16 September – 31 January

The New Realism, Act II

Free

This second chapter of Sonia Zannettacci’s exhibition revisits the legacy of Nouveau Réalisme through works by Arman, César, Christo, Dufrêne, Klein, Niki de Saint Phalle, Rotella, Spoerri, Tinguely and Villeglé. Emerging from the consumer city, their practices challenged traditional painting and sculpture by presenting the object itself. The exhibition reflects on appropriation, accumulation and transformation, following Pierre Restany’s idea of a poetic recycling of urban, industrial and advertising reality.

Rue Henri-Fazy 4,
Switzerland

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Photo Credit: CÉSAR | Mobylette compressée, 1970 | 45 x 63 x 16 cm

8 October – 21 November

Thomas Fougeirol

Art & Exhibits

Galerie Sébastien Bertrand

Thomas Fougeirol’s first solo exhibition investigates painting as an uncertain field between surface and relief, image and matter. Through a sequence of repaints layered over earlier Dust Paintings, Fougeirol activates texture, pigment and gesture to blur pictorial depth and sculptural presence. The show foregrounds material encounter and process-led decisions, emphasising modulation of light, density and sedimented histories within oil-and-pigment canvases that oscillate between representation and objecthood.

Opening: Wednesday 7 October

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17 September – 31 October

Lilian Bourgeat

Art & Exhibits

Galerie lange+pult

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

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16 September – 31 October

Antoni Tàpies – Variations on a Musical Theme

Art & Exhibits

L'Exemplaire

Antoni Tàpies presents the complete series “Variations on a Musical Theme”, twenty lithographs created in 1987. The suite reveals Tàpies’s fascination with the interplay between visual art and music: each variation establishes its own rhythm, material presence and visual language. Treated as a continuous sequence, the works unfold like a musical score, inviting an immersive reading of process, texture and symbolic gesture within the artist’s graphic practice.

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16 – 31 September

Kounellis – Charrière

Art & Exhibits

Galerie Olivier Varenne

An intergenerational exhibition presenting the work of Jannis Kounellis and Julian Charrière, focusing on a material-based conceptual practice that spans over fifty years. The display brings installations and sculptural works into dialogue, foregrounding elemental media such as coal, combustion, metal and petroleum used as supports and vectors of history, political reflection, energy and symbolic charge. The juxtaposition highlights shared concerns about matter, industry and the traces of human intervention.

Preview (Geneva Art Week) in presence of Julian Charrière: Wednesday 16 September, 17:00.

Opening (Nuit des Bains): Thursday 17 September, 18:00.

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16 September – 31 October

New Realism: A Poetic Recycling of Urban Reality

Art & Exhibits

Galerie Sonia Zannettacci

Le Nouveau Réalisme brings together works by Arman, César, Christo, François Dufrêne, Yves Klein, Niki de Saint Phalle, Mimmo Rotella, Daniel Spoerri, Jean Tinguely and Jacques Villeglé to examine the movement’s poetic reworking of urban detritus. The exhibition presents sculptures, assemblages, collages and interventions that displace found objects from everyday contexts, juxtaposing industrial materials, advertising fragments and ready‑mades. Through material play and détournement, the show explores urban consumption, collective memory and the politics of visibility.

Opening (Geneva Art Week): Wednesday 16 September, 16:00

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18 September – 15 November

Short Ass Attention Span #3

Art & Exhibits

L'Arcade

Conceived by artist Pauline Coquart, Short Ass Attention Span #3 mixes literary experiment and live performance, assembling texts that range from apocalyptic sketches to risqué autofiction and political essays on sexuality. Editors and collaborators Ethan Assouline and Gaia Vincensini shaped the selection and the edition’s visual identity, while attentive editorial direction and inventive layout treat writing as performative material. The project foregrounds plural contemporary voices, shifting between intimate confession, sharp aphorism and sprawling narrative to create a charged, porous atmosphere.

Opening: 17 September, 18:00
Geneva Art Week: 17-21 September
Guided Tour: 20 September, 11:00
Late night opening: 12 November, 18:00
Closing: 15 November, 16:00

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