that have been"silented" from a list of 25 artists visible in 3 points from the street during covid 19 confinement in the other continent among them Nora Renaud's avatar DIAGNOSISISCARNAVAL_Quietapina projected presence. While the wave of Covid had aproximatlely 1 month or more of delay compare to the western countries in Mexico City is still confined, here in Switzerland, during the swiss national celebration on 1 st of august, people masked by law from the bus can meet the avatar in real and share its individual memories through postcards and make selfies in a deconfined moment as a ritual that auto generates therapy and "insta historias".

The whole together "one night stand" will be shared on instagram stories from both sides (Mexico City and Biel/Bienne) with masks filters of the avatar's mask of Quietapina designed by Alonso Cedillo in México Usually Juraplatz shows works confined in the former kiosk area , this time the event will happen in the public space of the bus station on the bench, where people are used to wait for the bus, a space left for individual intern voices. As the participation of the artist in the group show in Mexico will end on the 2nd of august, Juraplatz TERAPÍA will format this ritual as a "finissage" on the 1st of august in Biel. This edition of Juraplatz is like a flash extension between 2 different silences that create and leave a "ruptura" in real time.

Seeing Inside Out

Jisong Lee

6.30 min Video Loop

Juli 13 / Juli 24 - 2020

The video works of the renowned South Korean artist Jisong Lee are always constructed in a simple and minimalist way. In this case, the video "Seeing Inside Out" created in the year 2011 in the north of the United States, was filmed by an iPhone placed randomly between the moss, in a static position and without cuts, creating a natural "Fade out" produced by the sunset. The slight, slow movement of the iPhone's fall as it slides through the bushes and brush induces the presence of an observer, creating a voyeuristic sensation.

Insect

Kurt Caviezel

48 Photographs, 8 min Video Loop

June 12 / June 27 - 2020

The series "Insect" by Swiss artist Kurt Caviezel shows us different corners of the world through the lens of surveillance cameras. In the captured moments, it is not - as is usually the case - people who enter the picture, but insects. This apparent obstacle is the basic element of this series: within the filmed landscape, the insect becomes the central object. These fragments of a large network of the global surveillance system remind us of the futuristic visions of George Orwell and Aldous Huxley, in which people are defined as "social insects".

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Die Serie "Insect" des Schweizer Künstlers Kurt Caviezel zeigt uns durch die Linse von Überwachungskameras verschiedene Ecken der Welt. In den festgehaltenen Momenten sind es nicht – wie normalerweise üblich Menschen, die ins Bild geraten, sondern Insekten. Dieses scheinbare Hindernis ist das grundlegende Element dieser Serie: Innerhalb der gefilmten Landschaft wird das Insekt zum zentralen Objekt. Diese gezeigten Fragmente eines großen Netzwerks des globalen Überwachungssystems erinnern uns an die futuristischen Visionen von George Orwell und Aldous Huxley , in welchen die Menschen als "social insects" definiert werden.

Der Gruss

Adela Picón

Installation, 5:45 min. Video, Loop

March 13 / Abril 3 - 2020

The video work "The Greeting" by the artist Adela Picón will be presented in the Offspace JURAPLATZ. People meet, greet and embrace each other until one person merges with the other and only the white canvas remains. Adela Picón developed the work "The Greeting" for an extensive exhibition in the Historical Museum of Sant Feliu de Guixols (Catalonia) in collaboration with the population of the city.
An embrace or handshake between immigrants and natives makes "The Greeting" part of a political work that focuses on tradition, the past, acceptance and integration.
In Offspace Juraplatz, the video work is recontextualized in times of the "forbidden greeting" and thus takes on a new form and a new meaning.

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Im Offspace JURAPLATZ wird die Videoarbeit "Der Gruss" der Künstlerin Adela Picón präsentiert. Menschen begegnen sich, grüßen und umarmen sich, bis eine Person mit der anderen verschmilzt und nur noch die weisse Leinwand übrig bleibt. Adela Picón entwickelte die Arbeit "Der Gruss" für eine umfangreiche Ausstellung im Historischen Museum von Sant Feliu de Guixols (Katalonien) in Zusammenarbeit mit der Bevölkerung der Stadt.
Eine Umarmung oder ein Händedruck zwischen Einwanderern und Einheimischen machen "Der Gruß" zu einem Teil eines politischen Werkes, das auf Tradition, Vergangenheit, Akzeptanz und Integration fokussiert ist.
Im Offspace Juraplatz wird die Videoarbeit rekontextualisiert in Zeiten des "verbotenen Grusses“ und nimmt damit eine neue Form und eine neue Bedeutung an.

The PB Buoys Trilogy

Part two: Boys`Buoy

Philippe Hinderling

Installation, Video

Januar 31 / February 16 - 2020

Aube radieuse et mer indolente pour une partie de pêche. En avant plan une bouée d'enfant (de secours ?) est ballottée.

PB : pour Pieter Brueghel l'Ancien, à qui j'emprunte des morceaux d'image.
Part one: PEPPERS'BUOY (décembre 2019)
Part three: ICARUS'BUOY (mars 2020)

Documentation

Robert Walser Sculpture by Thomas Hirschhorn

Documentation Team by RWS

January 03. 2020

Video documentation: Robert Walser sculpture, a presence and production project by Thomas Hirschhorn as part of the 13th edition of the Swiss Sculpture Exhibition in Biel / Switzerland (15.6.-8.9.2019). The Robert Walser Sculpture in honour of the Swiss writer born in Biel/Bienne is an 86-day experience platform consisting of over 35 daily events, which were developed in cooperation with the population of Biel/Bienne. For three years, this finely woven presence and production sculpture was developed along the complex themes of Robert Walser.

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Video Dokumentation: Robert Walser-Sculpture, ein Präsenz- und Produktionsprojekt von Thomas Hirschhorn im Rahmen der 13. Ausgabe der Schweizerischen Plastikausstellung in Biel/ Schweiz (15.6.–8.9.2019). Die Robert Walser- Sculpture zu Ehren des in Biel geborenen Schweizer Schriftstellers ist eine 86 Tage dauernde Erfahrungsplattform bestehend aus über 35 täglichen Ereignissen, welche in Kooperation mit der Bieler Bevölkerung entwickelt wurden. Drei Jahre lang wurde diese feinmaschige Präsenz- und Produktionsskulptur entlang den komplexen Themenbereichen von Robert Walser entwickelt.

