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Photoforum Pasquart

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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.

01/06/2026

📌Vernissage: Tiziana Amico, Zagara & Virginie Rebetez, Ajouter un Tiret.  Saturday, 13 June 2026, from 17:00   📸We warmly invite you to the opening of : “Zagara” by Tiziana Amico & “Ajouter un Tiret” by Virginie Rebetez. Two exhibitions, one shared question: what can a photograph tell and what stays unsaid?  Virginie Rebetez has spent twenty years asking what photography can show of death approaching it with a care that our visual culture usually avoids.  ✨As usual, the opening takes place as a double opening toghether with Kunsthaus Biel/Centre d’art Bienne, where several new exhibitions and projects open the same evening.  Discover new positions by John M Armleder, Mimosa Echard, Jürg Nänni and La Dépendance & Friends.   📍Programme:  17:00 Doors open 17:15 Speeches 17:30 Apéro 18:00 Tour with the artists  19:00 Catering    The same day there will be the vernissage at the Abbatiale de Bellelay.  Gil Pellaton is also opening there!  For the occasion a shuttle Bus is organised to bring you from Bienne to the Abbatiale and back:  14:00 Biel/Bienne train station —> Abbatiale de Bellelay 16:30 Abbatiale de Bellelay —> Biel/Bienne   Adults: CHF 10.- Children up to 16: CHF 5.-  Registration closes 11 June (limited places)       The exhibitions have been made possible thanks to the generous support of the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, the canton of Vaud, the Dr Georg and Josi Guggenheim Foundation, and the Erna and Curt Burgauer Foundation. The annual programme is supported by the Temperatio Foundation and the Stiftung für Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte.  

01/06/2026

📌Vernissage: Tiziana Amico Zagara & Virginie Rebetez Ajouter un Tiret.
Saturday, 13 June 2026, from 17:00

📸We warmly invite you to the opening of : “Zagara” by Tiziana Amico & “Ajouter un Tiret” by Virginie Rebetez. Two exhibitions, one shared question: what can a photograph tell and what stays unsaid?
Tiziana Amico follows a family history in Sicily, the scent of orange blossom and what was silenced across generations.

✨As usual, the opening takes place as a double opening toghether with Kunsthaus Biel/Centre d’art Bienne, where several new exhibitions and projects open the same evening.
Discover new positions by John M Armleder, Mimosa Echard, Jürg Nänni and La Dépendance & Friends.

📍Programme:
17:00 Doors open
17:15 Speeches
17:30 Apéro
18:00 Tour with the artists
19:00 Catering

The same day there will be the vernissage at the Abbatiale de Bellelay.
Gil Pellaton is also opening there!
For the occasion a shuttle Bus is organised to bring you from Bienne to the Abbatiale and back:

14:00 Biel/Bienne train station —> Abbatiale de Bellelay
16:30 Abbatiale de Bellelay —> Biel/Bienne

Adults: CHF 10.-
Children up to 16: CHF 5.-

Registration closes 11 June (limited places)

The exhibitions have been made possible thanks to the generous support of the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, the canton of Vaud, the Dr Georg and Josi Guggenheim Foundation, and the Erna and Curt Burgauer Foundation. The annual programme is supported by the Temperatio Foundation and the Stiftung für Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte.

30/05/2026

[PRIX PHOTOFORUM OPEN CALL 2026 –JURY MEMBER]

📸 Meet Sophie Huguenot one of our Prix Photoforum 2026 jury members.

Artiste-photographe installée à Lausanne, elle est responsable de la photographie
pour la formation professionnelle médias et design à l’Ecole d’Arts Visuels de Berne
et Bienne. Elle a également enseigné à l’ECAL et à l’Ecole romande d’arts et de
communication.
Avec la photographie, Sophie Huguenot souhaite tisser des liens avec d’autres
milieux professionnels — collaborations, mandats, recherche académique, écoles
professionnelles — afin de nourrir des réflexions communes. Elle considère la
photographie comme un outil essentiel pour porter un regard critique sur notre
environnement.

Project 1 (Pictures 2,3,4):
Lauréate des Swiss Design Awards en 2012, elle a poursuivi sa recherche artistique
sur la mise en scène de l’actualité à la télévision pendant plus de 10 ans. Avec sa
chambre photographique argentique, elle s’est intéressée à la place de l’humain face
aux nouvelles technologies et a questionné une mise en scène de l’actualité en
pleine mutation. En 2025, elle publie chez Spector Books TELEVISION - Essai
photographique sur la mise en scène de l’actualité.

