Le Mouvement

The City Performed

August 26 to November 2 2014

Exhibition in Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt

Opening ceremony on August 26 2014 6 p.m.

The performances of Le Mouvement explore public space and its limits in Biel in 2014. The artistic interventions are announced as such and are possibly treated differently under the protective mantle of the Swiss Sculpure Exhibition. Performing the City relates exclusively to Biel, an extremely limited segment of what public space signifies internationally. The urban public realm is always determined by local conditions and is strongly coloured by the political system, the legislation in force, how this legislation is implemented, economic circumstances, moral sensibilities, the influence of grassroots movements, cultural policy etc.
The exhibition The City Performed at the Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt extends the concept of public space internationally - in both historical-geographical and political terms. It explicitly encompasses artists who have implemented street performances under various circumstances - in some cases at the risk of being arrested and imprisioned. The museum-bases explorationn at Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt offers a more in-depth examination of the context of performance. In a nutshell, it is certainly fair to say that public space as a term and concept are different for each of the works exhibited. Considering differences and distictions is the only way to tackle the complexity of the system of discourse, society, city, and public space.
It is however not always a desire to have an impact in a political context that drives artists out into the street - on the contrary. The urge to abaondon the protective walls of the art instititution has been omnipresent since the sixties. Parallel to Land Art, which chose the world of nature as exhibition venue, more and more artists turned to the street and used it as a platform, an alternative to art spaces, neutral terrain, not appropriated by official art discourse.
The city is viewed as neutral terrain, which is not integrated into an art discourse and is free from preferences of state art policy. Artists who renounce the context of the exhibiton space signal their independence, However, the documentary records of these performances often end up back in the art sphere once again.




  • At a bedroom in the middle of the night, Noritoshi Hirakawa, expo 2014
    At a bedroom in the middle of the night
  • Nastagio’s Itinerary, Prinz Gholam, expo 2014
    Nastagio’s Itinerary
  • Circle Dance, Germaine Kruip, expo 2014
    Circle Dance
  • Striking, Tomislav Gotovac, expo 2014
    Striking
  • The Departure From Her Feet, Lin Yilin, expo 2014
    The Departure From Her Feet
  • Walk, Hands, Eyes (A City), Myriam Lefkowitz, expo 2014
    Walk, Hands, Eyes (A City)
  • Paralyzed, Klara Lidén, expo 2014
    Paralyzed
  • Looking Up (Plaza de Santo Domingo, México D.F., Agosto 18, 2001), Francis Alÿs, expo 2014
    Looking Up (Plaza de Santo Domingo, México D.F., Agosto 18, 2001)
  • Heavy Weight History, Christian Jankowski, expo 2014
    Heavy Weight History
  • Show, Maria Hassabi, expo 2014
    Show
  • Amsterdam Erotica, Paulo Bruscky, expo 2014
    Amsterdam Erotica
  • Mortal Kombat, Ariana Reines, expo 2014
    Mortal Kombat
  • Summer is Not the Prize of Winter, Alex Cecchetti, expo 2014
    Summer is Not the Prize of Winter
  • Bag-People, Mladen Stilinović, expo 2014
    Bag-People
  • Piazza, Pablo Bronstein, expo 2014
    Piazza
  • If You Don't Want Us, We Want You, Alexandra Pirici
, expo 2014
    If You Don't Want Us, We Want You
  • Around, Ulla von Brandenburg, expo 2014
    Around
  • Trois cercles, Köppl/Začek, expo 2014
    Trois cercles
  • Reactivation (Circulation in Space), Marko Lulić, expo 2014
    Reactivation (Circulation in Space)
  • SSSSSSSSSSSS, Ieva Miseviciutè, expo 2014
    SSSSSSSSSSSS
  • Choreography for the Running Male, Eglè Budvytytè, expo 2014
    Choreography for the Running Male
  • Study of Perspective, Ai Weiwei, expo 2014
    Study of Perspective
  • The Complete Works, Nina Beier, expo 2014
    The Complete Works
  • Kunstturnen, Christian Jankowski, expo 2014
    Kunstturnen
  • Drift, Trisha Brown, expo 2014
    Drift
  • Kevin and Me, Dave McKenzie, expo 2014
    Kevin and Me
  • SCHAUPROZESS, San Keller, expo 2014
    SCHAUPROZESS
  • A Proposal for a Worker’s Monument in Biel, Marco Lulić, expo 2014
    A Proposal for a Worker’s Monument in Biel
  • Like You, Liz Magic Laser, expo 2014
    Like You
  • City Dance, Anna Halprin, expo 2014
    City Dance
  • N.P. 1977, Neša Paripović, expo 2014
    N.P. 1977
  • battlefield #95 / gaze, Leuba Jérôme, expo 2014
    battlefield #95 / gaze
  • Vain Combat, Douglas Dunn, expo 2014
    Vain Combat
  • Body Configurations, VALIE EXPORT, expo 2014
    Body Configurations
  • Fotografien, Beat Streuli, expo 2014
    Fotografien
  • The new line, The flexible school or Trust, Alicia Frankovich, expo 2014
    The new line, The flexible school or Trust
  • Dancer, Dara Friedman, expo 2014
    Dancer
  • A Needle Woman, Kim Sooja, expo 2014
    A Needle Woman
  • Huddle, Simone Forti, expo 2014
    Huddle
  • Kissing Through Glass, Jiří Kovanda, expo 2014
    Kissing Through Glass
  • The Pleasure Project, luciana achugar, expo 2014
    The Pleasure Project
  • Girl on a Late-19th-Century Swiss Balcony, Pablo Bronstein, expo 2014
    Girl on a Late-19th-Century Swiss Balcony
  • Bodies in Urban Spaces, Willi Dorner, expo 2014
    Bodies in Urban Spaces
  • Untitled (Remember JK, Universal Futurological Question Mark U. F. O.), Rirkrit Tiravanija, expo 2014
    Untitled (Remember JK, Universal Futurological Question Mark U. F. O.)
  • Crossdressing-Aktionen, Ocaña, expo 2014
    Crossdressing-Aktionen
  • Work No. 1701, Martin Creed, expo 2014
    Work No. 1701
  • Tilted Arc, Alexandra Pirici, expo 2014
    Tilted Arc