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Swiss Institute / Contemporary Art New York An innovative venue for art that provides international audiences with a significant forum for cultu

An innovative venue for art that provides international audiences with a significant forum for cultural dialogue between Switzerland, Europe, and the US.

07/02/2026

Final days to see Jiajia Zhang’s first institutional solo exhibition in the US, Domestic News !

In this video, Zhang () speaks about her exhibition at SI, as well as the inspirations behind the show, architectural and spatial considerations, viewing experience, and more.

🔗 Full video linked in bio.

On view through July 5 at SI.

Holiday Hours
Friday, July 3: 12–8pm
Saturday, July 4: CLOSED
Sunday, July 5: 12–6pm

04/09/2026

Final Days !
Tiran Willemse: Dweller
Closing April 12, 2026

It’s the final days to view the first solo exhibition by artist, dancer, and choreographer Tiran Willemse (). Dweller marks Willemse’s debut exploration of moving image and sound.

In this video, Willemse reflects on his use of “Kuduro,” the Angolan “dance of the mad.” Drawing on years of classical ballet training alongside African dance studies, his work brings together Black and feminist perspectives to explore the intensity and “mania” often projected onto female protagonists. Willemse then asks us, the audience, how we confront his almost uncanny gestures, which oscillate between control and instinct, form and formlessness. Drawing on ritualistic sound, familial language, and personal history, he further explores the politics of embodiment that is shaped by colonized minds, bodies, and land. In Dweller, he channels these experimental choreographies into an archive of dance, mapping the body’s path through time and space.

Full video on Vimeo linked in bio !

Video by Nate Reininga ()

04/08/2026

Final Week !
Saodat Ismailova: Amanat
Closing April 12, 2026

This week is the final opportunity to view the first institutional solo exhibition in the United States by Uzbek artist and filmmaker Saodat Ismailova ().

In this video, Ismailova speaks about her newly commissioned film, Amanat. Set in Kyrgyzstan’s Arslanbob walnut forest, the film explores a haunting ecosystem shaped by the hallucinatory effects and mythic presence of the walnuts. By incorporating the forest’s sonic elements into her exhibition, Ismailova invites us to experience the landscape as a storyteller. The oral histories embedded within the forest, combined with the visceral memories and personal associations it evokes, foreground a metaphysical process of transformation and renewal, much like a seed growing into a forest.

Amanat is co-commissioned by Swiss Institute, LUMA Foundation (), and Kunsthalle Bern (). Following the presentation at SI, the exhibition will travel in an expanded form to LUMA Arles and conclude at Kunsthalle Bern.

Full video on Vimeo linked in bio !

Video by Nate Reininga ()

12/05/2025

It’s the final month to see Mona Filleul’s Sissy Institute at SI ! On view through January 4, 2026. 💕✨

In this video, Mona Filleul () details her artistic practice, which subverts cis-masculine norms through works that blur the boundaries between painting, assemblage, installation, and architecture. Beginning from two-dimensional processes, Filleul reveals the many layers of her practice that range from the handmade papers and pigments to the careful scenography that creates a space for the increasingly policed expressions of q***r and trans subjectivities. Set within a unique architectural refuge, her work comes alive through the embodiment of listening and electricity.

Video by Nate Reininga ()

12/04/2025

One month left to see Bagus Pandega’s first institutional exhibition, Daya Benda, at SI ! On view through January 4, 2026.

Pandega’s () exhibition is centered on present ecological crises of resource extraction and the evolving relationships between the natural and the artificial. With the title meaning “object power,” Daya Benda grants autonomy to plants in the absence of the human. In this interview, Pandega speaks to his experimental ethos and creative process, the fusing of machine-making and natural processes. 🌱⚙️

🔗 Full video on Vimeo linked in bio

Video by Nate Reininga ()

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