News
2011-09-10
MOVE FOR LIFE at the Biennale, Lyon 2011
The trucks of MOVE FOR LIFE, the mobile art intervention by Littmann Kulturprojecte, will be shown at the opening days of this year's Biennale de Lyon, invited by the Goethe Institut of this city. more
2011-09-01
REAL FICTION CINEMA – a box-office hit
Many a Swiss film-maker would be delighted with such a turnout: more than 71,000 people visited the Real Fiction Cinema in Zurich, Bern, Basel and Ticino. Next year, the temporary art installation by Littmann Kulturprojekte and Job Koelewijn will conquer the mountains as well as eastern and French speaking Switzerland.
more
2011-08-10
REAL FICTION CINEMA congratulates Niki Reiser
It is a great pleasure for us at Littmann Kulturprojekte to announce that the SUISA Foundation will award this year’s soundtrack award to Niki Reiser. Niki Reiser received the award for his original compositions for the film “Das Blaue vom Himmel” (directed by Hans Steinbichler).
more
2011-08-05
REAL FICTION CINEMA presented at the 2011 Festival del film Locarno
Yesterday evening, 4 August 2011, the official presentation of the Real Fiction Cinema temporary art intervention took place in the presence of Marco Solari, President of the Festival del film Locarno. more
2011-07-27
REAL FICTION CINEMA in Locarno from 29 July
The Real Fiction Cinema delighted a record-breaking 18,123 visitors for twenty-eight days in Basel in
June 2011. From 29 July, three open free cinemas will make a stopover in Ticino: in Locarno on Largo
Zorzi and at the Porto Regionale and in Ascona on Piazza Torre. more
2011-06-10
REAL FICTION CINEMA during Art 42 Basel
During Art 42 Basel, the city will become Europe‘s capital of art. Real Fiction Cinema, a temporary art intervention by artist Job Koelewijn in collaboration with Klaus Littmann of Littmann Kulturprojekte Basel, will stage the city itself as a work of art throughout the fair by making it the motif or a film. more
2011-05-28
CHINESE – AMERICAN. Photo portraits by Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer. An exhibition by Littmann Kulturprojecte, from June 1 to July 1 2011 in Basel
CHINESE – AMERICAN
Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer
From 1 June to 1 July 2011, Littmann Kulturprojekte will be using the vacant former Lidl shop on the first basement floor (1. UG) of Sternengasse 19 to showcase photo portraits from the US and China by Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer.
more
2011-05-19
REAL FICTION CINEMA in Basel from 20 May to 19 June 2011
Basel will be the new film setting after Zurich and Berne with a total of 20'000 visitors and 66'600 minutes of film. more
2011-05-12
DOIT YOURSELF ART. An exhibition organized by Littmann Kulturprojecte, from 12 May to 17 July, 2011, Fundación Canal - Madrid
Art that produces art or that anyone can produce is "do-it-yourself art". The work of art is reproducible by design; artists write instructions on its use or create objects with which anyone can reproduce works of art as often as they like. Do-it-yourself art is art rendered democratic, shorn of its mystic aura and the artist's status as a solitary creative genius. "Everyone is an artist", said Joseph Beuys in 1985, referring to his ideas on "social sculpture" and the extended concept of art by which everybody can help shape society by contributing creatively. more
2011-03-30
Move for Life trucks take the streets of Paris
The trucks of Move for Life showed up at the Champs Elysées in Paris on March, 30th 2011, converging in front of the Grand Palais for ArtParis 2011. more
2011-03-28
REAL FICTION CINEMA with a Happy Ending
The anonymous painter was found: Peter Straub, janitor of a local school, and one of his collegues painted the cinema at Bruennengut, that was tagged with scenes of violence, white again. "There's already enough violence in this world", Straub says more
2011-03-26
REAL FICTION CINEMA - Looking for the cinema painter
Some smear it on purpose others clean it during the night: We are searching for the anonymous painter who has turned the tagged cinema at Bruennengut white again. We would like to thank him personally.
