With our guide, discover Pleasing the Spirits, an exhibition that takes you around the world to explore distant worldviews, celebrate ancient rites and beliefs, and awaken the spirits of the museum.

L’article Guided tour “Pleasing the Spirits” est apparu en premier sur Barbier-Mueller Museum.

This off-site presentation of the Musée Barbier-Mueller, featuring an exceptional selection of works, has been conceived as an extension of the exhibition Pleasing the Spirits, currently on view at the museum.

It offers a unique opportunity to rediscover works from the Barbier-Mueller collections within an original scenographic setting created in collaboration with architect Youri Kravtchenko, presented in the dynamic and international atmosphere of the fair, at the heart of the contemporary art scene.

L’article Art Genève est apparu en premier sur Barbier-Mueller Museum.

As part of Art Genève 2026, a dual-led tour and a musical performance will take place at the museum on Tuesday, 27 January.

6:00 pm: Dual-led tour with Séverine Fromaigeat and Paul Maheke, curators of the exhibition Pleasing the Spirits.

7:00 pm: A musical performance specially conceived for Pleasing the Spirits by Congolese-Belgian musician and composer Melika Ngombe Kolongo, aka Nkisi, travelling from London for the occasion. A producer, musician and DJ, Nkisi explores sound through poly-rhythmic structures, weaving together African rhythms and European dance music.

L’article Curators’ Tour and Musical Performance est apparu en premier sur Barbier-Mueller Museum.

Jacques Attali has conducted several orchestras throughout the world (Paris, Grenoble, London, Jerusalem, Shanghai, Astana, Helsinki). At the beginning of the evening, he will conduct the Geneva Chamber Orchestra, composed of 42 virtuoso musicians.

With the participation of the Saint-Pierre Cathedral choir, bringing together some sixty amateur choristers who are passionate about the Oratorio repertoire.

This unique concert will be followed by a conversation between Jacques Attali and the audience on the theme “Culture for Peace”, moderated by Pascal Schouwey (in French).

Proceeds from the event will benefit UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee Agency, which for more than 70 years has helped millions of people start their lives again, including refugees, stateless people, internally displaced persons and asylum seekers.

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Programme

19h
Concert by the Geneva Chamber Orchestra
conducted by Jacques Attali,
with the participation of the Geneva Cathedral Choir

Unfinished Symphony by Franz Schubert
Ave Verum Corpus by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

19h40
Conversation (in French) with Jacques Attali
hosted by Pascal Schouwey

With the support of

L’article Concert and Conversation with Jacques Attali, professor and author est apparu en premier sur Barbier-Mueller Museum.

Quelques portraits d’Indiens Kayapo dessinés par Martine de Roeck complètent l’exposition.

L’article An exhibition of photographs taken by Gustaaf Verswijver among the Kayapo of Central Brasil est apparu en premier sur Barbier-Mueller Museum.

Led by our guide, you will discover strange statues carved in a volcanic stone by a sculptor whose identity long remained unknown. You will learn who he was!

In the exhibition, these Barbus Müller sculptures rub shoulders with statues from Africa, Oceania and the Caribbean, among others. Their common display show the formal similarities they share, thus helping to understand why the Barbus Müller categorized as Outsider art have been for a long time associated with Faraway arts.

Let’s journey from Auvergne in France to the African coasts and Pacific islands, from Outsider to Faraway arts. Or the opposite?

Monday July 27, from 2 to 3 pm.

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By email: musee@barbier-mueller.ch

L’article Outside or Farside? est apparu en premier sur Barbier-Mueller Museum.

Dr Denis Ramseyer is an ethnologist whose recent book on the Kuya people of Côte d’Ivoire has been published by the Fondation Culturelle Musée Barbier-Mueller and who also contributed articles to Arts & Cultures. He will talk about the Kuya oral culture.

For Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller it was unbearbable to see a culture disappear. Thus, he contributed to making the arts of Indonesia better known, especially those of the Batak of Sumatra, whom he studied closely. The publications of his eponymous museum have revealed large areas of artistic expressions previously ignored.

Amongst the authors of these books, Georges Breguet focused on Indonesian textiles and the art of Sumba. He has also published several articles in Arts & Cultures, which this year is celebrating its twentieth anniversary. Since its first issue, this anthology has published more than three hundred scholarly articles, crossing time and continents, often reporting on unexplored cultural heritage.

Free admission, please register: musee@barbier-mueller.ch, +41 22 312 02 72

The event will be in French.

L’article From the Spoken to the Written est apparu en premier sur Barbier-Mueller Museum.

Manthia Diawara was born in Mali. He is Professor of Comparative Literature and Film at New York University and Director Emeritus, Institute of African American Affairs. Diawara was educated in Guinea-Conakry, Bamako, Mali and Paris, France, before migrating to the United States to pursue his studies. A prolific writer and filmmaker, his essays on art, cinema and politics have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, LA Times, Libération, Mediapart and Artforum. He is the author of two acclaimed memoirs: In Search of Africa (Harvard University Press, 2000) and We Won’t Budge: An African in the World (Basic Books, 2008). In addition, he has published several books on African and African American cinema. Diawara’s notable films include: An Opera of the World (2017), Negritude: A Dialogue between Soyinka and Senghor (2016), Édouard Glissant, One World in Relation (2010), Maison Tropicale (2008) and Rouch In Reverse (1995).

André Magnin is a freelance exhibition curator who works to promote African contemporary art on the international market. He has curated many exhibitions, notably Beauté Congo 1926-2015 Congo Kitoko and Malick Sidibé, Mali Twist at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain. He kindly lent the photos taken by Malick Sidibé in the sixties and seventies now on display in the Musée Barbier-Mueller basement.

• 7:30 p.m. Concert by the duo A Date with the Darlings

Audrey and Alexis Kacimi are musicians and founders of the label Le Pop Club Records, which has produced records, concerts, music for series or advertisements. The singer and the musician, playing the guitar or the saxophone, meet around the sweet melodies and beats of the 1960s and 1970s, lovingly drawing from the history of doo whop, pop, surf, cool jazz and soul music.

Free admission, please register by email musee@barbier-mueller.ch or phone +41 22 312 02 72.

This event at Le Théâtre Les Salons, rue Jean-François Bartholoni 4, 1204 Geneva, will be in French.

L’article Malick Sidibé, Travel to the Sixties and Seventies est apparu en premier sur Barbier-Mueller Museum.

In French

From 6 to 7 pm

Free entrance, please register: musee@barbier-mueller.ch, 022 312 02 72

L’article Lecture “Millenary Art of Mali” est apparu en premier sur Barbier-Mueller Museum.