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.
Swiss-based artist John M Armleder assembles a playful yet probing exhibition that reconfigures everyday objects and artistic tropes. Works range from self-portraits and floral bouquets to a monumental disco ball installation and taxidermied animals, combining found and crafted elements.
The presentation stages a dialogue between Armleder’s pieces and the institution’s collection, interrogating display conventions, spectacle and the border between ornament and artwork. Through juxtaposition and scale, the show asks how context reshapes meaning and perception.
With a cultural mediator and a French Sign Language interpreter
Geneva based artist Gregory Bourrilly presents seven sculptures and a photograph that reconsider human-centered narratives in favor of ecological processes. Since 2018 his practice explores living dynamics and natural phenomena, imagining a posthuman world where human culture gradually yields to vegetal and animal recolonization. The works combine sculptural forms and photographic framing to evoke material transformation, decay and emergence, proposing alternative imaginaries of coexistence beyond anthropocentrism.
Opening: Thursday 17 September, 18:00
John M Armleder presents an interchange-based exhibition that foregrounds objects drawn from students’ suitcases. Through object-based works and subtle interventions, the show probes modes of observation, intimacy and collective memory. Personal belongings are rearranged as visual prompts that evoke histories, pedagogy and everyday cinematics. The artist’s restrained interventions invite reflection on how small domestic items circulate meanings and facilitate encounters, revealing how private narratives surface within a communal field of attention.
Votive brings together Rachel Labastie and Robert Montgomery in an exhibition exploring desire, belief, memory and shared dreams for the future. Through sculpture, poetry, light, and site-specific installations, the artists reflect on peace, human connection, and the transformative power of art.
Opening: Wednesday 3 September at 18:00.
Photographer Bertrand Carlier presents a series of large-format portraits that foreground women working across Geneva’s agricultural landscape. The photographs depict market gardeners, winegrowers, fruit growers, livestock farmers and cellar managers in their working environments, using natural light and documentary framing.
The project explores gender, labour and continuity, revealing how women’s labour shapes rural economies and biocultural traditions. Set against the UN’s International Year of the Woman Farmer 2026, the work invites renewed attention to the diversity of skills and trajectories within contemporary Geneva agriculture.
Ferdinand Hodler’s work is presented as a modern spiritual quest, bringing together paintings, drawings and archival documents.
From early religious scenes informed by Protestant iconography to late Symbolist compositions, his canvases and studies explore unity between humans, nature and a universal harmony of forms. The exhibition emphasizes Hodler’s pictorial language—rhythmic figuration, landscape as moral presence and meditative repetition—revealing an inward, contemplative dimension in which body and rhythm function as vehicles for spiritual experience. Curated by Niklaus Manuel Güdel.
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