Despite the recent events, we are very happy to inform you that the event will open as planned on June 12 with, in the first place, about fifteen works. As the production of some works has been affected by the strict confinement imposed in some European countries, other installations will join the exhibition during the month of June and early July. 

The organisers have also been able to extend the exhibition until the end of September and move the programme of events, initially planned for June, to September. A large cocktail party in honour of the exhibition is thus scheduled for Friday 4 September at the Restaurant du Parc des Eaux-Vives.

The Biennial presents some thirty large-format sculptures, many of which were produced specifically for the exhibition by young artists. Sculpture Garden will take place in three magnificent public spaces that are particularly popular during the summer: the Parc des Eaux-Vives, the Parc La Grange and the Quai Gustave-Ador. Île Rousseau and Hôtel La Réserve will complete the tour with special projects. A series of events and performative evenings will animate the event. A mediation program will also be offered.

For its second edition, the exhibition will be clearing new territories. It pays tribute to original productions, young artists and hybrid works created by artists and designers. Fountains, benches, architectures, flags or mobiles, participative works, committed or dialoguing with the Eaux-Vives and La Grange parks draw the shape of a new way of thinking sculpture today.

Ambitious by its international dimension, by the number of artists invited and by its themes, the exhibition is also defined by a humble relationship to the parks, nature and landscape. The biennial's steering committee, made up of Thomas Hug (artgenève), Lionel Bovier (MAMCO), Michèle Freiburghaus (Fmac) and Balthazar Lovay, the curator, have created the conditions for artists to propose projects designed for these Geneva parks and to produce them for the event. Responding to the quality of these places has proved to be a constant in the proposals, which also use pre-existing constructions (former tourist train station, irrigation system) or are associated with the natural elements of the site.

The organizers and GVA2 are very enthusiastic to offer the public of Geneva, French-speaking Switzerland and the rest of the country a great opportunity to discover new flagship works and thus the beauty of our city's parks at a time when cultural proposals are becoming rare.  

Le Musée Transitoire est une institution Franco-Suisse à but non lucratif, un espace d’exposition éphémère. Il s’inscrit dans des lieux en transition où les œuvres sont appelées à communiquer entre elles et à évoluer au fil du temps.

Le projet est né d'une envie d’intégrer l'architecture et le son à la conception d'une œuvre engagée. Le MT a pour ambition d'investir des lieux qui n’ont pas vocation à accueillir des expositions, l’idée est de modifier la place de l’artiste dans le champ de l’art et désacraliser ses lois.

Pour sa première édition, il a investi un garage désaffecté dans le 11ème arrondissement de Paris sur 4000m2 d’espace d’exposition où les artistes et les œuvres choisies par les commissaires Romina Shama et Amandine Casadamont, ont fait écho avec le lieu, son histoire, son futur, ses matériaux et ses lignes.

GVA2 est très heureuse d'apporter son soutien à ce projet novateur et ambitieux et d'aider l'organisatrice dans ses recherches de lieu en transition pour son édition genevoise. 

Suite au succès de l’édition 2018, GVA² est très heureuse de vous annoncer qu’elle poursuit son partenariat avec les organisateurs pour la deuxième édition de la Biennale d'art contemporain Sculpture Garden qui se tiendra du 5 juin au 10 septembre 2020.

Cette manifestation artistique, organisée par artgenève en partenariat avec le Mamco et la Ville de Genève, se veut plus ambitieuse que la version précédente puisqu’elle présentera une trentaine d'œuvres, réparties sur 4 lieux emblématiques de la ville de Genève : le Parc des Eaux-Vives, le Parc La Grange, le Jardin Anglais et l'Ile Rousseau. Balthazar Lovay succèdera à Lionel Bovier comme commissaire d'exposition pour l'édition 2020.

De nombreux événements publics et privés seront également organisés tout au long de la biennale. GVA² est très enthousiaste de participer une nouvelle fois à la réalisation de ce projet culturel qui contribue grandement au rayonnement de Genève.

The association invited about fifty of its members to the Bateau Genève for a conference on artificial intelligence. We had the privilege of listening to Dr Sofia Vallecorsa, physicist and head of the CERN openlab, Dr Colin Barschel, project manager at armasuisse for the Cyber-defence Campus (DDPS), Professor David Rudrauf, director of the Multimodal Modelling Laboratory of Emotion and Feeling at the University of Geneva, and Mr Nicolas Capt, lawyer specialised in issues related to technologies, media, e-reputation and online data protection. 

The experts’ speeches were followed by a session dedicated to Swiss startups currently active in fields such as cybersecurity, finance, medicine and law,  which was animated by Fabrice Delaye, journalist at Heidi.news.  

The conference was moderated by Serge Michel, founder and editor-in-chief of the media. A report of the exchanges is available on the links below: 

• Artificial intelligence in Switzerland: its potential and limitations 
• The Swiss army is preparing for potential cyber attacks 
• At CERN, artificial intelligence will help to relaunch the accelerator 

We hope this evening will be the starting point of a collaboration that we wish to be long and fruitful with Heidi.news and which will undoubtedly offer high quality events to our members.

On the eve of the new school year, GVA2 wanted to offer its members and their families a guided tour of the first edition of the contemporary art biennial "Sculpture Garden", to which the association gave its support. An event in a different format from our traditional dinners, since instead of the usual speakers, about thirty of our members were guided through the exhibition, set in our magnificent Parc des Eaux-Vives.

