For the first time, salon artgenève has teamed up with New Heads – BNP Paribas Foundation Art Awards. From 28 to 31 January 2016, the salon will exhibit the prize winners’ works 2015, offering them a unique introduction to the professional world of art. The awards come with a CHF 12,000 grant – a significant financial contribution to help artists enter the professional world of art. 

Julie Sas  presented Shoot, Shot, Shot (2014, corrugated cardboard, inkjet printing on photo paper) and La mécanique des fluides (2014, mechanic revolving stage and megaphone / metallic funnel, paint). Worn out and reduced elements of theatre bear witness to their own obsolescence and/or problematic usage. 

Romain Juan presented Extra “VEDETT” Blond (metal, embroidered silk jacket, bar equipment). His objects, inspired by stories, drawn from various sources and different fashions, play on a tragi-comical paradox that draws forms and gestures from art as well as from popular culture – as demonstrated by the artist’s research into folk music and stand-up comedy.

Etienne Chosson presented a series of black and white silver photographs, ‘Symmetry is most likely born out of laziness and vanity’. This set of photographs is dedicated to the spatialisation of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s La Nouvelle Héloïse in Parc d’Ermenonville and presents a spatial disposition of thoughts about nature, perceived as subjects for future paintings and propitious for walks as a philosophical activity. The Newspaper Le Temps will publish several of the artist’s works, which will be available for subscribers in January next year.

The international jury
Maria Bernheim Gallery’ Director Maria Bernheim, Volkart Stiftung (Winterthur) and Gebert Stiftung für Kultur (Rapperswil) curator Alexandra Blättler, New York’s Swiss Institute Director Simon Castets, Le Temps journalist Elisabeth Chardon and Paris-based artist Ulla von Brandenburg.