Join a lively family visit to explore a playful corner of the museum’s collections. Meet Vany on her seventh birthday and listen to her wishes come alive through a short story and music from the collection. Look closely at colorful objects in the temporary exhibition, hear musical sounds, and ask questions. Activities spark curiosity, imagination, and listening skills as children discover stories hidden in objects and sounds.
In French. Kids ages 5 and up.
Traces of Presence gathers artists whose practices examine what remains beyond immediate visibility. Through painting, photography, abstraction and material transformation, the show explores presence as memory carried through matter, process and perception. Roxana Bergt reworks still-life into vessels of memory and resilience; José Yaruro reinterprets classical forms; Marie Deforche paints quiet moments of solitude. Luca Mancone repurposes receipts and thermal paper; Eilena Braye converts microscopic structures into vivid abstraction; Justyna Maria Porowska and Didier Van der Borght negotiate geometry, surface and imagined silhouettes.
Opening: Thursday 11 June, 18:00-20:00
This spring, Villa Bernasconi hosts Helvetropicos, a platform that brings together Switzerland-based artists with strong ties to Latin America. The exhibition explores hybrid identities and contemporary forms of cultural mixing through diverse works—installations, sculptures, paintings, and more—inviting visitors to rethink how reality is shaped and experienced.
Opening : Tuesday 5 May, 18:00 – 21:00
May 1972 is an exhibition dedicated to Salvatore Emblema (Naples, 1929–2006), bringing together works produced between the late 1960s and the early 1980s. Across paintings, sculptures and installations, Emblema refines a conceptual language that interrogates materiality, form and temporality. The presentation highlights his experimental use of found materials, assemblage and reductive gestures, situating these works within postwar Italian avant‑garde practices and the artist’s evolving exploration of spatial and epistemic limits.
Crossings brings together Swiss artist Maria Ceppi and Japanese artist Tami Ichino in a poetic dialogue exploring memory, transformation, and the hidden resonance of everyday forms. Through sculpture, painting, and assemblage, the artists reinterpret familiar materials and natural elements into evocative compositions that move between abstraction and recognition. Blending intuition, symbolism, and material experimentation, the exhibition creates immersive spaces where personal narratives intersect with broader reflections on nature, coexistence, perception, and the shifting relationship between humanity and the world around us. Hosted by GOWEN Contemporary, Crossings invites viewers into a contemplative journey where objects, landscapes, and emotions continuously evolve across forms, meanings, and states of being.
Momar Seck presents a series of drawings that accompany his new monograph Poïétiques. Through delicate studies of foliage, roots, textures and organic forms, Seck explores the invisible links between matter, nature and emotion. His sensitive visual language oscillates between close observation and inner poetics, inviting the viewer to slow down and perceive the subtle traces left by time, the earth and the breath of life. The show establishes a dialogue between image and writing.
Opening and book signing on 11 June at 18:30.
Five Mini Shows presents distinct exhibitions across separate rooms, bringing together major figures of Australian Aboriginal painting alongside contemporary painting, installation, drawing and sculpture. Works by Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori and Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi sit next to new and historical painting by John Armleder, expansive installations by Chiharu Shiota, sculptural interventions by Balint Zsako and drawing-based work by Rachel Marks. The programme explores materiality, relational display and dialogues between indigenous traditions and contemporary abstraction.
Opening: Thursday 21 May, 18:00
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