The PB Buoys Trilogy

Part one: Peppers`Buoy

Philippe Hinderling

Installation, Video

December 06 / December 15 - 2019

Des vagues nocturnes s'abattent sur un littoral préromantique figé. En avant de l'écran plane une fantomatique bouée.

"Le fantôme de Pepper ou spectre de Pepper, en anglais Pepper's ghost, connu également sous le nom de fantôme de Dircks, est une technique d'illusion d'optique utilisée dans les représentations scéniques (théâtre, concerts, meetings), les châteaux hantés et dans certains tours de magie. Le nom de cette méthode est tiré du nom de John Henry Pepper, qui a popularisé cet effet." (Wikipedia)

PB : pour Pieter Brueghel l'Ancien, à qui j'emprunte des morceaux d'image.

En 2020 les installations 2 et 3 de la trilogie seront montrées dans ce même cadre

Part two: BOYS'BUOY
Part three: ICARUS'BUOY

Neutral Nations

Enrique Muñoz García

Video, Found footage, 1,20 sec

November 29 / December 5 - 2019

"Neutral Nations" is a multimedia installation by the artist Enrique Muñoz García based on a collection of found video footage: the presidents and military leaders of various countries look through binoculars into the DMZ between the two Koreas. A binocular symoblizes espionage, control, and military use in general. In this video the two Koreas engage in mutual observation, a process that marks the complex relationship between the two countries that originates from the 1950s.
The term "Neutral Nations" was defined as those nations whose combat forces did not participate in the hostilities in Korea. Switzerland is an active part of this supervisory commission.

The work Neutral Nations was created for the project "Art Politics - Border crossing - Onsaemiro" organized by Shuroop Group from the city of Suwon and the international environmental art symposium Nine Dragon Heads. The research destination of the project is the DMZ (The Demilitarized Zone ), a 4 km wide, 250 km long buffer zone that divides Korea into two almost even parts. It was created on July 27, 1953, after the agreement between North Korea, China, and the UN Command.

Magda Guruli, Curator

One in the other

Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography

Luzia Hürzeler

Photography, Installation, Performance

May 10 / June 2 - 2019

Luzia Hürzeler’s in situ installation examines the relationship between image and object and between an object and its double, and also plays on the internal and the external. This work, which was created especially for the festival questions the porosity between oneself and the other, and between illusion and reality. The Juraplatz art space is set in relation to its "double" at the Brühlplatz and offers viewers an exhibition dispositive that mixes photographie and architecture.

Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography
Curated by Sarah Girard

The 23rd edition of the Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography will explore the theme of overflow, both real and virtual, in today’s society. On the internet, a “flood” is an action that inundates the network and saturates digital forums, rendering them unusable. Vast quantities of information are shared every day by more than four billion internet users, whether they are aware of it or not. This constant stream of passing data has an impact on society that cannot be fully grasped, but it also presents opportunities for both individual and social development.

This year’s edition will present works of photography that examine the often insidious overflows into the private sphere, the political excesses that confront humanity, our technological frenzy and the extreme exploitation of essential resources in contemporary society. The photographic image is a reflection of our practices: today it gets swept along in the flow of data, and like the individual it sometimes becomes unreadable or invisible. The exhibitions will help to make the image re-emerge, bringing to the surface the societal contradictions that it sometimes depicts and will let the photograph leave its frame to set the viewer’s thoughts in motion.

TEKTONIK. The Journey

Com & Com (Johannes M. Hedinger, Marcus Gossolt)

Full HD Video, Sound, Installation

April 5 / April 14 - 2019

TEK, TO and NIK are three natural Verrucano stones weighing six to eleven tons from the UNESCO World Heritage Site Tectonic Arena Sardona, which celebrated its 10th anniversary last year.
TEK stands for Glarus, TO represents St.Gallen and NIK embodies Graubünden - the World Heritage Site extends over all these cantons.
The three stones toured Switzerland during the entire anniversary year 2018 and visited several other UNESCO World Heritage sites. The action was conceived by the artist duo Com&Com (Johannes M. Hedinger, Marcus Gossolt).

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TEK, TO und NIK sind drei naturbelassene, sechs bis elf Tonnen schwere Verrucano-Steine aus dem UNESCO-Welterbe Tektonikarena Sardona, das letztes Jahr sein 10-jähriges Jubiläum feierte.
TEK steht für Glarus, TO repräsentiert St.Gallen und NIK verkörpert Graubünden - über alle diese Kantone erstreckt sich das Welterbe.

Die drei Steine tourten während dem gesamten Jubiläumsjahr 2018 durch die Schweiz und besuchten dabei mehrere andere UNESCO-Welterbestätten. Konzipiert wurde die Aktion vom Künstlerduo Com&Com (Johannes M. Hedinger, Marcus Gossolt).

Manifest Take A Better Picture

Dorothée Elisa Baumann

HD Video, 5.00 min Loop

March 1 / March 10 - 2019

For 130 years since its invention, the camera has not been a neutral tool in my relationship with the other. My SLR camera with function built-in video creates distance. It does not allow space for empathy. My relationship with the other is technologically hindered by this tool. My camera is black, phallic and shaped like a gun. The technical possibilities in terms of efficiency, design and image production are the main appealing qualities for the user. However, none of its features encourages co-creation between the operator and the other. It does not technically allow them to collaborate.

In this sense, this tool presents a moral and ethical conflict – because it opposes power-sharing. A real exchange during the shooting between the user and the other must be rethought. We must take into consideration the technological tool as an actor. It's time to divest this image production tool of its status as a phallus, weapon and image production machine and turn this ‘darkroom’ into a space of negotiation, where everyone is on a equal footing. Dorothée Elisa Baumann.

Seeplastik

Stefan Rohner

HD Video, 7.20 min Loop

February 1 / February 10 - 2019

Like a mighty iceberg, a structure glued together from transparent PET material floats on the water. Accompanied by the mystical siren song of Karin Streule from Inner Rhodes, the camera follows the twists and turns of the polyester construction just above and below the surface of the water. Just as the mythical hybrid beings with divine voices lured sailors into the cliffs and caused them to fail, the spherical sounds in the video work Seeplastik (2010) seem to conjure up the dangers of today's environmental pollutants and the imbalance of the ecological system.

