British artist Cornelia Parker is renowned for transforming everyday objects through destruction and alteration, exploring the physical, cultural, and emotional life of materials. Her new exhibition Colour Problems at Wilde Gallery continues this exploration, presenting works that question material transformation, history, and perception while revealing the hidden potential in the ordinary.
Opening during the Nuit des Bains, Thursday 22 January, from 18:00
The MAH showcases Tonutopie, an innovative installation by German artist Hans-Walter Müller, a trailblazer in inflatable structures. This large, transparent, and habitable sphere, nestled within Vincent Lamouroux’s La Passerelle, offers a unique sensory experience. It delves into the contrasts between the fluidity of inflatable structures and the rigidity of traditional architecture, providing visitors with a fresh perspective on space.
As part of Art Genève / Art Talks, this round table brings together leading voices in digital and new media art. Marie du Chastel (Artistic Director, Pavilion & KIKK Festival, Namur), Lucia Garcia (Director, IMAL, Brussels), Fanny Dupé (Director, Mapping Festival, Geneva), and Anthony Masure (Associate Professor & Head of Research, HEAD–Geneva) discuss current trends, creative approaches, and the evolving aesthetics of digital arts. The conference is organized by Wallonia-Brussels in Geneva – Permanent Representation of Belgium to the UN.
In French.
Swiss artist Grégory Sugnaux presents a body of paintings that stage ambiguous, often hybrid figures—part human, part animal, serial androids and distorted, sometimes monstrous bodies. Combining grotesque allusion with ironic self-reflection, he mixes genres and pictorial techniques to render surfaces alternately smooth and vibrating, fracturing legibility.
A composed soundtrack threads through the installation, amplifying the exhibition’s uneasy pulsation. The works negotiate a fragile balance between fascination and self-critique, revealing vulnerability beneath playful, unsettling imagery.
Artist Josèfa Ntjam presents A Constellation of Blackness, a hypnotic 33-minute sound-performance that weaves spoken word and instrumental improvisation. Situated within the Anti-Nymphs program, the piece reimagines Greco‑Roman myth through feminist and Afrofuturist lenses, collaging sampled fragments of twentieth-century Black voices. Ntjam invokes African mythology, ancestral rites, religious symbolism and science fiction to explore Blackness, darkness, antimatter and the sense of cosmic kinship, creating a dense, ritualised atmosphere that is both lyrical and confrontational.
Adrien Mondot and Claire Bardainne present an interactive exhibition that blends visual and performing arts, placing the body at the heart of image-making. Combining handcrafted objects with digital devices, the duo uses augmented reality and holography to propose a form of digital animism: apparently motionless stones and objects reveal hidden life through poetic scenarios. The series ‘Le Silence des pierres’ pays homage to the agency and intimacy of life lodged in inert matter.
John M. Armleder presents Encore(s), a display of his ancillary productions assembled in a space that mixes shop, domestic interior and tea-room. For over fifty years Armleder has developed a practice where art lives in relation to space, encounters and everyday life, blurring borders between artwork and decor, exhibition and situation. The project gathers objects, editions and collaborative creations — clothing, accessories, furniture and tableware — that transform use into sign. Most pieces are offered for sale, underscoring circulation and experimentation within his oeuvre.
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