Vision à 360 degrés des dauphins, pin des Alpes, philosophie de Juwain, schizophrénie et sociopathie, un mayen sur l’ubac, sérendipité, santon et parfum : c’est Flux Paranoïa. A la frontière des domaines d’action, le projet est une traversée ludique, burlesque et passionnée autour des questions de récit, des savoirs, de l’échange ; la langue comme une matière malléable. Génératrice de lien, Flux…

A kind of twilight, The Blue Hour provides the eponymous performance of Georg Keller (Zug/CH, 1980) with its metaphorical context. Creating three distinct figures, Keller elaborates a critique of the gamble that is the economy. A quick and sharp street vendor, aware that he is working illegally, does business out of sight of a department store salesperson, mechanically greeting potential…

MONUMENT n. Latin monumentum. 1. A statue, building, or other structure erected to commemorate a famous person or notable event. A memorial, e.g., triumphal arch, column, trophy, etc. Monument to the dead, erected in memory of the dead from the same community, or victims of the same catastrophe. 2. A structure or stone erected, or pile of stones, which have a religious or symbolic value. 3. A…

Katrin Gattinger has carried out a number of actions, including working the area where the fields of drawing and performance meet. One has to do with the spatialization of a form and the other with granting that spatialization its capacity to be an event, and in this their meeting point becomes the point of political commitment by way of the graphic gesture. At Rosa Brux Gattinger is showing a…

A protean artist, he works essentially on the production and reproduction of images, of which he has an important collection, today gathered in his Museum of Mistakes, based in Brussels (“The Museum of Mistakes”, Edition Patrick Frey, Zurich, 2020). His collections are staged in installations but also in artists’ books (“Ads”, Triangle Books, Brussels, 2020), or in installations such as The…

Designer graphique basé à Paris, Pierre Vanni est connu pour ses choix graphiques radicaux. Ses expérimentations graphiques et ses projets artistiques sont souvent le lieu d’une réflexion autour des représentations issues des nouvelles technologies de l’image. Il s’est notamment fait connaître à travers des projets réalisés pour le New York Times Style Magazine, les Nuits Sonores, le cneai= ou…

Sugar, like the end of the world was waiting for us over by the fireside. Mornings I’m more of a coffee person. It wouldn’t change nothing, you know, if there’s liquid, I go all weak in the knees… Laura Gozlan, or like a certainty of the influence of gamma rays on the earth. — Why Stephen Hawking ? — Surely because he’s paradoxically ironic. — And why English? — Because a spoonful of sugar helps…

The inaugural event of this new season at Rosa Brux is the exhibition Pleasure, Arousal, Dominance. Using several photo installations, the show presents the artist Dorothée Baumann’s in-depth look at the founding and development of a fundamental research center in the cognitive neurosciences, the Brain & Behaviour Laboratory (BBL), located in Switzerland. Focusing on the study of human behavior,…

Presentation of the radio play Welcher Art die Wärme ist about the guest worker status. With the witnesses and authors: Carmine Andreotti, Paola De Martin and Melinda Nadj Abonji (text), Erik Altorfer (direction), Martin Schütz (music) and Florian Eteil (moderation). The exhibition remains open until 20:00. NMB, Faubourg du Lac 52, 2501 Bienne.

Protection Room is an exhibition in which five artists take over and live at “Rosa Brux,” which originally was an apartment. Protection Room explores nuances of transparency and opacity, and the thin line between the private and the public – questioning whether this line still exists. For a week the five artists will respond to different aspects and tactics of “hiding” and “covering over”…

Delémont, 1977; Lausanne, 1975 The work of Raphaël Cuomo and Maria Iorio is part of the recent interest the visual arts have taken in the construction of memory narratives. The artists draw their inspiration notably from “microhistory,” a genre that focuses on, for example, the life of an individual in order to expose the particularities of the community in which the person lives. Through their…

Raphaëlle Mueller est une photographe basée à Genève. Elle étudie la photographie, l’art et les nouveaux médias à Zurich (Zhdk), à Berne (HKB) et à Genève (Head). Elle exerce en tant que photographe au sein de la Head-Genève, ainsi que comme indépendante.

Real and sham vestiges, geological strata, layers of memory, these mix and blend to deconstruct spaces linked with modernity and the civilized world. Ana Vaz examines the history of evolution through an alternative depiction of past civilizational and architectural utopias. Her film titled A Idade da Pedra (The Stone Age) takes as its starting point the construction of Brasília, the city built…

Pain et chocolat Franco Brusati ( 1973, 111’) En mettant en scène l’itinérance rocambolesque d’un émigré italien à la recherche d’une place de travail dans le « paradis » helvétique, Franco Brusati compose une fresque fictionnelle sensible et burlesque de l’exploitation de la main-d’œuvre étrangère Fonction Cinéma, Maison des Arts du Grütli, Rue Général-Dufour 16, 1205 Genève.

