Together with message salon and Galeria Chilena, the Geneva off-space planet22 was invited to the International Conference of Independent Artspaces (EIEI) in Valparaiso, Chile, in March.
Since 1999, artists Peter Stoffel and Solvej Dufour Andersen have been running a shop window facing the street in their home at Rue de Berne 22 in Geneva’s red-light district, inviting artists from Switzerland and abroad to create interventions. At the message salon, planet22 is showing an installation of the poster archive, with posters of all the artists who have been invited to planet22 to date. “Our planet is our home, our starting point, the centre of our world. With it, we travel through the world. From it, we venture out into the world, only to retreat back to it. From our planet, we challenge the world, and we flee from the world to our planet.”
planet22 has invited Hamburg artist Dirk Meinzer to the exhibition in the message salon. Dirk Meinzer will leave his own wine to ferment in the exhibition space for a week and will present wine, objects, videos and music by and for sirens, manatees and mermaids at the closing event in the Sirenen Bar.