Quelles sont les heures d'ouverture ?

Mercredi 12:00 - 18:00 Jeudi 12:00 - 20:00 Vendredi 12:00 - 18:00 Samedi 11:00 - 18:00 Dimanche 11:00 - 18:00

Photoforum Pasquart

Page d'Accueil
Schweiz
Bienne
Photoforum Pasquart

We display temporary exhibitions of contemporary photography and the Prix Photoforum.

Seit 1984 engagiert für die Förderung der Fotografie
und Unterstützung neuer Talente / Depuis 1984, dédié à la promotion de la photographie et au soutien des talents émergents / Since 1984, dedicated to promoting photography & supporting emerging talents Centre of contemporary photography
Zenter für Zeitgenössische Fotografie
Centre de photographie contemporaine

The Photoforum Pasquart aims

to provide a platform for the visions of a younger generation of artists and photographers. The Photoforum Pasquart is part of the Pasquart building which also includes the Kunsthaus Pasquart, the Filmpodium, the Société des beaux-arts de Bienne and espace libre. Das Photoforum Pasquart präsentiert seine Sicht auf die neue Generation von Künstlern und Fotografen, indem es gesellschaftlichen und politischen Fragen ebenso viel Bedeutung beimisst wie der Kunst. Wir bieten wechselnde Ausstellungen zeitgenössischer Fotografie und den Prix Photoforum. Das Photoforum Pasquart ist Teil des Pasquart Gebäudes, das unter anderem vom Kunsthaus Pasquart, dem Filmpodium, dem Kunstverein Biel und espace libre genutzt wird. Le Photoforum Pasquart présente sa vision de la nouvelle génération d’artistes et photographes en accordant autant d’importance aux questions de société et de politiques qu’à l’art. Nous proposons des expositions temporaires de photographie contemporaine et le Prix Photoforum. Le Photoforum Pasquart fait partie du bâtiment Pasquart, où se trouvent le Kunsthaus Pasquart, le Filmpodium, la Société des beaux-arts de Bienne et espace libre.

04/09/2026

Photoforum is hosting as a guest the Fotoklub Biel for their 70th anniversary ! 🎉

Photography is a place for encounters, like every year Fotoklub Biel is showing their work in our exhibition spaces from Friday, September 4 to Sunday,
September 6, featuring thirteen of its members. These amateur works tell all kinds of stories filled with diverse colors, subjects, and sensibilities.

Since 1965, Fotoklub Biel is composed by over fifty members across Switzerland, some of whom hold the title of Swiss photography champion, and some of whose works have been selected multiple times in international salons. It is affiliated with the International Federation of Photographic Art (FIAP) and photosuisse, the umbrella association for about forty clubs nationwide.

📍Photoforum Pasquart
Fotoklub Biel, 4.09-6.09.2026

📌Opening hours:
Fr 12:00-18:00
Sa, Su 11:00-18:00
Entry free

Don't forget that Mimosa Eckhardt's exhibition "Dolls Theater" is still on view at until September 6!

Interested in renting our exhibition space ? Wright us an email at [email protected]

02/09/2026

Our next Vernissage is around the corner! Come celebrate with us on Saturday, 19.09.2026. We open two solo shows:

“L’Étiquette Bleue” by Benoit Chattaway

In Bidogno, Ticino, Benoit Chattaway brings together a historical photographic archive from Domenico Quirici and the contemporary technologies transforming the way the village is seen and experienced.

“How goes tomorrow” by Claude Bühler
 Since 2021, Claude Bühler has been accompanying a solidarity-based agricultural collective through photography, sound and dialogue. Showing everyday working and communal life she reflects on alternative social and ecological practices.

This evening several new exhibitions and projects are opening in Pasquart. In the spaces of Kunsthaus Biel Centre d’art Bienne you can explore exhibitions by Caroline Bachmann “Le lac et le soleil”, “Los Four and Friends” as well as Sarah Schumann Sarah Schumann | VAN HAM Art Estate “sich von oben von unten sehen”.

📌Programme:
17:00 Speeches
18:00 Artist tours Photoforum Pasquart
19:30 Catering by Gärbi cantine mobile
19:30 DJ set by Anita Krippis Anita Kirppis jewelry

Also the same day the Schweizerisches Literaturinstitut Schweizerisches Literaturinstitut / Institut littéraire suisse is celebrating its 20th anniversary. The afterparty will take place at 21:00 at Farel , ten minutes from Pasquart.

