We are delighted to be taking part in the 12th edition of artgenève, from 25 to 28 January 2024. Invited alongside the Boros Collection, the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire de Genève and the MAMCO, we unveil a selection of some forty works from the collection, highlighting our commitment to the contemporary scene, to know-how and to practices conscious of the climate transition.
Initiated in 2012, this edition welcomes nearly 80 internationally renowned modern and contemporary art galleries, a programme enriched by the participation of prestigious institutions and private collections, and new initiatives such as artgenève/sur-mesure, a space dedicated to large-scale works.
Featured artists: Alma Allen, Lynda Benglis, Jean-Baptiste Bernadet, Katinka Bock, Emmanuel Boos, Ulla von Brandenburg, Alex Chechetti, Lubna Chowdhary, Claudia Comte, Edith Dekyndt, Latifa Echkach, Sidival Fila, Roger Herman, Ann Veronica Janssens, Jitish Kallat, Sanam Khatibi, Jasmine Little, Isa Melsheimer, Oscar Murillo, Navid Nuur, Davaadorj Odonchimeg, Ozioma Onuzilike, Zoé Ouvrier, Simone Pheulpin, Eugenio Pipo, Sterling Ruby, Tatiana Trouvé, Brent Wadden.
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ART TALK
As part of artgenève’s programme of talks, we are organizing an off-site conversation of our program “Creators facing Climate Emergency”.
Thursday 25 January, 4pm-5pm
Guests: Claudia Comte, visual artist and Mónica Bello, art historian and Head of Arts at CERN, Geneva.
Moderated by Yann Chateigné-Tytelman, curator.
Claudia Comte (b. 1983, Grancy) is a Swiss artist based in Basel, Switzerland. Her practice is guided by a longstanding interest in teasing out the history and memory of biomorphic forms through traditional hand processes, industrial and machine technologies. Comte’s site-specific installations bring together monumental wall paintings and sculptures playfully inspired by organic patterns and morphology, paying testament to the intelligence and transformative capacities of the ecological world. Her work has been widely presented, including Solo Houses, Matarraña (2023), Globus Public Art Project in collaboration with Fondation Beyeler, Basel (2023), Casa Wabi, Mexico 2023, König Galerie im KHK Wien (2022), Belgrade Biennale (2021), Museo Nacional Thyssen- Bornemisza, Madrid (2021), Castello di Rivoli, Rome (2019), among others.
Mónica Bello is art Historian and Curator. Since 2015, she is Head of Arts at CERN at the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva, where she leads and supervises the laboratory’s art strategy and the artistic programs (residencies, art commissions, exhibitions). Curator of Exploring the Unknown, the inaugural art exhibition for the CERN Science Gateway, the new visitor centre of the Laboratory designed by Renzo Piano, her most recent curated exhibition is Dark Matters for the Science Gallery Melbourne, and the Icelandic Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale with the artist Sigurður Guðjónsson. Bello works internationally participating in selection committees, advisory boards, and mentorship programs. She is a regular speaker at conferences and active in several programmes in Europe and globally, where art and cultural innovation are the focus.
Created in 2020 by Fondation Thalie, the “Créateurs Urgence Climat” programme of conversations invites artists, designers, thinkers and scientists to the École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris each month to share new knowledge in the light of the climate transition and to think about reasoned artistic production in the era of a post-carbon society.
Find out the full Art Talks program of the fair.
