NEWS

Introducing Jackie Mulder at artgenève
We are delighted to show the work of Jackie Mulder for the first time at artgenève.
Since childhood, Jackie Mulder has created her own safe world through meticulously scribbled drawings on paper, which evolved into works spanning several meters. At seventeen, she left her parental home, freeing herself from the constraints of her environment—a transformative experience that now fuels her artistic expression.
Since 2020, Mulder has worked on ‘Thought Trails,’ a project where her unique approach to photography and mixed media art challenges viewers’ perceptions of photography and pushes the medium’s boundaries. Her creative process begins with a self-made photograph or a combination of several photos, followed by labor-intensive deconstruction and reconstruction, resulting in unique, multilayered, and often tactile artworks. Embracing chance, she avoids preconceived notions of the final product, allowing her mind to roam freely. While working, she becomes completely absorbed in her own creative space, reminiscent of her childhood days spent scribbling in her room.
Jackie Mulder lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
We look forward to presenting her work at artgenève 2025, which runs from 30 January to 2 February.

Introducing Irina Razumovskaya
We are pleased to show the work if Irina Razumovskaya at artgenève 2025.
Her works explore themes of time, decay, and transformation, evoking a sense of belonging, presence, and connection to nature. Central to her practice is the tension between control and chaos, a dynamic she likens to the human experience of self-restraint, censorship, and the weight of decision-making.
Born in Russia, a country with a deeply entrenched history of behavioural censorship and control, Irina Razumovskaya reflects on how these systems have shaped her personal values, choices and creative process. Her work is a visceral response to these forces, expressing the profound implications of societal and individual constraints.
Working with rough and sturdy clay, Irina carefully shapes her forms, often inspired by constructivist architectonic principles. Yet, she embraces unpredictability by layering glazes, clays, and minerals in ways that defy total control. During the firing process, the heat of the kiln catalyses complex chemical reactions, transforming the materials into surfaces that peel, melt, and decay. This moment of irreversible change embodies the balance between preparation and surrender, where the final result becomes a collaboration between the artist and the forces of nature.
We look forward to presenting her work at artgenève 2025, which runs from 30 January to 2 February.

Introducing Susanne Wellm
We are excited to announce that the Danish artist, Susanne Wellm is now represented by Taste Contemporary.
Since the 1990s, Wellm has explored and merged a number of photographic techniques. Wishing to return to a material-led approach and be reminded of why she was originally drawn to photography, she recently developed a technique that combines photography and weaving. ‘I could see that my background as a textile designer would show me a path back to more craft-oriented, tactile work’ she explains. ‘I started with some small textile and photographic experiments and eventually began weaving my prints.’
Time, memory and the construction of narrative are ever-present themes in her work. Her starting point is a vast archive of found imagery from old family albums, historical movie stills and original captures. Through these, Wellm draws connecting lines between the personal dramas of everyday life and the collective history and trauma of modern Europe.
Susanne Wellm is a graduate of The Royal Danish Academy of Architecture, Design and Conservation. She has exhibited widely and is represented in several museum collections.
We look forward to presenting Susanne Wellm’s work at artgenève 2025, which runs from 30 January to 2 February.

Announcing our artgenève 2025 selection
We are pleased to announce our selection for artgenève 2025, from 30 January to 2 February 2025. This year’s group show includes work by gallery artists Ptolemy Mann, Matthew Harris, Akiko Hirai, Jinya Zhao, Patrick Loughran and Martin Neubert.
We are also delighted to show work by our new gallery artist Susanne Wellm. Our exhibited artists at artgenève are photographers Isabelle Wenzel and Jackie Mulder as well as ceramic artist Irina Razumovskaya whose evocative clay, glaze and porcelain works are pictured here.
artgenève takes place at Palexpo from 30 January to 2 February 2025.

Heidi + Rasmus = True Love
National Museum KODE, Bergen, Norway
22 November 2024 – 17 March 2025
A love of ceramic history connects Rasmus Meyer’s collecting activities and the work of our gallery artist Heidi Bjørgan in an exhibition at KODE that both challenges and enchants. With her contemporary female perspective, this exhibition sees Bjørgan create new and surprising dialogues at Rasmus Meyer, which contains a collection dominated by paintings created by male artistic geniuses.
The eccentric American ceramicist George Ohr (1857–1918) has been a significant influence on Bjørgan’s works, serving as both inspiration and a point of reference. Just like Ohr, Bjørgan challenges the notion of what constitutes good ceramics by ‘erasing’ traces of all learned skills. Her approach involves doing everything that theoretically shouldn’t work, such as mixing glazes and types of clay that are not usually combined. Bjørgan draws upon her experience and skills as a ceramic artist to push boundaries and defy the traditional rules.

Martin Bodilsen Kaldahl: Cuts, Stripes and Knots
CLAY Museum of Ceramic Art, Denmark
8 September 2024 – 16th March 2025
In September, CLAY Museum of Ceramic Art will host a major retrospective of work by our gallery artist Martin Bodilsen Kaldahl. Over the years Bodilsen Kaldahl has explored a number of different spatial themes that frequently re-occur in his formal vocabulary. These include the rhythmic and ornamental possibilities of, and around, the knot; the logic of natural, genetically based form meeting constructed and virtual form, and intuitive spatial form.

Pernille Braun at Musée Ariana
Musée Ariana, Geneva
until 2 March 2025
Work by our gallery artists Pernille Braun and Virginia Leonard is featured in the exhibition ‘Conditional Freedom’ currently running at Musée Ariana.
Musée Ariana’s contemporary collection has evolved considerably in recent years, placing itself increasingly at the crossroads of applied arts, design and modern art. This exhibition is a retrospective of works acquired between 2010 and 2024 and reflects the team’s free, forward-looking approach to the latest developments in Swiss and international ceramics and glass.