Origins

Vernissage, 25 September

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.

Japan and the Gilbert Lubert Collection

The selection of works from the Gilbert Lubert Collection, curated by the students and on display in The Cube (second floor), offers a unique perspective on the idea of origins. The students have mainly chosen 19th-century pieces for several reasons: this period marks the origins of manga — a tradition that has since spread across the globe in various graphic forms, from books to animation; it also signifies the beginning of a notable influence on Western art in the late 19th century, which continues to this day; the works themselves spark imaginative journeys unique to each viewer; and, finally, they represent the origins of a partnership in preserving and showcasing a collection.

Artists from the Gilbert Lubert Collection selected by the students for the exhibition Origins:

• Chikanobu
• Konishi Irosada
• Okumura Masanobu
• Shigeharu / Sadahiro
• Toshi Yoshida
• Toyokuni
• Yoshitaki

The exhibition "Origins" also features works by Leyla Goormaghtigh, Emmanuel Mottu, David Poullard, Nathalie Rodach, Anna Solal, and many others.

With thanks to the Geneva Cantonal Fund for Contemporary Art, the Gandur Foundation, Art Resonance Gallery, and the Gilbert Lubert Collection.

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.