Jacolby Satterwhite Reifying Desire 6, 2014 HD Digital Video, 3D Animation, 24’14 Min.

UP STATE is an off-space in Zurich, run by artists working in a variety of media. For their show at Friart, they will apply their material and financial strategies to an institutional context. They will use the rooms of the institution as a medium to …

Friart hosts the first solo exhibition of Hayan Kam Nakache, who has been honing his highly individual artistic style for the last seven years. From a collection of nearly 350 works, a large selection of drawings will be on display. Most are small-format …

The City of Fribourg support its young artists. This exhibition presents the work of six emerging artists from Fribourg.

Friart se réjouit de présenter la première exposition personnelle du designer fribourgeois Boris Dennler. Depuis dix ans, Boris Dennler élabore une pratique très personnelle et ludique du design. Autodidacte, il conserve la liberté de jouer avec les …

La Distinction Romande d’Architecture (DRA) récompense tous les quatre ans des réalisations architecturales contemporaines de qualité. Le jury distingue aussi bien architectes que maîtres d’ouvrages, afin de mettre en valeur des réalisations exemplaires. …

For his first Swiss solo exhibition, a collaboration between Friart and the Belluard Bollwerk International Festival, Lebanese artist Rabih Mroué (*1967) has hand-picked a number of his recent works which explore how subjective and collective narratives, …

For her first solo institutional exhibition, Laurie Vannaz (*1987), a young Fribourg artist and recent graduate of HEAD in Geneva, will present a large-scale immersive video installation.

Since 1967 the critical and ironic approach of designers and architects Trix and Robert Haussmann (CH, 1933 and 1931) has continuously challenged aesthetic, architectural and design conventions. In the 1960s they began to develop a unique artistic …

A programme of four recent video works by Neïl Beloufa is shown in the new “video room” in the basement of Friart. The movies challenge the expectations of the viewers and play with the representation.

Jason Loebs’ first institutional exhibition is built around the principles of thermodynamics as a means to analyze cultural production, and the ways in which natural resources are transformed by social organization into instruments of human control …

On the first floor, Friart shows works of Pierre-Yves Massot, a respected photojournalist who decided to go back to university and finish his sociology degree. It was a process that took him down the path of philosophical enquiry, which led him to adopt a …