Origins

Vernissage, 25 September at 17:00.

Opening Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:00 – 18:00

As with every season, the students of the Curatorial Team — under the guidance of Manuel Fadat and Mélanie Delaune — have spent the year curating and producing an exhibition from start to finish. Ecoart is both an educational and professional project, designed to raise awareness of careers in the arts and culture, as well as contemporary art and curatorial practice.

For its 8th edition, the Curatorial Team of the Curatorial Project – Ecoart has explored the theme of origins — a complex, evolving, and open-ended concept, chosen collaboratively during the curatorial process. The exhibition reflects this theme through multidimensional works that offer plastic, aesthetic, conceptual, and perceptual interpretations.

Born of collective imagination, the exhibition considers the question of origins from every angle, becoming itself the origin of a constantly shifting narrative in the eyes of its viewers.

The exhibition "Origins" also features works by Philip Baldwin and Monica Guggisberg, Thiémoko Claude Diarra, Fischli and Weiss, Diego Feurer, Leyla Goormaghtigh, Sophie Le Meillour, Georgina Maxim, Emmanuel Mottu, Jonas Noël Niedermann, Nyaba Leon Ouedraogo, David Poullard, Nathalie Rodach, Anna Solal, Tiemar Tegene, and Bastien Thomas.

With thanks to the Fonds Cantonal d’Art Contemporain de Genève, the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art, and the Art Resonance Gallery. 

Japan and The Luber Collection

A selection of Japanese prints from The Luber Collection (part of which was donated to Ecolint earlier this year) is now featured in the exhibition "Origins". At the heart of the curatorial choices lies the question of origins. These nineteenth-century works speak, first, to the origins of manga and of a visual tradition that continues to flourish worldwide in diverse forms, from books to animated films. They also bear witness to the origins of a profound influence on Western art at the end of the nineteenth century, an influence that still resonates today. At the same time, they reveal the origins of a rich imaginative world, one that each viewer interprets and inhabits in their own way. And finally, they mark the origin of a collaboration dedicated to preserving and celebrating a remarkable collection.

This year, the exhibition is also part of the 2025 Autumn of Japanese Culture (Automne de la culture japonaise 2025), an annual event held in the Lake Geneva region that brings together a series of activities dedicated to Japanese culture, both traditional and contemporary, under a shared calendar.

More information about the Curatorial Project – Ecoart can be found here.
 

Image credit: Emmanuel Mottu, Le chemin des chardons, from the series Rues de Kyoto, copper engravings (unique prints), 2025.