February 2025
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.
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In Antarctic Archives, Janis Polar examines how Antarctica is constructed as the "last untouched natural frontier" - only to break with this image. His work questions the violence of discovery and the geopolitical, ecological and colonial narratives that characterise this continent. In doing so, he sheds light on the role of technological and cultural constructions and the power of images in the perception of natural spaces. Antarctic Archives experiments artistically with entangled interstices, gaps and ambivalences in the writing of history, the present and the future and asks: What are we still measuring the world for?
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During her residency in August 2024 Ieva was interested in exploring the place of endemic and invasive plant species in Biel, their traditional roles as well as their historical, environmental and urban implications. Photoforum invited her back to present the results of her residency in a small presentation. Ieva Saudargaitė Douaihi is a multi-disciplinary artist working with photography, installation and other media. Her work is influenced by her background in architecture, a profound fascination with the built and natural environments as well as different layers of street life. Her practice seeks to uncover the layers of history, culture, ecology and experiences embedded within.
Mehr erfahrenMarch 2025
Join us for a guided tour of Cécile Monnier: Nature, Memory, and the Ambivalence of Human Connection with curator Danaé Panchaud. Explore how Monnier’s work examines the complex relationship between humans and nature through two powerful installations. Tout est fichu comme un sandwich à la soupe reflects on fly fishing, exploring how this practice connects and disturbs the environment. In turn around, turn around, turn around, Monnier looks back at her rural childhood, considering how our personal memories shape our understanding of nature.
Mehr erfahrenApril 2025
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.
Mehr erfahrenMay 2025
Photoforum is excited to welcome back our long-time partner, the Biel/Bienne Photography Festival, to our esteemed spaces at Pasquart. A few words on this year’s theme… Horizons, 3.–25.5.2025 Whether it is a city, a forest or an industrial setting, the landscape is cleared, cultivated and inhabited. Defined as terrain transformed by human physical activity, [...]
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With : Biel/Bienne Photography Festival 2025 Have we forgotten how to contemplate mother earth? This is the question Naara Bahler poses through her work, inviting viewers into a state of reflection and connection. Drawing on personal memories of childhood spent observing nature, Bahler’s artistic process emerges from a contemplative state where spirituality and creativity [...]
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