Exended Cahiers

For more than 30 years, the Swiss Cultural Foundation Pro Helvetia has supported the publication of contemporary artists’ initial monographs with the Collection Cahiers d’Artistes. From 11 November to 10 December, the archive will be presented during the “Extended Cahiers” exhibition, initiated by Pro Helvetia Moscow and realised in collaboration with the GROUND Art Centre.

The “Extended Cahiers” exhibition at the GROUND Art Centre in Moscow provides the opportunity to present this extensive material and digital archive of Swiss contemporary art. The presentation of all the publications produced over the past 30 years, realised by independent curator Madeleine Amsler and by Patrick Gosatti, head of the Cahiers project, is conceived as a living apparatus — a dynamic and branching extension of images in space and on the walls.

Imagined as an extended book, the presentation aims to highlight the topicality of the archive as well as its potential for reactivation. Alongside the original publications, the display includes an abundant selection of images, photographs and impressions taken from numerous pages of the Cahiers d’Artistes, as well as artistic actions specially realised for the exhibition. In this context, the artists Gilles Furtwängler (Cahier 2017) and Delphine Chapuis Schmitz (Cahier 2016) collaborate on a performance work conceived for the occasion. A video programme based on the archive completes the presentation of the Collection Cahiers d’Artistes.

A discussion day is organised for 11 November, the date of the exhibition vernissage.

The artists Gilles Furtwängler and Delphine Chapuis Schmitz, together with the curators Denis Pernet, Madeleine Amsler and Patrick Gosatti, will exchange ideas and debate approaches to the contemporary archive with cultural actors based in Moscow.

Among the participants are publisher and editor-in-chief of Ad Marginem Press, Mikhail Kotomin; art critic Sergey Khachaturov; and performance artist Olga Knyazev.

The Collection Cahiers d’Artistes archive will serve as the starting point for discussions addressing artistic production, publishing and its relationship to performance, as well as the role, function and contemporary development of critical discourse.

THE EXHIBITION RUNS FROM 11 NOV. TO 10 DEC. 2017
GROUND ART CENTER MOSCOW

OPENING'S PROGRAMME ON 11 NOV. 2027

15.00 — 16.30 Discussion
Publishing, self-publishing, micro-publishing

Participants:
Denis Pernet, independent curator
Delphine Chapuis Schmitz, artist, Cahiers d’Artistes
Patrick Gosatti, curator, Cahiers d’Artistes, Pro Helvetia Zurich
Mikhail Kotomin, Ad Marginem Press
Sergey Khachaturov, art critic
Dimitri Kryukov, independent publisher, writer

17.00 — 17.30
Performance
Delphine Chapuis Schmitz &
Gilles Furtwängler

18.00 — 19.30 Discussion
Performance and Publishing
Madeleine Amsler, independent curator
Gilles Furtwängler, artist, Cahiers d’Artistes
Olga Knyazev, artist
Daria Demekhina, curator, art historian
Arseniy Sergeev, artist, curator