Disruptions. Early Video Art in Europe | FMAC Geneva Switzerland | February 20 – April 23, 2025

February 20 – April 23, 2025
FMAC Geneva Switzerland
CHAPTER I → 1969-1974: February 20 – March 19, 2025
CHAPTER II → 1975-1979: March 27 -April 23, 2025

A collaboration with the research project Emergence of Video Art in Europeresearch project, the exhibition Disruptions. Early Video Art in Europe focuses on the first steps of video art in Switzerland and its connections with the European art movements of the 1970s.

In two successive chapters, the exhibition shows how this medium transformed the visual arts of the time. Video became a tool for experimentation and innovation, used to create performances, reflect on questions of identity, criticize television and design art installations. Disruptions presents a diversity of practices, then shows the evolution of video art through the manipulation of the audio-visual signal to produce new images. Works from the FMAC’s video collection are exhibited alongside European creations, offering a rich dialogue between similarities, differences, influences and simple coincidences.

Featured artists: Vincenzo Agnetti, Helena Almeida, Rene Bauermeister, Dominique Belloir, Gàbor Bódy, Marinus Boezem, Wendy Brown, Jeep van de Bundt, Livinus van de Bundt, Robert Cahen, Geneviève Calame, Eugenio Carmi, Giuseppe Chiari, Gianni Colombo, Rudolf de Crignis, Peter Donebauer, VALIE EXPORT, Ivan Ladislav Galeta, Jochen Gerz, Jacques Guyonnet, Alexander Hahn, David Hall, Marianne Heske, Brian, Hoey, Madelon Hooykaas, Sanja Iveković, Jean Kerchbron, Jannis Kounellis , Klára Kuchta, Pawel Kwiek, Mervi Kytösalmi-Buhl , Urs Lüthi, Manon, Raùl Marroquin, Dalibor Martinis, Dieter Meier, E.M. de Melo e Castro, Guy Milliard, Gérald Minkoff, Antoni Muntadas, Suzanne Nessim, Jacques-Louis Nyst, Marcel Odenbach, Muriel Olesen, Jean Otth, Stephen Partridge, Walter Pfeiffer, Otto Piene, Martial Raysse, Francis Reusser, Ketty La Rocca, Ulrike Rosenbach, Nicolas Schöffer, Elaine Shemilt, Elsa Stansfield, Aldo Tambellini, Janos Urban, Miha Vipotnik, Wolf Vostell, Peter Weibel, Teresa Wennberg, Anna Winteler, Nil Yalter