Nat Faulkner, Solomon Garçon, Keta Gavasheli, Gaylen Gerber with Leah Ke Yi Zheng, Hervé Guibert, Nour Mobarak, Henrik Olesen, B. Ingrid Olson, Anastasia Pavlou, Matthew Peers, Cora Pongracz, Pope.L, Ariana Reines and Oscar Tuazon, Dieter Roth, Sava Sekulić

Passages

14 March – 17 May 2026

Passages is an exhibition about the mutability of matter and form. While questions of form often concern how material is endowed with, or given form, the exhibition likewise attends to the existential dimension embedded within a larger notion of form. The moment in which something takes form is often also the moment in which an existence or presence is suggested, while conversely the dissolution of form often involves disappearance, loss, or even destruction. Moments of making and unmaking form alternate in this exhibition, presenting works that resist being captured as either fully “stable form” or as formless, existing somewhere in between. They create form while simultaneously suggesting the possibility of its dissolution, as if reflecting a fundamental instability. Even if we encounter objects in this exhibition, its focus lies less on a fixed shape, but on a shift, and on the potential for transformation. Matter is considered as a site of change, encompassing both physical and psychological “matter”. At its centre are works that embody a change of state – from one material to another, from one temporality to another, from one appearance to another. Sometimes it is anarchic and disintegrating forces that bring about these transformations, while at others, it is simply the passing of time and with it a kind of withering or evanescence.

This exploration of form and its unmaking shares something with what has already been considered by concepts such as Formless (Rosalind Krauss/Yve-Alain Bois) or Plasticity (Catherine Malabou). Rather than engaging with the transgressive, however, the exhibition contemplates and directs attention towards subtle, and not always immediately perceptible shifts. The works, moving between different states of existence, point to various temporal and material changes in form, some of which will continue to have an effect beyond the exhibition’s temporal boundaries. Time becomes a significant force, not only in the condensation, accumulation, or creation of form, but also in its fading.

Passages gathers both newly conceived and historical works by artists of various generations who consider form as something potentially unfinished and related to process. Viewed as a whole, the exhibition follows a pulsating movement – being dedicated to things in a state of transformation, it negotiates between the concrete and the abstract, as well as between forms that may “not yet” or “no longer” exist.

Curated by Kathrin Bentele

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With generous support from: État de Fribourg, Loterie Romande, Agglomération de Fribourg, Ville de Fribourg, BCF | FKB, Ernst & Olga Gubler-Hablützel Stiftung, Dr. Georg und Josi Guggenheim Stiftung, Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council

Passages image — Matthew Peers, *Untitled* (2026), installation view, *Passages*, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2026. Photo: Cedric Mussano

Matthew Peers, Untitled (2026), installation view, Passages, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2026. Photo: Cedric Mussano

Passages, installation view, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2026. Photo: Cedric Mussano

Anastasia Pavlou, The Many Faces of a Person that Writes II (2025), installation view, Passages, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2026. Photo: Cedric Mussano

Passages, installation view, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2026. Photo: Cedric Mussano

Anastasia Pavlou, Chase The Sun (2025), detail view, Passages, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2026. Photo: Cedric Mussano

B. Ingrid Olson, I am wandering around an exhibition. The space is less like a gallery and more like an attic. Half lit and warm. There is a video monitor that is not turned on, so we turn it on. It begins near its end—it must not have been rewound. The video shows a man going up a set of stairs to a bridge over train tracks. Cuts to train tracks with the camera in center of tracks. The single headlight of a train comes closer and more into focus as it fast approaches. It will almost hit the camera but stops just short. Once stopped, the camera pans just to the right, to see a toy train strapped to the larger train. I almost laugh at the absurdity, the miniaturization. The video switches scenes to a painterly ochre and pink pool of water. In the pool, a man and a woman are curled around each other performing oral sex. She holds a semi- transparent fake leather purse over her face to muffle her cries of pleasure. Then she stands, multiplies, and becomes many. She is a drawing now. Now the video is at the beginning again: an image of an intaglio print is animated. Two women who are twins are speaking into each other’s eyes and mouths, alternately. They are silhouettes asking: “Where should we begin?” Then the camera pans side to side showing oblique angles of the print, revealing that the flat image is not actually flat. It sticks out from the front and from the back. On the back side, a dark crevice between the frame and wall also has a silhouetted face. This silhouette whispers something inaudible. (2025), installation view, Passages, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2026. Photo: Cedric Mussano

