The Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève (Centre) is a contemporary art exhibition centre (a Kunsthalle) in Geneva, Switzerland, founded by Adelina von Fürstenberg in 1974.
The centre was the first contemporary art institution in Suisse Romande (i.e. in French speaking Switzerland). As a Kunsthalle, it does not have a collection, but organizes temporary exhibitions and projects with regional and international artists.
The Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève gained international renown with exhibitions by artists such as Joseph Beuys, Martin Boyce, Olaf Breuning, Maurizio Cattelan, Roberto Cuoghi, Gilbert & George, Nan Goldin, Dan Graham, Joan Jonas, On Kawara, William Kentridge, Robert Overby, Pipilotti Rist, Ugo Rondinone, Sterling Ruby, Thomas Scheibitz, Shirana Shahbazi, Cindy Sherman, Josh Smith, Andy Warhol, Lawrence Weiner, Christopher Wool.
In 2010, the Centre took on the mission of the Centre pour l’Image Contemporaine (CIC), established in Geneva in 1985.
CIC was established to organize events and exhibitions of images using new technologies such as video, multimedia, and the Internet, as well as more traditional photography and film (Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement).
Contents
Directors
1974 – 1990 Adelina von Fürstenberg
1990 – 2001 Paolo Colombo
2002 – 2011 Katya García-Antón
2012 – present Andrea Bellini
Publications
2022 – "BIM’21. A Goodbye Letter", A Love Call, A Wake-Up Song, LENZ
2022 – "From Concrete to Liquid to Spoken Worlds to the Word", LENZ
2022 – "The Continuum Was Performed in the Following Manner – Notes on documenta 14", NERO. Textes
2021 – "Psicoenciclopedia possibile, Gianfranco Baruchello", ed Andrea Bellini, Motto Books. Texts by Andrea Bellini, Carla Subrizi and Ambroise Tièche
2021 – "Lemaniana", ed Andrea Bellini, Motto Books. Texts by Mohamed Almusibli, Andrea Bellini, Roxane Bovet, Patrick de Rham, Jill Gasparina et Stéphanie Moisdon.
2021 – "Poems I Will Never Release: Chiara Fumai 2007-2017", ed Andrea Bellini, Milovan Farronato, Francesco Urbano Ragazzi, NERO Editions. Texts by Irene Aristizábal, Andrea Bellini, Federico Campagna, Milovan Farronato, Gabriel Lester, Raimundas Malašauskas, Chus Martínez, Mara Montanaro, Paulina Olowska, Cristiana Perrellal, Marcello Bellan, Francesco Urbano Ragazzi, Giovanna Zapperi, Sara De Chiara.
2020 – "Srievere Disegnato", ed Andrea Bellini, Sarah Lombardi, Skira. Texts by Andrea Bellini, Sarah Lombardi, Deerek Beaulieu, Federico Campagna, Vincent Capt, François Chastanet, Andrea Cortellessa, Morad Montazami, Joana Neves, Marta Spagnolello, Michel Thévoz, Marina Yaguello
2020 – "Sabrina Röthlisberger, LE SANG", ed Sabrina Röthlisberger, Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève, Mousse Publishing.
2019 – "Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement 2018", ed Andrea Bellini, Andrea Lissoni, Corraini Edizioni. Texts by Andrea Bellini, Andrea Lissoni, Edwin Nasr, boychild, Rahel Aima, Aaron Weldon, Helen Molesworth, Daniel Berndt, Ian Cheng, Majid Al-Remaihi, Abdullah Al-Mutairi, Giona A. Nazzaro, Pujan Karambeigi, Sarah Wang, Émile Ouroumov, Tirdad Zolghadr, Thomas Zummer, Leslie Thornton.