Photoforum Pasquart

24/06/2026

[PRIX PHOTOFORUM OPEN CALL 2026 📣]

Have a photography project that deserves to be seen? Whether classic, experimental, documentary or conceptual – the Prix Photoforum is looking for works that surprise, move, and spark dialogue. What matters is your voice and vision.

Open call for all ages, topics, and styles. A jury of experts, composed of Sophie Huguenot (photographer & board member of Photoforum), (curator, Fondation Gandur pour l’Art & Centre Culturel Afropea), .guerra.lenzburg (director, Fotofestival Lenzburg), Gregor Huber (publisher, Edition Hors-Sujet), and (director & curator, Photoforum), will select 10–12 artists for the final exhibition – with a 5,000 CHF award and participation fee for all selected. Find all details & how to apply on our website.

📆 Deadline of the Open Call: 7th of July 2026, 23:59

The application is free for Photoforum members, fees apply for non-members and there is a discount for students.

Pictures credit:
© Maciej Czepiel, “I Can Remember it For You”, 2025, Exhibited at Prix Photoforum 2025.

18/06/2026

Tiziana Amico "Zagara"

Photoforum Pasquart presents the first institutional solo exhibition "Zagara – Ciò che resta" of photographe@yalla_______h , who draws on her legal background in her photographic practice.

In Zagara, she combines a personal, family-based starting point with a broader investigation. Her great-grandmother was forced to flee an attempted femicide in Sicily in 1939. From this point, the work explores how gender-based violence leaves traces: not only in the body, but especially in silence, in gestures, and in inherited emotional landscapes.

Discover more about the exhibition by visiting Photoforum 📸✨

📌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

18/06/2026

Virginie Rebetez "Ajouter un Tiret"

Photoforum Pasquart presents "Ajouter un Tiret" an exhibition that premieres of "La Rencontre", a new work by The work marks a significant moment in the career of the Lausanne-based photographer and artist. It is the first work that explicitly draws on her own immediate family.

La Rencontre stems from a deeply personal and family-driven decision. The artist’s grandparents, who passed away just three months apart in 1981, were buried in a plot whose lease had expired. Without action from the family, only the gravestones would have been removed by the cemetery. Virginie Rebetez therefore suggested to her relatives that they exhume the bodies and use it as the starting point for an artistic project.

Discover more about Virginie's exhibition by visiting Photoforum 📸✨

📌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 «La Rencontre» © Virginie Rebetez

17/06/2026

[PRIX PHOTOFORUM OPEN CALL 2026 📣]

Have a photography project that deserves to be seen? Whether classic, experimental, documentary or conceptual – the Prix Photoforum is looking for works that surprise, move, and spark dialogue. What matters is your voice and vision.

Open call for all ages, topics, and styles. A jury of experts, composed of Sophie Huguenot (photographer & board member of Photoforum), (curator, Fondation Gandur pour l’Art & Centre Culturel Afropea), .guerra.lenzburg (director, Fotofestival Lenzburg), Gregor Huber (publisher, Edition Hors-Sujet), and (director & curator, Photoforum), will select 10–12 artists for the final exhibition – with a 5,000 CHF award and participation fee for all selected. Find all details & how to apply on our website.

📆 Deadline of the Open Call: 7th of July 2026, 23:59

The application is free for Photoforum members, fees apply for non-members and there is a discount for students.

Pictures credit:
© Ianne Kenfack Kitio, “A pic 4 us”, 2025, Exhibited at Prix Photoforum 2025.

15/06/2026

Prix Photoforum Open Call 2026 🌱

Only three weeks left! Submit your application now ✨

For more information visit our website: photoforumpasquart.ch

14/06/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the opening of our summer exhibitions! ✨

We’re proud to present two solo shows — Tiziana Amico’s „Zagara“ and Virginie Rebetez’s „Ajouter un Tiret“— two artists who explore memory, loss, and what we inherit across generations.

A heartfelt thank you to both artists for their generosity, and to everyone who came to share the evening with us.

If you missed it: both shows are on now. They ask for a slow, attentive kind of looking — come and take the time. We’d love to see you here. 🤍

📌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

V I R G I N I E R E B E T E Z KBCB Kunsthaus Biel Centre d'art Bienne

14/06/2026

[PRIX PHOTOFORUM OPEN CALL 2026 –JURY MEMBER]

📸 Meet .guerra.lenzburg one of our Prix Photoforum 2026 jury members.

