“Hello, my name is Mauricio Leon, and I’m a person like you, who has desires, dreams, and opinions… I do not accept any State labeling me a ‘foreigner,’ ‘B visa,’ or ‘Extra-European.’” With those words in mind and a black letter B painted on his face, Mauricio Leon decided one day to walk up and down the streets of Geneva, publicly displaying the discriminatory mark printed in his B visa. Leon…

Today, like yesterday, migrant workers face issues and situations that profoundly affect their lives. The exhibition will include two moments for exchanges about lived experiences. In partnership with the Centre de contact Suisses-Immigrés. Le Commun, Rue des Bains 28, 1205 Genève.

MONUMENT n. Latin monumentum. 1. A statue, building, or other structure erected to commemorate a famous person or notable event. A memorial, e.g., triumphal arch, column, trophy, etc. Monument to the dead, erected in memory of the dead from the same community, or victims of the same catastrophe. 2. A structure or stone erected, or pile of stones, which have a religious or symbolic value. 3. A…

A graduate of the Geneva Haute Ecole de Santé, Aroud and Donnez are independent midwives in Geneva. They wrote a master’s thesis on the experiences of women who practice long-term breastfeeding. They have also written an article on the subject for the magazine sage-femme.ch Centre d’art contemporain Genève, Rue des Vieux-Grenadiers 10, 1205 Genève.

The inaugural exhibition of the Rosa Brux collective art venue is devoted to the French artist Marie Reinert and the impossible connection generated by the adaptation of her work to the format of the monographic catalogue. The chance to rethink what in a performative practice like Reinert’s immediately renders the question of her archive problematic. The immersion she undertakes in each of her…

Athée, libre penseur et anarchiste, Narcisse Praz s’installe à Genève où il participe, en parallèle à son activité de commerçant horloger, à la rédaction d’un hebdomadaire satirique libertaire intitulé La Pilule entre 1970 et 1975. En 1973, il est en liste aux élections du Grand Conseil avec le Parti sans payez, parti qui se veut une satire de la politique genevoise. Il est aussi…

A naturopath who specializes in women’s health, Karen Morand has been a therapist and teacher of gynecological naturopathy for more than ten years. Her practice is about helping women from their pre-teen years through menopause, using companion plants for women, natural remedies and energetic treatment for all female disorders. She teaches how to manage fertility reliably without using hormones,…

Fusing synthetic polymorphism and the serendipity occasioned by his constant poking around in the social networks, Thomas Koenig plays with the plasticity of art materials to point up and enhance their formal and semantic mutability. First merely collecting objects, the artist then takes off from any one of a range of processes to create installations. The artifacts forming them are made visible…

Notre Histoire Compte est un projet démarré en 2018 et réalisé en collaboration avec Isabelle Sentis, initiatrice du projet Queercode (autour de la mémoire des femmes lesbiennes durant la 2e guerre mondiale) et intervenante régulière à Lestime, accompagnée de Sophie Meyer, ancienne membre du comité de Lestime. Depuis quelques années, la planète LGBTIQ se mobilise pour rassembler et organiser ses…

Published in conjunction with the exhibition Nous, saisonniers, saisonnières… Genève, 1931-2019, this study elaborates on the show’s themes to provide visitors with an additional resource, but also to keep alive their memory of the event. With this publication, we hope to offer readers an in-depth reminder of the show through image and text. Like the exhibition it covers, the book version of…

Lettres ouvertes (2019) de Katharine Dominicé Les Traces (2019) de Pablo Briones Projection des films témoignant de la migration de travail hier et aujourd’hui. En présence de la réalisatrice et du réalisateur. Forum Meyrin, Foyer du Théâtre, Place des Cinq-Continents 1, 1217 Meyrin.

On the night of October 17, 1961, during a nonviolent protest against the curfew imposed upon them, several dozen Algerians were murdered in Paris by police officers acting under orders from their superiors. Although today this night of terror has been extensively documented in reports, articles, books, and films, the transmission of this memory within French society remains incomplete and…

In November 2018, the curators of the show Nous, saisonniers, saisonnières… Genève 1931 – 2019 put out a call for projects. They were looking for an original proposal to create a series of portraits of former guest workers. I sensed their desire to record authentic testimonies with a film concept of some kind. Passing on the story of these guest workers’ lives to their children and grandchildren…

Rosa Brux and Oraibi (the traveling bookstore and curatorial facility based in Geneva) have invited over for a weekend the artist and designer Clémence Seilles, together with The Estate of Matt Montini, to come up with a display for a selection of books. Selected from its catalogue, the works are articulated around literary and artistic sources steeped in a refashioned pan-European…

In 2018, a legal advice clinic was held at Forde, which we organized in conjunction with Lab-of-Arts, an association made up of lawyers specializing in copyright law. Feeling at the time that criticism was no longer sufficient to advance the issues encountered on a daily basis by actors in the artistic world, support from the legal sector made it possible to offer a concrete solution and to bring…

Domitila is an indigenous Peruvian woman who has been an undocumented domestic worker in Geneva for over 20 years. With the death of her daughter several years earlier, she faced an unprecedented situation for her, namely financial hardship and extreme isolation because she speaks only Quechua and Spanish. Having reached the age of retirement but without the possibility of receiving a pension,…