Over the years Stefan Rohner has collected consumables made of plastic, fascinated by the nature of material and form. The result is an oversized and molecular-like structure that, in the age of plastics, is a reminder of the problem of floating waste particles on the world's oceans. The work Seeplastik quotes with humour and lightness an artificial (siren) island. Like a brightly shining angel, in Seeplastik a floating plastic body spreads its wings over the achievements of organic polymer - a material that has become almost indispensable in everyday life. Nadia Veronese

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Wie ein mächtiger Eisberg treibt eine aus transparentem PET-Material zusammengeklebte Struktur auf dem Wasser. Begleitet von mystischem Sirenengesang der Innerrhoderin Karin Streule, folgt die Kamera, knapp über und unter der Wasseroberfläche, den Windungen des Polyesterkonstruktes. Wie die mythischen Mischwesen mit göttlicher Stimme die Seefahrer in die Klippen lockten und scheitern liessen, scheinen die sphärischen Klänge in der Videoarbeit Seeplastik (2010) die Gefahren heutiger Umweltschadstoffe und das Ungleichgewicht des ökologischen Systems zu beschwören.

Über Jahre hat Stefan Rohner Verbrauchsmaterial aus Kunststoff gesammelt, fasziniert von der Beschaffenheit von Material und Form. Entstanden ist ein überdimensioniertes und molekülartiges Gebilde, das im Plastikzeitalter an die Problematik treibender Abfallpartikel auf den Weltozeanen gemahnt. Die Arbeit Seeplastik zitiert mit Humor und Leichtigkeit eine künstliche (Sirenen-)Insel. Wie ein hell leuchtender Engel breitet in Seeplastik ein schwebender Plastikkörper seine Flügel über die Errungenschaften aus organischem Polymer – ein Stoff, der im Alltag fast nicht mehr wegzudenken ist. Nadia Veronese

Hut ab

Robert Schüll

HD Video, 3.20 min Loop, No Sound

October 5 / October 21 - 2018

"Hats off" ( Hut Ab) is a tribute by the Galerie Juraplatz to the Biel artist and long-standing Visarte president Robert Schüll. The installation contains around a thousand photos, animated in a video film, as well as 12 hats by Robert Schüll, which Hildegard Lanz provided for the exhibition.

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Hut ab ist eine Hommage der Galerie Juraplatz an den Bieler Künstler und jahrelangen Visarte-Präsidenten Robert Schüll. Die Installation beinhaltet gegen Tausend Fotos, in einem Videofilm animiert, sowie 12 Hüte von Robert Schüll, die Hildegard Lanz für die Ausstellung zur Verfügung gestellt hat.

A Packet of Salt

Assembly Line Projects

Li Xiaofei

HD Video, PAL, Color, Sound, 7,26 min Loop

August 3 / August 11 - 2018

Salt—a necessity for everyone—is often ignored by most people. It is frequently overlooked, as a part of the whole meal, an element to which people don’t give much thought. It is hidden behind the food, hidden within it. It has trouble attracting our attention, and it wouldn’t be counted amongst the spiritual necessities of mankind. Only occasionally when salt runs out, do people say: “Oh, it’s time to buy some salt.” Then we find "A Packet of Salt." The process of making and transporting the salt, the producers, people and factory either have something or nothing to do with it. Under the bleaching rays of the sun, in the silence of the lens, people slowly approach and pass by the camera, without saying a word.

Li Xiaofei was born in the Chinese city of Hunan in 1973. He lives in Shanghai and New York. He graduated from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. Li has been the recipient of multiple grants and awards, including the Iaspis International Residency Grant, Stockholm, Sweden (2013) and The Sovereign Foundation Fellowship of the Asian Cultural Council, New York, USA (2011). Li initiated Assembly Line in 2010, an ongoing project that records industrialised social change in, not only China, but as it occurs internationally. Through this documentary process, Li explores what lies beyond the orderliness of the assembly line, the capitalist factory, consumer society, social progress and social mores—the reality of the people living in a highly systematic and institutionalized environment.

Li's work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions internationally, including: Seven Necessities—An Assembly Line Project by Li Xiaofei, OCAT Xi’An, China (2017); 5. Mediations Biennale Poznań, Poland (2016); 2013 and 2017 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture (2013, 2017) “OVERTIME: THE ART OF WORK”, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, U.S.A (2015); Barents Spektakel 2015”,Kirkenes, Norway (2015); The 10th Shanghai Biennale (2014); The 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art (2014); 60th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (2014); “Descriptive Acts”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2012); “Melancholy in Progress, 2012 Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition (2012).

Hunter, I`ve taken your memory

Gabriel Adams

HD Video, Founded Photos, 3.22 min. Loop

July 6 / July 17 - 2018

Hunter, I’ve taken your memory presents a selection of motion sensor captured, plus infrared night view images, from the original contents of an unknown bowhunter’s SD memory card.

The collection was clandestinely downloaded after this unexpected encounter while walking in the forest. The collection delivers a series of intimate images of forest life by day and night across the spectrum of autumn, winter, and spring, where wildlife such as deer, raccoon, rabbit, bobcat, and fox wander freely. The images cross from being literal and practical studies for hunting, as the images are accompanied by accurate time signatures and phases of the moon, to evoking scenes which call to mind signs and symbols of the occult, visually drawing on the presence of omens and visions of animal mythologies.

Taste of Tea

The 15th Istanbul Biennial neighbour Event

Nine Dragon Heads

HD Video, Documentation, 18 min Loop, No Sound

June 7 / June 18 - 2017

Taste of Tea is an art project elaborated within the International Interdisciplinary Environmental Art Symposium, named Nine Dragon Heads.
Nine Dragon Heads was initiated in South Korea in response to the destruction of an important historical site in 1996. Over twenty years it has evolved into an open interdisciplinary platform where artists from all over the world implement individual and collaborative art projects; related to universal humanitarian, environmental and cultural issues. Working in a framework of thematic and multimedia formats Nine Dragon Heads unites artists from all five continents.

The main exhibition space of Taste of Tea is two passenger trains standing at platform at the famous Istanbul Haydarpasa Terminal, in Kadikoy. Another railway station falls into the Nine Dragon Heads route of research and activity -Istanbul Sirkeci Terminal, the eastern terminus of the Orient Express, the world famous long- distance passenger train from Paris to Istanbul, connecting Europe with Asia.

