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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.

Communiqué de presse | PDF
Pressemitteilung | PDF

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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!)

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Exhibition INTERSTELLAR

Curated together with artgenève, INTERSTELLAR invites us to explore the unknown and to stretch the limits of our imagination.

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Dossier de presse

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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.

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Pressemappe | PDF

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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.

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Communiqué de presse | PDF
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Pressemappe | PDF

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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
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Dossier de presse | PDF
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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.

Communiqué de presse | PDF

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Video – views of the exhibition

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.

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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

Dossier de presse | PDF
Media Kit | PDF

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Video – vues of the exhibition

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.

Communiqué de presse | PDF
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Exhibition
BEFORE TIME BEGAN

Exploring the origins of contemporary Aboriginal Art.

Communiqué de presse | PDF
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Pressemitteilung | PDF

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