Opening on 19 September 2026
Opening at 16:00.
Radio Nova invites the public to continue the evening on the CCS terrace with two concerts. Free admission from 20:00 +
Le Grand Drame takes over the Centre culturel suisse as a stage where the tragic rubs shoulders with the burlesque, the sensitive mingles with the absurd, and its figures move through a world that is at once theatrical, sensual and deeply alive. Under the glass roof, Venusinfurs unfolds a series of monumental paintings edged with textile cords. Inspired as much by depictions of the birth of Venus as by Roman baroque ceilings, these works, populated by floating, entwined or suspended bodies, compose a free and feminist re-reading of a long pictorial tradition. Viewpoints shift, scales become disorienting, and the figures seem swept along in a continuous movement.
Created for the exhibition, a new video work extends this universe. Half-human, half-animal beings wander through a sequence of missed encounters, fragmented memories and ghostly social gatherings. Through them, Klodin Erb pursues a reflection on memory, its distortions as we age, and the fictions we construct to give shape to our lives.
With Le Grand Drame, the deeply colourist and gestural painting, marked by surrealist moments, becomes at once décor, stage and character.