Swiss Institute Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the opening of the winter season with an exhibition curated by its new director, Gianni Jetzer, Housewarming, opening on November 7th, plus its annual Benefit Dinner and Auction on November 10th at Cipriani 23rd Street. HOUSEWARMING with: Michael Beutler, Agnieszka Brzezanska, Vincent Kohler, David Renggli, Damien Roach, Uglycute, Jenny Vogel / Curated by: Gianni Jetzer November 8 December 23 2006 / opening reception Nov 7 / 6 8 pm Housewarming brings together a group of international emerging artists producing work that refers explicitly to the arrangement and designation of space. Mounting shows means continuously moving objects in and out of rooms. They are installed with great care, only to be removed again a few weeks later. The presence of changing artworks actually constitutes new space. In the slender volume Art and Space, Martin Heidegger proposes an unexpected inversion to the conventional reading of space. To discover a spaces essence, we must think of it as active, constituting itself by the presence of its contained objects. >>> SI Annual Benefit Dinner and Auction November 10 2006 Cipriani 23rd Street 200 Fifth Avenue, New York City SI Award 2006: Uli Sigg Entrepreneur, Former Ambassador to China, Patron and Collector of Chinese Contemporary Art SI Artist Tribute 2006: Christoph Büchel With works for auction by: Cory Arcangel, John Armleder, Katia Bassanini, Francis Baudevin, Patterson Beckwith, Cezary Bodzianowski, Olaf Breuning, Agnieszka Brzezanska, Daniele Buetti, Christoph Büchel, Valentin Carron, Christo, Tacita Dean, Philippe Decrauzat, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Armen Eloyan, Yang Fudong, Georg Gatsas, Liam Gillick, Bob Gramsma, Loris Gréaud, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, Nic Hess, Carsten Höller, Markus and Reto Huber, Lang/Baumann, Christian Marclay, Fabian Marti, Marlene McCarty, Lucy McKenzie, Aleksandra Mir, Olivier Mosset, Olaf Nicolai, Yoko Ono, Bruno Peinado, Richard Phillips, Pipilotti Rist, Didier Rittener, Christoph Schreiber, Shirana Shahbazi, Mindy Shapero, Roman Signer, Nedko Solakov, Loredana Sperini, Annelies Strba, Mika Tajima, Nina Weber, Andro Wekua, Jordan Wolfson and more Live Auction by Simon de Pury / Phillips, de Pury & Company 6:00 PM Cocktails and Silent Auction 7:30 PM Dinner and Live Auction 9:30 PM Silent Auction, Drinks and Dancing with Ray Santiago a la New York City For Dinner: Business Attire RSVP: By Nov 6, 2006 To purchase tickets please email to benefit@swissinstitute.net Contact us at 212 925 2035 ext 11