CAC Genève
Center for Contemporary Art / Geneva
Founded in 1974 as Geneva’s “Kunsthalle,” the Centre is the first contemporary-art institution in French-speaking Switzerland. A “Kunsthalle” is a space for production, research and experiment. Its purpose is to develop exhibitions and to actively put the public in contact with these exhibitions, with a view to opening up a space for dialogue around contemporary culture, as well as to publish art catalogues and books. Unlike a museum, the Centre has no collection. The Centre’s program involves all the fields of contemporary practice: architecture, dance, design, drawing, new media, installation, music, painting, performance, photography, sculpture, and video. More than 300 pioneering exhibitions have been presented at the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, with artists including Joseph Beuys, Olaf Breuning, Maurizio Cattelan, Nan Goldin, Dan Graham, On Kawara, William Kentridge, Pipilotti Rist, Ugo Rondinone, Thomas Scheibitz, Shirana Shahbazi, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, Lawrence Weiner, Ingrid Wildi, Christopher Wool, Joan Jonas, and many more.
Located since 1989 at Rue des Bains, within the Contemporary Art Building, which it shares with the MAMCO, the FMAC and the Centre de la Photographie Genève, the Centre has a two-story 1,000 square meter exhibition space, a cinema, an artist’s residency, a Project Space and a library.
Also Known As, 2016 / Photo Léonie Marion
CAC Genève
Center for Contemporary Art / Geneva
Founded in 1974 as Geneva’s “Kunsthalle,” the Centre is the first contemporary-art institution in French-speaking Switzerland. A “Kunsthalle” is a space for production, research and experiment. Its purpose is to develop exhibitions and to actively put the public in contact with these exhibitions, with a view to opening up a space for dialogue around contemporary culture, as well as to publish art catalogues and books. Unlike a museum, the Centre has no collection. The Centre’s program involves all the fields of contemporary practice: architecture, dance, design, drawing, new media, installation, music, painting, performance, photography, sculpture, and video. More than 300 pioneering exhibitions have been presented at the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, with artists including Joseph Beuys, Olaf Breuning, Maurizio Cattelan, Nan Goldin, Dan Graham, On Kawara, William Kentridge, Pipilotti Rist, Ugo Rondinone, Thomas Scheibitz, Shirana Shahbazi, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, Lawrence Weiner, Ingrid Wildi, Christopher Wool, Joan Jonas, and many more.
Located since 1989 at Rue des Bains, within the Contemporary Art Building, which it shares with the MAMCO, the FMAC and the Centre de la Photographie Genève, the Centre has a two-story 1,000 square meter exhibition space, a cinema, an artist’s residency, a Project Space and a library.
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Also Known As, 2016 / Photo Léonie Marion
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Akinbode Akinbiyi: Sometimes to be lost is to be foundNov 11, 2023 – Jan 21, 2024Akinbode Akinbiyi is a renowned photographer. He has not only been honored with the Goethe Medal and the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany but was also recently awarded the 2024 Hannah Höch Prize in recognition of his outstanding lifetime achievement in the field. (more…)
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Intimate confession is a projectOct 27, 2023 – Mar 10, 2024Intimate confession is a project is a group exhibition that considers transmission, intergenerational life, and cultural inheritance through the prism of intimacy and infrastructure. Through the work of eleven artists spanning generations and geographies, the exhibition thinks through infrastructure as an intimate holding cell (more…)
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Rossella Biscotti: Cable City Dance Cable City SeaNov 18, 2023 – Feb 25, 2024Rossella Biscotti’s work delves into the material and affective histories of the spaces we inhabit, unravelling systems of meaning and relational networks between the human and the non-human. Her practice, which interweaves film, sound, sculpture and performance, explores the functioning of ecosystems as open, shifting and polyphonic, as are collective imaginaries and the media by which they are conditioned, be they narrative or material. (more…)
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Liu Chuang: Lithium Lake and Island of PolyphonyNov 4 – Dec 30, 2023Antenna Space is honored to announce the upcoming solo exhibition Lithium Lake and Island of Polyphony by artist Liu Chuang, which opens on November 4, 2023 and will run through December 30, 2023. This exhibition is the premiere of Liu’s latest video of the same name, Lithium Lake and Island of Polyphony (2023), in China; and from 2024 onwards, it will be exhibited in prestigious internation art museums and institutions. (more…)
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Helen Cammock: I Will Keep My SoulPublicationConvening polyphonous voices from past and present, I Will Keep My Soul is an orchestral layering of photography, historical documents, poetry and interviews, all rooted in the social history, geography and community of New Orleans. In this prismatic artist’s book, UK-based artist Helen Cammock traverses the city, rendering her observations and encounters into reverberant texts and percipient photographic images that tender the city’s invisible histories. (more…)
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Rencontres d’ArlesPhotography FestivalEvery summer since 1970, over the course of more than forty exhibitions at various of the city’s exceptional heritage sites, the Rencontres d’Arles has been a major influence in disseminating the best of world photography (more…)
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Art Prize 2024 / G. & A. Mamidakis FoundationDeadline December 15, 2023The G. & A. Mamidakis Foundation Art Prize promotes and financially supports contemporary artists, with the ultimate goal of highlighting excellence in the arts. Our deep love for art, combined with the desire to support and promote the advancement of artistic creativity, led to the establishment of the annual G. & A. Mamidakis Foundation Art Prize in 2019 (more…)
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Karlo Kacharava: Sentimental TravellerDec 2, 2023 – Apr 14, 2024In the context of europalia georgia, S.M.A.K. organises the first museum solo exhibition of Georgian artist Karlo Kacharava (1964–1994) outside Georgia. This exhibition is dedicated to poet, art critic and artist Karlo Kacharava (1964-1994), one of Georgia’s most influential cultural figures of the late twentieth century. (more…)
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Sean ScullyArtistSean Scully is one of the most important painters of his generation. While known primarily for his large-scale abstract paintings, Scully also works in a variety of diverse media, including printmaking, sculpture, watercolor and pastel. (more…)
