Douglas Mandry is a Swiss artist based in Zurich and a graduate of ECAL in Lausanne. His interdisciplinary practice explores the relationship between humans and the natural world through collaborations with science, archaeology, and technology. Working across various media, he develops an experimental approach to materials and transformation. His work has been exhibited at institutions including Victoria and Albert Museum and Foam Amsterdam.
Opening: Thursday 21 May, 18:00
Dream Up brings together modern, post‑war and contemporary works that materialize imagination, memory, fantasy and inner vision across painting, sculpture and mixed media. The presentation juxtaposes iconic figures—Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Willem de Kooning, Jean Dubuffet, Roy Lichtenstein, Yayoi Kusama, Niki de Saint Phalle, Tom Wesselmann, Manolo Valdés and Jaume Plensa—with contemporary voices including Andy Denzler, Fred Eerdekens and Feng Xiao‑Min. New works created for the occasion converse with historical pieces to generate poetic, visually intense dialogues.
Ulises Lozano presents a body of mixed‑technique works that explore surface, materiality and narrative. The exhibition gathers illustrations and experimental compositions that combine drawing, collage and painterly gestures to interrogate memory, identity and urban experience. Lozano’s practice foregrounds texture and layered imagery, inviting close looking at the interplay between figuration and abstraction. The presentation also references the artist’s recent book HIGHLINE and the graphic sensibility that informs his studio work.
Opening: 12 May, 18:00
At the heart of sacred earth, Jean-Marie Borgeaud’s exhibition explores the profound relationship between the human body, spirituality, and raw material. Through powerful ceramic sculptures and organic forms shaped by fire, smoke, and clay, the artist reveals a world suspended between fragility and strength, life and transformation. Deeply inspired by the human condition and the elemental force of matter, Borgeaud’s work invites viewers into an intimate, almost ritual encounter with the earth, where scars, textures, and imperfections become traces of memory and existence.
Opening: 7 May, 17:30
Carlos Schwabe’s retrospective traces the symbolism and pictorial imagination that defined his practice. Trained in Geneva, Schwabe is celebrated for evocative book illustrations and ambitious pictorial compositions that blend allegory, myth and musical ideas. The exhibition presents paintings, illustrations and preparatory drawings drawn from public and private Swiss and French collections, exploring technique, materiality and the spiritual and literary currents that shaped his visual language around the turn of the twentieth century.
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.
PIPAS is a biennale that acts like a cultural laboratory, rethinking hospitality, reception and the politics of welcome through editorial and visual projects. This edition frames encounters, essays and artist-led formats into a playful, thought-provoking experience that privileges curiosity over explanations. Expect layered narratives, unexpected juxtapositions and a spirited atmosphere where ideas circulate freely. The presentation page emphasises the biennale’s conceptual approach and banner imagery rather than programmatic details.
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