Mercredis Art Party 2025

MERCREDI ART PARTY 9.0
Martha Frey – November 5 – 8, 2025
Martha Frey was born in Switzerland. Coming from a family of architects, she studied architecture in Mendrisio. At Christmas, she gave her father a comic book that she had written and illustrated: a dialogue with the grandfather she never knew, but had heard so much about. The gift deeply moved the family and, above all, opened a door. From this delicate gesture grew a personal exploration: handwritten pages, watercolors, fragments of memories. The resonance spread around her—to relatives, friends, and acquaintances—culminating in grants from the Evelyne Bonjour Foundation, which allowed her to print a limited edition of 100 copies of her comic book “Mon Papa Pépé Michel”.

MERCREDI ART PARTY 8.0
Marcela Ferrero – October 29 – November 1, 2025
Marcela Ferrero is an Argentine-Swiss artist and architect, based in Switzerland. She earned her architecture degree and has worked in Buenos Aires and London. Nineteen years ago, after settling in Geneva, she decided to devote herself entirely to art and painting.Her sources of inspiration are nature and the four elements, which lead her to connect with her inner self, her spirituality, and her creativity. Her work is often expressed through abstraction, where geometry and color play a fundamental role. The exploration of the universe of being and the connection between humanity and the cosmos deeply nourishes her artistic inspiration.

MERCREDI ART PARTY 7.0
Márcio Gustavo Barbosa Medeiros – October 22 – 25, 2025
With both softness and intensity, Brazilian artist Márcio Medeiros presents a series of works in which imaginary flowers emerge from a vibrant, dreamlike universe. Using ecoline on paper — a technique that enhances the fluidity of gesture and the transparency of forms and colors — Márcio creates compositions that move between abstraction and figuration, revealing a unique poetics that is at once intimate and universal.

MERCREDI ART PARTY 6.0
Alicia Conill Biebernick and Irene Venetsanou – September 3 – 6, 2025
A tree rises where it wasn’t meant to grow. Sculptural forms hold the tension of movement and stillness, shaped by time and weather. They bend without breaking. Even here, blooms find a way. Roots to Resilience is a shared reflection on nature, adaptation, and belonging — the echo of origin, the reshaping of identity, the quiet beauty of becoming elsewhere. Through painting and sculpture, Alicia and Irene explore the silent strength of transformation: how roots stretch, how identity shifts, how new ground is claimed without forgetting the old. Rooted in motion, these works ask: Can we grow and blossom in unfamiliar places without losing who we are?

MERCREDI ART PARTY 5.0
Giancarlo Fortunato – July 2 – 5, 2025
Giancarlo is Italian He lives between Crozet, in France and Santa Teresa di Gallura, in Italy.He studies Design and Photography, Philosophy and History of Art. As a young man he begins working in the world of photography, design and architecture. During twelve years he lives and works in Milan, where he discovers and develops his ambition and cultural inspiration. His intellectual and professional maturity generates the need for a civil commitment that leads him, through the world of solidarity to the Global South. From there he devotes himself to photojournalistic projects of great civil and social impact…

MERCREDI ART PARTY 4.0
Louis Marques – June 25 – 28, 2025
An artist and architect of Portuguese origin, Luis divides his practice between his work at the Department of Territory and an artistic approach rooted in drawing.
His visual world explores the line as a meditative and introspective language. His process, both rigorous and instinctive, relies on various media such as pen, markers, or sewing thread, applied to supports ranging from paper to cardboard, often torn, reclaimed, or recycled.

MERCREDI ART PARTY 3.0
Annelies Adriaensen- April 30 – May 3, 2025
Born in Belgium but maintaining since childhood a fruitful connection with a village in the Pyrenees, Annelies Adriaensen is a sensitive artist who offers us a powerful pictorial universe. After her artistic studies, she practiced portrait sculpture and then explored various genres related to landscape and travel journals, both in painting and photography, before her personal style truly emerged.

