Mercredis Art Party 2025

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 et 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 & 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 to 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 to 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 to 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 to 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 et Ute Bauer – 9 au 12 mars 2022
Isabel a commencé ses études dans l’art après avoir vécu une grande partie de sa vie dans différentes villes, telles que Londres, Paris, Genève, Bruxelles, Kinshasa, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia et Lima. Ce fut à l’Institut Corriente Alterna, Lima, quelle a eu son initiation dans la céramique et déjà en 2014 elle a fait partie d’une exposition collective. Actuellement elle vie et travaille à Genève. Ute Bauer a étudié les beaux-arts et la pédagogie d’art entre 1974 et 1979 à l’université de Munich en Bavière. Elle a passé une grande moitié de sa vie au nord et au sud de l’Allemagne. Actuellement elle vit et travaille à Genève. Les deux artistes ont participé à une exposition collective au Musée Ariana, en 2019.

MERCREDI ART PARTY 5.0
Ivan Sizonenko – October 20 to 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 to 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 to 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 to 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 to 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 to 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 to 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 to 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 to 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 to 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 to 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 to 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 to 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 – du 6 au 10 mars 2019
Sebastian Peetz est un artiste et designer allemand. Il est diplômé avec mention du Swiss Art Center College of Design (1992). Jusqu’en 1996, Peetz a travaillé à Paris avec Philippe Apéeloig. Ses œuvres ont une ligne frappante et des idées narratives – dessinées, peintes, découpées dans du papier ou du métal. Sebastian est un représentant du figuralisme. « Sebastian Peetz travaille sur l’interaction picturale de personnalités dessinées, même à partir d’une ligne initialement tracée en pointillés.