An exhibition

The project was built around comparisons between pieces selected from the Barbier-Mueller collections and works that Jacques Kaufmann produced in his studio and around the world, over time long, trying to identify the meeting points as well as the gaps.

The viewer creating the painting, this exhibition links works of diverse origins, temporalities, materialities, so that the visitor recreates for himself his own correspondences, enriching the proposed resonances.

An encounter

Sanctuary of objects of various origins, each more remarkable than the other, the Barbier-Mueller museum brings together a collection recognized internationally as a high place of so-called "primitive" or "distant arts", depending on the variation of terminologies over time.

Ceramics, which is part of the field of contemporary art and its contextual practices, also seeks to meet what makes permanences and gaps within human expressions, through time and space. In the field of the arts, the past does not really pass. The forms reactivate, re-emerge, reappropriate each other, find each other.

The gaps, correspondences, conjunctions, analogies, intervals between works make it possible to perceive everything that can contribute to making effective this collective effort of humanity over time to meet its basic spiritual needs. The permanence and movement of forms contradict the notion of progress in art.

This exhibition is on the program of 50th Congress of the International Academy of Ceramics organized by swissceramics, which will be held at the Geneva International Congress Center from September 12 to 16, 2022 on the theme "Melting Pot . From the alchemical crucible to the cultural crucible”. This event is accompanied by 35 major exhibitions organized by museums and partner galleries in Romandie.

Commented tours

Sundays April 3, May 1 and June 12 at 2:30 p.m.

Parent-child workshops “Relief and transparency. Let's decorate cold porcelain »

Wednesdays April 6 and April 27 at 2:30 p.m.