I am a curator, museologist and lecturer specialising in photography, based in Switzerland. I am the director of the Centre de la photographie Genève, after serving as director of Photoforum Pasquart, in Biel, from 2018 to 2021.
Latest exhibitions, books & events
18-19 October 2024
Workshop on exhibition curating for professional artists and photographers, led together with Nicolas Polli
Centre de la photographie Genève
2 October 2024
Opening of Spots, group exhibition on inclusive venues in Geneva with the photographs of Sarah Carp, Matthieu Gafsou and Aude Mayer, in collaboration with Cerebral Genève and A l’Ouest et par-delà
Plaine de Plainpalais, Genève
7-8 September 2024
Nominator for Plat(t)form Winterthur. Nominated artists: Sara De Brito Faustino, Tim Rod, Samuel Spreyz
Fotomuseum Winterthur
3 September 2024
Opening of Palonegro, solo show by Colombian artist Luis Carlos Tovar
Centre de la photographie Genève
30 August to 6 October 2024
First edition of the Swiss Photomonth organised by the association Spectrum – Photography in Switzerland
Switzerland
26 August 2024
Opening of Quand les images prennent soin, group show on the relations between care and photography
Le Commun, Geneva
21 August 2024
Opening of Quand les images prennent soin, duo show with Daniel Jack Lyons and Sabine Hess
Maison de l’enfance et de l’adolescence, Geneva
22-23 June 2024
Fourth edition of Photobooks Switzerland, the Swiss photobook festival
Centre de la photographie Genève
11 June 2024
Opening of Relever la nuit, first solo exhibition by young Geneva-based artist Léonie Rose Marion
Centre de la photographie Genève
21 May 2024
Il faut qu’on parle… de perspectives économiques, talk with photographers Jean-Luc Andrianasolo and Olga Cafiero
Centre de la photographie Genève
14 May 2024
Opening of Le Quotidien est ailleurs, second edition of the photography biennale of the schools of Canton Geneva
Centre de la photographie Genève
April 2024
Article on Leo Fabrizio for SIKART Lexicon on art
Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIK-ISEA), Zurich
25 April 2024
Book launch of Medecine Tree by Lucas Olivet published by Skinner Boox
Centre de la photographie Genève
21-22 March 2024
Workshop on exhibition making for the first year BA students
Camera Arts, Lucerne
13 March 2024
Round table on research in photography with Yann Mingard and Virginie Rebetez, moderated by Léonie Rose Marion
Centre de la photographie Genève
8-9 March 2024
Workshop for artists and curators on exhibition making
Centre de la photographie Genève
8 March 2024
Round table with Sara De Brito Faustino, Mathieu Bernard-Reymond and Leigh Merrill, moderated by Claus Gunti
Centre de la photographie Genève
27 February 2024
Opening of Making Light of Every Thing, group show on the manipulated image & intimacy
Centre de la photographie Genève
22 February 2024
Round table & book launch of Everything goes dark a little further down by Matthieu Croizier
Centre d’art contemporain, Yverdon-les-Bains
14 February 2024
Artist talk with Marie José Burki on the occasion of her exhibition Anatomies d’un monde
Xippas Gallery, Geneva
2 February 2024
Book launch of La Levée des corps, latest monograph of Virginie Rebetez
Ferme Asile, Sion
24-28 January 2024
Preview of Making Light of Every Thing at artgenève, with Sara De Brito Faustino, Peter Hauser, Martin Widmer
artgenève 2024, Palexpo, Geneva
17 January 2024
Opening of Tsai Ming-Liang. Waker, a collaboration between Black Movie Festival, Centre culturel de Taïwan à Paris and Centre de la photographie Genève
Le Commun, Geneva
14 December 2023
Opening of A Poem in Two Voices with the photographers of KOZ Collective and Collective 202
Immeuble Assayag, Casablanca, Morocco
La Chambre Claire, Algiers, Algeria
5 December 2023
Opening of Riar Rizaldi. A Phantom Ride of the Sunda Plate, co-curated with Holly Roussel and Claus Gunti
Centre de la Photographie Genève
2 December 2023
Opening of Flora Imaginaria: The Flower in Contemporary Photography, co-curated with William Ewing.
