"ART SNEAKS INTO THE CITY "
2000-06-17 until 2000-08-31
TRANSFERT
Biel - Bienne, , CH Switzerland

Thirty-nine artists (Europe, USA, Thailand) have been invited to work in the urban setting. They sneak into the city's infrastructures and question art's ability to work its way into our everyday lives. TRANSFERT is the 10th Swiss Sculpture Exhibition to be held in Bienne. The first exhibition in this series – a pioneering one in its determination to show art in the public place – dates back to 1954, the last one to 1991. This major show is under the patronage of a committee made up of personalities like Ruth Dreifuss, Moritz Leuenberer, Yvette Jaggi, Herzog & de Meuron, Simon de Pury, etc. A voluminous, 480-page catalogue (Engl./Ger./Fr.) is being published to accompany the exhibition.

PLACE

Bienne, in the city centre.
Perimeter bounded by the Place Centrale, Place Guisan and the Conference Centre. (A poster programme produced by four international artists will be simultaneously on view in the following streets; Basel, Berlin, Bern, Bienne, Dijon, Genève, Hamburg, London, Neuchâtel and Paris).

OPENING HOURS

Daily round the clock (except for shop opening hours for certain works).

THE ARTISTS

Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil (F), Stefan Banz (CH), Olivier Blanckart (F), Etienne Bossut (F), Olaf Breuning (CH), Roderick Buchanan (SCO), Christoph Büchel (CH), Patrick Corillon (B), Simone Decker (LUX), Jeremy Deller (GB), Daniel Firman (F), Jean-Damien Fleury (CH), Peter Garfield (USA), Ulrike Gruber (D), Fabrice Gygi (CH), Alexander Gyoerfi (D), Jens Haaning (DAN), Eric Hattan (CH), Lori Hersberger (CH), Henrik Plenge Jakobsen (DAN), Surasi Kusolwong (THAI), Peter Land (DAN), Abigail Lane (GB), Lang/Baumann (CH), Mathieu Mercier (F), Thom Merrick (USA), Jonathan Monk (GB), Olivier Mosset (CH), Gianni Motti (I), Daniel Pflumm (D), Philippe Ramette (F), Relax (CH), Christian Robert-Tissot (CH), Daniel Ruggiero (I), Roman Signer (CH), Nika Spalinger (CH), Uri Tzaig (ISR), Erwin Wurm (A), Dana Wyse (CAN).

DIRECTOR

Marc-Olivier Wahler
(artistic director of the CAN Neuchâtel Art Centre; art critic).

Simone Decker (LUX)
Biel-Bienne Seaworld, 2000

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