Margherita Guerra is the director of the Fotofestival Lenzburg.
Holding an M.A. in Theology from Milan, she built her expertise in publishing and photography as a copyright manager and picture editor, notably at Florence's Alinari Archive. After moving to Switzerland in 2013, she founded the picture research and copyright agency Yourpictureditor. In 2017, she founded the Fotofestival Lenzburg. Now in its 7th edition, the festival has grown into a vibrant, internationally recognized event that unites master photographers and emerging talents, fostering research and exchange in contemporary photography through exhibitions, events, awards, artistic residencies, and national and international partnerships.

Project:
My current project is the latest edition of the Fotofestival Forever Happy. After nearly two years of research into the theme of happiness this edition presents a selection of projects exploring a wide range of perspectives.
The featured works address themes such as the impact of the pervasive use of medication, the pressure placed on personal identity, photography as a means of healing and overcoming trauma, the exposure of artificial happiness hidden behind serene facades, and the consequences of overconsumption, while also reflecting on the search for genuine serenity through human relationships.
With nationally and internationally renowned artists including Paolo Woods, Eva O’Leary, Martin Parr, Siân Davey, Aline D’Auria, Karla Hiraldo Voleau, Anne Morgenstern, Antigoni Papantoni and many others, this edition both responds to and leaves open many important questions.
The festival is now coming to a close, and we will soon begin working on the next edition, with an exciting new theme and the search for compelling new voices in photography.

Credits:
Picture 1: MargheritaGuerra ©DavideMonteleone
Picture 2: AddtoCart_TinaSturzenegger
Picture 3: Siân Davey_TheGarden
Picture 4: Eva O'Leary_HappyValley

11/06/2026

This Saturday, 13 June: Vernissage Tiziana Amico & Virginie Rebetez, from 17:00

📸We warmly invite you to the opening of : “Zagara” by Tiziana Amico & “Ajouter un Tiret” by Virginie Rebetez. Two exhibitions, one shared question: what can a photograph tell and what stays unsaid? 
Virginie Rebetez has spent twenty years asking what photography can show of death approaching it with a care that our visual culture usually avoids.

✨As usual, the opening takes place as a double opening toghether with Kunsthaus Biel/Centre d’art Bienne, where several new exhibitions and projects open the same evening. 
Discover new positions by John M Armleder, Mimosa Echard, Jürg Nänni and La Dépendance & Friends. 

📍Programme: 
17:00 Doors open
17:15 Speeches
17:30 Apéro
18:00 Tour with the artists 
19:00 Catering cantine mobile 

 


The exhibitions have been made possible thanks to the generous support of the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, the canton of Vaud, the Dr Georg and Josi Guggenheim Foundation, and the Erna and Curt Burgauer Foundation. The annual programme is supported by the Temperatio Foundation and the Stiftung für Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte.

 V I R G I N I E R E B E T E Z Pro Helvetia KBCB Kunsthaus Biel Centre d'art Bienne Paul Bernard

11/06/2026

10/06/2026

[PRIX PHOTOFORUM OPEN CALL 2026 📣]

Have a photography project that deserves to be seen? Whether classic, experimental, documentary or conceptual – the Prix Photoforum is looking for works that surprise, move, and spark dialogue. What matters is your voice and vision.

Open call for all ages, topics, and styles. A jury of experts, composed of Sophie Huguenot (photographer & board member of Photoforum), (curator, Fondation Gandur pour l’Art & Centre Culturel Afropea), .guerra.lenzburg (director, Fotofestival Lenzburg), Gregor Huber (publisher, Edition Hors-Sujet), and (director & curator, Photoforum), will select 10–12 artists for the final exhibition – with a 5,000 CHF award and participation fee for all selected. Find all details & how to apply on our website.

📆 Deadline of the Open Call: 7th of July 2026, 23:59

The application is free for Photoforum members, fees apply for non-members and there is a discount for students.

Pictures credit:
© Roberta Faust, “Yesterday’s plants”, 2024, Exhibited at Prix Photoforum 2025.