THIS WEEK
JOIN US AT PHOTO BASEL !
BOOTH N°24

From June 16 to June 22
Volkshaus Basel
Rebgasse 12-14
4058 Basel

We are showing @ photo basel : Maryam Ashrafi, Guillaume Chamahian, Marios Fournaris, Tuomo Manninen, Mario Rizzi and Mimiko Türkkan — around a deep desire for hope, hence the title, THE BEGINNING OF HOPE, by Marios Fournaris, whether for a better future (Mario Rizzi) ; for the preservation of our natural environment (Mimiko Türkkan) ; the role of women in peace (Maryam Ashrafi) ; for peace, be it fragile (Tuomo Manninen). However the real resists, and we should not look away from it — hence the works by Guillaume Chamahian, who shows the world as it is, often dreadful, but with such a special photographic technique that looking at it favors alternative thoughts : let’s change this world !

Joanna Malinowska
A Forest of mental ashes

Exhibition from May 22 to June 20

Joanna Malinowska, Polish-born and New York-based artist works solo and collaboratively in a range of media. She participated in the Whitney Biennial in 2012; and together with C.T. Jasper represented Poland in the 2015 Venice Biennale as well as participated in the 2021 Bruges Triennial and the curated by Stephane G. Roussel "Opera Monde" at Pompidou Metz. She now comes back to Geneva with "A Forest of Mental Ashes": an installation of clay sculptures and series of drawings that feels like a homecoming after decades of wandering around.

"My first encounter with Barbara Polla and Analix Forever took place two decades ago, in 2005. It was “Pale Ramon”, a wonderful group show curated by Matt Saunders. Twenty years later, I come back with “The Forest of Mental Ashes” which I see as an opportunity to revisit and reflect on my past and current selves,incarnations, perspectives on artmaking, and doubts."

Joanna Malinowska

With the support of

Preview and public reading
On May 21 (11am - 9pm)

For The Swiss Reading Aloud Day, we’ll be reading all day.
Come and read with us, take part, listen and celebrate books, reading, words and Joanna Malinowska in all languages...

The event will be led by Xavier Maurel (Paris) and Benjamin Knobil (Lausanne). Guests will read all day their favorite texts or personal writings. Already registered : Christiane Antoniades, Alain Bagnoud, Serge Bimpage, Olivier Chapuis, Mélanie Chappuis, Aline Dedeyan, Sandrine De Verchères, Sabine Dormond, Jean-Yves Dubath, Frédéric Elkaïm, Gabriel Galice, Nikias Imhoof, Stefan Imhoof, Svetlana Jacquot, Ellen Leblond Schrader, Joanna Malinowska, Dunia Miralles, Ileana Muñoz, Silvia Naef, Antoine Ortolan, Marie- Florence Ortolan, Brigitte Renaud, Nathalie Rodach, Martine Ruchat, Florian Sägesser, Jade Stettler...

We are grateful to Jean-Luc Boesiger, Administrative officer for culture for the city of Chêne-Bourg, for participating and supporting, and to Ileana Muñoz and Nikias Imhoof for music.

For detailed program, please click here 

The Possible Era of Decline (PEOD)
On May 25 in Paris

Join Joanna Malinowska for a projection-conference-performance-brunch, Sunday from 12 noon to 6pm, @ Barbara's home (please email to barbara.s.polla(@)gmail.com to receive the detailed address and codes). Joanna Malinowska will show and perform "The possible Era of Decline", PEOD.

PEOD is a concept Joanna Malinowska uses to reimagine the present moment as a fragmentary pattern in a much bigger and longer fabric of declining, reviving and "renaissancing" civilizations, bloodsheds, reversals of fortunes, cathedrals, declarations of war, declarations of peace, and howls of the Chernobyl wolves roaming freely in the radioactive Eden.

Pour nous rejoindre :

Transports publics : trams 12 ou 17, arrêt Place Favre
Par train : arrêt gare de Chêne-Bourg
Transports automobiles : parking public au 19 rue du Gothard

Pour plus d'informations, veuillez contacter :

Barbara Polla : barbara.s.polla[at]gmail.com
tel : +41 22 860 03 72