Nuit des Bains presents an evening when the city’s contemporary art circuit opens as a collective exhibition.
Emerging and established local and international artists activate spaces with installations, performances, painting, photography, and video, offering a multifaceted survey of contemporary practices. The event emphasizes encounter and public imagination, revealing tensions between intimacy and urban spectacle, and questioning how art inhabits shared environments.
This exhibition explores the careers of Édouard Naville, Switzerland’s pioneering Egyptologist, and his wife Marguerite Naville, whose contributions alongside him are now recognised in their own right. Through archival documents, excavation records and pharaonic objects, the presentation illuminates their archaeological practice and Marguerite’s role, while situating their work within the political, religious and humanitarian commitments that shaped scholarly life at the turn of the twentieth century.
In French and in English.
Ianne Kenfack Kitio continues her inquiry into representations of Black femininity and the construction of identity. In this photographic work, produced as a cyanotype, she treats the image as a space of transformation rather than a fixed depiction. The piece links material and concept: its blue evokes Ndop indigo textiles of the Grassfields and the artist’s Bamiléké heritage, while the cyanotype’s gradual emergence mirrors identity as an ongoing process of thresholds and metamorphosis.
Opening: 3 September, 18:00
Ten selected artists and designers present new projects supported by the BLCG grants for young contemporary creation. The programme awards two CHF 10,000 bursaries for artists under 35 and provides each exhibiting artist a CHF 3,000 production allowance.
Works include installation, sculpture, photography and design-based practices that interrogate cultural and professional conditions of artistic labour, creative development and public recognition.
Projects by Marine Aebischer, Yann Stéphane Bisso, Behzad Dehno, Victoria Jospin, Camille Kaiser, Nicolas Ponce, Valentin Rilliet, Sabrina Smaili, Mina Squalli-Houssaïni and Xavier Weber.
Opening and announcement of the winners on Tuesday, September 1st, 18:00
Maliza Kiasuwa and Gavin Goodman present a black-and-white duo exploring emergence, connection and material memory.
Kiasuwa’s “Rhizomes” comprises sculptures of rope and woven elements that evoke roots and organic networks, invoking Deleuzean rhizomes to probe multiplicity, transformation and fragile relational structures.
Goodman’s “Vela” consists of photographic, hand‑painted works that reinterpret traditional garments through minimalist restraint, allowing motifs of appearance and becoming to surface.
Together the projects juxtapose sculptural tactility and photographic restraint to question how tradition and form reappear in contemporary practice.
Closing event: Wednesday 9 September, 18:00
La Fonte is a cultural space located in the Halles de la Fonderie in Carouge. These former workshops, made available by the City of Carouge, host a variety of community and cultural activities each year, including a refreshment area, concerts, artist residencies, workshops, and exhibition and lecture series. The eponymous collective is responsible for programming and organizing these events.
An extensive survey assembled from a long-standing research collection devoted to glass, this exhibition takes a contemporary look at a millennia-old material. Over two hundred glass and mixed-media works, including sculptural objects, design pieces and installations, testify to a transdisciplinary experimental spirit. Featuring artists such as Ettore Sottsass, Pierre Charpin, Betty Woodman, Bob Wilson, Giuseppe Penone, Jana Sterbak and James Lee Byars, the show examines materiality, technique and the porous boundaries between craft, design and contemporary art.
Opening : Thursday 23 April, 18:00
Guided Tours (in French)
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