MERCREDI ART PARTY 2.0
Luc Imsand – March 5 – 8, 2025
Independent painter trained at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Luc Imsand is an urban painter: he paints the city as a stage of life, as well as the people who inhabit it. The city appears as a cosmos of places, spaces, and relationships that transmit their energies to people, but are also imbued with their dreams, actions, and desires. The artist depicts what he sees around him; he is both a chronicler and an actor of urban life.

MERCREDI ART PARTY 1.0
Annalisa Caricato – February 26 – March 1, 2025
Annalisa Caricato is a visual artist who primarily uses the technique of three-dimensional collage as her artistic language. Through her works, she explores narratives of personal introspection, constantly seeking deep and universal answers. Her creations use the metaphor of human obsolescence to question our place in contemporary society and the value we attribute to our existence, between fragility and resilience.

MERCREDI ART PARTY 8.0
Poétique de l’air – Andoni Guiresse – December 11 – 14, 2024
Close to Japanese aesthetics, the artist develops a refined and abstract body of work, using ink and gold leaf on Arches paper, attempting to remind us of our spiritual dimension through the triangulation between the sacred, presence, and emptiness. Following his training, experimentation, and research, Andoni created the Poetic Minimalism movement in 2014. His conception of art consists of a space and time to breathe, allowing us to cultivate a harmonious relationship with the universe.

MERCREDI ART PARTY 7.0
Marina and Maricha Plotnikova – Octobre 30 – 2 November 2, 2024
Coming from several generations of artists, Marina and Maricha Plotnikova were born in Russia. They live and work between Paris, Moscow, and New York. Marina studied at an art school in Moscow between 1984 and 1990. She attended the School of Fine Arts and Theater in Moscow from 1990 to 1992. From 2000 to 2015, the artist took various fine arts courses in Europe (Switzerland, United Kingdom, France). Maricha Plotnikova, Marina’s daughter, is deeply rooted in an artistic heritage, having grown up surrounded by the influence of her mother, a painter, and her grandfather, a master ceramist whom she never had the opportunity to meet. This family connection, combined with her love for natural and organic forms, led her to discover ceramics, an art form that quickly transformed her artistic career.

MERCREDI ART PARTY 6.0
Daniela Vignoli – August 28 – 31, 2024
Daniela Vignoli is a photographer and visual artist who uses photography as her primary language and medium for her textual interventions. Her poetry and research focus on human resilience, which also characterizes her work as a social entrepreneur. Her work is guided by a humanistic view of reality and a quest for the beauty of inner strength.

MERCREDI ART PARTY 5.0
Antonia Ratto – July 3 – 6, 2024
Born in São Paulo in 1977, she lives and works between Paris and Rio de Janeiro. The artist investigates the cycle of female fertility, including sexuality, pregnancy, contraceptive and abortive treatments, and childbirth in its various forms. Antonia researches the history and stories surrounding these themes and the traditions that have been largely erased, one of the main reasons for the enormous genocide of women perpetrated by witch hunts. She is interested in the figure of the traditional Brazilian midwife as a “witch” who keeps alive ancestral empirical knowledge about female body care, which has been rendered clandestine by modern scientific thinking. The artist works to spread the memory of this knowledge, which she transforms into artistic procedures in her studio.

MERCREDI ART PARTY 4.0
Sandra Liccioni – June 26 – 29, 2024
Born in Bayonne of French-Vietnamese origin, Sandra Liccioni lives in the Chamonix Valley since the 2010. After spending 15 years in London, she made a name with her large-scale pointillism paintings. The artist’s brightly coloured paper drawings, influenced by Western culture and Aboriginal designs, depict the nomadic landscapes between heaven and earth, marked by powerful symbols and cosmic imagery.

