Graphic design in French-speaking Switzerland
A project by Schönherwehrs
Opening Thursday 24 March 2011 at 6pm

Panorama, a project developed by Schönherwehrs – a visual communication agency based in Geneva – in collaboration with Katya García-Antón, is about practices and recent productions in graphic design in French-speaking Switzerland. The exhibition aims in particular to look beyond the common perception of graphic design as a purely commercial product and to highlight its impact on culture in general. The exhibition will therefore emphasise its links to contemporary art and the importance of the creative process in graphic production.

Madame Paris, Happy Pets, Gavillet & Rust, League, Renato Zülli, Georges Calame, Flavia Cocchi, Schönherwehrs, Maximage, Werner Jeker, Martin Oberli, Notter + Vigne, DIY, Körner Union, Roger Pfund, Billy Ben, Schaffter Sahli, Aris Zenone, Fageta, Charlotte & Mathias, superbüro, Federal

23th June 2011 at 7pm: ARTY NIGHT, roundtable discussion on the PANORAMA exhibition.
Moderator: Marie-Pierre Genecand, cultural journalist at Le Temps and RTS, Espace 2

And the guided tours:
- "L’heure du thé au Centre": Saturdays and Sundays at 3pm
- "L’appétit pour l’art": Wednesdays at 12am

MEDIATION: In relationship with PANORAMA, the collective microsillons will work with small groups
of participants on a series of reading workshops. More details on this project on www.microsillons.org

Opening Wednesday 20 April 2011 at 6pm 

The American artist Taryn Simon’s first solo show in Switzerland introduces her most recent work, "Contraband", an analysis of JFK airport New York, one of the world's major transport hubs, and its passengers. Created as a result of an arduous and physically demanding sojourn at the airport requiring the artist to adjust to its relentless 24hr rhythm, "Contraband" functions as a time-capsule of early 21st century global experience.

Taryn Simon, "Oca (Prohibited)", 2010 1 archival inkjet print in 1 plexiglas box, 23,5 x 21 x 6,4 cm, ed. of 4 © Taryn Simon, Courtesy Gagosian Gallery	Bird corpse, labeled as home décor, Indonesia to Miami, Florida (prohibited) ANIMAL CORPSES (PROHIBITED) © Taryn Simon, Courtesy Gagosian Gallery

21st July 2011 at 7pm: ARTY NIGHT, roundtable discussion on the contraband topic
Moderator : Florence Grivel, visual arts specialist and RTS presenter, Espace 2

And the guided tours:
- "L’heure du thé au Centre": Saturdays and Sundays at 3pm
- "L’appétit pour l’art": Wednesdays at 12am

Opening on Thursday 1st September from 6pm to 9pm
Announcement of the winners at 6pm

It’s been thirteen years now that, every year, a dozen artists from Geneva are invited to take part in
this exhibition and compete for one of the three grants offered by the Berthoud, Lissignol-Chevalier,
and Galland Funds of the Ville de Genève. A unique opportunity is provided to discover the young and
particularly dynamic scene of contemporary creation in Geneva.

The winners 2010: Henry Deletra Hanna, Collectif_fact and Maude Schneider

Henry Deletra Hanna, "Two Horses Walk into a Bar", 2010	Collectif_fact "Ways of Worldmaking", 2010	Maude Schneider, "Leurre 2", 2010

The guided tours:
- "L’heure du thé au Centre": Saturdays and Sundays at 3pm
- "L’appétit pour l’art": Wednesdays at 12am

As part of the platform:

Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève presents:

4th floor:
Starting September 2011, the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève will host, on the 4th floor, a regular
video programme on VDU (monitor) featuring international as well as national and local artists.

The first cycle of this new programming will be launched on September 1st 2011, at the oocasion of
the opening of the BOURSES.

COLLECTIF FACT
4.11.2011 – 15.01.2012

This exhibition explores many chapters of the work of the collective, from when they very started out to
their most recent works: The Centre proposes a neither chronological nor organized in a hierarchy
journey in the wide creative panel of the collective, from electronic arts to video.
In using this hybridization of the forms, the collective makes boundaries between those fields
irrelevant, avoiding classification of the different media.

DAY DEDICATED TO ELECTRONIC ARTS
SATURDAY 5.11.2011.

© collectif_fact 2010

CHRIS MARKER
25.11.2011 – 22.01.2012

Screenings and a thematic as well as collective exhibition starting with "La Jetée" - one of the major
movies of Chris Marker - as starting point, will be presented as a part of a wider project named
"Spirales. Fragments d’une mémoire collective autour de Chris Marker". This project will be carried
out in collaboration with others Genevan /Genevese cultural institutions.

Chris Marker, "La Jetée", 1962. © Argos films.

IMAGE—MOUVEMENT EXTRA MUROS PARTICIPATION:

The platform IMAGE—MOUVEMENT is also invited by LOOP
/THE SCREEN FROM BARCELONA, where the best moments
of IMAGE—MOUVEMENT 2010 will be screened on Friday 20th
May 2011.

More details on the platform IMAGE—MOUVEMENT on our website www.image-mouvement.ch