Ernest Biéler L’Eau mystérieuse (The Mysterious Water), 1911 Ernest Biéler worked tirelessly on L’Eau mystérieuse from 1908 to 1911. From the outset, he conceived the painting as an art nouveau manifesto aiming to…
Alain Huck Kuroi Ame II, 2008 Kuroi Ame II is part of the Salons noirs series of huge charcoal works begun in 2006. Alain Huck explores great human tragedies in the…
On display Zao Wou-Ki Hommage à Edgar Varèse – 25.10.64(Homage to Edgar Varèse – 25.10.64), 1964 The Chinese-born artist Zao Wou-Ki was one of the leading figures of lyrical abstraction from the late 1950s on. He settled in France in 1948…
Anne-Julie Raccoursier Grace-Notes, 2005 Anne-Julie Raccoursier’s video work stands at the intersection of recorded live scenes and spectacularly staged images. She starts from real life, working on the images…
Oskar Kokoschka Glion, vue sur le lac Léman (Glion, View over Lake Geneva), 1956 Oskar Kokoschka was fascinated by Lake Geneva from the time he first saw it at the age of twenty-four when travelling to Switzerland with the…
On display Leiko Ikemura Gelbe Figur mit drei Armen (Yellow Figure with Three Arms), 1996 Leiko Ikemura left her native Japan for Europe in 1972 and began developing her oeuvre after studying drawing at the Seville school for fine arts,…
On display John M Armleder Furniture Sculpture 189, 1988 In 1969, John M Armleder organised his first public event, the Ecart Happening Festival, in Geneva. This marked the creation of the Ecart group, part…
Miriam Cahn das klassische lieben – femmes (classic love – women), 1981 For Miriam Cahn, the body is more than just a tool; it is also her subject. It makes perfect sense to her to depict the…
Francine Simonin Composition, 1978 Francine Simonin works in painting, drawing and engraving. Her physical approach to her art differs according to the medium, but always displays the same sheer…
Renée Green Commemorative Toile, 1992 Renée Green collects words, images, narratives and sounds. She journeys back and forth between past and present, between real and imaginary spaces, between disciplines, layering…
Aloïse (Aloïse Corbaz, dite) Bonne année (Happy New Year), between 1951 and 1960 Aloïse did not see herself as an artist but as a scribe: ‘I copy what I hear’, she wrote. Interned in an asylum for more…
On display François Bocion Bocion et sa famille à la pêche(Bocion and His Family Out Fishing), 1877 The leisure activity depicted in this work was still rare in the 1870s: such boating was the preserve of a circle of initiates, otherwise the…
Ferdinand Hodler Blick ins Unendliche (Gaze into Infinity), 1903 / 1904 Ferdinand Hodler met Gustav Klimt and many other artists of the Viennese avant-garde, as well as their collectors, when visiting the Austro-Hungarian capital in early…
Rolf Iseli Blauer Homme du jonc (Blue Bulrush Man), 1976 Rolf Iseli first came to public attention in the mid-1950s for canvases in which pictorial technique and physical energy were themselves the object of the…
Félix Vallotton Autoportrait à l'âge de vingt ans(Self-Portrait at the Age of Twenty), 1885 Félix Vallotton arrived in Paris from his native Lausanne at the age of sixteen and attended courses at the Académie Julian. He soon began looking…
