Artist Artist
Project Project
No Center
On the occasion of CAN’s 30th anniversary, No Center introduces a self-critical dimension, questioning the very functioning of the art centre.
The exhibition foregrounds the principle of decentering, opening a space in which the loss of control becomes a source of inspiration and where artists’ voices take precedence. It takes the form of around twenty proposals, initiatives, and interventions that conceive of the art centre as a place for living, experimentation, production, artistic display, and conviviality.
Marked by a series of events and public meals held every Thursday, No Center creates opportunities for meaningful encounters between visitors and artists, encouraging dialogue and exchange around contemporary artistic practices. It is a way of sharing CAN’s collective memory while imagining its future possibilities.
Opening, Friday 03.10.25, 6pm
Colin Raynal, Lecture de mon journal des vernissages au CAN
Davide-Christelle Sanvee, Salle noire
Sami Galbi, concert
BByoda & Nelly Hello, after party
Guided tour by the curatorial team
Saturday, October 18, 2025, 2pm
Event, Saturday 01.11.25, 2–6pm
La Bibliothèque des Ready-Mades, permanence, 2-6pm
la vie gagnée, Présentation Performée de Publications, 3pm
Junee, concert, 4.30pm
Evening, Pupilles roses coeurs, Saturday 01.11.25, 7.30–10pm
Stéphanie Rosianu, Rose épines, reading
Oscar M. Damianaki, Ur Pupils R Nothing But Ur Pupils, dance
Digital Heartbreak, tech-pop concert
Guided tour by the curatorial team
Saturday, November 22, 2025, 2pm
Closing, Friday 19.12.25, 6pm
Mathias C Pfund & Sarah Wéry, One More Last Time, performance, 8pm
Strotter Inst. invited by Chri Frautschi, concert, 8.30pm
Evasure, after party, Mouchaille, Bin, ZK (DJ sets), Parasol collective (VJ), 9.30pm
Lunch (open price), every Thursday, 12am
Registration by email: info@can.ch
Throughout the exhibition, visitors are invited to contribute to La Bibliothèque des Ready-Mades by donating an object to be recycled and recontextualized in an art collection.
Donations can be dropped off at CAN during opening hours, or preferably during the opening reception on October 3, the event on November 1, or the closing reception on December 19.
During the opening hours of the exhibition “No Center”,
“à portée de main” by Bureaucracy Studies displays
artworks and documents by:
• Florian Bonny, Charlie Froud
• CASE (Nicholas Tammens, Sung Tieu, Studio for Propositional Cinema)
• Kyung Roh Bannwart, Sung Tieu, Ernie Wang
• Musée Ariana Genève, L’Atelier des musées (Ville de Neuchâtel)
With the support of: Ville de Neuchâtel, République and Canton de Neuchâtel, Loterie Romande, Fondation Philanthropique Famille Sandoz, Fondation Ernst & Olga Gubler-Hablützel, Fondation culturelle de la Banque Cantonale Neuchâteloise, Fondation Casino de Neuchâtel, Département de la culture du Canton de Bâle-Ville, Österreichisches Kulturforum Bern and Pro Helvetia, Fondation suisse pour la culture.
CAN team
Martin Jakob, Sylvie Linder, Nicolas Raufaste, Liza Trottet, Sebastian Verdon