Switzerland is this year's COUNTRY IN FOCUS at the Reykjavik International Film Festival (RIFF). The festival will screen more than a dozen Swiss films, including Swiss Oscar contender LATE SHIFT by Petra Volpe as well as a short film programme.
To celebrate the Settimana della Lingua Italiane nel Mondo 2025 (the week of Italian Culture), the Embassy of Switzerland in Oslo, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute Oslo, presents the Swiss-Italian feature film “Bon Schuur Ticino” by Peter Luisi.
Saturday, 20.09.2025
– Saturday, 20.09.2025
Concert; Movie
ULTIMA, Oslo’s contemporary music festival shows "There is more to it than Casablanca". Music, film, sound, and conversation across Moroccan times and grounds, featuring Swiss artist-researcher Gilles Aubry.
ULTIMA, Oslo’s contemporary music festival shows "The Question of Knowing", a collaboration between Swiss Ensemble Contrechamps and Norwegian musicians, including a major work by Swiss composer Olga Kokcharova, and the installation Labyrinthic Explanation of Knowledge, co-created by Contrechamps.
ULTIMA, Oslo’s contemporary music festival shows "Labyrinthic Explanation of Knowledge", a sound installation by Ewy Jacobsson and Hilde Marie Holsen, along with recordings by Swiss Ensemble Contrechamps.
ULTIMA, Oslo’s contemporary music festival shows "Liquid Room XII – A Perfect Life", performed among others by the Swiss Ensemble Contrechamps and featuring works by Swiss composer Jessie Cox.
Quiet Tree is a Swiss trio consisting of Simon Spiess (saxophone / reeds), Jonas Ruther (drums) and Marc Méan (piano and synths). Their music is rooted in the rich, mercurial soil of this thing we tend to call jazz. Quiet Tree is performing at various venues in Iceland between 23. and 28.08.2025
Friday, 09.05.2025
– Saturday, 10.05.2025
Public event
La Peau Entre les Doigts is a choreographic dispositivethat experiment in live performance and proposes to instigate questions of positionality, the perceptions of the other, to challenge social identity marks. La Peau Entre Les Doigts performs a physically engaged body dancing, that plays while deviating.
Friday, 02.05.2025
– Sunday, 22.06.2025
Public event
The National Gallery of Iceland will host the Icelandic premiere of the renowned Swiss
American artist Christian Marclay’s masterwork, The Clock, 2010, a 24-hour single-channel video. The exhibition will take place from the 2nd of May 2025 to the 22nd of June 2025 in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Sunday, 30.03.2025
– Sunday, 30.03.2025
Public event
On the occasion of the Francophonie Festival, the Swiss movie "Le Procès du Chien" will be screened at the Cinema Neuf on Sunday 30th of March 2025. The film is being shown in conjunction with the French-language Film Festival that takes place on the 23rd and the 30th of March in Oslo.
Wednesday, 19.03.2025
– Sunday, 30.03.2025
Public event
The Festival de la Francophonie in Oslo will take place from the 19th of March to the 30th of March 2025! Discover a varied programme of Canadian, French, Romanian, Swiss and Tunisian films, literary discussions, Creole tastings as well as concerts across Oslo.
CONCEPT STORE QUARTET is coming to Norway ! The Swiss ensemble from Basel will be performing live on the 7th of February in Bergen and on the 10th of February in Oslo.
Tuesday, 26.11.2024
– Thursday, 28.11.2024
Public event
Showbox, Norway's largest performing arts festival with performances for children and young people, takes place from Tuesday, November 26 to Thursday, November 28, 2024. This year, Showbox is organized for the 19th time. The festival offers a wide range of performances, conversations and discussions about the performing arts, and is open to everyone. The Swiss artist Tabea Martin presents her performance "Forever" in the opening performance of the festival.
