THE 50th IAC CONGRESS & GENERAL ASSEMBLY – Melting Pot

FROM 12 TO 16 SEPTEMBER 2022

At the International Conference Centre Geneva (CICG)
17 rue de Varembé
1202 Geneva

12.09.2022 – Inaugural evening in the prestigious setting of the Ariana Museum

The evening of Monday 12 September officially celebrates the opening of the 50th Jubilee Congress at its headquarters, the Ariana Museum. The official ceremony will be followed by the opening of the international exhibition Migration(s) and the two exhibitions dedicated to the IAC archives: VOCATION. 70 years of history and CONNECTIONS. 50 years of donations. The 151 new members of the Academy will also be introduced during the evening. Musical interludes by Claudio Glave on guitar will take us on a journey around the world.

13.09.2022 – Evening visits of museums in the heart of the Old Town

Three museums in the old town of Geneva will exceptionally stay open until 9pm at the end of the day to welcome the congress participants with a “glass of Geneva friendship”. You are invited to go to the Maison Tavel for guided tours of their exhibition, then to the Barbier-Mueller Museum and finally to the Baur Foundation for a free visit.

14.09.2022 – UNESCO Evening

> Programme of the UNESCO evening

The status the IAC as an official NGO partner of UNESCO, obtained in 1958, encourages its members to break through their individual and collective limits to continue to make clay a fraternal link between people and a catalyst for peace.

Today, the IAC – in view of the dramatic times we are witnessing and in accordance with the 2030 sustainable development objectives – must face up to new challenges: cultural diplomacy and interculturality, recognition of minorities, ecology and the necessary questioning of accepted practices. The evening of 14th September 2022, following the opening of the exhibition Around the world on a plate in the Palais des Nations of the Geneva UN will be dedicated to this evolving history. It will bear witness to the dynamism of the IAC members and the will of the IAC to continue to celebrate the values of UNESCO and the United Nations.

15.09.2022 – Excursion

A day of travel! We will first go to the lake of Neuchâtel where we will visit the first part of the Swiss national exhibition Melting Pot at the Museum of Art and History of Neuchâtel (MahN). Then, on the way back, we will stop on the outskirts of Lausanne, at the Ferme des Tilleuls in Renens to discover the exhibition Materia in honour of the renowned Swiss ceramists as well as the surprising Colossal d’art Brut ORGANuGAMME II by Danielle Jacqui (FR). We will end the afternoon with a visit to the second part of the Swiss national exhibition at the Château de Nyon, where we will also spend the evening. This day will allow us to discover not only cultural places but also splendid Swiss landscapes, between lakes and mountains.

16.09.2022 – Closing dinner

The traditional closing dinner of the IAC Congress will be held on the campus of a partner of the Ariana Museum: the Florimont Institute, one of Geneva’s leading schools, rich in the diversity and plurality of its students cultures.

During the aperitif members will be able to visit an exhibition of the students’ ceramics as well as pieces from the Ariana Museum as part of the partnership, to be held in the Attic, the Institute’s new art space. The seated dinner will be accompanied by background music and followed by an evening of dancing.

19.09.2022 – Ceramic circuit: Visit to museums and exhibitions in Romandie

Event requiring separate registration.

Your first destination will be Lausanne and the mudac (museum of design and applied arts) in the PLATEFORME 10 arts district, which includes three museums dedicated to visual creation. After lunch, visit to Yverdon-les-Bains and the exhibition “Melting Pot or how to change lead into gold”, organized by Visarte Vaud, the Centre d’art contemporain Yverdon-les-Bains and the Museum of Yverdon and region. Your journey will end at the Château de Prangins for a visit centred on the ceramics on display and you will spend the evening at the Café du Château with a convivial dinner.

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