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Photoforum Pasquart

Name: Photoforum Pasquart
Address: Faubourg du Lac/Seevorstadt 71, Bienne, 2502, CH
Telephone: +41 32 322 44 82
Price range: £

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Photoforum Pasquart

We display temporary exhibitions of contemporary photography and the Prix Photoforum.

Seit 1984 engagiert für die Förderung der Fotografie
und Unterstützung neuer Talente / Depuis 1984, dédié à la promotion de la photographie et au soutien des talents émergents / Since 1984, dedicated to promoting photography & supporting emerging talents Centre of contemporary photography
Zenter für Zeitgenössische Fotografie
Centre de photographie contemporaine

The Photoforum Pasquart aims

to provide a platform for the visions of a younger generation of artists and photographers. The Photoforum Pasquart is part of the Pasquart building which also includes the Kunsthaus Pasquart, the Filmpodium, the Société des beaux-arts de Bienne and espace libre. Das Photoforum Pasquart präsentiert seine Sicht auf die neue Generation von Künstlern und Fotografen, indem es gesellschaftlichen und politischen Fragen ebenso viel Bedeutung beimisst wie der Kunst. Wir bieten wechselnde Ausstellungen zeitgenössischer Fotografie und den Prix Photoforum. Das Photoforum Pasquart ist Teil des Pasquart Gebäudes, das unter anderem vom Kunsthaus Pasquart, dem Filmpodium, dem Kunstverein Biel und espace libre genutzt wird. Le Photoforum Pasquart présente sa vision de la nouvelle génération d’artistes et photographes en accordant autant d’importance aux questions de société et de politiques qu’à l’art. Nous proposons des expositions temporaires de photographie contemporaine et le Prix Photoforum. Le Photoforum Pasquart fait partie du bâtiment Pasquart, où se trouvent le Kunsthaus Pasquart, le Filmpodium, la Société des beaux-arts de Bienne et espace libre.

28/08/2026

Last weekend to see Tiziana Amico’s "Zagara" and Virginie Rebetez’s "Ajouter un Tiret" exhibitions. 📸

For the final weekend, we invite you to visit both exhibitions, bringing together two very different family stories and two ways of looking at memory, absence and what photography can hold.

Starting from family archives, Tiziana Amico and Virginie Rebetez each move between the personal and the collective, between what is remembered and what has been silenced.

In "Zagara", Amico follows the traces of her family history in Sicily, weaving together photographs, archival images, landscapes, scent and sound.

In "Ajouter un Tiret", Rebetez approaches death and memory through five projects developed over more than twenty years, including "La Rencontre", an intimate work that began with the exhumation of her grandparents.

📌The exhibitions are open until Sunday 30 August. Come by and see them before they close.

📍Photoforum Pasquart, Biel/Bienne
Tiziana Amico « Zagara »
Virginie Rebetez « Ajouter un Tiret »
14 June – 30 August

Opening hours:
We 12:00-18:00
Th 12:00-20:00
Fr 12:00-18:00
Sa, Su 11:00-18:00

Pictures credits:
Picture 1,4,5: From the project Zagara – Ciò che resta © Tiziana Amico
Picture 2,3,6: La Rencontre, 2026 © Virginie Rebetez

26/08/2026

Encounter: Ajouter un Tiret

Tomorrow evening, Virginie Rebetez steps into the exhibition space and extends La Rencontre through a live intervention. For our series Encounter, she returns to that question in the space itself, alongside the work, opening up her process and her thinking on memory, transmission and transformation.

The work began with an administrative fact: her grandparents' graves were to be cleared. The family decided on an exhumation, and Rebetez was there, not as an observer but physically present in the pit, working with her hands. For over twenty years she has asked what photography can show of death and what it must leave unseen.

📌Thursday 27 August, 19:30–20:30
Entry free

📍Photoforum Pasquart, Biel/Bienne
Tiziana Amico « Zagara »
Virginie Rebetez « Ajouter un Tiret »
14 June – 30 August

Opening hours:
We 12:00-18:00
Th 12:00-20:00
Fr 12:00-18:00
Sa, Su 11:00-18:00

25/08/2026

We threw a party! ☀️

Thank you to everyone who joined us for Summer Act: for wandering between the houses, for taking a tour, for guessing in the film quiz, for dancing at the concert, and for staying with us into the night, all the way to the open-air film.

Thank you to Benedikt Bock and for the reading, Théo & Arno Louis Arno Louis for the Frèreformance, Save my Skin SMS for the concert, ONRI Ferments ONRI Ferments for the ramen, Gelato Club Gelato Club for the ice cream, and to everyone who ran the bar, mixed syrups and led the walks and tours. Graphics by Indira Gomez Bleuindigobleu.

From the teams of the four organisations at Pasquart, thank you!
KBCB Kunsthaus Biel Centre d'art Bienne Filmpodium Biel/Bienne Espace Libre Photoforum Pasquart

24/08/2026

We are launching a new event series: Open Lab. 🔬

A photo lab is a valuable tool. Getting into one is another matter. From September, the photo lab at the Schule für Gestaltung Biel opens on the first Saturday of every month, to everyone: beginners, students, professionals and anyone looking for a place to experiment. Someone from the local photography scene is there each time to help and pass on what they know.

