HayArt Cultural Centre
In her works, Marie-Caroline Hominal often embodies animals or fictional figures that she borrows from cultural traditions as well as from pop culture and the world of cartoons. The piece with the eloquent and, at the same time, knowing title, Eurêka, c’est presque le titre (2021), begins with the retelling of a dream, in which […]
Romy Rüegger is an artist and writer based in Zurich and Berlin. Her research-based artistic work generates images, texts, movements and sounds that take the shape of scripts, writings, audio works, performances, performative spaces and choreographed rooms. Through feminist lenses, her work focuses on questions of history, shared resources and voices shaping our present and […]
The performance APPROACHING ULTRA LIGHT is based on the artist’s research and interviews with mobile population groups in Switzerland, southern Germany and Alsace. The interest in the topic is based on early wanted pictures, wanted lists and biopolitical efforts to homogenize and whitewash the population in these areas. In her performance, Romy Rüegger uses text, […]
Elena Gubanova and Ivan Govorkov’s work, Filtration of White Noise, on view at the HayArt Cultural Center from March 30 to April 3, 2023, continues artists’ ongoing poetic exploration of technology, its ability to become a form and language of art and to be in dialogue with the viewer, reacting to how she/he perceives, interacts […]
Elena Gubanova, Ivan GovorkovInstallation/Participatory Performance
In this installation/ participatory performance, the image interacts with the viewer’s movements. By entering the room, a person “startles” the peace and emptiness of the space by filling it with action. He brings the realitiy and its reflection “to life” and turns “nothing” into “something”.
The Image of the Future ARé FESTIVAL 2023 “The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new, therefore, always appears in the guise of a miracle. The fact that man is capable of action means that the unexpected can […]
“Photofest: 10 photographers shared the secrets, knowledge, and skills of their activities, told about current programs and significant works within the framework of the festival entitled “from tape to digital” (2021).During the festival, the audience could listen to the speeches of leading photographers and specialists, participate in discussions, and purchase photographic works directly from the […]
From November 5-15 HayArt Cultural Center hosted the 2nd PHOTOFEST photography festival, which the title was “5 Names”.The festival focused on 5 young photographers and artists – a selection of their works was displayed parallel to events. On November 7, 10 and 12 at 19:00, the authors took part in thematic discussions and question-and-answer sessions, […]
CYFEST, one of the biggest international media art festivals in Eastern Europe, was founded by a group of independent artists and curators in 2007. Since its inception, CYFEST’s main concerns have been to examine the dialogue between new and traditional visual languages and to show technological achievements via artistic transformation. CYFEST unites art professionals, artists, […]
Identification with a brown, wooden, four-legged object with a straight back removes the human mind from knowing the pure essence of a chair. “The object we sit on” is wrong, or, at least, not right. We can stand on a chair, for example, to change the lamp. And we can sit on many things – […]