The majority of organizational functions within Taste of Tea are implemented directly by Nine Dragon Heads with directorial overview and coordination provided by the project’s artistic director and founder of Nine Dragon Heads Park, Byoung Uk. Taste of Tea is co-curated by Magda Guruli, independent curator from Tbilisi, Georgia and Istanbul based artist Denizhan Özer.

Nine Dragon Heads Artists: Ali Bramwell (NZ), Alois Schild (AT), Antti Tenetz (NL), Asli Ozok (TR), Bedri Baykam (TR), Christophe Doucet (FR), Daniela de Maddalena (CH), Denizhan Özer (TR), Enrique Muñoz García (RCH/CH), Eun Su Lim (KR) Gabriel Edward Adams (USA/NZ), Gordana Andjelic Galic (B&H), Harold de Bree (NL), Iliko Zautashvili (GE), IMPLUSE (KR), Jessy Theo Rahman (NL), Kazunori Kitazawa (JP), Kelly Sharp (AU), Kim Jae Nam (KR), Kim Jai Kwan (KR), Lee Lee Nam (KR), Light House (KR), Pang Hyo Sung (KR), Serdal Kesgin (TR), Seren Ceren Asyali (TR), Shin Yong Gu (KR), Sim Jea Bun (KR), Suh Yoon Hee (KR), Susanne Muller (CH),Yoo Joung Hye (KR).

Haydarpaşa Train Station
Haydarpaşa Gar Sk. Kadıköy, İstanbul

The Night of the Thousand Questions

HD Video, Installation, 1.20 min. Loop

October 22 - 2016

The question festival in the old town of Biel brings life's big questions to the streets. For 12 hours, the "Night of the thousand questions" provides a platform for reflection, conversation, listening and curiosity.

In cooperation with Biel based institutions such as the Stadttheater (Municipal theater), the HKB (Bern University of the Arts), Spectacles Français (French theater), the Gewölbe Galerie, "Le Singe" nightclub, Café Littéraire, the town church, and other various shops and restaurants, we put together a varied culinary and cultural program, for both young and old, inspiring a collective jaunt to Biel's old town on October 22nd, 2016.

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Das Fragefestival in der Bieler Altstadt bringt die grossen Fragen des Lebens auf die Strassen. Während 12 Stunden bietet die «Nacht der 1000 Fragen» eine Plattform, um sich Gedanken zu machen, um sich auszutauschen, um zuzuhören und um neugierig zu sein.

In Zusammenarbeit mit in Biel angesiedelten Institutionen wie dem Stadttheater, der HKB, den Spectacles Français, der Gewölbegalerie, dem Club le Singe, dem Café Littéraire, der Stadtkirche und verschiedenen Läden und Restaurants stellen wir ein abwechslungsreiches kulturell-kulinarisches Programm auf die Beine, das Gross und Klein animiert, am 22. Oktober 2016 in die Bieler Altstadt zu pilgern.

flow velocity

susanne muller

HD Video, Performance, 18.50 min Loop, no sound

October 7 / October 16 - 2016

The swiss artist susanne muller (Prêles, Berlin) will present her latest project: ~ flow velocity ~ flowing through the old town (la suze bienne).

In this video performance, the artist takes us with her camera up and under the water, which flows through the old town of Biel/Bienne. In several works by susanne muller, water is a central and autobiographical issue.

Life Framer

Photography Award and Curated Exhibition for the Present Day

Life Framer Awarded Photographers

HD Video, Diashow, Photographs, 4.00 min. Loop

December 12 / December 18 - 2015

This exhibition marks the culmination of the second edition of the Life Framer photography award. It features work from 24 winning photographers along with selected honorary mentions, each chosen by a globally-acclaimed jury across twelve diverse themes exploring ‘Life’.
Along with physical gallery exhibitions in London, Paris and Los Angeles, Life Framer travels to Switzerland for a special pop-up digital exhibition at Juraplatz.

The photographers participating in this exhibition are: Claire Lawrie, James Morgan, Sean Metelerkamp, Anne Barlinckhoff, Sophie Gammand, Pablo Maestres, Delphine Blast, Nicole de Khors, Joshua Haunschild, Ebony Finck, Jiayi Liu, Ben Millar Cole, Aleksei Kazantsev, Jakub Pasierkiewicz, Francesco Merlini, Keisuke Otobe, Ottavia Poli, Andrea Hamilton, Zora J Murff, Maciej Staszkiewicz, Anton Caro, Annelie Vandendael, Suzanne Engelberg, Benjamin Hampson, Gabriele Rossi, David Severn, Christoph Soeder, Melanie Jüngling, Zhao Qian, Pau Buscató, Lisa Shalom, Emmanuelle Andrianjafy, Florian Grosse, Ali Kate Cherkis, Sirasit Praneenij, Cydney Holm, Hana Knizova, Hailey Ford, Nelum Francesca Caramini, Mary Kang, Aaron Turner, Rodrigo di Sciascio, Caron Che, Lindsay Keys, Regis Golay, Lauren Damaskinos, Allyson Pinon, Thomas Morel-Fort, Shari Yantra Maracci, Andrea Harnick Tuchman, Emily Grunfeld, Adrien Leavitt, Txomin Txueka, Benjamin Perry, Maria Hibou, Aisha Palmitessa, Michelle Bours, Monika Marion, Shirren Lim, Marianne Ingelby, Simon Aprile, Andy Melendez, Robin Butter, Tahir Ün, Michael Anaya, Francesca Remorini, Michelle Bruzzese, Iris Hassid Segal, Diana Duplakova, Marta Corada, ElementWo, Valeria Scrilatti, Tariq Zaidi, Alessio Zemoz, Joëlle de Vries, Krzysztof Szczurek, Alex Wong, Miisha Ayana Nash, Alice Mann, Andrea Eichenberger, Alice de Kruijs, Nicole Moserle, Celine Meunier, Emanuele Camerini, Giorgio Cecca, Guillaume Tomasi, Isabella Stähl, Julia de Cooker, Katie Chasteen, Kyler Zeleny, Justine Tjallinks, Leslie Hall Brown, Kentaro Mori, Nicola Jayne Maskrey, Oliver Remera, Olympe Tits, Poem Baker and Tereza Cervenova.