#ᴄᴏɴᴛᴇᴍᴘᴏʀᴀʀʏᴘʜᴏᴛᴏɢʀᴀᴘʜʏ

The exhibition was made possible thanks to the support of the Kulturstiftung des Kantons Thurgau and the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia. The annual programme handle with care is supported by the Stiftung für Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte and the Stiftung Temperatio. Photoforum Pasquart’s public partners are the City of Biel and the Canton of Bern.

Studio Claude Bühler Benoit Chattaway Pro Helvetia KBCB Kunsthaus Biel Centre d'art Bienne Amelie Rose Schüle Paul Bernard   Poster Design Samira

02/09/2026

Our next Vernissage is around the corner! Come celebrate with us on Saturday, 19.09.2026. We open two solo shows:

“How goes tomorrow” by Claude Bühler
 Since 2021, Claude Bühler has been accompanying a solidarity-based agricultural collective through photography, sound and dialogue. Showing everyday working and communal life she reflects on alternative social and ecological practices.

“L’Étiquette Bleue” by Benoit Chattaway.

In Bidogno, Ticino, Benoit Chattaway brings together a historical photographic archive from Domenico Quirici and the contemporary technologies transforming the way the village is seen and experienced.

This evening several new exhibitions and projects are opening in Pasquart. In the spaces of Kunsthaus Biel Centre d’art Bienne you can explore exhibitions by Caroline Bachmann “Le lac et le soleil”, “Los Four and Friends” as well as Sarah Schumann Sarah Schumann | VAN HAM Art Estate “sich von oben von unten sehen”.

📌Programme:
17:00 Speeches
18:00 Artist tours Photoforum Pasquart
19:30 Catering by Gärbi cantine mobile
19:30 DJ set by Anita Krippis Anita Kirppis jewelry

Also the same day the Schweizerisches Literaturinstitut Schweizerisches Literaturinstitut / Institut littéraire suisse is celebrating its 20th anniversary. The afterparty will take place at 21:00 at Farel , ten minutes from Pasquart.

#ᴄᴏɴᴛᴇᴍᴘᴏʀᴀʀʏᴘʜᴏᴛᴏɢʀᴀᴘʜʏ

The exhibition was made possible thanks to the support of the Kulturstiftung des Kantons Thurgau and the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia. The annual programme handle with care is supported by the Stiftung für Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte and the Stiftung Temperatio. Photoforum Pasquart’s public partners are the City of Biel and the Canton of Bern.

Studio Claude Bühler Benoit Chattaway Pro Helvetia KBCB Kunsthaus Biel Centre d'art Bienne Amelie Rose Schüle Paul Bernard   Poster Design Samira

28/08/2026

Last weekend to see Tiziana Amico’s "Zagara" and Virginie Rebetez’s "Ajouter un Tiret" exhibitions. 📸

For the final weekend, we invite you to visit both exhibitions, bringing together two very different family stories and two ways of looking at memory, absence and what photography can hold.

Starting from family archives, Tiziana Amico and Virginie Rebetez each move between the personal and the collective, between what is remembered and what has been silenced.

In "Zagara", Amico follows the traces of her family history in Sicily, weaving together photographs, archival images, landscapes, scent and sound.

In "Ajouter un Tiret", Rebetez approaches death and memory through five projects developed over more than twenty years, including "La Rencontre", an intimate work that began with the exhumation of her grandparents.

📌The exhibitions are open until Sunday 30 August. Come by and see them before they close.

📍Photoforum Pasquart, Biel/Bienne
Tiziana Amico « Zagara »
Virginie Rebetez « Ajouter un Tiret »
14 June – 30 August

Opening hours:
We 12:00-18:00
Th 12:00-20:00
Fr 12:00-18:00
Sa, Su 11:00-18:00

Pictures credits:
Picture 1,4,5: From the project Zagara – Ciò che resta © Tiziana Amico
Picture 2,3,6: La Rencontre, 2026 © Virginie Rebetez

26/08/2026

Encounter: Ajouter un Tiret

Tomorrow evening, Virginie Rebetez steps into the exhibition space and extends La Rencontre through a live intervention. For our series Encounter, she returns to that question in the space itself, alongside the work, opening up her process and her thinking on memory, transmission and transformation.

The work began with an administrative fact: her grandparents' graves were to be cleared. The family decided on an exhumation, and Rebetez was there, not as an observer but physically present in the pit, working with her hands. For over twenty years she has asked what photography can show of death and what it must leave unseen.