Project 2 (Pictures 5,6):
Elle a développé en collaboration avec INT Studio la plateforme digitale
www.television.photo. Un site web qui propose une manière innovante de découvrir
le travail photographique présenté dans le livre TELEVISION, consacré aux coulisses de la Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS).

Credits:
Portrait: © David Gagnebin-de Bons

30/05/2026

[Bieler Fototage 2026, 4/4] 📸

The Caspian Sea is dying. And a single word may be to blame.

To close out this year's , we want to shine a light on the work of Khashayar Javanmardi, winner of the Prix Photoforum 2024 🎉 and one of the most urgent voices in contemporary documentary photography.

His long-term project "Caspian" documents the ecological collapse of the world's largest lake, misleadingly called a "sea" for centuries. Under international maritime law, this designation has allowed bordering nations to drill, pollute, and overfish with little ecological accountability. NASA studies warn the Caspian could lose up to twenty meters in depth within the coming decades, threatening the livelihoods of millions across five nations.

Javanmardi grew up on the southern shores of the Caspian and is now based in Switzerland. He has dedicated his practice to this cause, and his work is not only a documentation of crisis but a call to action: he advocates for renaming the Caspian from "Sea" to "Lake", a linguistic, legal and symbolic act that would compel surrounding nations to treat it with shared ecological responsibility.
The project unfolds in four chapters tracing life and landscape along the lake's full perimeter. The first, "Caspian; A Southern Reflection," was published in 2024 by Loose Joints and received international recognition. Presented at the Neues Museum Biel as part of Bieler Fototage.

The festival is open until 6 p.m. today!

© Khashayar Javanmardi

29/05/2026

[PRIX PHOTOFORUM OPEN CALL 2026 – JURY MEMBER 2/3]

📸 Meet Sophie Huguenot an artist-photographer based in Lausanne, responsible for photography within the professional training program in media and design at the Ecole d'Arts Visuels de Berne et Bienne. She has also taught at ECAL and the Ecole romande d'arts et de communication. A board member of Photo, the museum behind this open call, Sophie considers photography an essential tool for casting a critical eye on our environment — building bridges across collaborations, commissions, academic research and vocational schools to foster shared reflection.

Get to know her practice through her project TELEVISION: lauréate des Swiss Design Awards in 2012, Sophie spent over ten years researching the staging of current events on television. Working with an analogue large-format camera, she explored the place of the human in the face of new technologies, questioning a news landscape in full transformation. In 2025, she published TELEVISION — Essai photographique sur la mise en scène de l'actualité with Spector Books, alongside the digital platform www.television.photo — developed with INT Studio as an innovative way to explore the work behind the scenes of Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS).

Credits:
Portrait: © David Gagnebin-de Bons
Project: © Sophie Huguenot

27/05/2026

[PRIX PHOTOFORUM OPEN CALL 2026 📣]

Have a photography project that deserves to be seen? Whether classic, experimental, documentary or conceptual – the Prix Photoforum is looking for works that surprise, move, and spark dialogue. What matters is your voice and vision.

Open call for all ages, topics, and styles. A jury of experts, composed of Sophie Huguenot (photographer & board member of Photoforum), (curator, Fondation Gandur pour l’Art & Centre Culturel Afropea), .guerra.lenzburg (director, Fotofestival Lenzburg), Gregor Huber (publisher, Edition Hors-Sujet), and (director & curator, Photoforum), will select 10–12 artists for the final exhibition – with a 5,000 CHF award and participation fee for all selected. Find all details & how to apply on our website.

📆 Deadline of the Open Call: 7th of July 2026, 23:59

The application is free for Photoforum members, fees apply for non-members and there is a discount for students.

Pictures credit:
© Pedro Rodrigues, “Control of the Natural Landscape”, 2024, Exhibited at Prix Photoforum 2025.

25/05/2026

[Bieler Fototage 2026, 3/4] 📸

The variety of artists exposed at the e are well represented by those who are shown at Photoforum; let’s discover others three artists:

, a women’s collective, showcases “wir / nous,” created during the feminist demonstrations of June 14, 2019 in Switzerland. To preserve the memory of this underrepresented event, they also produced a book documenting the project.
angela.marzullo explores the space between performance and photography with her project “Magic Carpet” and “Bomb A”. In both, the carpet becomes a symbol of visual and feminist resistance, transforming fragility into collective strength.

presents “Les eaux-fortes,” a project examining the relationship between women and the sea, showing aspects of maritime labor, long considered an inaccessible space for women due to historical and political barriers.

