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KRONE COURONNE is a space for contemporary art in Biel/Bienne.

KRONE COURONNE is dedicated to supporting the local art scene while nurturing a dialogue between artists and cultural practitioners from all corners of Switzerland –– and beyond.

19/03/2026

CHAOTIC ARRANGEMENT
Axel Crettenand
6.–21.3.2026
Stadtkirche Biel/Bienne
Proposed by KRONE COURONNE

As part of the Carte Blanche taking place annually at the Reformierte Kirchgemeinde in Biel/Bienne, KRONE COURONNE invited artist Axel Crettenand .crettenand to present a new version of his apparatus “Chaotic Arrangement”.

This installation interweaves science with a renewed form of spirituality. Through catalytic and thermal processes, the liquid contained within a device transforms information into sound—a choir of voices emerging from an undefined liminal space. Enhanced by the church’s vault, “Chaotic Arrangement” resonates like a mantra throughout the opening hours.

Carte Blanche is an initiative of the Reformed City Church of Biel offering artists a unique space for expression.

FINISSAGE
Sa, 21.3.2026, 11:00
Performance with Axel Crettenand and the organist

OPEN EVERYDAY
11:00–17:00

Reformierte Kirchgemeinde Biel
Stadtkirche, Ring 2
2502 Biel/Bienne

26/02/2026

CHAOTIC ARRANGEMENT
Axel Crettenand
6.–21.3.2026
Stadtkirche Biel/Bienne
Proposed by KRONE COURONNE

As part of the Carte Blanche taking place annually at the Reformierte Kirchgemeinde in Biel/Bienne, KRONE COURONNE invites artist Axel Crettenand .crettenand to present a new version of his apparatus “Chaotic Arrangement”.

This installation interweaves science with a renewed form of spirituality. Through catalytic and thermal processes, the liquid contained within a device transforms information into sound—a choir of voices emerging from an undefined liminal space. Enhanced by the church’s vault, “Chaotic Arrangement” resonates like a mantra throughout the opening hours.

Carte Blanche is an initiative of the Reformed City Church of Biel offering artists a unique space for expression > https://carte-blanche.art/

Reformierte Kirchgemeinde Biel
Stadtkirche, Ring 2
2502 Biel/Bienne

VERNISSAGE
Fr, 6.3.2026, 18:00

GOTTESDIENST ZUR KUNST-INSTALLATION
Sun, 8.3.2026, 10:00

FINISSAGE Performance
Sa, 21.3.2026, 11:00

OPEN EVERYDAY
11:00–19:00
(except Wed 11.3.2026, 15:00-17:00)

20/02/2026

Last December 2025, we closed our Biel/Bienne chapter, and yesterday we returned the keys 🔑🧡

We feel blessed by our beautiful team, collaborators and all the artists who have worked with us during our 5-year programme, and the community that formed and supported us throughout the years.

KRONE COURONNE continues as a nomadic platform and offers funding and production support to cultural workers. Through punctual exhibitions and events, we will continue our mission to foster an exchange between the different linguistic landscapes of the Swiss contemporary art scene.

Onwards and upwards. Stay tuned.

Image: Kristina, Max, Camille, Mina, 2025. Photi: Séraphine Sallin-Mason

18/02/2026

Throwback to

FINAL ACT II
Sa, 13.12.205

For the closing of our Biel/Bienne chapter in Obergasse 1, we hosted a listening session by Geo (Basel) in the backroom SOMA and a performance by Mads Bycroft (Marseille).

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18/02/2026

11/02/2026

Throwback to

FINAL ACT II
Sa, 13.12.205

SOMA was hosting the oral publishing house hhhhh for a series of publications on its listening platform. For the third and last edition, hhhhh invited artist Bruta

Bruta presented a variation of «Ce que j’avais à te dire (O que eu tinha a te dizer)», a monologue performed and recorded in São Paulo during her residency at Casa Líquida. By remaining bodily absent at KRONE COURONNE, she anchors the work around a voice shaped by spontaneous speech, by transcription and reinterpretation, in which different times and bodies overlap.

