Halle Nord is a contemporary art space located in the heart of Geneva, within the historic Halles de l’Île building. Dedicated to current artistic practices, it features an open program bringing together emerging and established artists while supporting a wide diversity of creative approaches. Designed as a showcase for the local art scene, it stands out for its “Capsules”—glass display spaces accessible at all times—that make art visible to the public day and night. Both a platform for exhibition and a creative laboratory, Halle Nord plays a key role in Geneva’s cultural landscape.
Artist Hunter Longe presents a sculptural installation exploring temporalities that outlast human experience. Overworked and found materials—shaped by erosion, human interventions and geological forces—form mutable constellations where micro- and macro-temporalities meet. The show stages collaborative works including a sound composition with Janiv Oron and ritual-inflected poems by CAConrad, amplifying poetic and material registers. Longe treats found objects as offerings from deep time, repositioning them to shift our perception of duration and agency.
Opening: Thursday 29 October, 18:00
Swiss artist Caroline Schattling Villeval presents two video works that imperfectly replay and displace recognisable cultural gestures. One figure attempts Britney Spears’ ‘Baby One More Time’ in sign language, while another reconstructs Pipilotti Rist’s ‘Ever Is Over All’ within a digital environment. The installation probes the legibility of images, questions hearing and what remains inaccessible to the senses, and enlists the viewer in an experience of partial perception. Curator: Elise Lammer.
Opening: 29 October, 18:00
Artists Emma Souharce and Lauren Huret present an audiovisual window installation born from a year of collaboration and response to the large wildfires devastating forests in south‑west France and the Basque Country. Combining sound, manipulated recordings and projected imagery, the work stages feverish, delirious visions of apocalyptic birds. The sound score reworks the Basque song Txoria Txori (Hegoak) by Joxean Artze, evoking resistance and memory. Curated by Elise Lammer with institutional support. Curator: Elise Lammer. With the support of Pro Helvetia, the City of Geneva, and the Republic and Canton of Geneva.
Opening: 29 October, 18:00
Curated by Hunter Longe in collaboration with Aio Frei and Janiv Oron, this evening presents layered sonic explorations and live performance interventions that blur composition and improvisation. The three artists deploy field recordings, modular synthesis and extended instrumental techniques to probe textures, resonance and spatial listening. The programme situates the performances within Longe’s ongoing research into perceptual thresholds, offering an immersive, meditative listening experience supported by Guggenheim Foundation and in partnership with Bongo Joe Records.
19:30 Guided tour of the Reality Solvent exhibition at Halle Nord, with artist Hunter Longe present
20:00 Performance evening at Bongo Joe
Monika Emmanuelle Kazi extends her exploration of movable partitions in a new installation that treats architectural panels as porous membranes. The work comprises four movable “walls” that serve both as screens and receptacles, staging a scenography in perpetual transformation. Kazi archives personal and familial narratives within these partitions, allowing gestures and performative interventions to animate shifting configurations. The installation foregrounds material histories and the entanglement of private stories with broader collective trajectories.
Opening: Thursday 17 December, 18:00
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