MERCREDI ART PARTY 3.0
Senayt Santoro – May 1 – 4, 2024
Born in Asmara, Eritrea, and raised in Ethiopia and America. Senayt Santoro’s photographic practice focuses on representation, identity, environment, social and human rights issues. For this exhibition, Senayt has chosen one of her on-going projects “The Power of Water” that depicts images from personal experience and interviews she has conducted from migrants who have crossed the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe.

MERCREDI ART PARTY 2.0
Mireille Mercanton-Wagnières – February 28 – March 2, 2024
The screen of inner silence is my blank page, where impressions of the world are imprinted—neither new nor chosen, I allow myself to be carried along by this world, with vigilance, noting a few fish caught in the great Flow as I pass. A Flow that carries me along and makes me part of this world.

MERCREDI ART PARTY 1.0
Vikash Morgan – January 10 – 13, 2024
Swiss Dreams, Vikash Morgan’s upcoming exhibition, presents a harmonious fusion of timeless mountain aesthetics and vibrant tropical colors. Through a captivating interplay of light and time, Vikash’s paintings aspire to awaken a deep sense of love and forge unity among his viewers.

MERCREDI ART PARTY 7.0
Pauline de Selys Longchamps and Nicolas Bastos – December 13-16, 2023
Why do I need to build a bridge to cross this river? It enchants my eyes, it floats inside me as well as outside. It is not just water flowing, but entertainment for my eyes. A shape in motion, a song, a bubbling stimulus for my senses. A mystery and a challenge, an opportunity for play and fun. A source of adventure, a meeting place. It is my destination! – Ogalala Indian Chief, Bighorn River, Wyoming, 1893

MERCREDI ART PARTY 6.0
Jo Vargas – October 25–28, 2023
Jo Vargas (1975, Colombia) is a Colombian, Honduran, Swiss, and other nationalities sculptor, painter, unicorn and rocket designer. His research uses metaphysics, jazz, and love as raw materials. He is also the founder of the Boris Vian Fan Club in Geneva and artistic director of the VISION ART FUND (Crans-Montana, Switzerland).

MERCREDI ART PARTY 5.0
Diane de Montesquiou – August 30 – September 2, 2023
A graduate of a graphic design school, she trained in photography. Born in 1984, she spent her childhood in Africa and South America. Through her Polaroids, Diane de Montesquiou opens up her private world, revealing images of infinite gentleness and great delicacy.

MERCREDI ART PARTY 4.0
Christina Calbari – June 28 – July 1, 2023
Christina Calbari studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts and at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). She completed a Master’s degree in Digital Arts at the Athens School of Fine Arts. She won first prize for photography at the 4th Florence Biennale of Contemporary Art in 2001. In 2020, she received an artistic research grant from the Greek Ministry of Culture.

MERCREDI ART PARTY 3.0
Teodelina Detry – April 26 – 29, 2023
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1975, Teodelina studied art direction and photography in Buenos Aires, Geneva, and New York. Her work has been featured in specialized magazines and publications. In March 2020, she published her first photography book, La Anémona es una flor que se abre al menor golpe de viento (The Anemone is a Flower that Opens at the slightest Breeze). That same year, she received the IPA Award for “Book Photographer of the Year.”

MERCREDI ART PARTY 2.0
Fransie Malherbe Frandsen – March 1 – 4, 2023
The artist draws inspiration from her childhood in South Africa, her exposure to many cultures, and her experience working with disadvantaged and marginalized people to create her works.

MERCREDI ART PARTY 1.0
Marianne Herjean – January 4 – 7, 2023
The artist wishes to offer us a spatial account of her journey to the heart of the Orient, inspired by the words of Pierre Soulages: “It is what I do that teaches me what I am looking for.” To see her works is to encounter the spaces she has traversed. Her journey makes several stops, and she awaits you there.

