10 June – 30 September 2022 / Parc des Eaux-Vives & La Grange, Plage des Eaux-Vives
Opening: Thursday June 9, 6 pm at the Parc La Grange
Curated by Devim Bayar (WIELS Brussels)
In collaboration with MAMCO Genève and the City of Geneva
For its third edition, the Geneva Biennale Sculpture Garden focuses on contemporary artists who question our relationships to others and to ourselves in an increasingly unstable environment. More than thirty artists from Brazil, Germany, Kuwait, the United States, Belgium, Senegal or Mexico, among other countries, have been gathered around 26 projects, more than half of which are new productions conceived especially for the exhibition. The latter was developed during a particularly troubled period and it undoubtedly reflects the concerns but also the engagement of the artists for the world in which we live. Ecology, new technologies, cultural and gender identities, knowledge sharing, are some of the many issues raised by their works and which constantly bring us back to the essential and always open question: how to live together?
The Parc La Grange, Parc des Eaux-Vives and its nearby beach offer privileged spaces to meet and exchange; from reunions with family and friends to sports outings or romantic dates, from reconnecting with nature or with oneself to parties or school excursions. Beyond their recreational character, these spaces are above all shared spaces, where not only affinities but also disparities and divergences are articulated. The artists invited to exhibit in these specific settings investigate the tensions inherent to the public space but also their potential for emancipation. The variety of their proposals–which go beyond the strict domain of sculpture to invest those of design, architecture, video, photography, writing, and more–testifies to the way in which art constantly reinvents itself in light of contemporary challenges.
With
Ana Alenso (*1982, VE),Céline Condorelli (*1974, FR), Zuzanna Czebatul (*1986, PL), Liz Deschenes (*1966, US), Koenraad Dedobbeleer (*1975, BE), David Douard (*1983, FR), Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys (*1965 & 1966, BE), Gabriel Kuri (*1970, MX), Daniel Lie (*1988, BR/ID), Lucy McKenzie (*1977, UK), Willem Oorebeek (*1953, NL), Ceylan Öztrük (*1984, TR), Mathias Pfund (*1992, CH), Douglas Abdell (*1947, US) Sophia Al-Maria (*1983, QA/US), Sammy Baloji (*1978, DRC), Nina Beier (*1975, DK), Meriem Bennani (*1988, MA), Charlotte vander Borght (*1988, BE), Elif Erkan (*1986, TUR) , Alia Farid (*1985, KW), Manfred Pernice (*1963, DE), Bojan Šarčević (*1974, FR), Erika Verzutti (*1971, BR), Axelle Stiefel (*1988, US/CH) with vorstellen.network, Work.Master students of the HEAD–Genève: Mbaye Diop (*1981, SN), Nicolas Ponce (*1998, CH), Alpha Sy (*1992, SN) and Yul Tomatala (*1993, CH) with the intervention of Sonia Kacem (*1985, CH/TN)