EINE ETWAS ANDERE REISE DURCH DIE LEBENDIGE STADT JENSEITS DER REICHEN FASSADEN

In Zürich abseits der Pfade laden uns die Autorin Bettina Spoerri und der Fotograf Miklós Klaus Rózsa ein, bisher weniger bekannte Seiten von Zürich zu entdecken. Die kulturelle Vielfalt im ehemaligen Arbeiterviertel etwa, die interessante Architektur neuer Überbauungen und Hochhäuser oder die Vergangenheit und Gegenwart des jüdischen Lebens in Zürich. Dabei lassen uns Spoerri und Rózsa auch über so manche absurde und dadaistische Seite der Stadt, in der Lenin oder Lasker-Schüler ihre Marken hinterliessen, aber keine feste Bleibe fanden, staunen und schmunzeln. Die Empfehlungen für besondere Orte zum Verweilen und die Tipps für Ausflüge aus der City hinaus eröffnen auch profunden Kenner*innen der Limmatstadt neue, unerwartete An- und Einsichten.

Braumüller, Wien 2019. 

Die Buchvernissage fand 2020 im Kosmos statt. 

Bettina Spoerri & Miklós Klaus Rózsa | Research Residency in Shanghai -

Pro Helvetia

Diese Reise nach Shanghai musste wegen der Pandemie verschoben werden - und findet nun Anfang Herbst 2023 endlich statt!

Pro Helvetia announces:

Nationality: Switzerland (and Hungary)

Residency location: Shanghai

Partner organization: TBD

The writer and publicist Bettina Spoerri, and the photographer and video producer Miklós Klaus Rózsa will come for one month to Shanghai in 2020 to make a research for their multimedia project «Anna in Shanghai». This project is on the first level a novel – written by writer Bettina Spoerri – in which one of the protagonists, an art curator, lives in Shanghai, on the second level it is an online project in the form of a multimedia website with pictures, videos, texts, combined with interactive possibilities.

Bettina Spoerri and Miklós Klaus Rózsa, both based in Zurich, began to work together in early 2018 with different projects which combine literary texts and photography, videos, events, and multimedia. Their publication «Zürich – Abseits der Pfade» (Vienna, 2019) on off spaces in the Swiss town of Zurich brings together texts and photographs. The book is accompanied by the website www.localstories.ch, where the artists work with observations and experiences made in selected other spaces and cities, like Budapest, and Tel Aviv. Another project is the dialogue between short stories and photographs about the life of people in Tel Aviv. The question how culture spaces in towns are shaped, defined, gentrified or changed, stands in the centre of their research and artistic reflections.

BETTINA SPOERRI

Born in Zurich in 1968, studied at Zurich University, with studies abroad in Berlin, Paris, London, and Jerusalem. Since the 1990s, she works as independent writer as well as curator, moderator, as well as lecturer at different universities. Artist residencies since 2004, in Scuol (CH), Berlin (D), Krems (A), Pécs (HU). Published novels: «Konzert für die Unerschrockenen» / «Herzvirus» (both: Braumüller, Vienna 2013/ 2016).

MIKLÓS KLAUS RÓZSA

Born in Budapest in 1954, from where his parents flew with him in 1956 to the west. Since 1956, he lives in Switzerland, since the early 1970ies in the city of Zurich. He studied photography at the Zurich Kunstgewerbeschule (now ZHdK), became an independent photographer, founded Multimedia Photoscene AG, works also as video producer, film still photographer, multimedia event producer. Film and book about his work: «Stateless – Klaus Rózsa, Photographer» (Erich Schmid, CH 2016) / «Miklós Klaus Rózsa». spector books, Leipzig 2014.

Vor einiger Zeit hat Silvio Baviera mit seiner Frau Marietta Baviera-Montresor in Giornico im Tessin die fabbrica culturale gegründet: ein Museum, eine Galerie, ein Archiv und vieles mehr - ein Ort, um zu verweilen, zu schweifen, zu entdecken. Ein ausführliches Gespräch mit Autor, Künstler, Galerist und Verleger Silvio Baviera über seine Kindheit in Zürich im Kreis 4, seine Galerien - darunter die erste in seiner Wohnung -, seine Visionen für die fabbrica culturale, seine Arbeit mit Sprache und dem, was er "Streichhölzer im Laboratorium" des Sozialen nennt: Witzen und Sprachspielen. 

Gesprächspartnerin: Bettina Spoerri

Kamera/Ton: Miklós Klaus Rózsa

Videoproduktion: BabelKultur, Multimedia Photoscene AG / 2022

MIKLÓS KLAUS RÓZSA |

OLGA STEFAN | GABI BASALICI - FRAGMENTS OF A LIFE

Miklós Klaus Rózsa (HU/CH)/Olga Stefan (RO/USA/CH)/ Gabi Basalici (RO)

Fragments of a Life is a video combining intimate family conversations between Olga Stefan and her grandmother, Sorana Ursu (now 91), with footage, photographs, and other images from the past and present, creating an assemblage of memories and impressions that both support and reject historical events. Through the personal account of Sorana Ursu, whose father was killed during the 1941 Iasi pogrom, along with those of other members of the family now in Israel and the United States, biographical fragments are pieced together in a desperate attempt to establish a coherent narrative of life, while acknowledging the incomplete image of reality they present, the malleability of memory, and the tragedy of forgetting that is an inherent part of survival. The story follows Sorana Ursu’s life in the wartime years, her evolution into a communist and ultimately her disillusionment, while exploring issues of identity, migration, displacement, and belonging.

Camera and Photography by Miklós Klaus Rózsa

Neuerscheinung
Ein Kunstwerk der Zeitgeschichte

Christof Nüssli, Christoph Oeschger:
Miklós Klaus Rózsa
624 pp., ca. 450 black-white illustrations, thread-sewn paperback

Texts by Peter Kamber, Christof Nüssli, Christoph Oeschger, Miklós Klaus Rózsa

ISBN 978-3-944669-42-7

This was one of my favorite books from earlier this year. The texts are in both German and English. Spector publishes smart books with intriguing and sophisticated design. I highly doubt there has ever been a book like this published before. (Jeffrey Ladd)