Jump into the Unknown

Collateral Event for the 56th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2015

Nine Dragon Heads

HD Video, 12 min Loop, No Sound

October 10 / October 20 - 2015

Jump into the Unknown", an official collateral event of the 56th Biennale di Venezia, presents the works of 40 international artists and marks the 20th anniversary of the International Environmental Art Symposium - Nine Dragon Heads.

Nine Dragon Heads is an interdisciplinary platform where artists from across the 5 continents work in locations that may be environmentally, economically or politically troubled, following important cultural, historical and geopolitical routes. Initiated in South Korea in 1995 in response to the destruction of an important historical site, Nine Dragon Heads has evolved to address varying crises and transitory situations in localized and situation-specific ways. "Jump into the Unknown” is organized in collaboration with the Venice based Nuova Icona – “associazione culturale per le arti”, a non-profit cultural association, founded in Venice in 1993, and dedicated to the support and promotion of contemporary visual arts. The project is commissioned by Magda Guruli (Georgia), Vittorio Urbani (Italy) and Kim Jae Kwan (S.Korea). The artistic director of "Jump into the Unknown” is Park Byoung Uk, an initiator, producer and artist based in South Korea. He is the founder and creative force behind Nine Dragon Heads.

"Nine Dragon Heads” Artists: Ali Bramwell (NZ), Alois Schild (AT), Bedri Baykam (TR), Channa Boon (NL), Charlotte Parallel (NZ), Choi, Ik Gyu (KR), Christophe Doucet (FR), Denizhan Özer (TR), Diek Grobler (ZA), Enrique Muñoz García (RCH/CH), Erika Batdorf (CA), Gabriel Edward Adams (USA), Goo, Sung Kyun (KR), Gordana Andjelic Galic (BA), Iliko Zautashvili (GE), Jusuf Hadžifejzović (BA), Kazunori Kitazawa (JP), Kim, Dong Young (KR), Lim, Hyun Lak (KR), Phil Dadson (NZ), Seo, Bak Ei (KR), Sim, Jea Bun (KR), Song, Dae Seop (KR), Suh, Yoon Hee (KR), Susanne Muller (CH), Yoo, Joung Hye (KR), Yoola, Shin (KR). Aleksandra Janik & Magdalena Hlawacz (PL), Anna-Lea Kopperi & Heini Nieminen (FI). Harold de Bree (NL) & Mike Watson (IT), Yoko Kajio & Jason Hawkes (AU), Quartair Group (NL) - Geeske Harting, Jessy Theo Rahman, Pietertje van Splunter, Thom Vink."

Fragmente

Animated drawings

Bianca Dugaro

November 12 / November 20 - 2012

Babel I

Peter Aerschmann

HD Video, 8 min loop, 16:9, no sound

August 16 / September 06 - 2015

The scene shows an endless camera shot through a fictional building place. The workers, machines and other image elements were filmed in Dubai, New York, Paris, Beijing, Johannesburg, London and in Switzerland. They form a landscape of real buildings and enlarged computer components.

Juraplatz 1642 – 2012

Dr. Phil Margrit Wick-Werder

HD Video, Diashow, 3.20 min. Loop

Juni 5 / Juni 21 - 2015

Juraplatz shows the history of the Juraplatz / Place du Jura in Biel/Bienne. Out of 15 selected documents and photos, Dr. Phil. Margrit Wick-Werder describes the history and development of the Juraplatz in the past 370 years.

The documentary research was originally made for the project K-Objekt by Enrique Muñoz García. K-Objekt (Kantonale Objekt) are buildings worth of protection and preservation. Old photos, drawings, architectural plans and postcards were then collected for the ancient building overlooking the square.
Juraplatz was once the center of the city Biel/Bienne, this explains the amount of historical documents still available.

Gated Community

Začek/Köppl

HD Video, Experimentalfilm, 20.00 min. Loop

August 28 / September 14 - 2014

In the Experimental film "gated community" from Začek/Köppl, there are two bordered perimeters, one in the inside and one on the outside. Within these fields, the continues orbiting of a Camera, both Protagonists explore - temporarily supported by a Donkey and two Dogs - with performance and film techniques the constitution of the individual, in light of the limitations.

The experience and understanding of ones self awareness and of the opposition are done through reflections, overlaying and duplication to lead to an existential path.

Peter Začek - born 1962 in Vienna and lives and works in Biel / CH. Apprenticeship as a draftsman. Independent artist ever since. Performances and exhibitions in Switzerland and abroad.

Jörg Köppl - born 1964 in Baden, lives and works in Zurich / CH. Studied Fine Arts at ZHdK Zurich. Independent artist since 1989. Performances and exhibitions in Switzerland and abroad.

Life Framer

Photography Award and Curated Exhibition for the Present Day

Life Framer Awarded Photographers

HD Video, Diashow, Photographs, 4.00 min. loop

April 19 / May 3 – 2014

The Life Framer Award Show is the culmination of the first edition of the Life Framer photography award. Following a successful exhibition at theprintspace in the heart of London, UK, the award show travels to Switzerland, for a special pop-up exhibition at Juraplatz.

The judging panel for the year was composed of 12 globally acclaimed photographers who've won numerous awards such as Hasselblad Masters, WPO, PDN, American Photo and IPA. This exhibition showcases their 24 winning images alongside a selection of hand-picked honorary mentions.

The photographers participating in this exhibition are: Vici Watkins, Giovanna del Sarto, Brenda Vaiani, Katja Kremenic, Mitran Kaul, Miska Draskoczy, Aziza Vasco, Judith Hornbogen, Raki Nikahetiya, Lisa Allen, Kristina Petrosiute, Victoria Trevino, Bruna Valenca, BriAnne Wills, Anna Sowul, Giulia Bersani, Michael Dietrich, Rafael Hernandez, Femke Boermans, Neville Jones, Roza Vulf, Adam Fish, Yovcho Gorchev, Judy Mauer, Sergio Carbajo, Jeff Blucher, Danielle Falknor, Sven Loach, Sandro Tedde, Christina Venedict, Kuo Yun Chien, Yuri Van Geenen, Cesar Rodriguez, Robb Klassen, David Brunetti, Cecilie Smith Oedegaard, Rob Blews, Felicia Simion, Luigi Avantaggiato, Anthony Cassell, Luisa Carcavale, David Steinboim, Elena Fortunati, Dipanjan Mitra, Ariana Gomez, Emma McEvoy, Kris Arzadun, Jeff Seltzer, Shirren Lim, AnnaLaura Masciave, Anna di Prospero, Daniel Van Moll, Harry Benhaiem, Marco Enia and Jonathan Pozniak.

