Join Nathalie Ducatel, a conservator-restorer, for a thematic tour of the “Tender Buttons” exhibition. Dive into the origins of materials and craftsmanship, with a special emphasis on the button as a social marker.
Join Nathalie Ducatel, a conservator-restorer, for a thematic tour of the “Tender Buttons” exhibition. Dive into the origins of materials and craftsmanship, with a special emphasis on the button as a social marker.
Curated by Matthias Sohr, Reserved for Groups brings together works by Florian Fouché, Mélody Lu, Xavier Robles de Medina, Orawan Arunrak, Florian Bonny, Stefania Carlotti, Chloé Delarue, Jean-Ulrick Désert, Marina Faust, Anne Duk Hee Jordan, Thomas Liu Le Lann, Pedro Marrero Fuenmayor, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Kyung Roh Bannwart, Philipp Timischl, Ernie Wang, and Lauryn Youden. The exhibition explores subtle interventions within existing social and artistic contexts, presenting the artists’ work while making the gallery space more accessible.
Opening during the Nuit des Bains, Thursday 22 January, frpm 18:00.
Association NoOps (No Planned Obsolescence Switzerland) presents a travelling display that foregrounds the materiality of our phones. Through two vitrines and a selection of recovered components, the exhibition points to the precious metals embedded in devices and to “urban mines” hiding in drawers. Combining didactic panels, curated specimens and small installations assembled from reclaimed circuitry, it examines resource extraction, waste and value in contemporary consumer electronics, asking how reuse, repair and awareness can reframe our relationship to everyday technologies.
Niels Hung, a graduate of HEAD–Genève, investigates his multicultural identity through painting shaped by American and Asian visual cultures. His works—repainted canvases and mixed-format paintings—often reappropriate images found online and in the street, interrogating contemporary image production and its slipperiness. Employing layered pictorial strategies and referential iconography, Hung stages a critical dialogue that oscillates between fascination and critique. He also joined the Work.Master teaching team in 2024 and engages with questions of artistic production and the artist’s condition.
The Tender Buttons exhibition offers a multidisciplinary exploration centered on buttons, delving into their identity and historical significance. Featuring over three hundred ceramic and glass buttons, the exhibition interacts with the museum’s works to highlight their role in both formal experimentation and socio-cultural narratives. The exhibition’s architecture evokes the commercial arcades of the 19th century, a pivotal era for button industrialization. Curated by Claire FitzGerald, the exhibition is supported by the Swiss Fashion Museum and showcases never-before-seen pieces from several prestigious collections.
British artist Cornelia Parker is renowned for transforming everyday objects through destruction and alteration, exploring the physical, cultural, and emotional life of materials. Her new exhibition Colour Problems at Wilde Gallery continues this exploration, presenting works that question material transformation, history, and perception while revealing the hidden potential in the ordinary.
Opening during the Nuit des Bains, Thursday 22 January, from 18:00
Geneva Lux stages a luminous parcours through the city centre and Old Town of Geneva, presenting for over twelve years an evening programme of light installations and live performances. Around twenty works transform public streets and historic architecture into immersive, often poetic environments. The festival foregrounds sensory and spatial experience, exploring how light reconfigures perception of urban space and winter, and how temporary interventions reveal layers of memory, intimacy and collective circulation in the nocturnal city.
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