Exhibition catalogue – Musée Barbier-Mueller, Geneva, October 29, 2025 – May 31, 2026

Bilingual edition: French and English

With a preface by Séverine Fromaigeat
A conversation between Paul Maheke & Séverine Fromaigeat
A poetic essay by Quinn Latimer
Catalogue entries by various specialists

Edition Musée Barbier-Mueller

64 pages

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

Exhibition catalogue – From 23 May 2024 to 5 January 2025

Bilingual edition: English and French texts.

• Preface by Caroline Barbier-Mueller
• Texts by Lionel Bovier
• Interview with Spark Vett, Parker Williams and John Armleder
• Catalogue entries by various specialists

Co-edition Musée Barbier-Mueller – Colophon

104 pages, 48 colour plates

L’article Transparents, John Armleder & le musée Barbier-Mueller est apparu en premier sur Barbier-Mueller Museum.

A Socio-Cultural Study of the Ritual Practices of an Ancient Hunter-Gatherer Society and Its Shamans

Published by : Fondation culturelle Barbier-Mueller

Drawing on a rich array of oral, written and filmed ethnographic data, as well as on archives and agronomic, geographical and political details gathered in the course of multiple field trips, this socio-cultural study by anthropologist Adrien Viel offers us a comprehensive overview of Nepal’s Chepang community.

With every turn of the page, you’ll discover another fascinating evolution of Chepang shamanic techniques and rituals, as well as of the rites associated with the cycles of life, hunting and producing resources. Unfolding within the context of two centuries of Nepalese history, this exploration highlights the Chepang’s transition from a nomadic to a sedentary way of life.

L’article The Chepang of Nepal est apparu en premier sur Barbier-Mueller Museum.

Exhibition catalogue

Published by the Barbier-Mueller Museum

Bilingual edition: English and French texts.

• Preface by Thierry Barbier-Mueller
• Texts by Hans Irrek, Arik Levy and Zoé Ouvrier
• Catalogue entries by various specialists

151 pages

As the Musée Barbier-Mueller celebrates its 45th anniversary, it welcomes, in an original dialogue with pieces from its collection, the works of two contemporary artists: the sculptor, engraver and painter Zoé Ouvrier and the sculptor and visual artist Arik Levy.

The two artists have been given carte blanche; each in their own way asserts a strong and deeply personal link with non-Western arts, with the work and sensibility of artists and craftsmen, an intimacy with the works at the border between the visible and the invisible.

L’article Invisible thoughts, le musée Barbier-Mueller, Arik Levy & Zoé Ouvrier est apparu en premier sur Barbier-Mueller Museum.

The Ethno-tale told by Lola the adventurer

Inspired by a tale of the Jamnyo women divers of Jeju Island, rewritten by Ok-Kyung Pak, adapted for children by Pascal Montjovent and Pascal Conicella, illustrated by Helder Da Silva.

The daughter of a Jamnyo diver, Bada sees her mother disappear into the ocean every morning and bring back wonderful coloured shells to feed her and her family. Then one day, the little girl decides to dive in her turn, like her mother. She sees a shell at the bottom of the water that is brighter than the others and tries to get close to it, but she runs out of breath…

For children 6 to 10 years old. 44 pages.

The series

Lola is a little adventurer who never misses an opportunity to go in search of mysterious events that have taken place in the remote regions of our beautiful planet. With each of her adventures, she returns to tell us about her discoveries.

To be published in the same series:

• Bouéré et les monstres de la forêt. Among the Yohoure people of central Côte d’Ivoire

Already published in the same series :

• Oket et l’oiseau géant. Among the Kayapo Indians of the Amazon in Brazil
• Gazourou et l’esprit de la forêt. Among the Kuya of the Ivory Coast
• Bada et la déesse du dragon. Among Jamnyo of Jeju Island in Korea

L’article Sona Lamu et le poisson d’or est apparu en premier sur Barbier-Mueller Museum.

Author : Jean-Pierre Jacob

192 pages, 4 maps, 39 colour pictures, 9 black and white illustrations.

Edited by the Fondation Culturelle Musée Barbier-Mueller and In Fine Editions d’art, 2022.

L’article Les Winye du Centre-Ouest Burkina Faso, Mort, mariage et naissance dans une société de la frontière est apparu en premier sur Barbier-Mueller Museum.

Antiquity, Africa, Oceania, Asia, Americas

Annual magazine. Anthology of Non-Western arts, texts by various specialists.

Published by the Musée Barbier-Mueller.

Contents

Laurence Mattet: Editorial

Emmanuel Grandjean: Cosmos: Interview with Didier Queloz

Nigel Barley: Aliens Prefer Blondes

Pascal Dibie: Under the Moon’s Watch

Jacques Chamay: The Cosmos as the Ancient Greeks Understood it

Jean-Marie Hosatte: The Great Decentring

Marie Mauzé: The Power of Stars in Native North American Societies

Suzanne Preston Blier: Cosmos as Labyrinth in African Art

Michèle Cros: Toulou and the Chameleons. Lobi Cosmic Echoes

Denis Ramseyer: Animism and Christianity. Cosmogony in the Forest Areas of Côte d’Ivoire

Hermione Waterfield: Trying to Make the Intangible Tangible, or Observations on the Cosmology of the Yoruba of Nigeria