Maison

Augustin Rebetez + Noé Cauderay

HD Video, Animation/Experimental, 13:00 min. Loop

April 12 / May 12 - 2013

A film about a house that lives, loves, shifts and self-destructs. A house and its objects, a house and the materials of which it is made.

Two filmmakers attempt to discover the soul of the matter “for the Night”. The film represents a metaphor for the human body: man is a house, the house is human, an interior. The labyrinth of thoughts becomes a place full of transmuting rooms, never-ending stairways and doors opening by themselves onto mysterious little stages.

Robot Readable World

Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography

Timo Arnall

HD Video, Footage, 5:09 min. Loop

September 7 / September 30 - 2012

Cameras that recognise moving people and vehicles, facial recognition software, traffic measuring and guidance systems, cameras that can read traffic signs, and motion capture technology: our everyday life is now filled with image recognition technologies like these. Such systems observe, analyse and generate images of our behaviour, representing everyday scenes in fragmentary and disconcerting ways: often in simple and garishly coloured graphics that jump and flit around the screen. Traffic flow is depicted as arrows and faces as ovals, while lines trace out human motion through public spaces. The precise numbering of hundreds of objects and the tracing of human motion are uncanny and somewhat disturbing.

Timo Arnall`s short film gives us a glimpse of how robots and machines see the world and create meaning from their limited perspectives. Computer vision is sensitive to qualities in moving images that may be very different from what human vision perceives. These images give us a glimpse of how algorithms are beginning to make some tiny, fractional sense out of our world.
Timo Arnall (1976 London, United Kingdom) lives and works in Oslo, Norway. A designer concerned with near-future technology and culture, Timo Arnall works with digital products, services and visualisations, predominantly through directing and making films. He is a research fellow at the Oslo School of Architecture & Design and creative director at BERG in London.

Pin Zhuang

Joan Fontcuberta

HD Video, Video Animation, 2:40 min. Loop

August 2 / September 2 - 2012

The serie Pin Zhuang, which means "dismantled" or "puzzle" in Chinese, was inspired by the 2001 Hainan Island incident, in which an American spy plane crashed on Chinese soil. After extensive negotiations the EP-3 aircraft was returned to the U.S. after being completely dismantled.

In this work Joan Fontcuberta has deliberately "mis-constructed" model planes with all the original parts, transforming them into new "poetic space objects“. As in other works by Joan Fontcuberta, historical and political facts are questioned and manipulated through imagination, artifice and humor.

Joan Fontcuberta was born in 1955 in Barcelona, where he continues to live and work. He has exhibited extensively in museums and galleries in the U.S., Europe, and Japan. His work is found in numerous institutions, including the New York Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Sleepers

Peter Aerschmann

HD Video, 12 min. Loop, No Sound

July 6 / July 29 - 2012

An endless camera shot in a park in Johannesburg – it is noon, autumn; a group of people lies nearly motionless under a tree whilst others go about their everyday doings. White birds hover, without orientation and yet with wings ceaselessly fluttering, above the group. The idyllic midday nap of the sleepers stands in stark contrast to thoughts of unemployment, vanity and death.

Dinner at Juraplatz

Cantine Mobile

Performance

15.06.2012

A dinner on the roof of the juraplatz bus station.
Cantine mobile is a platform for various cooking and eating events. Various places become gastronomic objects.

Elevator

Bruce Allan

HD Video, 1 min. Loop, No Sound

May 17 / June 10 - 2012

A collaborative work by students LN and JK with Bruce Allan at a Nine Dragon Heads workshop organised at the School for Graphic Design of the District in Biel/Bienne between NDH artists and students. After presentations from both sides, groups consisting of one Nine Dragon Head and two students combined to realise one minute films.

Zapping

Work in Progress (2008 - 2011)

Enrique Muñoz García

HD Video, Videocollage, Mobile Phone Videos

November 2 / November 20 - 2011

A genuine work in progress, “Zapping” is the product of three years of work collecting sequences recorded using the camera in the artist’s mobile phone. The proposed soundtrack is sourced from a mix of five television channels selected by the photographer.

In this work, Enrique Muñoz García explores an intimate moment in the daily lives of each and every person: the time spent frenetically zapping between television channels. To do this, he filmed himself along with a number of acquaintances living abroad, from Switzerland to Chile and Spain. The intimacy of the sequences is heightened by virtue of the protagonists being naked, allowing theirskin to reflect the colours emitted by the screen. Out of aestheticism and a desire for authenticity, the photographer ruled out the possibility of enhancing the resolution of the sequences. Indeed, the artist’s primary concern is to reveal the magic in reality. According to Enrique Muñoz García, “Zapping” is to be understood as a portrait of a single person, depicted through a multiplicity of individuals. Emily Fayet

3 Paw

Symposium Biel/Bienne, Switzerland

Nine Dragon Heads

HD Video, 2.30 min. Loop, No Sound

October 2 / October 25 - 2011

The Nine Dragon Heads Symposium 3PAW (11th to 23rd october 2011) was the first „international environment art symposium“ of its kind in Switzerland. susanne muller (artist), Daniela de Maddalena (artist) and Annelise Zwez (art critic) – all experienced Nine Dragon Heads – have organised it on the spot, in virtual contact with Park Byoung Uk – Head of the Heads.

The Symposium was characterised by two major parameters. First, it took place in a dynamic town of about 50 000 inhabitants (which is for small Switzerland quite a lot) and second in direct contact with the lake of Biel/Bienne, the 5000 year old history of settlement in the area and its huge vineyards along the not very high chain of mountains called Jura.
An urban environment allowed the Symposium to have lively contact with the population, the local art scene and art students. The traditional focus of the Nine Dragon Heads Symposia on performance allowed many cultural exchanges beyond words.

