Join us for a special audiovisual performance by Janis Polar, exploring the entanglement of scientific exploration, industrial ambition, and geopolitical power in Antarctica. stories of 90°S empir[e]icism, #3 reworks historical 16mm footage of European expeditions from the 1940s–1960s, layering them with contemporary material to question the narratives of conquest and extraction that shaped this remote landscape.

Cécile Monnier's work questions the ways in which human practices and personal memories shape our relationship with ‘nature’.  By combining photography and installation, she is looking for new ways of learning to see living things and rethinking our relationship with them. The exhibition presents two works that explore Cécile Monnier's personal and artistic reflections on the relationship between man and nature. In ‘Tout est fichu comme un sandwich à la soupe’, she looks at the practice of fly fishing - a symbolic interface between humans and their environment. She is interested in the way in which anglers care for the habitat that is the river, while at the same time disturbing it. Photographs of hand-made artificial flies, combined with a video installation, question the aesthetics and ambivalence of an activity that connects humans to a habitat and an ecosystem, but also reveals the power relationships and dependencies that are established between them.

Photoforum is delighted to once again host the Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography in our spaces at Pasquart. The festival’s 28th edition, Horizons, explores how landscapes are perceived, used, and represented. Whether urban, forested, or industrial, landscapes are not just physical spaces but cultural and emotional constructs. They are described, mapped, photographed, and interpreted. This year’s edition of the festival presents new perspectives on landscapes and their depiction. As part of the festival, Photoforum presents the work of Naara Bahler. Her poetic approach to landscape combines analog photography with experimental techniques, questioning how we experience and document our surroundings.