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Centre de la photographie Genève

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Centre de la photographie Genève

Depuis 1984, un laboratoire de recherche sur la photographie et la société

11/02/2026

A few behind the scene views of the installation of our new exhibition, with over 300 photographs and one critical essay! Uqbaroxy, by Zoe A. Keller and Batia Suter, opens on 18 February at 18:00 in the presence of the artists 🥂

26/11/2025

This week our team is joining Zoe A. Keller and Batia Suter at the Warburg Institute in London for research on the Eranos Archive, which will serve as the basis of their exhibition at Centre de la photographie Genève, coming up in February 2026. An inspiring trip in a unique venue to delve into the human mind and the history of art, ideas, and psychiatry.
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25/07/2025

Summer exhibitions 2/3: this summer, we offer three exhibitions with free admission to see in different venues across the city of Geneva. At Maison de l’enfance et de l’adolescence, Sabine Hess and Nicolas Polli offer a playful but serious experiment on how to live together as a couple in an installation specifically designed for this venue.
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After several years of long-distance relationship, Sabine Hess and Nicolas Polli decided to move in together in 2023, a decision which marked the beginning of the couple’s first artistic collaboration. Their cohabitation began during a residency at the Verzasca Foto Festival, which led to the creation of this work, “One Bed, Two Blankets, Seventy-Six Rules”, consisting of photographs and texts setting out sixty-eight rules for living together. The project continued a year later during a residency at La Becque, in preparation for an exhibition at the Biennale Vevey Images in 2024, during which new images were produced and eight rules were added.
Through photographs and texts, this intimate, humorous and experimental work explores the norms and ideas surrounding their perception of a relationship. The couple shares their reflections on the challenges encountered in their different forms of cohabitation, and the solutions they propose: a set of rules on how to deal with life as a couple, but also a personal manifesto on how to grow together.
The installation invites the public to ‘enter’ their home, which is constantly evolving, transforming and adapting, just like their relationship. The project, also published in book form by Ciao Press, is now in its fourth version, presented at the Maison de l’enfance et de l’adolescence in the form of an new installation, designed specifically for this venue.
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Open Monday-Friday 9:00-17:30
Maison de l’enfance et de l’adolescence, boulevard de la Cluse 26, 1205 Genève
A collaboration with Fondation Convergences
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24/07/2025

Summer exhibitions 1/3: this summer, we offer three exhibitions with free admission to see in different venues across the city of Geneva. In the Parc des Bastions, until 31 July, you can discover the work of Hilla Kurki and Yann Mingard, in an exhibition designed by Onlab.
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The project ‘Almost All the Flowers in My Mother’s Garden’, by Finnish artist Hilla Kurki, was photographed in her mother’s garden. Carefully cultivated garden in south-east Finland, it became almost a rival for the attention of her mother, and is harnessed as a starting point to talk about the challenges she faced in maintaining a close relationship with her mother. With her personal story as the outset of the project, she examines more broadly the complex relationships between mothers and daughters. The intimate memories accompanying the images have been collected from several women artists, including Kurki herself. Excerpts are freely associated with the photographs, forming testimonies about mother-daughter relations.
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With his project ‘Indociles’, Swiss photographer Yann Mingard pays tribute to the plants that are considered invasive. They are often the ones best able to survive in polluted environments, particularly soils contaminated with heavy metals such as lead, mercury, copper or cadmium. These much-maligned organisms can therefore resist destructions brought by human activities. The black-and-white photographs of these ‘bad weeds’ are accompanied by their description, borrowed from the typology of the herbarium, from the field of botany, and by spectrum imagery of the heavy metals they absorb. Indociles is the final chapter of the artist’s trilogy on the Anthropocene, which began in 2009 with ‘Deposit’, followed by ‘Everything is up in the air, thus our vertigo.’
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Open 24/7 until 31 July 2025
Parc des Bastions, side Place de Neuve

Pictures Aline Bovard Rudaz .brz

08/07/2025

🌙 Summer late in Quartier des Bains on Thursday 10 July! Before the summer break, the galleries and institutions invite you to discover new exhibitions, meet the artists and attend performances until 21.00. This free and convivial evening offers the opportunity to explore the contemporary art scene through a broad range of propositions.
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With Centre de la photographie Genève, DOMUM, Espace_L, Fabienne Levy, FMAC, Galerie 38, Galerie lange + pult, Galerie Mezzanin, Lovay Fine Arts, Olivier Varenne art Moderne & Contemporain, SEU – Salle d’exposition de l’UNIGE, Skopia / P.-H Jaccaud, Taste Contemporary, Wilde, et Xippas
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07/07/2025

Until 31 July, find the works of Hilla Kurki and Yann Mingard in parc des Bastions (side place de Neuve) in a new presentation designed by Onlab studio! The flowers from Hilla’s mother’s garden serve as a starting point for an exploration of mother-daughter relationships, while Yann’s Indociles seek out and question the definitions of invasive plants.