MERCREDI ART PARTY 5.0
Pauline de Selys Longchamps and Nicolas Bastos – October 26 – 29, 2022
“Great and wise spirit, seeks its beach, lost on earth, in the air, goes to war. Try not only to please but rather to do, in the distance the sea.” Nicolas Q Bastos

MERCREDI ART PARTY 4.0
Clarissa Valaeys – August 31 – September 3, 2022
Born in southern Brazil, Clarissa P. Valaeys began her career as a graphic designer. She became Creative Art Director during her time in New York. After moving to France and Switzerland, the artist finally returned to her art in 2020. Her meticulous drawings, watercolors and acrylic paints depict different phases in the life of a plant, a metaphor for women’s rites of passage.

MERCREDI ART PARTY 3.0
Nadège Reveillon and Vanessa Riera – June 30 – July 3, 2022
“I am fragment
I am a cog
I am thought in the war machine” Extract: Emma, murmured song

MERCREDI ART PARTY 2.0
Guadalupe Romero – May 4 – 7, 2022
The second Mercredis Art Party takes place on May 4, 2022 and features the work of Guadalupe Romero. After serving for many years as a Honduran diplomat in Paris, Brasilia and London, Guadalupe married a Brazilian diplomat. They lived for several years in New Delhi and Moscow, and settled in Geneva in September 2021. Photography has been part of Guadalpe’s life since childhood, as her father was a professional photographer and she grew up learning to transform black and white images into color photographs.

MERCREDI ART PARTY 1.0
Isabel Garcia Leal and Ute Bauer – March 9 – 12, 2022
Isabel began her studies in art after having lived much of her life in different cities, such as London, Paris, Geneva, Brussels, Kinshasa, Rio de Janeiro, Brasília, and Lima. It was at the Instituto Corriente Alterna in Lima that she had her introduction to ceramics, and by 2014 she had already participated in a group exhibition. She currently lives and works in Geneva.Ute Bauer studied fine arts and art education between 1974 and 1979 at the University of Munich in Bavaria. She spent a large part of her life in both northern and southern Germany. She currently lives and works in Geneva. Both artists participated in a group exhibition at the Musée Ariana in 2019.

MERCREDI ART PARTY 5.0
Ivan Sizonenko – October 20 – 23, 2021
Since 1994, painter Ivan Sizonenko’s work has been devoted to linking painting and music, art and science. Paintings appear to him through synesthesia when listening to music. His pictorial research, based on the golden ratio and the Fibonnacci sequence, is rhythmic, harmonic and musical.

MERCREDI ART PARTY 4.0
Christina Willimann – October 13 – 16, 2021
The fourth Mercredis Art Party takes place on October 13, and presents the work of Christina Willimann. For the past decade, the artist has been pursuing an in-depth formal reflection that is in line with the art-historical impetus of the last fifty years. Inspired by many artists who explore space and the distance between the “subject” and its “perception”, fascinated by the multiple mise en abimes of shadow and the analogical disappearance of the object, her recent explorations present us with a body of work and installations that all question reality and its perception.

MERCREDI ART PARTY 3.0
Martin la Roche – June 23 – 26, 2021
The third Mercredis Art Party will take place on June 23, and will present the work of Martin la Roche. A Parisian interior decorator who has made Geneva his home for the past 11 years, after several years in Cairo which had a profound effect on him, Martin has also developed a passion for architecture and cities in general. His drawings invite you to explore an imaginary or familiar universe.

MERCREDI ART PARTY 2.0
Lavrenty Bruni – April 28 – May 1, 2021
The second Mercredis Art Party takes place on April 28, 2021, and presents a springtime look at the work of Lavrenty Bruni. The artist masterfully composes her canvases, using flowers as a language. Sometimes abstract, sometimes realistic, sometimes as a support for creating shapes, with a sensuality and strength all her own that makes her art unique.

MERCREDI ART PARTY 1.0
Raphaël Nessim – March 10 – 13, 2021
The first Mercredis Art Party will take place on March 10, 2021 and feature the work of Raphaël Nessim. The artist lives and works in Geneva. His inspirations are varied and come from his direct environment and artistic encounters. His work, both instinctive and highly developed, focuses on drawing. Her works offer an offbeat view of the world, always with a sense of humor.

