Center für zeitgenössische Kunst

Sonia Kacem: Night Shift

20.05.2016 - 14.08.2016

The Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève is happy to present an exhibition by the geneva based artist Sonia Kacem (b. 1985, Geneva), from 20 May to 14 August 2016. Since its origins, the work of Sonia Kacem is driven by the deeply intuitive and sensual relationship she has with the material. The voluminous ephemeral site-specific installations she creates ends up containing and enfol... weiter

Rochelle Feinstein: In Anticipation of Women's History Month

29.01.2016 - 24.04.2016

Rochelle Feinstein’s forthcoming retrospective, “In Anticipation of Women’s History Month. Selected Works”, will open at Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva in January 2016, and travel to Lenbachhaus, Munich and kestnergesellschaft, Hannover. Possessing an extensive painting lexicon, Feinstein employs an array of media from silkscreen, to photography and assemblage, ... weiter

Bourses de la Ville de Genève

11.12.2015 - 10.01.2016

Each year, a dozen Genevan artists and makers compete for one of the bursaries awarded by the Berthoud, Lissignol-Chevalier and Galland funds of the City of Geneva within the field of plastic and applied arts. The exhibition of the nominees at the Centre offers a true picture of youthful creativity in Geneva, demonstrating the different visions of the world that co-exist in the city. weiter

Steven Claydon: Analogues, methods, monsters, machines

18.09.2015 - 22.11.2015

Steven Claydon’s (1969, London, UK) works draws from the way objects oscillate between raw material and cultural artifacts. His trans-media practice includes sculpture, video, assemblage and painting. For Analogues, methods, monsters, machines at the Centre, Claydon has specifically created a series of new works, inspired by the dichotomy between history and technology and with particul... weiter

Giorgio Griffa, Une Rétrospective 1968-2014

29.05.2015 - 23.08.2015

Giorgio Griffa (1936) is an Italian artist; he lives and works in Turin. He became known in the late 60s for his paintings reduced to their essential components: canvas, colours and brushstrokes. His work plays with rhythm through sequences of minimal gestures on unstretched canvases, simply folded when not exhibited. The grid created through constantly folding them becomes part of the painting... weiter

Reto Pulfer: Dehydrierte Landschaft

29.05.2015 - 23.08.2015

Reto Pulfer (1981, Bern (CH)) lives and works in Berlin. His work moves at the intersection of performance and architectural space. Reto Pulfer constructs environments with various materials including painted cloth and paper, which he installs so as to question the geography of the exhibition space. Each of Pulfer’s exhibition is shaped by an underlying narrative, or as the artist calls i... weiter

Raphael Hefti: Or Or Or

30.01.2015 - 30.04.2015

On the second floor of the Centre, Swiss artist Raphael Hefti will present OR OR OR?, his first ever site specific project. The installation made for this exhibition consists of over three hundred one-meter-long poles of steel, aluminium, titanium and copper. Some of the poles have been heated electrically to various extremely high temperatures, what transformed the coloration of the metals, le... weiter

Ernie Gehr: Bon voyage

30.01.2015 - 30.04.2015

Ernie Gehr (1941, USA) is an experimental filmmaker closely associated with the Structural film movement of the 1970s. Among his most important works we can mention Serene Velocity (1970) and Side/Walk /Shuttle (1991). A self-taught artist, Gehr began making films in the 1960s and works since 2001 mainly with digital means, creating non-narrative works — sometimes jarring or disorientatin... weiter

Bourses de la Ville de Genève, Fonds Berthoud, Lissignol-Chevalier et Galland pour la jeune création

12.12.2014 - 11.01.2015

Each year, a dozen Genevan artists and makers compete for one of the bursaries awarded by the Berthoud, Lissignol-Chevalier and Galland funds of the City of Geneva within the field of plastic and applied arts. The exhibition of the nominees at the Centre offers a true picture of youthful creativity in Geneva, demonstrating the different visions of the world that co-exist in the city. weiter

Moving images at the heart of the Centre / BIM 2014

18.09.2014 - 23.11.2014

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Joachim Koester: The Place of Dead Roads

23.05.2014 - 17.08.2014

The Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève presents The Place of Dead Roads, a solo exhibition by Joachim Koester featuring a new video installation, coproduced by the Centre, and an extensive collection of photographic works undertaken between 2003 and 2012. Using video, 16mm film, installation and photography, Koester's work explores those troubled interzones between conscious and ... weiter

Andrea Bruno: Cinema Zenit

17.05.2014 - 17.08.2014

The Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève presents its first exhibition dedicated to contemporary comics with Cinema Zenit by Italian artist Andrea Bruno. Andrea Bruno is one of the most interesting comic book artists on the international scene. Among his influences are the great masters of the Italian and Argentinian schools, including Alberto Breccia, José Munoz, Sergio Toppi, ... weiter

Marina Abramovic: The Marina Abramovic Method

01.05.2014 - 11.05.2014

In 1987 the Centre d'Art Contemporain hosted die Mond, der Sonne, the final collaboration between Marina Abramovic and the German artist Ulay before they separated on the Great Wall of China (The Lovers: The Great Wall Walk). To mark the Centre's 40th anniversary, Marina Abramovic is returning to Geneva where she will occupy a whole floor of the institution from the 1st until the 11th o... weiter