📌Thursday 27 August, 19:30–20:30
Entry free

📍Photoforum Pasquart, Biel/Bienne
Tiziana Amico « Zagara »
Virginie Rebetez « Ajouter un Tiret »
14 June – 30 August

Opening hours:
We 12:00-18:00
Th 12:00-20:00
Fr 12:00-18:00
Sa, Su 11:00-18:00

25/08/2026

We threw a party! ☀️

Thank you to everyone who joined us for Summer Act: for wandering between the houses, for taking a tour, for guessing in the film quiz, for dancing at the concert, and for staying with us into the night, all the way to the open-air film.

Thank you to Benedikt Bock and for the reading, Théo & Arno Louis Arno Louis for the Frèreformance, Save my Skin SMS for the concert, ONRI Ferments ONRI Ferments for the ramen, Gelato Club Gelato Club for the ice cream, and to everyone who ran the bar, mixed syrups and led the walks and tours. Graphics by Indira Gomez Bleuindigobleu.

From the teams of the four organisations at Pasquart, thank you!
KBCB Kunsthaus Biel Centre d'art Bienne Filmpodium Biel/Bienne Espace Libre Photoforum Pasquart

24/08/2026

We are launching a new event series: Open Lab. 🔬

A photo lab is a valuable tool. Getting into one is another matter. From September, the photo lab at the Schule für Gestaltung Biel opens on the first Saturday of every month, to everyone: beginners, students, professionals and anyone looking for a place to experiment. Someone from the local photography scene is there each time to help and pass on what they know.

Rudolf Steiner () opens the series. Saturday 5 September, 10am to 3pm. Pay what you can, recommended 90 to 150 CHF including materials. Sign up via the link in bio, places are limited.

That we are starting now is not a coincidence. In 1826, Nicéphore Niépce coated a pewter plate with bitumen, pointed it out of his window and waited eight hours for the light to do the rest. The plate still exists. Two hundred years later, the anniversary is being marked with a year of events running from September 2026 to September 2027, and we are opening ours where the image is still made by hand, with chemistry, paper and time.

📌Saturday, September 5
10:00-15:00
Photo Labo
Schule für Gestaltung Biel, Salzhausstrasse 18, 2502 Biel/Bienne
Prix Libre (90-150CHF)

A collaboration with

Picture credit:

24/08/2026

23/08/2026

Final week 📸

We’re entering the final week of Tiziana Amico's "Zagara" at Photoforum Pasquart.
Tiziana Amico follows a family history in Sicily, tracing the scent of orange blossom and what has been silenced across generations. "Zagara" unfolds as a reflection on memory, family, and the stories that remain beneath the surface.

📌Last day of the exhibition: Sunday, August 30.

📍Photoforum Pasquart, Biel/Bienne
Tiziana Amico « Zagara »
Virginie Rebetez « Ajouter un Tiret »
14 June – 30 August

Opening hours:
We 12:00-18:00
Th 12:00-20:00
Fr 12:00-18:00
Sa, Su 11:00-18:00

Picture credits: From the project Zagara – Ciò che resta © Tiziana Amico

22/08/2026

Final week 📸

We’re entering the final week of Virginie Rebetez’s "Ajouter un Tiret" at Photoforum Pasquart.
For twenty years, Rebetez has explored what photography can show of death, approaching it with care. "Ajouter un Tiret" brings this ongoing inquiry together in a reflection on memory, absence, and the traces we leave behind.

📌Last day of the exhibition: Sunday, August 30.

📍Photoforum Pasquart, Biel/Bienne
Tiziana Amico « Zagara »
Virginie Rebetez « Ajouter un Tiret »
14 June – 30 August

Opening hours:
We 12:00-18:00
Th 12:00-20:00
Fr 12:00-18:00
Sa, Su 11:00-18:00

Picture credits: La Rencontre, 2026 © Virginie Rebetez

Adresse

Faubourg Du Lac/Seevorstadt 71
Bienne
2502

Heures d'ouverture

Mercredi	12:00 - 18:00
Jeudi	12:00 - 20:00
Vendredi	12:00 - 18:00
Samedi	11:00 - 18:00
Dimanche	11:00 - 18:00

Téléphone

+41 32 322 44 82

Site Web

http://www.photoforumpasquart.ch/

Notifications

Soyez le premier à savoir et laissez-nous vous envoyer un courriel lorsque Photoforum Pasquart publie des nouvelles et des promotions. Votre adresse e-mail ne sera pas utilisée à d'autres fins, et vous pouvez vous désabonner à tout moment.