MERCREDI ART PARTY 5.0
Josiane Dias – December 9 – 12, 2020
The fifth Mercredis Art Party takes place on December 9 and presents the work of Josiane Dias, a Brazilian photographer who lives and works between Geneva and New York. The artist’s career has taken in Geneva, Tokyo, New York and Tel Aviv. Different cultures have influenced her photography. Her work is inspired by the urban landscape. She seeks out the unnoticed details of these landscapes, the ephemeral and the poetic.

MERCREDI ART PARTY 4.0
Marcela Ferrero – October 14 – 18, 2020
The fourth Mercredis Art Party takes place on October 14 and features the work of Marcela Ferrero. The Geneva-based artist exudes intense sensitivity, pleasant interiority and great spirituality. It’s not a spirituality linked to a specific religion, but rather to a vital energy that encourages us to move towards an encounter with ourselves, with others and with what surrounds us. It’s this same energy that characterizes and stimulates her artistic production.

MERCREDI ART PARTY 3.0
Carine Bovey – August 26 – 30, 2020
The third Mercredis Art Party 2020 takes place on August 26 and presents the work of Carine Bovey. Based in Geneva, the artist’s work explores femininity from social, intimate and identity-related angles. She questions the image of women, whether through the prism of consumer society, their own gaze or that of others. She also seeks to offer her own vision of femininity, one that is free of taboos, plays with clichés and openly assumes sexual freedom.

MERCREDI ART PARTY 2.0
Dirk Wagemans – July 1 – 5, 2020
The second Mercredis Art Party 2020 takes place on July 1 and features the work of Dirk Wagemans. Wagemans’ works are often collages combined with raw colors and feminine forms. The artist speaks of vanity and ephemerality through his characters, who seem to suffer from a fear of status. Wagemans also draws inspiration from popular events and personal experiences to create his works.

MERCREDI ART PARTY 1.0
Lyz Parayzo – March 11 – 15, 2020
The first Mercredis Art Party 2020 takes place on March 11 and features the work of Lyz Parayzo. Born in Campo Grande, Rio de Janeiro, Lyz Parayzo tackles issues related to sexism, racism, LGBTphobia and colonial heritage are inseparable from Lyz Parayzo’s activist art practice. “My work began in a place of activism, but as I was studying at an art school, activism acquired an artistic character”. Curator: Gabriel Republicano

MERCREDI ART PARTY 4.0
Nacoca Ko – October 30 – November 3, 2019
Inspired by the latest advances and approaches to progress, the artist remains critical of its implications for cultural phenomena such as the invasion of privacy, rampant narcissism or the neglect of ethical issues posed by artificial intelligence.
Vernissage / Post-Apocalyptic Party with DJ Marius

MERCREDI ART PARTY 3.0
Benoit Fournier – September 4 – 8, 2019
For mercredis art party 3.0, Benoit Fournier will present his work entitled Nipêi Yuxiî | L’esprit des plantes, for which he creates leaf portraits of the indigenous Yawanawá people, the portraits are printed on plant leaves gathered in the forest, using a technique called Chlorophyll Print.

MERCREDI ART PARTY 2.0
Nicolas Q Bastos – May 8 – 12, 2019
The second Mercredis Art Party 2019 will present the work of Nicolas Bastos. Born in Lisbon, with Belgian roots, the artist expresses his world, very intuitively, through his portraits.

MERCREDI ART PARTY 1.0
Sebastian Peetz – March 6 – 10, 2019
Sebastian Peetz is a German artist and designer. He graduated with honors from the Swiss Art Center College of Design in 1992. Until 1996, Peetz worked in Paris with Philippe Apéeloig. His works feature a striking style and narrative ideas—drawn, painted, or cut from paper or metal. Sebastian is a representative of figuralism. “Sebastian Peetz works on the pictorial interaction of drawn personalities, even starting from a line initially traced in dots.”