Past
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Sangchul Choi
A Thousand Traces 25 September 2020 - 10 September 2021 A Thousand Traces, opening September 25, 2020 at AV Modern & Contemporary retraces the evolution of South-Korean painter Choi Sangchul's minimal abstract pratice. Read more -
Cédric Lollia
27 February - 31 July 2020 French Guadeloupean artist Cédric Lollia (b. 1975), grew up in the Paris suburbs. The Influence of the street art culture of the 1980's transpires in his schematic figures, choice of subjects and compositions. Lollia 's practice has evolved over the course of the years and of his wanderings. From the... Read more -
You Hyeonkyeong
27 February - 31 July 2020 Read more -
John Isaacs
This is the place 22 November 2019 - 22 February 2020 John Isaacs' first solo show in Geneva : This is the place, offers an overview of the artist's practice. Read more
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Infra-ordinaire
The re-enchanted everyday 3 May - 6 July 2019 The exhibition Infra-ordinaire brings together Mireille Blanc, Louise Boulter, Laetitia de Chocqueuse and Vincent Kriste, four emerging artists from differerent backgrounds and origins. The works on display are addressing directly the domestic environment: both our habits and our penchant for possession are called into question. The objects of our everyday... Read more -
Korean's Spirit II
13 December 2018 - 13 April 2019 Following the success of the first exhibition in 2017, confirmed by the public's reception at Asia Now Paris in October 2018, the gallery is proud to present on the occasion of its new exhibition Korean's Spirit II, a new selection of South Korean artists. Read more -
Eiyna עינא
21 September - 17 November 2018 The exhibition showcases works by 9 contemporary Israeli artists: Maya Attoun, Yifat Bezalel, Rafael Y. Herman, Yitzhak Livneh, Rami Maymon, Tatyana Nazarenko, Sasha Serber, Guy Zagursky & Shira Zelwer. Read more -
L'Air du Temps
The art of modernity 1900-1930 27 April - 28 July 2018 During the first 30 years of the twentieth century, the costumes and codes of the fashion underwent the most radical transformations. Fashion became a definite marker of social change, innovation and modernity. The exhibition 'L'air du Temps, the art of modernity 1900-1930' offers to look at those changes through the... Read more
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Roger Pfund
7 March - 20 April 2018 The French-Swiss painter and graphic designerRoger Pfund (*1943) aims to explore and to experiment different creative fields. For Pfund there is neither contradiction nor incompatibility in his approach, but on the contrary, a special connexion. Therefore, painting is the source of his art, at the beginning of everything he undertakes,... Read more -
Korean's Spirit
3 October 2017 - 3 March 2018 In a world of digital civilization defined by the Internet and social media culture, how must contemporary artists address contemporary aesthetics and create their unique artistic languages? Though it may sound different from questions raised by artists of the analogue generation, this question is fundamentally similar to artists’ concerns in... Read more -
1917
Russian Phoenixes in the West 27 April - 28 July 2017 Devoted to the Russian artistic diaspora, the exhibition raises the prolific exchange between Russia and the West. Many artists in the first quarter of the 20th Century left their homeland for France, Germany or United States. Their work varied widely in terms of style, as did their careers before and... Read more -
Red Desert
The place where activism becomes attitude 18 November 2016 - 25 February 2017 The group exhibition showcases a selection of contemporary works rooted in societal and political activism. Forty-three works by thirteen artists - such as Olafur Eliasson, Ryan Mendoza, Aron Demetz, Hans Op de Beeck, Carmen Perrin and John Isaacs - participate in debates about immigration, racism, consumerism, technology and environmentalism. Read more
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Feu!
23 September - 12 November 2016 The exhibition FEU! provides a look at the research path taken by the two artists - Robin Bucher and Patrick Csajko, alias RB/CP - over recent years by using the numerous variations of the ancient technique of anamorphosis. An entertaining programme composed of installations in situ, of unique sculptures where... Read more -
Monte Verità
Expressionist Utopia 15 April - 30 July 2016 Founded in the early 20th century as an alternative vegetarian colony, Monte Verità quickly became a cradle of European counterculture as prominent artists, anarchists, philosophers and dancers settled there. Key themes apparent in the exhibited works are Dance, Nature and the Human Body as forms of expression of artistic and... Read more -
Henk Helmantel
A Contemporary Old Master 16 October 2015 - 27 February 2016 Exhibiting for the very first time in Switzerland, celebrated Dutch artist Henk Helmantel will be showcasing a series of exquisitely executed still lifes, intimate table scenes and interior scenes of medieval churches and monasteries Whilst the works feel familiar due to their traditional inspirations, they are also surprisingly modern; dynamic... Read more -
Metaphysical Landscapes
26 September - 22 November 2014 This exhibition is a dialogue involving four internationally renowned artists: Marc Couturier, Evgeni Dybsky, Raffi Kaiser and Frank Perrin. Over thirty works will be on view from September 25th to November 22nd, 2014. Our selection of paintings, photographs and drawings intends to be a reflection on the time-space perception. All... Read more
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René Rimbert
Poetry of the Silence and Flemish Reminiscences 1 November 2013 - 25 April 2014 Contrary to the oft-heard claim that every evolution progresses from the most simple to the most complex, Rimbert's pictorial production immediately appears as an enigma. This painter, without artifice, breaks the feeling of inertness to bring us the timeless. The quest of ideal and Beauty will be a permanent feature... Read more -
Gérard Schneider
The Lyrical abstraction as asceticism 22 November 2012 - 21 May 2013 In 1955, Herta Wescher, art critic, describes Gérard Schneider's works in these words: 'Powerful painting, mastered to the extent that at every step of completion the entire composition is asserted, surprising because the final state continuously retains the virulence of the creative act. Acting as a vehement improvisation, this painting... Read more -
Friedrich Karl GOTSCH
The Second Expressionist Generation 16 September 2011 - 18 February 2012 The German artist - Friedrich Karl Gotsch (1900-1984) - has been recognized since the 1950s by his compatriots and in Switzerland but still remain largely unknown. As a result, AV Modern & Contemporary offers one of the largest retrospectives ever devoted to the artist presenting woodcuts from the 1920s, oil... Read more
