Les Complices* 

Anwandstrasse 9
CH–8004 Zurich

Email:
info@lescomplices.ch

Instagram:
lescomplices_zh

Website:
www.lescomplices.ch

Public transport
Tram Nr. 8: Helvetiaplatz
Tram Nr. 2, 3: Bezirksgebäude
Bus 31: Helvetiaplatz

Come visit!

We are welcoming new members to join our Association!
We are so excited to have you join us!

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Les Complices* is a self organised space and production office located in Zurich. Exhibitions, projects and events initiated and hosted by Les Complices* are situated in and between the fields of contemporary arts, theatre and film, critical theory and activist practice. Beside the more longterm activities a dense program of discussions, workshops, performances, publication presentations, talks and film screenings intends to extend the space for exchange, discourse and experimentation.

As part of the ongoing activities Les Complices* produces or co-produces larger exhibition, publication or film projects, as well as performative stagings, in close collaboration with the involved artists and other self organised spaces, institutions or groups and sometimes initiates working groups.

Les Complices*s activities are rooted in an understanding of culture that critically engages in social and political issues and considers both content and aesthetics inseparable aspects of its practice.


Space / People / Structure

Les Complices* is an association founded in October 2002. From 2007 - 2014 Andrea Thal run the space. From 2015 to 2017 Gökçe Ergör and Martina Baldinger run the space. Since 2018 Gökçe Ergör and Reem Kadhum aka the Janitor is responsible for the program.

In 2023, a new curatorial team continues the space in the hands and hearts of Kay Zhang, Paloma Ayala, Thi My Lien Nguyen, Engy Mohsen, tracy september and Trinity Njume-Ebong.

The space and office are located on the ground floor of a housing association building on Anwandstrasse 9 in Zurichs' Kreis 4 district.

Publications

Between 2008 and 2011 Les Complices* published a series of newspaper based publications in collaboration with the Zurich based publishing house edition fink. The publisher is also a close partner of the space for numerous other publication project.


Graphic Design

Close and long term collaborations with graphic designers are an important element of Les Complices*. The 2015 Les Complices* program posters are designed by Nadja Zimmermann. In the past years posters, fanzines and brochures have been designed by Caro Cerbaro and Roger Conscience (2013), Anna Frei (2010 – 2012), Philippe Desarzens (2007 – 2009), Marie Lusa and Urs Lehni (2004 – 2005), as well as various other accomplices. If you would like to receive the printed Les Complices* programs by Mail, please check the Complicard options in the right column.



Website

The current Les Complices* website was developed in close collaboration with Erica Preli, participant at Werkplaats Typografie / ArtEZ Institute of the Arts (Concept / Design) and Thijs Gadiot (Programming).

Alongside information about the ongoing and upcoming program the website contains a "recollect" section that allows visitors to search and discover a vast archive of material indexed under a variety of search terms and listings. The new website assembles pages with information on events, exhibitions and projects from the past ten years of Les Complices*. Besides text material, each entry now contains images in a considerably larger size, as well as relevant links and downloads. Exhibitions and events as well information on the structure of Les Complices* from 2002 – 2006 are collected on the respective year lists. An additional search function allows text searches in these pages as well as throughout the site. All pages are in the language originally written (mostly German) and, if available, translations can be accessed through the language menu on the top left of the text field. The website also now contains "context" pages which are intended as a tool to collect material for ongoing research. In the future, the launch of such a page will be announced by a mail-out. 

This new website marks the ten year anniversary of Les Complices* and was released in late August 2013. The project was realised with the support of Fachstelle Kultur Kanton Zürich and Stadt Zürich Kultur. 

A previous website, designed by A.W. the illegitimate daughter of Jackie Chan, was online from 2003 until summer 2013.

Support Les Complices* 

Please add the comment "Verein 2023" as well as your post and email address for payments made directly to our PC 87-490740-5 account.

Members

Special thank you to our generous supporters

Aio Frei
Gökçe Ergör
Michelle Akanji
Nina Naidu
Reem Kadhum
Riikka Tauriainen
Raphael Schwere
Stephanie Knobel
tara lasrado
Thea Reifler
Vicky Kiefer
Xenia Meier


Institutional and private Support

Les Complices* is supported in part by public and private funders as well as by contributions made to the association and the people working at the space. All income made go towards the upkeep of the space.

The program for the year 2021 is supported by private donors and club members.

Institutions, initiatives and the names of people supporting specific projects are listed on the respective pages of this website.



Cultural Politics

Together with other self-organised spaces and groups - all affected by the recent changes in founding stuctures under the new law on cultural funding - Les Complices* actively engages in cultural politicals.