Rudolf Steiner () opens the series. Saturday 5 September, 10am to 3pm. Pay what you can, recommended 90 to 150 CHF including materials. Sign up via the link in bio, places are limited.

That we are starting now is not a coincidence. In 1826, Nicéphore Niépce coated a pewter plate with bitumen, pointed it out of his window and waited eight hours for the light to do the rest. The plate still exists. Two hundred years later, the anniversary is being marked with a year of events running from September 2026 to September 2027, and we are opening ours where the image is still made by hand, with chemistry, paper and time.

📌Saturday, September 5
10:00-15:00
Photo Labo
Schule für Gestaltung Biel, Salzhausstrasse 18, 2502 Biel/Bienne
Prix Libre (90-150CHF)

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Picture credit:

24/08/2026

23/08/2026

Final week 📸

We’re entering the final week of Tiziana Amico's "Zagara" at Photoforum Pasquart.
Tiziana Amico follows a family history in Sicily, tracing the scent of orange blossom and what has been silenced across generations. "Zagara" unfolds as a reflection on memory, family, and the stories that remain beneath the surface.

📌Last day of the exhibition: Sunday, August 30.

📍Photoforum Pasquart, Biel/Bienne
Tiziana Amico « Zagara »
Virginie Rebetez « Ajouter un Tiret »
14 June – 30 August

Opening hours:
We 12:00-18:00
Th 12:00-20:00
Fr 12:00-18:00
Sa, Su 11:00-18:00

Picture credits: From the project Zagara – Ciò che resta © Tiziana Amico

22/08/2026

Final week 📸

We’re entering the final week of Virginie Rebetez’s "Ajouter un Tiret" at Photoforum Pasquart.
For twenty years, Rebetez has explored what photography can show of death, approaching it with care. "Ajouter un Tiret" brings this ongoing inquiry together in a reflection on memory, absence, and the traces we leave behind.

📌Last day of the exhibition: Sunday, August 30.

📍Photoforum Pasquart, Biel/Bienne
Tiziana Amico « Zagara »
Virginie Rebetez « Ajouter un Tiret »
14 June – 30 August

Opening hours:
We 12:00-18:00
Th 12:00-20:00
Fr 12:00-18:00
Sa, Su 11:00-18:00

Picture credits: La Rencontre, 2026 © Virginie Rebetez

20/08/2026

"Donna Moderna"

The media act as key producers of symbolic violence. Through the constant repetition of stereotypical images of femininity, such as ‘the seductive temptress’, ‘the self-sacrificing mother’ and ‘the passive object’, social gender hierarchies are not only portrayed but also internalised as natural and self-evident.

These images are particularly effective because they lead those being dominated to contribute to their own subordination. Female worth is linked to beauty, conformity and availability, whilst autonomy and independence are portrayed as problematic. What appears to be harmless entertainment establishes an order in which control and restriction are accepted as natural components of women’s lives.

In this way, the media contribute significantly to the reproduction of those invisible power relations that perpetuate gender inequality and violence.

📍Photoforum Pasquart, Biel/Bienne
Tiziana Amico « Zagara »
Virginie Rebetez « Ajouter un Tiret »
14 June – 30 August

Opening hours:
We 12:00-18:00
Th 12:00-20:00
Fr 12:00-18:00
Sa, Su 11:00-18:00

18/08/2026

Vous trouverez mon corps au petit port (2020)

In June 2010, Rebetez’s great-uncle Bernard took his own life in Lake Biel. He left a note : «I can no longer bear my deafness and therefore my solitude. You will find me at the small harbour beach.» Rebetez was living abroad at the time and could not attend the funeral. Years later, she began working with the objects her father had recovered under her instuction from Bernard’s apartment: clothes, documents, small traces. The work does not seek to explain or resolve what happened, but to carefully reconnect with a life that ended in silence.
Text plays a central role: Bernard’s farewell message and the police statement become fragments through which a life can be approached, even when the person himself remains absent. It marked Rebetezs first turn toward her own biography, opening a line of inquiry that would continue through subsequent projects.

📍Photoforum Pasquart, Biel/Bienne
Tiziana Amico « Zagara »
Virginie Rebetez « Ajouter un Tiret »
14 June – 30 August

Opening hours:
We 12:00-18:00
Th 12:00-20:00
Fr 12:00-18:00
Sa, Su 11:00-18:00

Picture credits: © Lea Kunz

15/08/2026

It's Summer Act day🍦🌞

As part of the Summer Act at Centre Pasquart in Biel/Bienne, Photoforum is hosting activities for all ages from 4pm this afternoon!

Let yourself be enchanted by the magic of our cyanotype workshop, or discover more about our current exhibitions by taking part in one of our guided tours. 🌿📸

Come by this afternoon, enjoy our ice creams, cocktails & more, and share a special moment together. 🍹

We look forward to seeing you!

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Full programme in the final slide 🔥

Picture credits:
Slide 2: © Claudia Lederer

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Faubourg Du Lac/Seevorstadt 71
Bienne
2502

Heures d'ouverture

Mercredi	12:00 - 18:00
Jeudi	12:00 - 20:00
Vendredi	12:00 - 18:00
Samedi	11:00 - 18:00
Dimanche	11:00 - 18:00

Téléphone

+41 32 322 44 82

Site Web

http://www.photoforumpasquart.ch/

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