Draw it, on the wall !
© HEAD – Genève Image
Draw it, on the wall !
© HEAD – Genève Image
Draw it, on the wall !
© HEAD – Genève Image
Draw it, on the wall !
© HEAD – Genève Image
Draw it, on the wall !
© HEAD – Genève Image
Draw it, on the wall !
© HEAD – Genève Image
Draw it, on the wall !
© HEAD – Genève Image

Draw it, on the wall !

May 2026

Exhibition from May 7 to May 20, 2026

With Emma Cayuso, Andrea Cojocari, Candice Fudzie, Clément Hajjar, Rin Heu, Kairaan Kika, Emeline Mermoud, Coralie Nadel Lilly Nassauer, Eliza Osdautaj, Philippe Stet, Jean Vonlanthen

Draw it, on the Wall! brings together students from HEAD – Geneva who have studied in the ‘Dessiner/Exposer’ workshop led by artist and teacher Pascal Berthoud. Presented at the Espace Jörg Brockmann in Geneva, the exhibition creates a dialogue between wall drawings and drawings on paper in order to explore their respective formats and distinct temporalities.
The wall interventions, created in situ for the duration of the exhibition, are part of the recent history of drawing extended to architecture and space. Through their ephemeral and contextual nature, they conceive of drawing as an action but also as a spatial experience.
In parallel, the works on paper explore the ‘instant’ as a form and temporality specific to drawing – a concept that the Espace Brockmann regularly highlights in its exhibitions dedicated to the photographic medium. Straddling monumentality and immediacy, the exhibition thus highlights two complementary graphic approaches: drawing conceived as an action and drawing perceived as an image. The exhibition format, collective and collaborative, offers students and the public a vibrant and contemporary exploration of the current challenges facing drawing.

We draw right there, directly, without sketches and with no other surface than the wall itself. With the invaluable support of our tutor Pascal Berthoud, we sought to reimagine the medium of drawing with a view to liberating it from its frame, from the confines of the page. By making it stand upright, we have brought it to the level of our bodies and our movements. The wall becomes more than a surface: it is a living surface, a space in its own right.
We are twelve students from the HEAD and we draw as we move forward; through fragments, driven by our impulses and our questions. Through drawing, we capture what moves us and what, perhaps, eludes us. In the Jörg Brockmann space, our individual lines come together, intersect and enter into dialogue with one another. We take over the walls by creating a whole that oscillates between our connections and our differences.
Drawing together on the wall means accepting that we no longer fully own our work. It means allowing things to appear and disappear, working within the urgency imposed by the transience of wall drawing. We inscribe passages and narratives between multiple realities. The wall, once smooth, becomes porous. It is traversed by our imaginations and our gestures.
Draw it, on the wall! is an invitation conceived collectively. The idea is to bring together in this space images that engage in dialogue and give rise to new elements. Twelve ways of approaching drawing, twelve ways of expressing oneself through it.

Emeline Mermoud, participating artist
15 April 2026

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