1816 THE YEAR WITHOUT SUMMER - M

1816 - The year without summer

Locationartgeneve
Route François Peyrot 30
1218 Le Grand-Saconnex
Dates26 January 2023
29 January 2023

Co-curatorYvannoé Krüger
Photo creditsJulien Gremaud

Artists
Hugo Avigo, Taisiia Cherkasova, Caroline Corbasson, Morgan Courtois, Faye Formisano,
Nika Kutateladze, Clara Rivault, Anna Saint Pierre, Jesse Wallace, Xolo Cuintle
Statement
POUSH is an innovative venue dedicated to contemporary creation that hosts and supports 250 artists in a former industrial campus in Aubervilliers (France). They benefit from studios and additional support with their artistic development, production, administrative matters and communications. Under Yvannoé Kruger’s artistic direction, POUSH boasts a unique artistic program. For artgenève, POUSH showcases an exhibition enhancing the bubbling vitality of the international art scene based in Greater Paris.

1816 - The Year Without a Summer - The eruption of a volcano in Indonesia plunges the planet into an unending winter, with the sky glowing in whimsical shades of ochre and purple. On the shores of Lake Geneva, the novelist Mary Shelley and the poet Lord Byron are inspired by this cataclysm and have produced masterpieces. POUSH pays tribute to this particular moment in modern history, largely forgotten, by inviting POUSH residents to create an environment inspired by this catastrophe.