Art Genève confirms Salon d'Art

Among the blue chip galleries, Pace Gallery realised an immersive installation by Michal Rovner (restricted works, values of €175,000 and €100,000). Templon recorded strong sales: Kehinde Wiley ($250,000-550,000), Ivan Navarro ($60,000),Chiharu Shiota (€17,000-120,000) and three recent works by Martial Raysse (€50,000-135,000).

Art Geneve 2026, Richard Saltoun

Richard Saltoun sold works by Flaminia Veronesi (EUR 2,800-3,500) and Greta Schödl (EUR 3,000-20,000). At Hauser & Wirth, quick sales forGünther Förg, Verena Loewensberg, Takesada Matsutani, Cindy Sherman and Lorna Simpson; at Eva Presenhuber, Louisa Gagliardi's 'The Kiss' sold out after two hours.

Enrico Astuni confides: 'We are happy with how this edition went. Nevertheless, we notice some differences since the change of direction: in the first editions Gagosian, Thaddeus Ropac, Franco Noero, Galleria Continua participated, who are no longer here'. The stand featured Maurizio Nannucci with 'to see otherness and beyond' (EUR 95,000), one of his works is in negotiation with a Swiss museum. Also sold were works by the young queer artist Juri Bizzotto (EUR 500-1,000), by Steven Pippin (EUR 8,000-12,000) and a sculpture by Gianni Piacentino.

Among the historic presences was Tornabuoni Art, which brought great masters of the 20th century: Alberto Burri, Lucio Fontana, Christo, Alighiero Boetti - with a 'Map' offered at €3m and a palimpsest of postcards at €580,000 - as well as Alberto Biasi (€115,000). Numerous works sold and ongoing negotiations with private collectors confirmed the solidity of the public.

Maffei & Ditesheim sold works by the Apulian Giuseppe Spagnulo (€16,000-80,000) for the first time exhibited in French Switzerland. Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois offered historicised artists such as Tinguely and Villeglé, achieving good sales for Duke Riley ($50,000-70,000). Riley works in Brooklyn but six months of the year he lives on a boat near Rhode Island. His graphic works, on plastics and bottles salvaged from marine litter, are at the intersection of nautical history and folk arts, exhuming decorative techniques in use on whaling ships in the 18th and 19th centuries, such as scrimshaw or sailor's valentines.

From Waddington Custot, Gregory in the pool, an experimental work byDavid Hockney; XIPPAS bets onFranz West ($600,000), Marina Faust ($9,000) and Leandro Erlich ($90,000).

Fabienne Levy (Lausanne, Geneva, Zurich) stands out for the works of Carlo D'Anselmi and Amit Berman (Tel Aviv, 1994 - prices around €10,000) reminiscent of Emilio Gola, for the paintings (almost Magic Realism) of London-based Chinese Tang Shuo, who immediately sold the largest work on the stand (€8,500). A small space is devoted to the rediscovery of Aimée Moreau (1926-2023), a Swiss painter who produced still lifes in the style of Morandi.

Among the growing galleries worth mentioning is Lara Sedbon (in the Marais district) which brings a solo show by the figurative painter Adrien Belgrand (Paris, 1997), whose three paintings depicting interiors and ateliers of friends are sure to sell (the largest at 8,000, medium 5,000 down to 3,000). Also Parisian was Les filles du Calvaire with a duo-show: sculptures by Kate McGwire (London, 1968) with magpie feathers encapsulated in glass bells and works by Clara Rivault (Paris, 1992) evoking Art Nouveau compositions with values under CHF 20,000.

At Sébastien Bertrand's, one cannot pass indifferent in front of the portraits of close-up faces by Sang Woo Kim: both works exhibited have in fact been sold and some collectors are on the waiting list. On the same stand also Walter Robinson, an American artist who passed away last year and whose prices are therefore on the rise.

Galerie Mezzanin presents the installation by Diego Cibelli. A cascade of porcelain confetti, recalling the popular culture of wedding favours, alternates with human representations in transformation. Many of the works were sold to private individuals and 'A Garden Inside a Bag' (approx. EUR 25,000) was sold to an important Swiss collection.

Among the exhibitions to visit in the city, it is worth mentioning "Elles. Artistes Aborigènes Contemporaines', from the collection of Bérengère Primat, presented at the Musée Rath until 12 April: a significant insight into contemporary Australian Aboriginal art.