Protection Room is an exhibition wherein five artists will inhabit « Rosa Brux », which originally functioned as a flat. Protection Room explores nuances of transparency and opacity and the thin line between the private and the public – questioning if this line still exists. During a week five artists respond to different aspects and tactics of ‘hiding’ and ‘covering over’ (« protection ») –…

“The ground floor sitting room is connected to the rooms above by a stairway whose ramp is a shaky thing; you leap and fall from it; from it you speak up or take a running jump towards the chandelier. The first floor is reserved for the leads; it’s Olympus and the extras don’t venture up there. It’s up there that you pack your bags, where the gang meets, the mean tricks are planned out, and the…

Vision à 360 degrés des dauphins, pin des Alpes, philosophie de Juwain, schizophrénie et sociopathie, un mayen sur l’ubac, sérendipité, santon et parfum : c’est Flux Paranoïa. A la frontière des domaines d’action, le projet est une traversée ludique, burlesque et passionnée autour des questions de récit, des savoirs, de l’échange ; la langue comme une matière malléable. Génératrice de lien, Flux…

A kind of twilight, The Blue Hour provides the eponymous performance of Georg Keller (Zug/CH, 1980) with its metaphorical context. Creating three distinct figures, Keller elaborates a critique of the gamble that is the economy. A quick and sharp street vendor, aware that he is working illegally, does business out of sight of a department store salesperson, mechanically greeting potential…

MONUMENT n. Latin monumentum. 1. A statue, building, or other structure erected to commemorate a famous person or notable event. A memorial, e.g., triumphal arch, column, trophy, etc. Monument to the dead, erected in memory of the dead from the same community, or victims of the same catastrophe. 2. A structure or stone erected, or pile of stones, which have a religious or symbolic value. 3. A…

Katrin Gattinger has carried out a number of actions, including working the area where the fields of drawing and performance meet. One has to do with the spatialization of a form and the other with granting that spatialization its capacity to be an event, and in this their meeting point becomes the point of political commitment by way of the graphic gesture. At Rosa Brux Gattinger is showing a…

Sugar, like the end of the world was waiting for us over by the fireside. Mornings I’m more of a coffee person. It wouldn’t change nothing, you know, if there’s liquid, I go all weak in the knees… Laura Gozlan, or like a certainty of the influence of gamma rays on the earth. — Why Stephen Hawking ? — Surely because he’s paradoxically ironic. — And why English? — Because a spoonful of sugar helps…

The inaugural event of this new season at Rosa Brux is the exhibition Pleasure, Arousal, Dominance. Using several photo installations, the show presents the artist Dorothée Baumann’s in-depth look at the founding and development of a fundamental research center in the cognitive neurosciences, the Brain & Behaviour Laboratory (BBL), located in Switzerland. Focusing on the study of human behavior,…

Presentation of the radio play Welcher Art die Wärme ist about the guest worker status. With the witnesses and authors: Carmine Andreotti, Paola De Martin and Melinda Nadj Abonji (text), Erik Altorfer (direction), Martin Schütz (music) and Florian Eteil (moderation). The exhibition remains open until 20:00. NMB, Faubourg du Lac 52, 2501 Bienne.

Protection Room is an exhibition in which five artists take over and live at “Rosa Brux,” which originally was an apartment. Protection Room explores nuances of transparency and opacity, and the thin line between the private and the public – questioning whether this line still exists. For a week the five artists will respond to different aspects and tactics of “hiding” and “covering over”…

The work of Raphaël Cuomo and Maria Iorio is part of the recent interest the visual arts have taken in the construction of memory narratives. The artists draw their inspiration notably from “microhistory,” a genre that focuses on, for example, the life of an individual in order to expose the particularities of the community in which the person lives. Through their film Appunti del passaggio,…

Real and sham vestiges, geological strata, layers of memory, these mix and blend to deconstruct spaces linked with modernity and the civilized world. Ana Vaz examines the history of evolution through an alternative depiction of past civilizational and architectural utopias. Her film titled A Idade da Pedra (The Stone Age) takes as its starting point the construction of Brasília, the city built…

Pain et chocolat Franco Brusati ( 1973, 111’) En mettant en scène l’itinérance rocambolesque d’un émigré italien à la recherche d’une place de travail dans le « paradis » helvétique, Franco Brusati compose une fresque fictionnelle sensible et burlesque de l’exploitation de la main-d’œuvre étrangère Fonction Cinéma, Maison des Arts du Grütli, Rue Général-Dufour 16, 1205 Genève.

Au début des années 70, alors que Rina Nissim entreprend des études d’infirmière, elle s’engage au sein du Mouvement de libération des femmes genevois fraîchement créé (le premier tract paraît en février 1971). Elle s’investit très vite dans les groupes « avortement » et « self-help ». Les critiques envers les pratiques des gynécologues de la place débouchent sur des actions ponctuelles, puis sur…

Pour vivre ici / Saisonniers d’Espagne Claude Goretta (1963, 190’) Dans un documentaire d’une rare empathie produit au début des années 1960, Claude Goretta saisit les étapes qui jalonnent le parcours des saisonniers espagnols à Genève, « étrangers deux fois, par le passeport et l’isolement ». Album de famille Fernand Melgar (1993, 54’) Au cours d’un entretien filmé par leur fils, Florinda et…

“Sugar, like the end of the world was waiting for us over by the fireside. Mornings I’m more of a coffee person. It wouldn’t change nothing, you know, if there’s liquid, I go all weak in the knees…” Rosa Brux, Rue de l’Autonomie 9, 1070 Bruxelles.