About hhhhh
hhhhh is a fugitive publishing house rethinking textual publication through orality: no printed matter, but forms inhabiting time and space, stories shared in the opacity of the spoken word, transforming the publishing house into a space for encounter and radical listening.

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09/12/2025

FINISSAGE – FINAL ACT II
SA, 13.12.2025, , 11:00 – 00:00

KRONE COURONNE is closing its Biel/Bienne chapter. We are grateful to all the artists we have worked with over these past 5 years and to the supportive community that welcomed us in Biel/Bienne with open arms! KRONE COURONNE will continue as a nomadic platform that cultivates an exchange between the different linguistic landscapes of the Swiss contemporary art scene.
Come celebrate with us one last time!

For the finissage, SOMA will host Bruta (Marseille), invited by hhhhh publishing house, followed by a listening session by Geo (Basel) and a performance by Mads Bycroft (Marseille).

11:00-16:00 Opening hours
Book Launch SOMA: Listening Sessions, , 2025 16:30 Listening x Bruta (Marseille) 17:00 Listening Geo (Basel)  Vernissage Cantonale at Kunsthaus Biel/Centre d’art Bienne (KBCB)
21:00 Performance Mads Bycroft (Marseille)  22:00 Karaoke GRAND FINALE

31.10. – 13.12.2025

FRONTROOM POGO NEL BRODO: Rebecca Solari  .sola.trudi   BACKROOM SOMA8: LABOUR (Farahnaz Hatam and Colin Hacklander) .labour

FOYER Mads Bycroft

OPENING HOURS THU/FR, 15:00-18:00 SA, 11:00-18:00

Graphics: Alice Moor

04/12/2025

BACKROOM SOMA8: LABOUR (Farahnaz Hatam and Colin Hacklander) 31.10. – 13.12.2025  LABOUR’s contribution to SOMA—“heteronomy is the condition of all things”—explores processes of sonic definition and memory through evolving alternations of electronic material. A self-synthesized “siren” sound forms the core, undergoing numerous transformations within the synthesis instrument New Pulsar Generator. Expanding into a wider listening journey, the work continues LABOUR’s investigation into how external forces shape our sense of self.

LABOUR is the collaborative project of Farahnaz Hatam and Colin Hacklander, whose works centre on the transformative potential of sound.
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SAVE THE DATE FOR: FINAL ACT II SA, 13.12.2025

OPENING HOURS THU/FR, 15:00-18:00 SA, 11:00-18:00

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03/12/2025

FRONTROOM POGO NEL BRODO: Rebecca Solari 31.10. – 13.12.2025  In POGO NEL BRODO, Biel-based Ticino-born artist Rebecca Solari drops a moshpit in a soup. In the in-situ installation at KRONE COURONNE, the figurative broth simmers, neutrality burns to bitterness; and silence crusts to salt. .sola.trudi

“The soup still steams — alive, vibrating. Violette then understands the legend: the lightning-struck lovers did not die — they were revealed. It was the discovery of an inner fire, ready to devour generations of silence. She lifts the scalding bowl to her lips, and drinks.
Scccrrrtch. Scccrrrtch. Scccrrrtch. It’s Ormeo, scraping at the walls of her heart.  Her aorta swells, her blood races. Orm’ moves swiftly, flooding every cell in her body with electric life. The soup is acid and alive. It burns — but it does not destroy. It illuminates.“ — Text excerpt by .collective / .mour & vancmll

SAVE THE DATE FINISSAGE
SA, 13.12.2025 – FINAL ACTS II
with x / and Geo

OPENING HOURS THU/FR, 15:00-18:00 SA, 11:00-18:00

Photos: Michal Florence Schorro

Adresse

Rue Haute 1
Biel/Bienne
2505

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http://kronecouronne.ch/

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