As an echo to Auguste Veillon’s show Voyages au fil de l’eau, the second floor of the Museum presents an exhibition devoted to two main themes in the work of the swiss painter, the Lake Léman and the Orient, through works by contemporary artists.
 
150 years after Veillon’s journey to the MENA region, the British-Tunisian artist Rayane Jemaa and the Swiss artist Céline Burnand offer very different testimonies from the idealized Orient depicted by Veillon, between a representation of the Orient through video games and the intimacy of a daily life in Cairo.
 
As for the Lake Léman, it offers new perspectives to contemporary artists: mystical and free landscapes-face by the French artist Vidya Gastaldon, it is also the witness of the long-distance relationship of the two women artists who form the Lebanese-Moroccan collective Jeanne et Moreau. Finally, the members of near. swiss association for contemporary photography present the privileged views of photographers for whom the region has no secrets.

Vernissage 9th March, 2023 at 6pm – Join us

near. members participating:

Sarah Carp
Thalles Piaget
Tiziana Amico
Tomasz Fall
Yann Amstutz
Yann Laubscher
Mathilda Olmi
Matthieu Croizier
Mauren Brodbeck
Nicolas Delaroche
Nicolas Haeni
Rebecca Bowring
Julien Heimann
Luca Ellena
Marco Frauchiger et Rebecca Michelet
Margaux Corda
Marie-Pierre Cravedi
Martial Mingam
Emilien Itim
Florian Luthi
Graziella Antonini
Guillaume Collignon
Arthur Lehmann
Isabelle Blanc
Jennifer Niederhauser Schlup et Léonore Baud
Anna-Tia Buss
Anne-Sophie Aeby
Damien Sivier
Delphine Schacher
Eden Levi Am
Samuel Matzig
Stephen Kelly
Aline d’Auria
Samuel Matzig
Antigoni Papantoni
Léonard Rossi
Aline Bovard Rudaz
Emilio Nasser
Aline Henchoz