Interested in learning more about photography? Join the LUNAX workshop on May 27, from 17:30 to 20:30. This participatory session invites photographers to explore curatorial challenges and experiment with creating a collaborative exhibition.
Reserve your spot by emailing: [email protected]. ✨

Pictures credits:
© Marion Nitsch / Purple Eye
© Angela Marzullo
© Julie Bourges

23/05/2026

[PRIX PHOTOFORUM OPEN CALL 2026 –JURY MEMBER]

📸 Meet one of our Prix Photoforum 2026 jury members.

Olivia Alexandra Fahmy is a curator and art historian specialising in contemporary art, photography and cultural studies related to African diasporas. She is curator at the Fondation Gandur pour l'Art as well as an independent cultural worker. She graduated with a Master in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmith's College, University of London. She regularly writes articles in scientific catalogs and exhibition catalogs and collaborates with art schools like HEAD (Geneva) and ECAL (Lausanne). In the past, she was part of the Tunnel Tunnel collective and co-curated the eponymous art space (2015-2022). She more recently joined the Centre culturel Afropea initiated by Rachel M'Bon, with Joël Vacheron, to develop itinerant cultural programs within multiple spaces and institutions.

Project:
(1) sans titre (merci) © Camille Kaiser, 2025
Artworks using photography and photographs using tactics of subversion, non-representation, or revealing materiality, placing the viewers in a non-direct space of self reflexivity are part of an ensemble I have been aiming to work with for the past years. Camille Kaiser's practice is one I have been particularly following in that frame. Working with personal as well as historical colonial archives, photography and video, an abstraction is yet at work within her production. Kaiser reassembles a number of information that she organizes in different ideas, appearances but also dissimulations as for this artwork entitled "sans titre (merci)" (2025). The relation to *gazing* is questioned, although different forms isolated from reality are easily recognizable.

Credits:
Portrait: © Emilie Muller Photography
Project: (1) sans titre (merci) © Camille Kaiser, 2025

21/05/2026

Free workshop for photographers 📸

Edit, debate, curate – In this hands-on workshop, dive into the world of collective practice. Together with Swiss photography collective LUNAX, you'll put together a group exhibition and discover how images can make the climate crisis visible. Which photo tells the stronger story? How do collective decisions emerge?

The workshop will be led by three LUNAX members: (photographer, Tagesanzeiger), (LUNAX co-founder), and (photo editor at Tamedia, photographer) – all three work at the intersection of journalism and art.

is a Swiss photography collective whose practice is based on collaboration, shared responsibility, and collective perspectives.

📌Wednesday, May 27, 17:30–20:30
@ Photoforum Pasquart
Language: German (DE)
The workshop is free of charge. Places are limited to 15 participants. Registration is required at [email protected]

Pictures credit :
Picture 1,2 : Workshop Impressions © LUNAX
Picture 3: © LUNAX Severin Bigler/Michael Schmid, 2026

20/05/2026

[PRIX PHOTOFORUM OPEN CALL 2026 📣]

Have a photography project that deserves to be seen? Whether classic, experimental, documentary or conceptual – the Prix Photoforum is looking for works that surprise, move, and spark dialogue. What matters is your voice and vision.

�Open call for all ages, topics, and styles. A jury of experts, composed of Sophie Huguenot (photographer & board member of Photoforum), (curator, Fondation Gandur pour l’Art & Centre Culturel Afropea), .guerra.lenzburg (director, Fotofestival Lenzburg), Gregor Huber (publisher, Edition Hors-Sujet), and (director & curator, Photoforum), will select 10–12 artists for the final exhibition – with a 5,000 CHF award and participation fee for all selected. Find all details & how to apply on our website.��

📆 Deadline of the Open Call: 7th of July 2026, 23:59��

The application is free for Photoforum members, fees apply for non-members and there is a discount for students.�

Pictures credit:
© Maria Sturm, You don’t look Native to me, 2023, Exhibited at Prix Photoforum 2025.

Adresse

Faubourg Du Lac/Seevorstadt 71
Bienne
2502

Öffnungszeiten

Mittwoch	12:00 - 18:00
Donnerstag	12:00 - 20:00
Freitag	12:00 - 18:00
Samstag	11:00 - 18:00
Sonntag	11:00 - 18:00

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+41 32 322 44 82

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