more
2011-03-25
Move for Life lorries will parade the Champs Elysées in Paris on March 30th
The trucks of Move for Life, the mobile art intervention against poverty, aids, violence, racism and environmental destruction by Littmann Kulturprojecte, will show up at the Champs Elysées in Paris at 1 p.m. on March 30th. more
2011-03-24
Move for Life shows new works by Damien Deroubaix, Isabel Muñoz, Mark Titchner and Ben Vautier
New trucks intervened by the artists Damien Deroubaix (FR), Isabel Muñoz (ES), Mark Titchner (UK) and Ben Vautier (FR) join Move for Life, the mobile art intervention against poverty, aids, violence, racism and environmental destruction by Littmann Kuturprojecte. more
2011-03-04
REAL FICTION CINEMA - 10'000th visitor
Only five weeks (4 weeks in Zurich, 1 week in Berne) and already 10'000 visitors! more
2011-02-28
REAL FICTION CINEMA - 1,500 visitors on opening weekend
Real Fiction Cinema opened its doors in Berne on February 25th. Almost 1'500 (1'474) interested visitors who watched their very personal movies were counted on the opening weekend. more
2011-02-17
MOVE FOR LIFE will be shown at the Grand Palais in Paris in March 2011
MOVE FOR LIFE, the mobile art intervention against poverty, aids, violence, racism and environmental destruction created and developed by LITTMANN KULTURPROJECTE, will be shown at the Grand Palais in Paris on the occasion of the contemporary art fair Art Paris.
more
2011-02-15
REAL FICTION CINEMA - In Bern from 25 February to 27 March 2011
The cinemas can be visited free of charge in Bern for one month at Grosse Schanze as well as at the Gaswerkareal (former gasworks) and the Brünnengut park.
Each of these "location shots" is unique. more
2010-12-17
REAL FICTION CINEMA - Zürich's new Blockbuster
The first act of Real Fiction Cinema from November 18th until December 16th 2010 in Zurich, at the three locations Swiss National Museum, Turbinenplatz and Rote Fabrik, was visited by almost 8'000 visitors. more
2010-11-17
REAL FICTION CINEMA - Premiere
On the evening of 17 November, the Swiss National Museum and Littmann Kulturprojekte extended an invitation to the REAL FICTION CINEMA premiere. more
2010-06-30
Thomas Virnich: „Fliegende Katakomben“
Littmann Cultural Projects is inaugurating the new Projektraum 455a venue provided by Trudie Götz at the "Wöschi" – a former laundry complex in Zurich-Wollishofen – with the installation "Fliegende Katakomben" (Flying Catacombs). The exhibition will open to the public on 6 July and continue until 14 August 2010. more
2010-05-25
CHAMBER MUSIC A temporary Cabinet of Art and Curiosities by Littmann Kulturprojekte
For the period from 19 May to 20 June 2010, Littmann Kulturprojekte is installing a temporary Cabinet of Art and Curiosities (Kunst- und Wunderkammer) in the basement of Kirschgartenstrasse 5 in Basel. The display comprises various old and new artefacts as well as precious and mysterious works by anonymous artists of international repute. Visitors can look forward to a spectacular mix of surprises and contrasts. more
2010-01-30
Exhibition: Rodtchenko Photography in the Gallery Beyeler, Basel 2010
After the first successful presentation of the exhibition Rodtchenko Photographer in Madrid, produced and curated by Littmann Kulturprojekte, Gallery Beyeler now shows his work from 02.02. - 30.04.2010 exclusively in Switzerland. more
2009-12-12
Gastbeitrag für die Basler Zeitung
Am 12. Dezember 2009 erschien in der Basler Zeitung dieser Gastbeitrag von Klaus Littmann in der Reihe: Welche Kultur braucht Basel? Diese Frage hat die Zeitung einigen Persönlichkeiten gestellt, die Basel gut kennen, aber nicht direkt am Subventionshahn der Stadt hängen. more
2009-10-22
Exhibition "Alexander Rodchenko, Photographer", Madrid 2009
Littmann Kulturprojekte presents: Alexander Rodchenko, Photographer. An exhibition in the Fundacion Canal, Madrid from October 22nd 2009 - January 3rd 2010. more
2009-09-01
Book tip/New publication: Textile Architecture
With samples of realized projects by Littmann Kulturprojekte. more
2008-03-21
Citysky, Basel 2008
Citysky creates new urban spaces and horizons in public spaces. The translucent street images will turn the firmament over Basel into an exciting world of experience that bathes inhabitants and visitors alike in brightly coloured and surprising worlds of art and artistry. more
