After a first chapter in Geneva, Archives des Artistes continues its journey to Paris.
Widefield is pleased to welcome you to the opening of Archives des Artistes, Monika Emmanuelle Kazi and Jeanne Tara, curated by Danniel Tostes
Opening: 26.03, 18h–21h
Open by appointment: 26.03–05.04
Cité internationale des arts, 24 Rue Norvins
Bâtiment H, atelier 21 — Paris
We would be delighted to see you there!
For this exhibition, two Geneva-based artists open their personal archives, revealing notes, sketches, photographs, texts, and fragments that usually remain hidden in their studios. Displayed together, these materials form a portrait of the artistic process — the gestures, hesitations, and ideas that surround the making of an artwork. As the archive becomes visible, the background turns into the foreground, and the archive itself becomes the artwork.
Hosted in spaces that normally serve as artists’ studios, the exhibition invites visitors into the most intimate part of creation, where artworks appear not as finished objects but as living processes, drafts, and traces of becoming.
@monikaemmanuelle · @jeannetara · @dannieltostes
Widefield - Matheline Marmy and Jean-Marie Fahy
Archives des Artistes
Monika Emmanuelle Kazi - Artist Biography
Monika Emmanuelle Kazi (*1991) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Geneva. Her artistic practice, combining machine learning and haptics, explores, through body memory and domestic space, the emotional charge of everyday objects, movement and architecture, as traces of mobile histories. Through installation, writing, performance and video, she questions narratives that recount the intimacy of the home, the use of territory and the construction of heritage.
Her work has been exhibited in Switzerland, France, Belgium, Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Pakistan and South Africa.
Archives des Artistes
Jeanne Tara - Artist Biography
Jeanne Tara is a multidisciplinary artist working with sculpture, painting, video, and installation. Through the combination of these different mediums, they develop a sensitive reflection informed by the notions of gesture and transmission. Starting from their subjective experience, they offer a reading of architectural and institutional manifestations as keys of power and authority dispersed throughout public space, exploring how the network of signs they form conditions our lived experiences and social realities, becoming a potential vector of divisions. Jeanne Tara examines how hegemonic culture operates, not only through language but also through form and aesthetics. In their work, they contrast dominant discourses with subversive narratives, questioning our cultural and social commons.
Born in 1994 in Ambilly, Jeanne Tara trained in classical and contemporary dance before turning to the visual arts. They studied at the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD) and at the École de Recherche Graphique in Brussels, where they earned a master’s degree in Art Practices. They have shown their work several times in Switzerland and internationally, including at Halle Nord, the Centre d’Art Contemporain, Villa Bernasconi, and Andata.Ritorno in Geneva; UNA Galleria in Piacenza, Italy; Museo Casa Rusca in Locarno; the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris; in Brussels; and in Basel for the Kiefer Hablitzel Prize.
They live and work in Geneva.
Some detail views of the last days of 'Archive des Artistes' in Geneva.
with
@jeannetara@monikaemmanuelle
curated by @dannieltostes
invited by @widefield.projects
at Charmilles 23, 1203 Genève
The show is now visible in Montmartre, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris @citedesartsparis until 5th of April.
visits on appointment.
credits: Widefield
support: @fmac.geneve
The second chapter of Archives des artistes opens next Thursday, March 26, at the Cité des Arts in Paris.
Both artists, Monika Emmanuelle Kazi and Jeanne Tara, have, at different moments in their trajectories, lived and worked in Paris. While their relationships to the city are distinct, this exhibition becomes an opportunity to bring their research back into this context, offering a renewed perspective on their practices.
This moment reflects on the links between artistic trajectories, places, and artists’ studios. How does geography shape artistic practices? And what happens when archives are moved into a new context?
By moving between Geneva and Paris, Archives des artistes creates a dialogue between these two cities, inviting us to reconsider how archives are shaped by time, movement, and place.
Text by Danniel Tostes
Duo show, 26.03 – 05.04
Opening 26.03, 6 pm – 9 pm
Then open by appointment
Cité internationale des arts, 24 Rue Norvins, Paris
Bâtiment H, atelier 21
@monikaemmanuelle · @jeannetara · @dannieltostes
Widefield - Matheline Marmy and Jean-Marie Fahy
Support: @fmac.geneve , Inarema
Widefield is pleased to welcome you to the exhibition
Archives des Artistes
Opening: 12.03, 18h-21h
23 rue des Charmilles, 1203 Genève
A duo show with Monika Emmanuelle Kazi and Jeanne Tara
@monikaemmanuelle@jeannetara
Open by appointment: 12.03–21.03
Curated by Danniel Tostes
@dannieltostes
With the support of FPLCE and Fondation Leenaards
Stocker comme des objets
Anita Muçolli, artist biography
Anita Muçolli (Swiss-born Kosovar artist based in Basel, Switzerland) explores the psychological impact of objects, buildings, and spaces. In doing so, she starts from what already exists and places it into a new constellation, a new material, or a new, smoothed formal language. This method of alienation and distillation enables a focused examination of the expressive qualities of spaces and objects, as well as the social and political intentions behind their design. Muçolli takes aim at the Western belief in progress, which is measured by the conviction that all of humanity’s problems can be solved through ever-new technologies. What presents itself on the one hand as sleek, efficiency-driven design reveals, on the other hand, an increasingly blatant loss of the spiritual, emotional, or ethical. This mixture of optimism, performance-oriented thinking, but also fear, manifests in ambivalent abstract forms that Muçolli investigates, addressing the disappearance of human dimensions in our societies as the price paid for technological perfection. —Kathleen Bühler, Chief Curator Kunstmuseum Bern
Stocker comme des objets
Katia Leonelli, artist biography
Katia Leonelli is an independent curator and writer. Trained in art history, she co-managed the art space one gee in fog (2019–22, Geneva) before organizing exhibitions in various art spaces in Switzerland (La Rada, 2023; Lokal-Int, 2023–26; Bad Posture, 2024; Smallville, 2025). She was curatorial assistant (2024) to Sylvain Menétrey, and later co-curator of the Abbatiale de Bellelay (2025). Since 2023, she has been part of the curatorial team of the association Plattformplattform. Since 2024, she has been working for Thomas Hirschhorn as a researcher, ensuring the theoretical and critical follow-up of the Pavillon Simone Weil.
Image 1 and 2: Katia Leonelli, Avvenimenti 2016, Rubes Leonelli, 2026, limited indigo print, 1/8, ediition of 8 + 2 AP, edited by Widefield
Stocker comme des objets
Virginie Sistek, artist biography
To twist reality, Virginie Sistek plays with words, postures, apparent truths, systems of hierarchy, and preconceived ideas. For her, being an artist means amplifying what grates and bursting out laughing at absurdities, while admitting she may be one too. Marked by the forms and writings of others, she sketches out new ones, again and again.
Image 1, ivre ensemble (Jolie Canaille), 2026
