Unfamiliar, Luminous, Remote marks Amit Berman’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, following an artist residency in Switzerland earlier this year. Bringing together a new body of paintings, the exhibition explores intimacy, memory and vulnerability through expressive gestures, visible layers of paint and atmospheric compositions. Moving between quiet domestic interiors, fragments of landscape and solitary figures, Berman’s works reflect on the fragile space between familiarity and estrangement, connection and withdrawal.
Created against a backdrop of war and emotional precarity, these intimate yet unsettled paintings reveal a persistent search for connection and belonging within an unstable reality.
Opening: Thursday 17 September, 18:00
Talk: Sunday 20 September, 14:30-15:30 with curator Danniel Tostes and Amit Berman.
Hyacinthe Ravet, professor of sociomusicology at Sorbonne University’s Faculty of Letters and researcher at the Institut de Recherche en Musicologie, presents “What Is an Orchestra? Sociomusicological Enquiries.” Drawing on thirty years of field research inside orchestras, she examines individual career paths, the processes that produce collective cohesion, and the identity of the ensemble. The lecture offers analytical perspectives on authority, collaboration and musical practice within orchestral life.
In French.
This event explores monetary policy in the Euro Area, examining the European Central Bank’s role, the challenges facing policymakers, and the key economic factors shaping interest rate decisions and price stability.
In English.
John M Armleder presents an interchange-based exhibition that foregrounds objects drawn from students’ suitcases. Through object-based works and subtle interventions, the show probes modes of observation, intimacy and collective memory. Personal belongings are rearranged as visual prompts that evoke histories, pedagogy and everyday cinematics. The artist’s restrained interventions invite reflection on how small domestic items circulate meanings and facilitate encounters, revealing how private narratives surface within a communal field of attention.
Philippe Charlier, forensic physician, anthropologist and director of research, presents an investigation into the circulating metaphysics of spirits in the vodun of Benin and the voodoo traditions of Haiti. Following the avenging deity Heviosso, the egungun dances of Benin and the flight of spirits associated with zombi phenomena in Haiti, he examines rituals that position these entities as intermediaries between the living, the souls and the ancestors.
In French.
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
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