The event began already on the first evening with a Vernissage at Art-Etage, where the 25 artists showed small works that introduced them to the Symposium community. The Mayor of Biel/Bienne welcomed the Nine Dragon Heads from all 5 continents and Park Byoung Uk expressed his gratitude of being invited to Switzerland. Background information and three performances combined the production of visual works and moving artistic action. Annelise Zwez

Nine Dragon Heads Artists: Ali Bramwell(NZ), Alois Schild(A), Adriano Gon(I), Bruce Allan(GB), Bernhard Gerber(CH), Christoph Doucet(F), Daniela de Maddalena(CH), Diek Grobler(RSA), Enrique Muñoz García(CL), Gabriel Adams(NZ/USA), Gordana Andjelic Galic(BIH), Harold de Bree(NL), illiko Zautashvili(GEO), Jessy Rahman(SUR), Magda Guruli(GEO), Max Bühlman(CH), Inbok Trobos(A/ROK), Pang Hyo-Sung(ROK), Paul Donker Duyvis(NL), Philip Dadson(NZ), Park Byoung Uk(ROK), susanne muller(CH), Ursula Stalder(CH), Yoo Joung Hye(ROK), Yoko Kajio(AU/JP), Marinda du Toit(RSA).

Schwarzes Licht

Bieler Fototage 2011 / LE TEMPS FAIT SON ŒUVRE

Nicole Hametner

Installation, Photography

September 2 / September 25 - 2011

Bieler Fototage 2011 / Le Temps fait son oeuvre
The fifteenth edition of the Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography offers new reflections on the nature of time in contemporary photography. As time does its work, it creates the photographic image. Indeed the role of time is decisive in allgenres of photography, from fashioning the latent image, to its analog or digital "revelation", to viewing the final result.

Yet time has a disconcerting and paradoxical nature, for in photography, in theory, nothing should move or be fluid. Thus, unsurprisingly, time has become the subject of a number of exhibitions in recent years, including Breathless! Photography and Time in London in 1999 and in 2010 Entretiempos at PHotoEspaña and the Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie in Germany under the title "Jetzt – die erzählte Zeit". In an age when the qualities of mobility, immediacy and simultaneity have come to define a significant portion of our lifestyles, photography is no longer necessarily bound to the here and now. Photographic works, often hybrid in form, are creating new possibilities and lexicons in order to constitute authentic expressions of contemporaneousness.

Schwarzes Licht
Large leaves of immaculate whiteness are suspended on white walls. Neons emitting a black lightare buzzing on the roof. As the hours pass and the darkness intensifies, the light from the tubes begins to dominate and to gradually reveal serigraphs. Portraits of drug addicts begin to appearopposite the solanaceous plants. The images in "Schwarzes Licht" fluctuate between presence and absence. The cycle of appearanceand disappearance varies according to the nature and intensity of the light source. The spectator's visual experience is therefore subject to time, both its duration and in a meteorological sense.While visible at night, these human and vegetal bodies vanish in the daylight. This inversion of visibility/invisibility and day/night refers directly to the opposition of life/death. These latent imagesreveal themselves to those patient enough to wait for them – or they surprise those who aren't expecting to see them. In her artistic approach, Nicole Hametner seeks to reveal the disturbing natureof her subjects. It is no surprise that night holds a prominent place in her work, as a subject and a setting ("L'Heure bleue", "Le Sapin") and as an essential condition ("Schwarzes Licht"). Nicole Hametner does not hide her interest in romanticism and psychoanalysis. When she speaks of "Schwarzes Licht", she evokes Freud and Greek mythology. Deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna) refers directly to the figure of Atropos. The three Moirae – or Fates – spin (Clotho), measure (Lachesis) and cut (Atropos) the thread of life. In psychoanalysis, the long thread of the life force is structuredby a series of situations produced by ruptures. In the manner of Atropos, the nature of the light source structures the cycle of appearance/disappearance, life/death of the images in "Schwarzes Licht".

Software

Dislocacion in Kontinuum

köppl/začek ( In collaboration with Chen Yongwei )

HD Video, Performance, 6.20 min. Loop, Sound

July 23 / August 15 - 2011

Background — X and Y are invited to participate the Chinese artist Chen Yongwei for a collaboration work.
Materials and Preparation — Small bulbs with batteries connected, attached to the heads, shoulders, hips and hands. Camera and darkened room.

Procedure — X and Chen Yongwei give each other lessons in Swiss German and Chinese.
The camera records only the points of light (bulbs) attached to the bodies and the sound.

I wanna be chinese / Dinghi – Electric bicycles from China

Dislocacion in Kontinuum

Rainer Ganahl

HD Video, 3.20 min. Loop, Sound

June 18 / July 18 - 2011

In relation to Dislocation Exhibition, created and curated by Ingrid Wildi Merino, the video I WANNA BE CHINESE / DINGHI –ELECTRIC BICYCLES FROM CHINA from Rainer Ganahl will be presented at Juraplatz.

Rainer Ganahl modified the 1950's song "Tu voi far l' Americano" into "Tu voi far propio Cinese". The artist considers and questions the actual economic and political strategies in China. Since 1992, several Ganahl works have been inspired by the anticolonial theories of Edward Said. Ganahl uses foreign language learning as an instrument as an artistic gesture and thus analyses the political and economic world occurrences.

Rainer Ganahl was born in 1967 in Bludenz, Vorarlberg, Austria. He lives and works since 1990 in New York, USA. He studied Philosophy and History at the Innsbruck University. He studied with Peter Weibel in the University of Applied Art, in Viena, and with Nam June Paik in the Art Academy of Dusseldorf. In 1990 joined the Independent Study Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Ingrid Wildi Merino.

Presented with the kind support of the city of Biel / Bienne

Big Pool

Dislocacion in Kontinuum

Nicolás Rupcich

HD Video, 3.40 min. Loop

March 15 / June 15 - 2011

Big Pool is presented at Juraplatz, Biel, as a part of the Exhibition "Dislocation", created and curated by Ingrid Wildi Merino. Big Pool is a video made by Nicolas Rupcich in collaboration with Emilio Marín.

Ingrid Wildi Merino gives us an invitation to freely think of Dislocation, it causes and effects, where people from different nationalities and from different social backgrounds find and connect through common answers about how we live in this world.

