Fondation Beyeler will present the first solo exhibition of Pierre Huyghe in a Swiss museum, bringing together new works, recent films, and selected earlier pieces.

Conceived for the Fondation Beyeler, the exhibition becomes a site-specific experience where each work and the in-between form an ambiguous threshold.
Through the interplay of shifting works, combining moving images, sound, objects, living organisms, and machine learning, the exhibition invites visitors into a “soulscape”—an inner world composed of multiple temporalities, voices, and states. A polyphony that opens onto moments of contradiction and perplexity. It continues the artist’s exploration of a metaphysical and fictional approach to existence, reflecting on our condition as hybrid beings, without hierarchy between fiction and reality, the living and the artificial, the human and the non-human. Both sensory and reflective, the exhibition adopts an outside perspective that extends beyond the human experience, becoming the site of formation of subjectivities and opening onto alternative dimensions of reality.

For Pierre Huyghe “fictions are vehicles that give us access to other possible worlds, to a counterfactual imagination. Such fictions, separated from the known, unconstrained by the here and now, are open to speculation, to other roads not taken. They make it possible to experience ourselves from the outside.”

Curators: Mouna Mekouar, Curator at Large, Fondation Beyeler; and Anne Stenne, independent curator.

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