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

ReconnectingEarth-2026-290426-vernissage-S-JulienGremaud-176-web — (re)connecting.earth Biennial, *Sensitive Resources,* 2026. © Julien Gremaud

The (re)connecting.earth (03) – Sensitive Resources biennial brings together art and science to explore the critical issues surrounding natural resources.

Since 2021, the (re)connecting.earth Biennale has sought to rekindle a connection and deepen our attention to nature in the city, through the work of artists. This third edition, entitled Sensitive Resources, focuses on natural resources: their nature, their uses, and what they mean for our everyday lives.

Twenty artists present more than fifty works — installations, photographs, sculptures, instruction-works and videos — unfolding from the Eaux-Vives station to the Comédie de Genève, through to the Villa du Parc, along the Voie verte.

The works offer an approach to natural resources that we often know only by name, or whose uses we barely grasp. They invite us to visualise them in indirect, sometimes poetic ways, and to take in the effects of their exploitation on ecosystems, while reawakening an attentiveness to our immediate surroundings.

Through the translation of forms, the compilation of images and the act of staging, the artists propose alternative readings of exchanges and the mechanisms of extraction, transformation and consumption, as well as their effects.

They make perceptible complex processes that are often far removed from our direct experience. These proposals also open up perspectives on the political and economic systems within which these resources exist, and on the relationships they maintain with the environments they transform. Are they, in the end, truly such a blessing?

Whether inside the Comédie de Genève or the Villa du Parc, on the screens of the Eaux-Vives and Chêne-Bourg stations, or along the Voie verte in Chêne-Bougeries and Thônex, the works invite us to slow down, to observe, and to reconsider the place we occupy within these flows of resources.

To extend these experiences and reflections, a programme of workshops, talks and screenings accompanies the six weeks of the exhibition.

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ReconnectingEarth-2026-280426-performance-JulienGremaud-001-web — Séverin Guelpa, *Energy as a Vehicle* ©️ Julien Gremaud

ReconnectingEarth-2026-290426-vernissage-F-JulienGremaud-022 — Opening of the Biennale on the Voie verte ©️ Julien Gremaud

ReconnectingEarth-2026-290426-vernissage-S-JulienGremaud-084-web — Seba Calfuqueo, *Alga Prada* ©️ Julien Gremaud

ReconnectingEarth-2026-290426-vernissage-S-JulienGremaud-383-web (1) — Opening of the Biennale on the Voie verte and la Mich'Line in Thônex ©️ Julien Gremaud

ReconnectingEarth-2026-290426-vernissage-S-JulienGremaud-559-HD-HD — Opening at la Villa du Parc ©️ Julien Gremaud

VdP-2026-Ressources-Sensibles_001_aurelien_mole (1) — Khalil Berro, *Lake Boehmer (37100006)* ©️ Aurelien Mole

VdP-2026-Ressources-Sensibles_007_aurelien_mole (1) — Ana Alenso, *Lo que la mina te da, la mina te quita* (What mines gives, mines takes) ©️ Aurelien Mole

VdP-2026-Ressources-Sensibles_022_aurelien_mole — Yuri Ancarani, *Il Capo* ©️ Aurelien Mole

VdP-2026-Ressources-Sensibles-033_aurelien_mole (1) — Mathias Kessler, *West Virginia Mining Landscape* ©️ Aurelien Mole

VdP-2026-Ressources-Sensibles-074_aurelien_mole (1) — Gabriela Löffel, *5.752.414.468* ©️ Aurelien Mole

VdP-2026-Ressources-Sensibles-083_aurelien_mole (1) — Monira Al Qadiri, *Seasons in Hell (Sea of Flames)* ©️ Aurelien Mole

