The Centre de la photographie Genève is delighted to host once more the PIPAS biennale (Photographie et Image Pour l’Apprentissage Scolaire). The theme of this third edition invites us to question our perceptions, embrace the unexpected and interrogate the boundaries between the real and the imaginary.
This photography event, designed for and with pupils, invites around forty classes from the canton of Geneva to discover and experience the skills involved in organising a biennale: conceptualising projects, producing photographs and texts, and even setting up exhibitions and an outreach programme.
Accompanied by professional photographers from Geneva and/or their teachers, pupils are presented with images and asked to interpret and decode them, but also, and above all, to create their own.
Through this theme, pupils translate their personal experiences and perspectives into images: they express their feelings, memories, concerns and the passions that drive them. Whether through visual games, metamorphosing materials, the evocation of ambiguous emotions or disrupted realities, the works on display offer a sensitive and daring look at our relationship with the world.
The 2026 edition that opens to the public after nine months of exchanges and collective work presents the public with a theme with multiple resonances. At the crossroads of uncertainty, movement and transformation, trouble is more than just a lack of clarity. Whether it is a state or a feeling, suffered or deliberately maintained, it unsettles and disturbs, but it can also attract, opening multiple doors and other possibilities.
The photographers who accompanied the pupils in the realisation of their project are Louisa Azzouz et Soën Dällenbach, Emmanuelle Bayart, Aline Bovard Rudaz, Greg Clément, Yann Haeberlin, Elisa Larvego, eden levi am, Jonathan Levy-Forcada, Florian Luthi, Christian Lutz, Léonie Rose Marion, Fabien Scotti.
With the aim of supporting learning in the broadest possible way, pupils from various vocational programs are integrated into every stage of the biennale: creation of the visual identity by students from the CFP Arts, production of exhibition materials by students from the CFP Construction, communication on Instagram by students from the Digilab team at Espace Entreprise, and welcoming the public by students from Espace Entreprise.
The exhibition takes place at Centre de la photographie Genève until 11 June 2026, at Ecoquartier de la Jonction until 14 June 2026, and at Maison de l’enfance et de l’adolescence until 3 July 2026.