Passages, installation view, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2026. Photo: Cedric Mussano

B. Ingrid Olson, Physical Decade (Interstice for the Visitors, from my eye to my sight, which look is mine?) (2012-2025), installation view, Passages, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2026. Photo: Cedric Mussano

B. Ingrid Olson, installation view, Passages, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2026. Photo: Cedric Mussano

B. Ingrid Olson, Psychos Reservoir (Video Strip Contents III) (2012–2025), installation view, Passages, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2026. Photo: Cedric Mussano

Passages, installation view, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2026. Photo: Cedric Mussano

Ariana Reines and Oscar Tuazon, THE HOUSE HUSBAND (2016), detail view, Passages, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2026. Photo: Cedric Mussano

Passages, installation view, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2026. Photo: Cedric Mussano

Nat Faulkner, Natural Exposure (2023), installation view, Passages, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2026. Photo: Cedric Mussano

Pope.L, Small Cup (2008), installation view, Passages, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2026. Photo: Cedric Mussano. Courtesy the Estate of Pope.L

Matthew Peers, Untitled (2023), installation view, Passages, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2026. Photo: Cedric Mussano

Matthew Peers, Wishing wells (2023-ongoing), installation view, Passages, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2026. Photo: Cedric Mussano

Matthew Peers, installation view, Passages, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2026. Photo: Cedric Mussano

Passages, installation view, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2026. Photo: Cedric Mussano

Dieter Roth, o.T. (Puppe in Schokolade) (1969), installation view, Passages, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2026. Photo: Cedric Mussano

Cora Poncgarcz, Untitled (Wax model of a pregnant woman’s abdomen) (c. 1974), installation view, Passages, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2026. Photo: Cedric Mussano

Passages, installation view, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2026. Photo: Cedric Mussano

Anastasia Pavlou, Untitled (2025); Untitled (2025), installation view, Passages, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2026. Photo: Cedric Mussano

Solomon Garçon, Crypt (2026), installation view, Passages, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2026. Photo: Cedric Mussano

Solomon Garçon, Crypt (2026), detail view, Passages, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2026. Photo: Cedric Mussano

Nat Faulkner, Analogue (Window II) (2026), installation view, Passages, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2026. Photo: Cedric Mussano

Passages, installation view, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2026. Photo: Cedric Mussano

Keta Gavasheli, I will take u there (2025), installation view, Passages, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2026. Photo: Cedric Mussano

Keta Gavasheli, Spark and fade, alight and fade, spark and fade, pulse and fade (2026), installation view, Passages, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2026. Photo: Cedric Mussano

Nour Mobarak, Cupid Copy (2023); Apollo Copy (2023), installation view, Passages, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2026. Photo: Cedric Mussano

Nour Mobarak, Cupid Copy (2023), detail view, Passages, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2026. Photo: Cedric Mussano

Nour Mobarak, Apollo Copy (2023), detail view, Passages, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2026. Photo: Cedric Mussano

Passages, installation view, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2026. Photo: Cedric Mussano

Anastasia Pavlou, installation view, Passages, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2026. Photo: Cedric Mussano

Passages, installation view, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2026. Photo: Cedric Mussano

Keta Gavasheli, Untitled (2026), installation view, Passages, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2026. Photo: Cedric Mussano

Sava Sekulić, Die Armee des Generals Franchet d’Espèrey, 1976. Zander Collection, Germany. Photo : Alistair Overbruck

Monday–Tuesday	Closed
Wednesday–Friday	12–6pm
Saturday–Sunday	1–6pm