WORDS BREATHE ART by Swatch Art Peace Hotel
Thu 28 Aug
|Biel
On the occasion of Arty Show Biel/Bienne 2025, the Swatch Art Peace Hotel proudly presents Words Breathe Art, a project by Swiss painter Philip Royce Earnhart and Austrian writer Roland Schwarz.
Time & Location
28 Aug 2025, 17:00 – 21 Sept 2025, 01:30
Biel, General-Dufour-Strasse 26, 2502 Biel, Switzerland
About the event
OPENING HOURS: Wed-Sat, 14:00-18:00
VERNISSAGE: Thursday 28.08.25 17.00 feat. the artists, a DJ-Set and open bar
FINISSAGE: Saturday 20.09.25 19.00 feat. NAVENI JAM, DJ Phrase & open bar
On the occasion of Arty Show Biel/Bienne 2025, the Swatch Art Peace Hotel proudly presents Words Breathe Art, a project by Swiss painter Philip Royce Earnhart and Austrian writer Roland Schwarz.
In autumn 2024, Philip Royce Earnhart and Roland Schwarz met in Shanghai, both working as artists-in-residence at the Swatch Art Peace Hotel. Roland was in the process of collecting life-changing book anecdotes from people in Shanghai, while Philip was seeking enchanting stories to translate onto canvas. The result of this exchange is Words Breathe Art: ten stories about people whose lives were given a new direction by a particular book, visually interpreted.
The project is a celebration of collaboration: it highlights the transformative power of language when it becomes a shared…