Switzerland
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Remembering. Geneva in the Colonial World
Geneva's colonial past explored through ethnographic collections.
Colonial Traces – Collections in Context
Science, empire, and the ethics of collecting explored.
Cargo Cults Unlimited
Markets as myth: economic rituals under the ethnographic lens.
Cocoa, Art and Colonialism. The Philipp Keller Shipping Collection
Maritime artefacts explore cocoa, art, and colonial history.
Colonial — Switzerland's Global Entanglements
Switzerland's hidden colonial ties explored in depth
Autobiographie d'une selle metis (Collections invisibles 2024)
A saddle's biography unlocks invisible histories of identity
Experiences of Switzerland – Forced Fostering
Forced fostering in Switzerland: survivors' stories told
Past exhibitions (36)
Le Chat déambule à Genève
Geluck's beloved Le Chat comes to life on the Geneva waterfront.
Christophe Blain. Paradis perdus
Blain's graphic worlds at Cartoonmuseum Basel
Roots
A solo show on identity, origin, and belonging
Tracey Rose: Shooting down Babylon
Fearless art tackling race, gender, and colonial history.
Tracey Rose. Shooting Down Babylon
Bold solo survey of Tracey Rose's radical political art.
Albert Anker. Reading Girls
Anker's intimate scenes of girls reading, all in one show.
Mark Wallinger
A solo show of conceptual British art at Museum Langmatt.
Louise Bourgeois x Jenny Holzer: The Violence of Handwriting Across a Page
Where handwriting becomes an act of violence and meaning.
Albert Oehlen – "Big Paintings By Me With Small Paintings by Others"
Oehlen's large canvases in dialogue with small works by peers
Friedrich Dürrenmatt and the World
Dürrenmatt's vision as writer and visual artist explored.
Bethan Huws. Works on Paper / Word Vitrines
Paper works and word vitrines by Bethan Huws
Paul Klee. I Want to Know Nothing
A focused exhibition exploring Paul Klee's artistic philosophy and practice through selected works from his prolific career.
The Garden of Earthly Delights
Bosch's visionary triptych inspires a show at MASI Lugano.
Friedrich Dürrenmatt and Switzerland – Fictions and Metaphors
Dürrenmatt's sharp vision of Switzerland, in words and images.
Ensor – Picasso. Masquerades
Ensor and Picasso united through masks and carnival art.
Eva & Franco Mattes – Dear Imaginary Audience
Digital identity and spectatorship by Eva & Franco Mattes
Japan de luxe. The Art of the Surimono Prints
Luxurious Japanese woodblock prints at Museum Rietberg
Treasure troves – hidden, lost, discovered
A special exhibition exploring the stories of treasures hidden, lost, and rediscovered throughout history, presented at the Basel historical museum.
Beautifully spiritual. Things for faith & meditation
Sacred objects from world cultures on faith and meditation
Alison Bechdel. The Essential
Essential works by a defining voice in contemporary comics.
Naming Nature — Natural History and Colonial Legacy
Natural history, classification, and colonial legacy examined.
Resistances. On Dealing with Racism in Bern
Exploring resistance to racism in Bern's history and today
Gerhard Glück. The Simple Life
Glück's sharp, tender cartoons on the comedy of daily life.
In Dialogue with Benin
Historic and contemporary art from Benin in dialogue
Patrimony in Peril
Exploring the threats facing our shared cultural heritage
When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting
A century of Black figurative painting, all in one show.
Spatial Convers(i)or
Art that transforms and rethinks space itself
Stranger in the Village. Reflecting on Racism with James Baldwin
Contemporary art confronts racism through James Baldwin's lens.
Alles nur Theater?
An intriguing exhibition that explores the boundaries between art and theatre, asking whether life itself is just a performance.
Queer – Diversity is in our nature
Nature's queerness explored at Bern's Natural History Museum
Open End 2
Contemporary group show at Geneva's Cemetery of Kings
Passions and Prayers: From the Collection of Eva and Konrad Seitz
Devotion and passion across cultures, from the Seitz Collection.
BANG BANG – translocal hi:stories of performance art
Plural histories of performance art, seen translocally.
Environmental Injustice - Indigenous Peoples' Alternatives
Indigenous knowledge and solutions to environmental injustice
Yoan Mudry. The Future Doesn't Need Us
A bold solo show questioning humanity's future
In the Forest
Nature, culture, and myth meet in this forest exhibition.