Located in the heart of Geneva’s Old Town, the Barbier-Mueller Museum preserves, exhibits, and studies a collection of artworks of immense variety. Today, it comprises several thousand works spanning from antiquity to the present day and includes objects from every continent. Every six months, the Barbier-Mueller Museum offers new presentations of its collections and temporary exhibitions. The museum regularly invites contemporary artists to interpret the works in its collections and rethink the layout of the galleries, thereby shifting our understanding of the exhibited works over time. Lectures, talks, readings, and performances complement this exhibition program.
Pleasing the Spirits invites you on a journey through the Barbier-Mueller Collection, showcasing artworks from around the globe. Curated by Séverine Fromaigeat and Paul Maheke, the exhibition offers an open-ended exploration of diverse objects, awakening spirits and uncovering territories to discover.
Guided tour : Sunday 26 April, 14:30 (in English)
Philippe Charlier, forensic pathologist and anthropologist specializing in funerary rituals and beliefs about death, is director of research at the Musée du quai Branly. He has conducted extensive fieldwork in Africa and the Caribbean, combining forensic science and ethnography.
This lecture examines the spirits of voodoo in Benin and Haiti, following the justiciar deity Heviosso, the dances of the egungun and the phenomenon of zombis to explore a circulating metaphysics where gestures, illnesses and deaths are never merely accidental.
In French.
Culture, curated weekly.
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