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From December 17th, 2023 to April 14th, 2024, Fondation Opale celebrates its fifth anniversary with a bold participative exhibition entitled HIGH FIVE!

The foundation has challenged 26 figures from the Swiss cultural scene – including artists, writers and collectors, as well as a neuroscientist and a watchmaker – to choose a work of contemporary Australian Indigenous art from Fondation Opale’s collections, by suggesting a “mirror work” that they own, that they have created or that the Foundation could borrow… to kick off this singular project.

HIGH FIVE! features more than 60 Australian Indigenous and international works, ranging in size from a few centimetres to large-scale site-specific installations, in an original scenography designed by Pavillon Trois studio, as the Swiss guests explore the multiplicity of their perceptions of Australian Indigenous art. To complete this dialogue, Fondation Opale called on Daniel Browning, journalist and artist from the Bundjalung and Kullilli communities. The results of these colorful interviews are featured in an eponymous publication accompanying the exhibition.

Immerse yourself in the exhibition again!

Past exhibitions

LATAI TAUMOEPEAU – THIS IS NOT A DRILL

Special focus / Biennale Son 30.08.2025 → 16.11.2025

BENEATH THE REFLECTIONS OF THE WORLD

15.06.2025 → 16.11.2025

NOTHING TOO BEAUTIFUL FOR THE GODS

Main exhibition 15.12.2024 → 20.04.2025

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
Interstellaire

OBJECT OF INTEREST 700 E

Special Focus 18.06.2023 → 12.11.2023
Object of interest 700 E

DREAMING IN THE DREAM OF OTHERS

Main exhibition 10.12.2022 → 16.04.2023
Rêver dans le rêve des autres

NAMSA LEUBA

Special Focus 12.06.2022 → 06.11.2022
Namsa Leuba

PAPUNYA 1971

Special Focus 12.06.2022 → 06.11.2022
Papunya 1971

FUGITIVE PRESENT

Main exhibition 12.06.2022 → 06.11.2022
Présent fugitif

BREATH OF LIFE

Main exhibition 13.06.2021 → 17.04.2022
Breath of Life

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
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