A cultural mediator as well as the director of the event allowed us to understand the artists creations in an enlightened way and to discover, among other things, Carsten Höller's work, which refers to a theory linking the evolution of man and the appearance of human consciousness to the consumption of hallucinogenic fungi... 

The whole team is looking forward to the 2020 edition and will certainly support it!

A partnership was concluded between artgenève/sculptures and GVA2 to support the organization of a large-scale contemporary art biennale that will be part of Geneva's other major contemporary art summer fairs in Europe. The first edition takes place from June to September 2018 at Parc des Eaux-Vives.

To give the event a local and international influence, our association supports the organizers for the fundraising part with the help of our collaborator Renate Cornu. We have raised almost all the necessary funds and are waiting for confirmation from other potential sponsors. 

A vernissage in the presence of Sami Kanaan, Mayor of Geneva, Lionel Bovier, director of the Mamco and curator of the exhibition, as well as officials of the FMAC, partner of the event, took place on 8 June, bringing together more than 200 people. On this occasion we had the opportunity to witness Roman Signer's performance on Le Jet d'eau. A video of the highlights of this event is visible by clicking on this link.

As part of its partnership with Alp ICT, the association organised a meeting of innovators from the digital technology scene thanks to the Meet the Makers campaign initiated by Alp ICT. In a different format from our thematic dinners, the association invited its members to discover this program. The event focused on the theme of Smart Cities and was followed by a dinner.  
Our speakers presented their work and their vision for the integration of Smart Cities technologies in Switzerland and elsewhere. We had the pleasure of listening to the following speakers: 

• Giorgio Pauletto, Strategy, Foresight and Innovation Designer at SIG. Mr. Paulette's mission is to develop a strategy of innovation and industrial intelligence. In the past, he has been a consultant in technology, strategy and foresight for the State of Geneva. 
• Nicolas Bongard, Project Manager Cantonal Economic Strategy 2030, came to present the Canton's Smart City strategy.
• Anne Mellano Koymans, Co-Founder and VP of Operations of BestMile. This company has developed a platform for the management of autonomous vehicles. Founded in 2014, BestMile has offices in San Francisco (USA), Lausanne (Switzerland) and London (United Kingdom).  
• Herve Dedieu, CEO of Novaccess, who created a multi-service platform for the global management of connected objects on a city-wide scale (monitoring of fire detection systems, lighting, etc.). 
• Flavia Viscardi, Communication Manager of the Swiss Living Challenge, who has devised a new way of living and living together by offering the inhabitants of a neighbourhood to adopt sustainable gestures thanks to her solar house, the NeighborHub. The project won the Solar Decathlon 2017 competition organized by the U. S. Department of Energy.    

The event brought together about fifty people and, according to their positive feedback, was a success.

Dedicated to the economic development of the digital industry in western Switzerland, Alp ICT is active both regionally, nationally and internationally. In order to facilitate the digital transformation of industries and promote the excellence of digital players in Western Switzerland, Alp ICT acts as a liaison between companies, R&D Institutes, as well as institutional and financial players.

The increasing interest at national level for the digital sector, in terms of entrepreneurship and impact of society, is encouraging AlpICT to redefine its positioning in the Swiss digital ecosystem.

In this context, GVA2 decided to support the developments of Alp ICT, bringing in the marketing agency KollectiveLabs to conclude a series of partnerships with the private sector with AlpICT and allow it to start new collaborations with the various concerned industries. This long-term project is also about creating a shared vision for the future of the digital sector in Switzerland.

The teams conducting this project wish to move forward in the most collaborative way possible, by inviting individuals, companies and other bodies from the digital sector to contribute collectively to the development of the regional digital ecosystem and to promote Swiss digital innovation beyond its borders.

To find out more about this new initiative, go to the website www.alpict.com or contact the info@alpict.com team directly if you wish to contribute to the future of digital in Switzerland.

The Association GVA2 is pleased to announce its support to two teams of architects who participated in the contest of ideas for the redevelopment of the roadstead launched by Mr. Guillaume Barazzone, Mayor of the City of Geneva.

Launched in the fall, this international competition is aimed at redeveloping the wharves; From the Perle du Lac to the Port-Noir. The idea is to initiate a reflection so that Geneva finally proposes facilities to the height of this prestigious place and a public space that is no longer saturated by a multiplicity of activities. In the end, projects should aim at promoting access to water, multiplying relaxation spaces and making quays for Geneva and tourists.

Confidentiality requires us not to say more for the moment, but we will keep you informed of the teams we have supported and the results of the competition as soon as they have been published (probably in the 'April). An exhibition of most of the projects will be organized in May; We will provide you with all the details in due course.

The whole team of GVA2 is looking forward to discovering the ideas of the participants!

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The population, authorities and Geneva lovers have been thinking of it for years. It is now time to redevelop the waterside between Perle du Lac and Baby-Plage.

Our association supports the design of a concrete project that is feasible and realistic at all levels: budgetary, urban planning, economic, topographical, environmental, safety and, of course, that takes account of the mobility constraints. 

The idea is to rethink “la Rade” as a whole in order to make it a vacation spot with infrastructures at the height of the splendour of our city. 

Requested by the current manager of the Restaurant La Perle du Lac, GVA2 coordinated the provision of a donation for the renovation of its terrace.

In a mired context where the competent authorities were not progressing quickly enough, GVA2 allowed the establishment to carry out the works in time and welcome its customers on a new terrace for the summer period.

Our association is pleased to have contributed to this project which allows Genevans and tourists to enjoy this iconic place in a more elegant setting.