Philip Hulitar Sculpture Garden, The Four Arts, Palm Beach, Florida
September 2023
Centre de la photographie Genève is joining the FUTURES Photography platform and network
Futures Foundation, Amsterdam
16-17 September 2023
Photobooks Switzerland, first photobook festival in Switzerland
Centre de la photographie Genève
12-17 September 2023
First edition of the Geneva Art Week, organised by Genève.Art
Canton of Geneva
12 September 2023
Opening of You’re so Tehran!, solo show by Hannah Darabi
Centre de la photographie Genève
9-10 September 2023
Nominator for Plat(t)form at Fotomuseum Winterthur. Nominated photographers: Aline Bovard Rudaz, Sabine Hess, Emilien Itim, Lisa Mazenauer.
Fotomuseum Winterthur
July 2023
Joining the teaching faculty of the CAS in Theory and History of Photography at University of Zurich
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Zurich
5 July 2023
Round table discussion on ‘The Individual, The Collective and The Project – Building bridges with experts’ organised by Inland
Inland Lab, Les Rencontres d’Arles
13 June 2023
Opening of Matter, solo show by Aleix Plademunt, first presentation outside of Spain of his most ambitious project to date.
Centre de la photographie Genève
3 June 2023
One-day workshop on selecting and sequencing images for a project, for professional photographers and artists, with Nicolas Polli
Centre de la photographie Genève
2 June 2023
‘We need to talk… about photobooks’: talk with Nicolas Polli, designer, photographer and publisher
Centre de la photographie Genève
27 May 2023
‘Curating contemporary photography’: guest lecture for the programme CAS in Theory and History of Photography at University of Zurich
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Zurich
26 May 2023
Book launch of Movements of Air, with Christoph Oeschger and Florian Dombois
Centre de la photographie Genève
10 May 2023
‘We need to talk …about photo editors’: talk with Anne Wyrsch, head of iconography at Le Temps.
Centre de la photographie Genève
May 2023
Launch of the new mentorship programme: artists mentoring artists for a six-months period
Centre de la photographie Genève
29 April 2023
Introduction to exhibitions workshop for PhotoGenève Festival, a workshop for professional photographers and artists
Geneva
27 April 2023
Opening of Human Rights 3.0 in partnership with the Foundation Act On Your Future.
Centre de la photographie Genève
26 April 2023
Flower Power, talk with William Ewing on flower in the history of photography
Société de Lecture, Geneva
20-22 April 2023
Spectrum Days at Camera Arts organised by Spectrum – Photography in Switzerland
HSLU, Lucerne
29 March 2023
Jury for the documentary photography grant of the City of Geneva. Laureate: Aline Bovard Rudaz
Geneva
14 February 2023
Opening of Avez-vous déjà vu un iceberg sous la pluie?, solo show of Anastasia Mityukova on her research on Arctic imagery
Centre de la photographie Genève
9 February 2023
B&H Photography Podcast with Abelardo Morell about Flora Photographica
B&H Photography Podcast, New York
January 2023
Article for SIKART, the Dictionary of art in Switzerland, published by the Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIK-ISEA), about Geneva-based artist Marion Tampon-Lajarriette
SIK ISEA, Zurich
31 January 2023
Les fonds photographiques du canton de Genève, panel on photographic collections and institutions in Geneva
Institut National Genevois, Genève
25-29 January 2023
Solo presentation of Lea Kunz, in collaboration with standard/deluxe
artgenève, Geneva
17-21 January 2023
How to exhibit, 5 day workshop on exhibition for emerging photographers, part of the photography training programme Crossroads
La Chambre claire, Algiers