Née en 1952 à Jérusalem, Rina Nissim a grandi à Genève, où elle vit. Au début des années 70, alors qu’elle entreprend des études d’infirmière, elle s’engage au sein du Mouvement de libération des femmes genevois alors fraîchement créé (le premier tract paraît en février 1971) et, très vite, s’investit dans les groupes « avortement » et « self help ». Les critiques envers les pratiques des…

Roxane Bovet est chercheuse, curatrice, éditrice. Elle a co-fondé la maison d’édition Clinamen (2013), co-géré les espaces d’art indépendant Zabriskie Point (2015-2017) et Forde (2018-2020), fait partie de l’équipe curatoriale Plattform (2017). En 2020-2021, elle faisait partie des résidents de l’Institut suisse de Rome.

Pour vivre ici / Saisonniers d’Espagne Claude Goretta (1963, 190’) Dans un documentaire d’une rare empathie produit au début des années 1960, Claude Goretta saisit les étapes qui jalonnent le parcours des saisonniers espagnols à Genève, « étrangers deux fois, par le passeport et l’isolement ». Album de famille Fernand Melgar (1993, 54’) Au cours d’un entretien filmé par leur fils, Florinda et…

“Sugar, like the end of the world was waiting for us over by the fireside. Mornings I’m more of a coffee person. It wouldn’t change nothing, you know, if there’s liquid, I go all weak in the knees…” Rosa Brux, Rue de l’Autonomie 9, 1070 Bruxelles.

During the evening event 3-8 is pleased to offer a screening of Révoltes Logiques (Logical Revolts), Louis Henderson’s 2012 graduation film project for his degree from Le Fresnoy (Studio national des arts contemporains). Taking as his starting point the discovery of the scenario for a film that was never shot, written by the UN in the 1950s and dealing with the Suez Crisis, Henderson went to the…

At a time when the extent of sexual violence is finally coming to light, when the victims, often vulnerable and in pain, still struggle for their voices to be heard – amid a climate of loneliness, doubts, lack of self-esteem, shame and fear of speaking out – how should we respond? Just grin and bear it, as some of our grandmothers used to say? How can we help ourselves? What kind of support,…

Katrin Gattinger has carried out a number of actions, including working the area where the fields of drawing and performance meet. One has to do with the spatialization of a form and the other with granting that spatialization its capacity to be an event, and in this their meeting point becomes the point of political commitment by way of the graphic gesture. At Rosa Brux Gattinger is showing a…

Today, like yesterday, migrant workers face issues and situations that profoundly affect their lives. The exhibition will include two moments for exchanges about lived experiences. In partnership with the Université populaire albanaise Le Commun, Rue des Bains 28, 1205 Genève.

Using a 1932 photomontage by John Heartfield, Vincent de Roguin offers us a critical and personal review of radical political imagery from the 20th century, from its mythological or revolutionary roots to its most regrettable contemporary reappropriations. Communist agitprop, Swiss fascism, German pop art, or British anarcho-punk, take your pick – Vincent de Roguin traces the history of…

Using a 1932 photomontage by John Heartfield, Vincent de Roguin offers us a critical and personal review of radical political imagery from the 20th century, from its mythological or revolutionary roots to its most regrettable contemporary reappropriations. Communist agitprop, Swiss fascism, German pop art, or British anarcho-punk, take your pick – Vincent de Roguin traces the history of…

Discussion with Lars Bang Larsen, Marie Kølbæk Iversen, and Yann Chateigné (in English). The curator and art historian Lars Bang Larsen earned a PhD from the University of Copenhagen on psychedelic concepts in neo-avant-garde art with his thesis A History of Irritated Material: Psychedelic Concepts in Neo-avant-garde Art. His recent publications include The Critical Mass of Mediation (with Søren…

Starting in the 1960s, a decade when the politicalization of a part of the art world went up against the institutional art authorities, many demands were put forward regarding the status and working conditions of artists. From the first contract including a clause protecting artists’ resale rights conceptualized by Seth Siegelaub with the help of Bob Projansky to the more recent campaigns…

A kind of twilight, The Blue Hour provides the eponymous performance of Georg Keller (Zug/CH, 1980) with its metaphorical context. Creating three distinct figures, Keller elaborates a critique of the gamble that is the economy. A quick and sharp street vendor, aware that he is working illegally, does business out of sight of a department store salesperson, mechanically greeting potential…

The Particular Unity of Same and Other (an Amplitude) at Rosa Brux is the Swiss iteration of the eponymous exhibition currently running at Heden in The Hague, Netherlands. Both shows take shape around a recent trip Hendrikse made to Indonesia and reflect on the image that either precedes the foreigner, the outsider, or remains after they have left. The position of the foreigner is a crucial one,…

A naturopath who has been living in Lausanne for 15 years, Mireille Currat has become a specialist in women’s health, initially under the supervision of Rina Nissim and then through the course of daily experiences and exchanges with the women who come to her for treatment. She also draws on Kousmine and Ayurvedic practices. Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Rue des Vieux-Grenadier 10, 1205 Genève.