VdP-2026-Ressources-Sensibles-091_aurelien_mole (1) — Mabe Bethônico, *The Collective Dig: A Paper Theatre on the Myths of Extraction* ©️ Aurelien Mole

programme_re03.original — Biennale Program and Map ©️ Emma Kouassi and Roman Karrer

enfin_dimanche_Comedie — Children's Workshop at the Comédie

atelierenfant — Children's Workshop at the Comédie ©️ Laura Moreva

ReconnectingEarth-2026-070526-JulienGremaud-015-web — Khalil Berro, *BREATHE* ©️ Julien Gremaud

ReconnectingEarth-2026-070526-JulienGremaud-062-web — Etter/Spozio, *CHART* ©️ Julien Gremaud

ReconnectingEarth-2026-070526-JulienGremaud-069-web — Seba Calfuqueo, *Hualles* ©️ Julien Gremaud

ReconnectingEarth-2026-070526-JulienGremaud-106B-web — Yuri Ancarani, *Il Capo* , MIRE Screen ©️ Julien Gremaud

ReconnectingEarth-2026-080626-JulienGremaud-002-web — Khalil Berro, *BREATHE* , MIRE Screen ©️ Julien Gremaud

ReconnectingEarth-2026-280426-JulienGremaud-016 — Olaf Holzapfel, *Schwarm* ©️ Julien Gremaud

ReconnectingEarth-2026-280426-JulienGremaud-060-web — Seba Calfuqueo, *Folil* ©️ Julien Gremaud

ReconnectingEarth-2026-280426-JulienGremaud-088 — Jeewi Lee & Phillip C. Reinier, *Fragments : Tidal Memories* ©️ Julien Gremaud

ReconnectingEarth-2026-280426-JulienGremaud-205 — Ana Alenso, *Slow Burn* ©️ Julien Gremaud

Opening of the (re)connecting.earth (03) Biennale

The third edition of the (re)connecting.earth Biennial, “Sensitive Resources,” opened with two highlight events that brought together artists, researchers, institutional partners, and the public.

At the Comédie de Genève, the inaugural symposium provided an opportunity to present the curatorial direction of this new edition and to introduce the major themes running through the project: the extraction of natural resources, the relationships between humans and their environments, and the ecological and economic transformations shaping territories. This first gathering concluded with a choral performance based on the work of Séverin Guelpa.

The opening reception then continued with a cross-border walk along the Greenway, from Geneva to Annemasse. Paced by presentations from the artists and speeches from institutional partners, and accompanied by music from Ta grand-mère quartet, the tour invited the public to discover the works in situ before concluding at the Villa du Parc with the opening of the exhibition Ressources Sensibles . This day marked the official launch of the Biennale and the start of an artistic route connecting Geneva and Annemasse, focusing on issues related to natural resources.

We were able to explore the artworks along the route, the Mich'Line—an exhibition organized in collaboration with the municipality of Thônex—and the Ressources Sensibles exhibition at the Villa du Parc.

The exhibition at the Villa will be on view through September 20, 2026.

Learn more about the artists at the Biennale

ReconnectingEarth-2026-280426-JulienGremaud-316-HD — Opening / Symposium of the Biennale in La Comédie ©️ Julien Gremaud

ReconnectingEarth-2026-290426-vernissage-S-JulienGremaud-395-web — Opening of the Biennale on the Voie verte and la Mich'Line in Thônex ©️ Julien Gremaud

Children's workshop

Throughout the biennial, elementary school classes came to tour the artworks on display at the Comédie.

Other workshops were held for children during a Mercredi Comédie and an Enfin Dimanche! These creative workshops invited children and families to create their own instruction artworks or explore the connections between nature and art.

Learn more about the educational program

Children's Workshop at the Comédie ©️ Laura Moreva

Conférence, workshops and film screening

A program of events complemented the exhibitions and artworks on display along the Greenway.

Lectures, film screenings followed by discussions, and workshops for children, families, and adults provided opportunities to explore the themes of Ressources Sensibles in greater depth. These opportunities for connection and dialogue offered the public various ways to explore the challenges of natural resource extraction, the relationship between humans and their environments, and the ecological transformations shaping our era.

Learn more about the program