An exhibition devoted to ancient fakes, copies, imitations and falsifications. Drawing on selections from the Ostraca Collection, complemented by cast collection pieces and loans, the display examines the porous boundary between forgery, copy, imitation and authenticity. Interpretive panels, object labels and a slideshow on several notorious forgeries contextualize the works, tracing techniques, materials and historical practices that shaped both deception and scholarly detection.
Béchir Boussandel presents a body of work that unfolds from shadow and the heat of desert palettes. Through paintings, sculptures and delicate bird watercolours populated by anonymous figures, he examines displacement, crossing and survival within North African desert landscapes. The pieces use ochres, reds and material contrast to evoke memory and shifting identities, employing an atmospheric visual language that balances figuration and absence.
Franck Bohbot presents a selection of photographs of heritage libraries that open a space for meditation and reverie around the idea of the library.
Alongside these images, contemporary installations and mirrored arrangements that juxtapose photographs of personal libraries create reflective encounters, while a kaleidoscope of texts centers the theme. The exhibition examines how architecture, collection and personal memory shape our relation to knowledge, evoking nostalgia, curiosity and questions about the library as a social and imagined space.
Opening: 2 September, 18:30
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
Lilian Bourgeat creates hyperrealistic sculptures that magnify everyday objects into monumental forms. Meticulous attention to surface, material and colour transforms benches, rain boots and soda cans into seductive yet unsettling sculptures. By altering scale while preserving recognizable details, his pieces oscillate between functionality and absurdity, displacing the viewer and inviting fresh perceptions of ordinary gestures and urban routines. The work interrogates how familiar objects shape memory, use and the boundaries between the banal and the monumental.
Opening: Thursday 17 September, 18:00
Five thousand years of ideas on paper — and beyond. Manuscripts, first editions, papyri and rare books trace the history of human thought and writing, from ancient civilisations to modern literature. Shakespeare, Goethe and countless other voices meet in Mario Botta’s striking underground museum.
Skateboards belong in museums too. Pulp68 traces skate culture from the 1950s to today through boards, graphics, objects, books, and stories collected over decades. Raw, personal and refreshingly far from the white-cube museum experience.
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