27 September – 27 December

Guided Tour: Ferdinand Hodler. Profession de foi

Ferdinand Hodler’s work is reconsidered as a modern spiritual quest in this presentation.
Around fifty paintings, drawings and archival documents trace his evolution from Protestant-inspired religious scenes to Symbolist compositions. Hodler’s visual language foregrounds rhythm, the body and the natural world, seeking unity between human presence and universal form. The works employ oil painting, drawing and graphic materials to evoke contemplative states. Curated by Niklaus Manuel Güdel, the selection highlights the inner, meditative dimension of his practice.

Cour de Saint-Pierre 10,
1204 Geneva
Photo Credit: Ferdinand Hodler, “Was die Blumen sagen”, um 1893, Öl auf Leinwand, 100 x 50 cm, Liestal, Kunsthistorische Sammlung, Archäologie und Museum Baselland, © Serge Hasenböhler
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Photo Credit: Ferdinand Hodler, “Was die Blumen sagen”, um 1893, Öl auf Leinwand, 100 x 50 cm, Liestal, Kunsthistorische Sammlung, Archäologie und Museum Baselland, © Serge Hasenböhler

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17 September – 13 December

Curators Ghalas Charara and Rita Elhajj present the second part of a two‑part exhibition that shapes a liminal space between listening and gesture. Through acts of defunctionalization, duplication, displacement, fragmentation and sabotage, the participating artists generate potentials for action and reclaim rhythmic breaths, steps and voices. Works from the host collection sit alongside invited pieces to evoke survivance, mourning and resistance, where memory becomes an embrace enacted by bodies searching for—sometimes finding—ancestral gestures through repetition, dance and semantic shifts.

Opening: Thursday 17 September, 18:00

19 – 27 September

Capucine Pageron presents a series of miniature ceramic interiors in which a female figure performs everyday gestures. Bedrooms, kitchens and bathrooms freeze familiar actions in intimately scaled scenes that blend matte and glossy textures. Vivid glazes articulate a compact, anachronistic visual language, where domestic habit becomes sculptural tableau. The works foreground material tactility and the quiet choreography of ordinary acts, inviting close attention to form, color and the poetics of domestic space.

Opening: 19 septembre 11:00 – 17:00, in the presence of the artist
Closing: 27 septembre 11:00 – 17:00, in the presence of the artist

1 – 27 September

Ten selected artists and designers present new projects supported by the BLCG grants for young contemporary creation. The programme awards two CHF 10,000 bursaries for artists under 35 and provides each exhibiting artist a CHF 3,000 production allowance.
Works include installation, sculpture, photography and design-based practices that interrogate cultural and professional conditions of artistic labour, creative development and public recognition.
Projects by Marine Aebischer, Yann Stéphane Bisso, Behzad Dehno, Victoria Jospin, Camille Kaiser, Nicolas Ponce, Valentin Rilliet, Sabrina Smaili, Mina Squalli-Houssaïni and Xavier Weber.

Opening and announcement of the winners on Tuesday, September 1st, 18:00

30 July – 31 October

Puissance 5 brings together five women artists from different generations in a dialogue between matter and spirit. Their intersecting trajectories produce works where gravity, metal, graphite and cosmic imagery become recurring motifs. The exhibition presents pieces in metal, pencil and mixed media that interweave tactile presence and poetic restraint, exploring materiality, perception and the enduring force of feminine creation across time and space.

Opening: 16 September, 16:00

27 August – 15 November

Jean-Marc Yersin and Antoine Roth present two photographic projects that probe urban and natural perception.

In Cités délaissées, Yersin composes futuristic images of deserted cities where digital dematerialization, climate strain and demographic decline have hollowed out public life; the photographs evoke frozen infrastructures and virtual withdrawal. Mirages sees Roth using a long-focus digital camera along the shores of Lake Geneva to capture rare atmospheric and optical phenomena—mirages, light and reflections—questioning the materiality of landscape and how perception shapes experience.

Opening: Thursday 27 August, 18:00

18 September – 25 October

Swiss artist Séverin Guelpa presents Rift, a vast immersive installation that shapes a sonic and telluric twilight. The work stages the fault as a porous space of listening, passage and transformation, where subterranean sounds converse with human voices and instrumental resonances. The presentation includes a live sound performance and collaborative vocal interventions with Varoujan Chetirian (sound composition), Antoine Läng (vocals and instrument) and Yvonne Harder (vocals), articulating material, temporal and acoustic relations.

Opening: Friday 18 September, 18:00

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