Hayan Kam Nakache: Figurines de Genève

21.02.2014 - 27.04.2014

Through out his stay at the Centre as an artist in residence or through out his residency at the Centre Hayan forced himself to paint a large variety of subjects on medium format sized paper surfaces. The human figure in its primitive form is a recurrent theme of Hayan’s work, visible in more or less obvious terms in almost all his paintings. Improvisation and gesture are at the heart of ... weiter

Robert Overby: Works 1969-1987

31.01.2014 - 27.04.2014

The Centre d’Art Contemporain in Genève presents Robert Overby – Works 1969-1987, the first institutional survey exhibition of the artist’s work in Europe. The exhibition – curated by Alessandro Rabottini – is organized together with the GAMeC – Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Bergamo, Italy (where it will travel in May 2014), the Berg... weiter

Nicole Miller: The Death of a school

31.01.2014 - 27.04.2014

The Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève presents Nicole Miller – The death of a school, the video artist’s first show in Switzerland. Curated by Andrea Bellini, the exhibition will display two of Miller’s video installations: Untitled (2012) and Death of a School (2014). Untitled (David and Darby) consists of a single-channel video and a two-channel video projectio... weiter

Gabriel Abrantes

18.02.2014 - 12.03.2014

Gabriel Abrantes’ work focuses on the transformations imposed by globalization on the politics, economics, and cultures of rapidly developing countries. From love story to war film, from melodrama to comedy, the artist explores the relations of power and desire in contexts such as Angola, Haiti, Sri Lanka, Portugal, and Brazil. Abrantes will show 4 short films during the projection at t... weiter

Mark Boulos

15.01.2014 - 16.02.2014

Within the frame of his residency at the Centre, Mark Boulos (Boston, 1975, lives and works between Geneva and Amsterdam) will show selections from many of his videos. The tension between spirit and history is elaborated in his double-projection documentary “All That Is Solid Melts into Air” (2008), which compares the credit-crisis frenzy of U.S. financial markets to the protective ... weiter

Nelly Haliti: 3 Moments

07.11.2013 - 02.02.2014

Following her four months residency at the studio of the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Nelly Haliti will show at the Project Space “3 moments”, an exhibition including three works that evoke moments and specific spaces in close relation to each other. “3 moments” is structured around three different states: destruction, transition and reconstruction. I... weiter

Bourses 2013

13.12.2013 - 19.01.2014

Each year, a dozen Genevan artists and makers compete for one of the bursaries awarded by the Berthoud, Lissignol-Chevalier and Galland funds of the City of Geneva within the field of plastic and applied arts. The exhibition of the nominees at the Centre offers a true picture of youthful creativity in Geneva, demonstrating the different visions of the world that co-exist in the city. weiter

Pablo Bronstein

17.09.2013 - 24.11.2013

The Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève is pleased to present the first solo show of Pablo Bronstein in Switzerland and the first retrospective of its architectural drawings. Performance plays an important dimension in Bronstein work and will be an integral part of the exhibition at the Centre.weiter

Gianni Piacentino: A retrospective

05.06.2013 - 18.08.2013

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Hotel Abisso

01.03.2013 - 12.05.2013

Andrea Bellini brought together the curator Tiphanie Blanc as well as a dozen of Swiss artists –mostly from the French speaking part of Switzerland- in order to develop a joint exhibition. The exhibition excludes all curatorial statement and each participating artist was welcome to involve other artists in the exhibition process: Thus, this collective exhibition is like a lively organism,... weiter

Edy Ferguson: Selected Works, 1990-present

23.11.2012 - 03.02.2013

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Organic

23.11.2012 - 03.02.2013

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Differences in intensity

23.11.2012 - 20.01.2013

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Image Mouvement

13.09.2012 - 25.11.2012

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Bourses

05.09.2012 - 14.10.2012

Each year, a dozen Geneva artists and makers compete for one of the bursaries awarded by the Berthoud, Lissignol-Chevalier and Galland funds of the City of Geneva within the field of plastic and applied arts. The exhibition of the nominees at the Centre offers a true picture of youthful creativity in Geneva, demonstrating the different visions of the world that co-exist in the city. weiter

Coming Soon

01.06.2012 - 12.08.2012

COMING SOON ist eine Nichtperformance bestehend aus Pausen, Unterbrechungen, Wiederholungen und Verzögerungen. Sie bringt das Schweigen zum Sprechen. Sie ist ein Film ohne Film und ein Tanz ohne Tanz, wo nichts pünktlich sein wird. COMING SOON ist eine Ausstellung, die es nicht eilig hat – sie gönnt sich den Luxus, sich Zeit zu lassen. weiter

Charlotte Moth: Ce qui est fragile est toujours nouveau

01.06.2012 - 12.08.2012

Das Centre zeigt die erste umfangreiche Einzelausstellung der britischen Künstlerin Charlotte Moth (Paris). Die Ausstellung gibt einen Einblick in ihre neueren Arbeiten in unterschiedlichen Medien wie Film, Fotografie und skultpurale Installationen und zeigt zudem zwei neue Filme, die für die Ausstellung produziert wurden. Zentraler Bezugspunkt der meisten Arbeiten ist der 1999 begonnene... weiter