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(re)connecting.earth (03) Biennial - Sensitive resources - Geneva

avril 29 – juin 14, 2026

A look back at this third edition, Sensitive Resources, brought together twenty artists and over fifty works, installations, sculptures, videos and more, unfolding along the Voie verte from Geneva to Annemasse.

Through poetic and indirect approaches, the works invited us to slow down, look closer, and reconsider our place within the flows of natural resources that shape our world.

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Film Screening and Discussion at the Scala and Ciné Actuel

avril 30 – juin 12, 2026

Through two film screenings followed by discussions with experts, the Biennale sought to explore the environmental, economic, and human issues related to the exploitation of natural resources, using cinema as a space for reflection and dialogue.

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Spectacle — Dé-domestication

juin 7, 2026

A performance at the intersection of drag, activism, and environmentalism, inviting audiences to rethink the connections between humans, animals, and territories through a reflection on the dynamics of domination and extraction.

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Biodiversity Walk with the FMAC

mai 30, 2026

A guided walk combining contemporary art and urban biodiversity to explore the natural resources and ecosystems that shape our public spaces.

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Duchamp aux Bains - Children's workshops

juillet 2 – août 15, 2025

During the summer, come to Les Bains des Pâquis and discover the water cycle and biodiversity of the lake through the eyes of contemporary artists. An invitation to take a different look at the living world around the lake, guided by contemporary art.

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(re)connecting.earth - Kiel Nomadic

septembre 13 – novembre 24, 2024

How is it possible in a technological urban world full of stimulation to maintain a connection with other species that share our direct environment? Building on the (re)connecting.earth (02) Biennial from Geneva, the edition “Beyond Water” evolved into a nomadic version in Kiel, featuring the works of 31 artists in two museums and in public space.

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(re)connecting.earth (02) Biennial - Beyond Water - Geneva

septembre 1 – octobre 1, 2023

For its second edition, the Biennial of Art and Urban Nature (re)connecting.earth is focusing on a new natural element in Geneva's urban environment: Lake Geneva. This year, in collaboration with artists and scientists, the Biennial is focusing on the theme of water and biodiversity around the lake.

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(re)connecting.earth – Dessau

avril 20 – août 4, 2022

After stations in Berlin and Geneva the show is now making a stop in Dessau at the Umweltbundesamt. The presentation at the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) offers a chance to investigate the scientific components raised by the artists’ instructions and to develop a regional project that includes students and civil initiatives.

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Planting trees at umweltbundesamt with Andreas Greiner

juin 23, 2022

Andreas Greiner invites us to rethink our relationships with other living beings. He is known for his critical work in relation to CO2 emissions and forms of compensation and contributes, among other things, to changing his audience's perspectives on trees.

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Worldbuilding / Workbuilding

juin 14, 2022

Why do we still work and for which social benefit? We invite you to participate in a worldbuilding experience, inspired by the principle of LARP (Live Action Role Play).

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(re)connecting.earth (01) Biennial – Urban Gardening – Geneva

juillet 8 – octobre 10, 2021

During the summer of 2021, the traveling exhibition (re)connecting.earth addresses the relationship between city dwellers and other urban creatures. It invites the viewer to discover and interpret instructions designed to activate our relationship to the urban environment and the beings that constitute it: birds, insects, or plants, living on the sidewalks, neighborhood squares or urban gardens.

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(re)connecting.earth - Berlin

mai 10 – septembre 25, 2021

An exhibition of artists‘ instruction in allotment gardens, artspaces and city streets to (re)connect with urban nature

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Screening of the documentary film "Demain Genève"

août 7, 2021

The film "Demain Genève" was presented at the vernissage of the exhibition (re)connecting.earth in the cultural space at the "Auberge des Vergers". A film by Grégory Chollet and Elisabete Fernandes (2018) about climate change and the future of our planet.

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Conference on urban biodiversity given by Ewa Renaud

juillet 10, 2021

As part of the (re)connecting.earth exhibition, Ewa Renaud presented her work on green roofs to the audience and opened the discussion on "nature in the city" with an analysis of urban biodiversity.

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Isabel Lewis, Thea Reifler and Phila Bergmann

juin 25, 2020

The figure of the "unambitious stripper" serves as a metaphor guiding us to connect with our inner worlds in order to become more radically receptive to our outer worlds.

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Magnetic Poetry. Basim Magdy and Irene Campolmi

juin 4, 2020

Artist Basim Magdy, in conversation with curator Irene Campolmi, reflected on the possibilities of visual poetry obtained by juxtaposing diverse contexts into a fictional narrative.

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Why the Colour of the Sky Matters

mai 28, 2020

During the COVID-19 local lockdowns, from Beijing to Milan, there were reports that the sky was of an unprecedented blue. The color of the sky can be seen both as an aesthetic and a political topic.

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La métamorphose de l'art imprimé

novembre 22, 2019 – mars 14, 2020

The exhibition „La métamorphose de l‘art imprimé. Contemporary French-Swiss editions and serial unique works“ presents seventeen new works by three generations of Suisse Romande artists.

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Futurs incertains

avril 12 – juin 7, 2019

One exhibition, two museums! The Musée d'art de Pully and the Musée cantonal de géologie are joining forces for a new exhibition where scientific and artistic approaches enter into dialogue and enrich each other.

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ÖRJÄT

juillet 1, 2018

A reflection on the dependency on technology, the potential of a transhumanist future, and the meaning of free will facing the urgency of environmental change.

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There Will Come Soft Rains

février 16 – avril 15, 2018

The exhibition tests a particular experiential context by initiating a fictitious journey through time. To this end, a group of international artists remove themselves to the year 2318, where they find themselves in a new kind of world, one without the human species.

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The Real Kiss

octobre 28 – novembre 16, 2016

Based on a collaboration between four artists and four architects from the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main this exhibition explores the complementarity of specific interests and skills to design and develop an own understanding of the notion of what an exhibition module could be.

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Vorticidad

janvier 1, 2015 – février 1, 2016

The Vorticidad project investigates the social and poetic impact of the visual arts within a field research project in Mexico. The research group consists of young art historians and curators who proactively explore artistic as well as curatorial projects that exist outside the traditional institutional framework of the museum and reactively affect historical, socio-cultural or environmental actualities.

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Let’s invent a language to narrate my story

septembre 13 – octobre 11, 2013

The art-werk association presents a double exhibition that deals with narration in contemporary art from the point of view of the artist and the viewer. To promote cultural exchange between Switzerland's two largest language regions, the exhibition showcase six artists from French-speaking Switzerland in the office building in Zurich and six German-speaking swiss artists in the art space andata.ritorno in Geneva.