At the ArtGenève art fair, HEAD presents Hinterland, an exhibition that brings together the work of five international artists who have left their mark on the school’s history from the late 1960s to the present decade.

From two million to just over ten thousand years ago, the Geneva area was a vast sheet of ice pierced by rocky mountaintops and in some places several thousand metres thick. When this melted, it left the area as we now know it: eroded and dotted with moraines and erratic boulders attracted by the movement of the elements. This landscape, or rather this disrupted geology, has in turn left its mark on the artists that have lived here – so that we could now envisage a history of forms seen through the prism of interest in the physical Alpine environment.

The exhibition thus presents an outline of work by artists of various generations who have passed through Geneva, from Jimmie Durham’s collection of stones to Jérémie Gindre’s rocky creations, and from Amy O’Neill’s glacier studies and Marta Riniker-Radich’s dreamlike visions to Jelena Martinović’s research at the boundaries of art and science.

A lecture at 4 p.m. on Thursday 30 January will add depth to these outlines in a research project midway between science and fiction, geology and genealogy, art and exploration.