04/07/2025

We built a house! Sabine Hess and Nicolas Polli’s project "One Bed, Two Blankets, Seventy-Six Rules" is now on view at Maison de l’enfance et de l’adolescence (MEA) for the whole summer! This project is a playful and experimental take on the joys and challenges of navigating living as a couple and living together, and forms a tender but frank manifesto on what it takes to build a life together. This version of the project has been specially adapted for MEA, a hospital dedicated to the mental health of children and teens. It follows two outdoor iterations of the project presented at in 2023 and in 2024.
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A very big thank you to the artists for sharing this adventure with us, and to our wonderful team for building the house: Vanessa, Christophe, Aline, Alix and Amina ✨
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Open to the public Monday to Friday from 9.00 to 17.30 (free admission)
Maison de l’enfance et de l’adolescence
Boulevard de la Cluse 26
1205 Genève
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27/06/2025

Opening at parc des Bastions! A satellite version of the exhibition Botanical Murmurs, with the works of Yann Mingard and Hilla Kurki, will be on view in the park for the entire month of July. The artworks take a new dimension (literally) and context, with the lush vegetation of the park as their surroundings. The exhibition is designed by the Geneva bureau Onlab, who have imagined a new presentation for these work.
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Join us on Tuesday 1 July at 18.00 for a drink in the park to celebrate summer and this spectacular outdoor exhibition!
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Pictures by Hilla Kurki (colour) and Yann Mingard (black and white) and exhibition preview by Onlab.

26/06/2025

We are proud to support the first Giga Photo Festival, taking place now in Geneva. Giga is a joint initiative of UNICEF and the International Telecommunication Union, working to connect every school in the world to the Internet and every young person to information, opportunity and choice. The first edition of their photography award and exhibition aims to make visible they’re remarkable by highlighting the significance of being connected in a multifaceted world.
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The outdoor exhibition (now at Plaine de Plainpalais) features 30 winning images selected from 3420 submissions from 89 countries. Photographers responded to an open call to portray how internet connectivity transforms human connection. The selected works explore how digital tools bridge physical distance, support solidarity, and enable interaction across communities.
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Among the winners in the Multiple Image Category is a series documenting how, amid major legal shifts around abortion rights in Latin America and the United States, a new generation of women and girls is turning to digital tools to build networks of care and solidarity. “AcompañantAs weaves a powerful narrative of resistance and care in the face of abortion criminalization. It reveals how, through digital threads, networks of support quietly bloom. This award honors the quiet courage of those who, often unseen, nurture others, organize across borders, and stitch together transnational solidarities. It is a tribute to the invisible yet radiant ties of sorority and connection, bonds as tender as they are unbreakable”, shares Mahé Elipe, the author of the AcompañantAs photo series.
Other winning images showcase the powerful intersection between connectivity and major social and humanitarian issues : the human cost of migration, for instance, but also the resilience it reveals - particularly the invisible threads that bind loved ones across borders. In exile, technology has become a vital lifeline.
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As part of our support of the festival, Centre de la Photographie Genève is providing mentoring to three of the laureates.

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20/06/2025

We had a blast! Throwback to the 5th edition of Photobooks Switzerland on 13-15 June at Le Commun. With two exhibitions, a fair with 30+ publishers and independent photographers, and workshops, portfolio review and talks, it was our largest edition to date. Many thanks to all the photobook enthusiasts who braved the heat (and the clearly cursed AC), the publishers who walked, drove and flew to Geneva with hundreds of books, the artists, collectors and librarians who shared their insights and passion, and made the festival a (literally hot) success. Our library is many books richer and will keep us busy and thinking until the next edition 🔥
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A special thanks to our partners .switzerland & .mityukova for their tireless passion, to .vanzolini and for bringing to Geneva, to and for sending the 30 incredible zines and book dummies from Hong Kong to Geneva, to .m.serez .steffen .bookshop .vanzolini for leading the workshops, talks and dummy clinic
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And to all the publishers who travelled to Geneva to share their incredible books
Tipi bookshop, Artphilein Editions, Blow Up Press, BLOW UP PRESS, Editions du Caïd, La Maison de Z, Macula, The Light Observer, pool collective, Meteoro Editions, Essarter, Mosoma Books + MSBWB, Ediciones Posibles, Ciao Press, Esotopies, Bureau d’Etudes Japonaises, Focale Galerie-Librairie, Miami books, Lotta Books, Haus am Gern, Gabriel Flückiger, Vincent Jendly, Julian Stettler, 6mangoes, Josefin Borgenfalk, Divergence images, Claire Galloni d’Istria & Malu Valerio
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Pictures: Aline Bovard Rudaz .brz

18/06/2025

Upcoming guided tours: our facilitator, Léonie Rose Marion, introduces you to the artworks of our current exhibitions and gives you behind the scene insights about the practice of the artists.
📍21 June at 11.00: guided tour in French of the exhibition Bruissements végétaux (free admission) at Bibliothèque de Genève (prom. des Bastions 8, 1205 Geneva)
📍23 June at 12.15: guided tour in French of the exhibition Chrysalides by Ilaria Sagaria (free admission) at Maison de l’enfance et de l’adolescence (boulevard de la Cluse 26, 1205 Geneva)
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Images: .brz

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