29 January – 12 March

Special Guided Visit: ELLES. Contemporary Australian Indigenous Women Artists

Free, Booking Required

Join Georges Petitjean, curator of of the Opale Foundation’s collection & Bérangère Primat Collection, for an insightful guided tour.

ELLES brings together powerful contemporary Aboriginal women artists whose work bridges ancestral storytelling and modern abstraction. Featuring major figures such as Emily Kam Kngwarray and Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori, alongside artists from the Bérengère Primat Collection / Fondation Opale, the exhibition at the Musée Rath highlights symbolic, vibrant works rooted in land, memory, and spirituality. Between tradition and contemporary expression, these intimate visual cartographies celebrate the deep connection between culture, nature, and creation.

In French. 

Dates: 
Thursday 29 January, 12:30
Thursday 26 February, 12:30
Thursday 12 March, 12:30

Place de Neuve 1,
1204 Genève
Photo Credit: DR
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Photo Credit: DR

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