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Fondation Opale’s new wing
After five years, Fondation Opale added a new wing that houses an auditorium, a library and storage space for the works.
Switzerland (French-speaking)
Communication officer
Vanessa Pannatier | vp@fondationopale.ch
+41 27 483 46 16
Switzerland (German-speaking)
gasserhuber GmbH
Kilian Gasser | kg@kiliangasser.ch
+41 79 443 55 21
International
Claudine Colin Communication
Elsa Sarfati | elsa@claudinecolin.com
+33 1 42 72 60 01
Exhibition HIGH FIVE!
The foundation has challenged 26 personalities from the world of Swiss culture to choose a work of contemporary Australian Indigenous art from Fodnation Opale’s collections, by suggesting a “mirror work” that they own, that they have created or that the Foundation could borrow.
Communiqué de presse | PDF
Pressemitteilung | PDF (Gebäudeflügel + HIGH FIVE!)
Exhibition INTERSTELLAR
Curated together with artgenève, INTERSTELLAR invites us to explore the unknown and to stretch the limits of our imagination.
Press release | PDF
Communiqué de presse | PDF
Pressemitteilung | PDF
Exhibition
DREAMING IN THE DREAM OF OTHERS
This exhibition juxtaposes Yves Klein’s artworks with those by twelve Australian Aboriginal artists, thus opening a sensitive, poetic path to this primordial brotherhood of awareness.
Press release | PDF
Communiqué de presse | PDF
Pressemitteilung | PDF
Exhibition FUGITIVE PRESENT
For the first time, Fondation Opale brings together two different types of artworks: contemporary photographs from Australian urban centres and traditional wamulu ground paintings.
Press release | PDF
Communiqué de presse | PDF
Pressemitteilung | PDF
Exhibition BREATH OF LIFE
Fondation Opale takes up the challenge of exhibiting sound and presents the biggest yidaki (didgeridoo) exhibition to this day.
Communiqué de presse | PDF
Press release | PDF
Pressemitteilung | PDF
Extended exhibition
RESONANCES
Fondation Opale reopens its doors on Wednesday, March 3rd, and the exhibition RESONANCES is extended until April 25th, 2021. Press documents about the exhibition can be found on this page down below.
Special Focus
SUPERSTUDIO
The Italian architecture agency Superstudio (founded in 1966) denounces the absurdity of the modern world, its superproduction, superconsumption, property and capitalism through a critique of architecture.
Communiqué de presse | PDF
Press release | PDF
Pressemitteilung | PDF
Exhibition
RESONANCES
Contemporary Aboriginal artists will meet their counterparts from the international scene. The exhibition brings the collections of sisters Bérengère and Garance Primat into dialogue, with more than 90 works of around 50 artists from all over the world.
Communiqué de presse | PDF
Press release | PDF
Pressemitteilung | PDF
Bernhard Lüthi Archive
Swiss artist, activist and curator Bernhard Lüthi (1938) transfers the archives of his lifetime work to Fondation Opale. A selection of these documents have been exhibited at the Sydney Biennale 2020.
Exhibition
BEFORE TIME BEGAN
Exploring the origins of contemporary Aboriginal Art.
Communiqué de presse | PDF
Press release | PDF
Pressemitteilung | PDF