The curator Ingrid Wildi Merino proposes the following text as a thought about Dislocation by Benoit Goetz, a way of getting close to the problems of a particular architectonic space as Juraplatz and, at the same time combine this concept of Goetz with the idea of how we live in this world, but our inner human world always depending on the external space: Political and Architectural.

La dislocation est l'évènement qui affecte l'espace contemporain. Mais on peut dire tout aussi bien que cet évènement était contenu de manière immémoriale dans l'espace lui-même qui est, par définition, une puissance d'écartement et de dispersion. Les mythologies du Lieu, les représentations du Monde empêchaient toutefois cet évènement d'éclater au grand jour.

Cette survenue de la dislocation n'a rien, en soi, de catastrophique. Elle signifie simplement que les espaces désormais flottent librement, détachés, insuperposables à quelque image du monde que ce soit, désamarrés de tout système cosmique, de toute croix orientante. Ni lieux, ni non-lieux, des espaces naissent et meurent au travers de processus complexes : construction, architectures, espace familier, espace social, espace public, espace culturel, espace du travail, devenirs qui emportent la citadinité, gestes et attitudes d'habitants et de passagers. La description de ces espaces relève donc à la fois d'une poétique de l'architecture du pense et d'une reprise de la question concernant le sens de l'habitation du monde.
Benoît Goetz, « La Dislocation, Architecture et Philosophie. »

In “BIG POOL”, there is devastation. A big silent pool that converges and goes around the Chilean sea. A hotel-city, a model for national and international tourism. The biggest pool of the world made by the growing economic development, just like in many artificial cities, currently converted into ghost cities around the world, where, due to the desire of creating big scale projects, these become grotesque. Big Pool articulates how contemporary landscape is negotiated in our world. Enrique Muñoz García

K-Objekt

Enrique Muñoz García

HD Video, Installation, Photography, 4.20 min. Loop

October 23 / November 11 - 2010

K-Objekt is a photography project by Enrique Muñoz García concerning the renovation of the building that once housed the former Pharmacie du Jura and today's Caritas on the Juraplatz in Biel.

K-Objekts (Stands for cantonal objects) are works that are considered worthy of protection and preservation. Before any restoration is permitted, there is an intensive preliminary process of analysis before which the required permission is granted to restore.

The work on the landmarked house on the Juraplatz lasted from May to September 2010. The photos were taken at the construction site on the Juraplatz, in the cantonal historic preservation warehouse, and in the Jura garage in Biel.

Antique photos and postcards compliment the work. They reveal various perspectives of Biel's old town throughout different epochs. In addition, Molari and Wick Architekten in Biel, who are responsible for the restoration, have made both old and new architectural plans available for viewing.

Enrique Muñoz García designed "K-Objekt" specifically for on-site interaction: For the slideshow, he chose the former kiosk at the Juraplatz bus stop as an original art space, since it is located directly opposite the documented building. In this way, the viewer has the opportunity to make a direct comparison from the present, to the building of the past - an optimal configuration. In the staircase of the building on Untergasse 47 (K-object), the artist presents a total of 90 of his photos of the restoration project.

DEUTSCH

K-Objekt ist ein Fotoprojekt über die Sanierung des Gebäudes der ehemaligen Pharmacie du Jura und der heutigen Caritas am Bieler Juraplatz.

K-Objekte (Kantonale Objekte) sind schützens- und erhaltenswerte Objekte. Sie dürfen nicht ohne intensive Vor- abklärungen und die entsprechende Bewilligung renoviert oder saniert werden.
Die Arbeiten am denkmalgeschützten Haus am Juraplatz dauerten von Mai bis September 2010. Die Fotos sind entstanden auf der Baustelle am Juraplatz, im Objektlager des kantonalen Denkmalschutzes und in der Jura- Garage in Biel enstanden.

Bei diesem Projekt stehen die Bauarbeiter im Hintergrund. Auch wenn sie eine wichtige Rolle übernehmen, sind alle auf eine gewisse Weise versteckt. Wichtiger war bei dieser Arbeit der ganze Prozess der Sanierung sowie die Beleuchtung des Kontrasts zwischen Alt und Neu — Protagonist ist hier das Gebäude. Antike Postkarten aus der Sammlung von Françis Meyer ergänzen die Arbeit. Sie zeigen diesen Winkel der Bieler Altstadt in verschiedenen Epochen. Weiter kommen alte und neue Architekturpläne dazu, die das für die Sanierung zuständige Architekturbüro Molari und Wick Architekten in Biel zur Verfügung gestellt hat.

Enrique Muñoz García hat die Ausstellung "K-Objekt" vor Ort konzipiert: Für die Diashow hat er den ehemaligen Kiosk bei der Bushaltestelle Juraplatz als originellen Kunstraum ausgewählt, da dieser sich genau gegenüber des dokumentierten Gebäudes befindet. So konnte der Betrachter immer den Direktvergleich Früher-Heute machen. Auf diese Art hat die Ausstellung optimal funktioniert. Im Treppenhaus des Gebäudes an der Untergasse 47 (K-Objekt) hat der Künstler zudem 90 seiner Fotos von der Restaurierung gezeigt.

JURAPLATZ is a nonprofit independent Public Art Space and works as a satellite for international artists and festivals. Converted into an art-platform from a tram stop dating from the late ’30s, it sits in the city of Biel/Bienne, the heart of the Swiss watch-making industry. JURAPLATZ was founded in October 2010 by Enrique Muñoz García and has been hosting important exhibitions.

Team
Carolina Borer / Administration
John-David Deubl / Web
Enrique Muñoz García / Founder and curator

External Curators
Ingrid Wildi Merino / Dislocacion in Kontinuum
Sarah Girard / Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography
Hélène Joye-Cagnard and Catherine Kohler / Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography
Park Byoung Uk / Nine Dragon Heads
Magda Guruli / Nine Dragon Heads

Cultural partner institutions
Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography
Life Framer Photography Prize
Nacht der 1000 Fragen Festival
Nine Dragon Heads / Artists Collective
Entre le temps
First Friday

Supported by
Stadt Biel
Swisslos/Kultur Kanton Bern
Migros-Kulturprozent
GVB Kulturstiftung
Stiftung Temperatio
Naturzentrum Biel

Contact
Enrique Muñoz García
Switzerland
info@juraplatz.ch
+41 (0) 76 454 28 31