BREATH OF LIFE
13.06.2021 → 17.04.2022Fondation Opale took up the challenge of exhibiting sound. Not just any sound: the original sound from the earth. Fondation Opale is putting itself in tune with the didgeridoo, for a presentation on a totally new scale with a hundred works, including an exceptional collection of 70 instruments. In this exhibition, Fondation Opale also offers a central place to contemporary artistic expressions mixing immersive installations and video mapping, nevertheless in perfect harmony with the most ancestral vectors of the Australian Indigenous tradition.
The precious know-how of Djalu Gurruwiwi, one of the greatest yidaki players and guardian of this instrument, is presented to visitors through interviews and projections. The exhibition also offers a glimpse of Gunybi Ganambarr’s experimental creations, introducing recycled materials and innovative techniques as a contemporary interpretation of the yolŋu tradition.
The Mulka Project, a digital production studio and archive centre in Yirrkala in the north-east of Arnhem Land, has developed two installations using new media for Fondation Opale, which feature various sculptures through video mapping and thus vividly evoke the links between the sculpted works and the ancestral places and beings from which they originate.
Past exhibitions
ARTIST ACTIVIST ARCHIVIST : BERNHARD LÜTHI INVITES
Main exhibition 16.06.2024 → 10.11.2024
HIGH FIVE!
Main exhibition 17.12.2023 → 14.04.2024
ABSUM
Special Focus 17.12.2023 → 14.04.2024
INTERSTELLAR
Main exhibition 18.06.2023 → 12.11.2023
OBJECT OF INTEREST 700 E
Special Focus 18.06.2023 → 12.11.2023
DREAMING IN THE DREAM OF OTHERS
Main exhibition 10.12.2022 → 16.04.2023
NAMSA LEUBA
Special Focus 12.06.2022 → 06.11.2022
PAPUNYA 1971
Special Focus 12.06.2022 → 06.11.2022
FUGITIVE PRESENT
Main exhibition 12.06.2022 → 06.11.2022
BREATH OF LIFE
Main exhibition 13.06.2021 → 17.04.2022
LAST WHISPERS : PRELUDE
Special focus 03.11.2021 → 17.04.2022
VLADIMIR ŠKODA
Special focus 13.06.2021 → 08.10.2021
RESONANCES
Aboriginal Art 14.06.2020 → 25.04.2021
SUPERSTUDIO
Special focus 30.09.2020 → 04.04.2021
MICHAEL COOK : BROKEN DREAMS
Special focus 14.06.2020 → 20.09.2020
BEFORE TIME BEGAN
Contemporary Aboriginal Art 09.06.2019 → 29.03.2020
WALALA TJAPALTJARRI SELF-PORTRAIT
Special focus 11.12.2019 → 29.03.2020
MYSTERY AND MODERNITY
Special focus 21.09.2019 → 01.12.2019
PAINTING ON COUNTRY
Special focus 09.06.2019 → 15.09.2019
YANN ARTHUS-BERTRAND
Legacy, a life as a photographer 16.12.2018 → 31.03.2019
ROBERT FIELDING
Special focus 16.12.2018 → 31.03.2019