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NEXPO meets the public

A travelling exhibition visits the Federal City

NEXPO gets a new member

Glarus, the smallest cantonal capital in Switzerland, is now also a member of “NEXPO - the new Expo”.

Switzerland and its Limits

In Geneva, a roundtable by Samia Henni, a walk by Aline Mona Zuber and a newly produced film by Ayo Akingbade explore involvements in colonial pasts and postcolonial presents.

SITE VISIT VIII - Kino Roland

On Zurich's Langstrasse we visit the former Kino Roland.

H(a)unting Houses Series III

The series by Alicia Yerebakan continues the series of SITE VISITs and explores abandoned places throughout Switzerland.

LOOKING – COUNTING ON EACH BOBBY PIN n°1

As a child, Azize Ferizi watched her mother and aunts prepare for events. Thereby she learned that appearance can be a position, depending on the context. In 2022, the author takes a visit to an intergenerational hairdressing salon in Prishtina as an opportunity to explore questions of aesthetics and the collective pictorial memory of the Balkans.

SITE VISIT VII: Furkapass #THEHILLSAREALIVE

NEXPO sends Switzerland on a journey. With excursions, in search of venues for the next national exhibition, it roams the country.

auto-exotica

Located between Egypt and Switzerland, auto-exotica is an intimate reflection on identity, memory and perception. Presented as a reportage series, it explores the biased gaze of assimilated Orientalism – familiar and distant at once. Here, images and texts work in parallel to narrate the same story differently.

H(a)unting Houses Series II

To prepare the next national exhibition we are undertaking excursions to unconventional spaces. In her new reportage, Alicia Yerebakan visits a scary abandoned sex club in Solothurn.

H(a)unting Houses Series

A group of young reporters continue the series of SITE VISITS, that explores possible venues and initiatives of the future national exhibition. As an initial, Alicia Yerebakan presents her personal investigation of seemingly neglected spaces.

A journey through Switzerland

The NEXPLORER presents the Swiss value maps of 2022.

SITE VISIT VI - Lingotto Luegisland

SITE VISIT VI: «Lingotto» Luegisland

We visit the former AMAG headquarters shortly before demolition.

SITE VISIT V: Terrain Gurzelen

Visit to the interim use of the former football stadium in Biel followed by a concert by Julian Sartorius.

SITE VISIT IV: Berta Rahm Pavilion

The rescued building from the National Exhibition for Women's Work SAFFA 58

Pontresina joins

The municipality of Pontresina has joined the NEXPO group as a new associated member.

The next EXPO wants to scale down Swiss megalomania

Report by Eduardo Simantob, swissinfo

Four new members

Welcome Frauenfeld, Grindelwald, Saas-Fee and Sion!

SITE VISIT III: yellow movie

World premiere of the silent film "yellow movie" (2020) by Albert Oehlen, musically accompanied by the St. Gallen improvisation musician Norbert Möslang (electronics).

SITE VISIT II: Haus Gawaling

A concert by Mykki Blanco, a walk together and an exhibition by Maya Hottarek await us in the village of Mathon (GR).

Cities raise their NEXPLORER flags

The city presidents present the flags of their cities.

On the way to NEXPO

What is popular? Who is NEXPO aimed at? What role does architecture play in this? In conversation with Axel Simon and Rahel Marti from Hochparterre, Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen tell us about their concept and the first SITE VISIT.

SITE VISIT I: Le Plaza

Watch the video of the first site visit!

New Artistic and Commercial Director

Niels Olsen, Fredi Fischli, Niels Olsen and Christina Hanke prepare bid to be the next national exhibition.

3 + 1 questions for «Smart Inter-City»

Interview with Barbara Alder and Nicole Morellini, project managers «Smart Inter-City», City of Basel

First results of the NEXPLORER survey

How does Switzerland think?

Did somebody say “nature”?

Young landscape architects invent and explore future worlds across all parts of Switzerland.

Vallée Archipel - a NEXPO initiative

The emergence of a common vision for the Rhône Valley

Smart Inter-City

An initiative by the City of Basel as part of NEXPO

10 cities for NEXPO - “We are all in”

The initial cities are actively involved in turning NEXPO into a reality – step by step

Interview with Michael Hermann on NEXPLORER

The Director of the Sotomo Research Institute on the creative interaction of science, art and technology

NEXPO launches the new survey on the Switzerland of tomorrow

We find out what the population is thinking and launch NEXPLORER, the new online survey on the Switzerland of tomorrow.

The Ernst Göhner Foundation and the Federal Office for the Environment lend their support to NEXPO

The Ernst Göhner Foundation backs our upcoming NEXPLORER tour, and the Federal Office for the Environment supports the NEXPO pilot project “Urban Nature”.

What are Swiss Symbols? - Part 2

Hospitality, the Marzili, Sargans Castle, or ice skating? What are Swiss symbols we cherish? Will they be as important to us in the years to come as they are today?

When our living spaces become essential

An interview with Natacha Guillaumont on the importance of our living spaces, the younger generations and the symbols of community life.

Raiffeisen Jubilee Foundation supports NEXPO

The Raiffeisen Jubilee Foundation is proud to support NEXPO at the start of the foundation phase and thus at a key moment in its development.

NEXPO moves on to the next phase, with seven more cities joining

From September 2020, NEXPO will move on to its three-year consolidation phase.

Pilot project: Vallée Archipel

A conversation with the author of Vallée Archipel, Céline Guibat

What are Swiss Symbols?

Mountains, cheese, neutrality, banks or just chocolate? What are Swiss symbols we cherish? Will they be as important to us in the years to come as they are today?