Philippe Veuve: Sacred Deer of Japan: From Cosmogony to the Bushido

Ludovic Coupaye: Distributed Cosmology: Figures, Houses, Mounds and Gardens among the “Abelam”

Christian Coiffier: Creation Stories among the Iatmul of the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea

Guigone Camus: The Kiribati Islands: A Chain of Myths

Kim Akermann: Making Rain when the Sun Shines

Maia Nuku: Weaving the Cosmos Together

Bérénice Geoffroy Schneiter: Cosmos-Cosmetics: Dancing Brushes

Gisèle Gueller: Fear of Disaster among the Stars

Laurence Mattet:  Dealers’ Memories: Interviews with:

• Alain de Monbrison
• Thomas Murray

Anne-Joëlle Nardin : Activities of the Museum and the Fondation Culturelle Musée Barbier-Mueller

List of Members

List of Advertisers

L’article Arts & Cultures 2022 – #23 est apparu en premier sur Barbier-Mueller Museum.

The Ethno-tale told by Lola the adventurer

Inspired by a tale of the Jamnyo women divers of Jeju Island, rewritten by Ok-Kyung Pak, adapted for children by Pascal Montjovent and Pascal Conicella, illustrated by Helder Da Silva.

The daughter of a Jamnyo diver, Bada sees her mother disappear into the ocean every morning and bring back wonderful coloured shells to feed her and her family. Then one day, the little girl decides to dive in her turn, like her mother. She sees a shell at the bottom of the water that is brighter than the others and tries to get close to it, but she runs out of breath…

For children 6 to 10 years old. 44 pages.

The series

Lola is a little adventurer who never misses an opportunity to go in search of mysterious events that have taken place in the remote regions of our beautiful planet. With each of her adventures, she returns to tell us about her discoveries.

To be published in the same series:

• Bouéré et les monstres de la forêt. Among the Yohoure people of central Côte d’Ivoire
• Sona Lamu petite fille intrépide du Lac Lugu. Among the Na of Lijiazui (in the Yunnan region of China)

Already published in the same series :

• Oket et l’oiseau géant. Among the Kayapo Indians of the Amazon in Brazil
• Gazourou et l’esprit de la forêt. Among the Kuya of the Ivory Coast

L’article Bada et la déesse du dragon est apparu en premier sur Barbier-Mueller Museum.

The Ethno-tale told by Lola the adventurer

Inspired by a Kuya tale from the Ivory Coast, based on an idea by Denis Ramseyer, adapted for children by Pascal Conicella and Pascal Montjovent, illustrated by Helder Da Silva.

The great forest around the village has disappeared, and with it many animals. In order to bring it back to life as luxuriant as it was in his grandparents’ time, young Gazourou and his friends follow his grandfather’s advice. They go deep into what remains of the Sacred Forest, in search of the Spirit of the Forest.

A tale full of hope in the heart of the Ivory Coast.

For children from 6 to 10 years old. 44 pages.

The series

Lola is a little adventurer who never misses an opportunity to go in search of mysterious events that have taken place in the remote regions of our beautiful planet. With each of her adventures, she returns to tell us about her discoveries.

To be published in the same series:

• Bouéré et les monstres de la forêt. Among the Yohoure people of central Côte d’Ivoire
• Sona Lamu petite fille intrépide du Lac Lugu. Among the Na of Lijiazui (in the Yunnan region of China)

Already published in the same series :

• Oket et l’oiseau géant. Among the Kayapo Indians of the Amazon in Brazil
• Bada et la déesse du dragon. Among Jamnyo of Jeju Island in Korea

L’article Gazourou et l’Esprit de la forêt est apparu en premier sur Barbier-Mueller Museum.

Exhibition catalogue

Published by the Barbier-Mueller Museum

144 pages, 149 colour illustrations

Exhibited today for the first time at the Barbier-Mueller Museum in its entirety, this collection of Ðông Sơn art is the most important known, outside the Vietnamese national collections. It consists of prestige or sacred objects, fighting instruments and ornaments testifying to a culture that takes its name from the village of Ðông Sơn located in the province of Thanh Hoa, in the north of present-day Vietnam, where numerous archaeological remains have been unearthed. These and those from many other sites attest to an intense artistic activity responding to the demands of the aristocracy of kingdoms settled in the valleys of the Red, Ma and Black rivers, which provided them with wealth and a means of communication.

The Ðông Sơn culture, which flourished between the 4th century BC and the 4th century AD over a fairly large area, gave rise to its own art and style, which was very often influenced by the traditions of neighbouring southern China. Pieces of Ðông Sơn or resembling Ðông Sơn have been found in mainland and island Southeast Asia, notably in Thailand, Cambodia and Indonesia, the result of the commercial and technical exchanges that take place in this geographical area and which suggest the existence in these regions of “Ðông Sơn traditions”.

The texts and notes by Dr Van Viet Nguyen (Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Prehistory, Hanoi) offer a contextual reading and a stylistic description of the objects on display, while the contribution by Pierre Baptiste (General Curator at the Musée Guimet, Paris) offers a study of the relations that the Ðông Sơn culture maintained with China.

May the visitors to the exhibition and readers of this catalogue experience a delight similar to that felt by the collector Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller, who devoted a sustained interest to these pieces with their delicate lines and refined decoration, produced thanks to a remarkable technical mastery.

L’article Art de Đông Sơn, Asie du Sud-Est, dans les collections Barbier-Mueller est apparu en premier sur Barbier-Mueller Museum.