Explositions! | Museoscope, MAHF

Dear friends, curi­ous minds, and lov­ers of art that enchants and some­times unsettles,

It is my immense pleas­ure to invite you to dive into my world with the exhib­i­tion “Explos­i­tions!” at the Museo­scope of the Fri­bourg Museum of Art and His­tory, Switzer­land, for an immers­ive and col­or­ful jour­ney span­ning forty years of creativity!

The open­ing recep­tion will take place on Wed­nes­day, March 25, 2026, at 6:30 p.m. It will be an oppor­tun­ity to raise a glass togeth­er, exchange a few words (or many), and wit­ness the birth of my new paint­ings and the rebirth of older works under your gaze.

The exhib­i­tion runs from March 26 to June 28, 2026, and will fea­ture vari­ous events detailed below.

I hope to see you there, wheth­er at the open­ing, dur­ing one of the guided tours (April 1, April 30, Museum Night on May 9), at the present­a­tion of the book “Inventaire d’avant-hier” on May 29, or simply on an after­noon when you feel like let­ting your­self be swept away.

Come as you are and bring your own per­spect­ive. It is your gaze that com­pletes the paintings.

With joy and anti­cip­a­tion,
Olivi­er

“Strad­dling the line between dream and hyper­real­ism, humor and tragedy, hor­ror and beauty, the work of Fri­bourg-based paint­er Olivi­er Zap­pelli takes us on a col­or­ful jour­ney. Tech­nic­al vir­tu­os­ity serves an unbridled ima­gin­a­tion, where garden gnomes, mutant ham­burgers, Indi­an gods, skel­et­ons, and volup­tu­ous women, Swiss land­scapes, and the excesses of mod­ern civil­iz­a­tion all coexist.”

Open­ing Recep­tion
Wed, March 25, 2026, 6:30 p.m.
with Olivi­er Zap­pelli, Phil­ippe Trin­chan, Head of the Cul­ture Depart­ment of the Can­ton of Fri­bourg, Ivan Mari­ano, Dir­ect­or of the MAHF / Espace Jean Tinguely-Niki de Saint Phalle, and Car­oline Schuster Cor­done, Deputy Dir­ect­or of the MAHF / Espace Jean Tinguely-Niki de Saint Phalle

Guided tour for Friends of the MAHF-Espace
Wed, April 1, 2026, 6:00 PM
in French, with Olivi­er Zap­pelli, Ivan Mari­ano, and Car­oline Schuster Cordone

Pub­lic guided tour
Thu, April 30, 2026, 6:30 p.m.
in French, with Olivi­er Zap­pelli, Ivan Mari­ano & Car­oline Schuster Cordone

Night of The Museums
Sat, May 9, 2026, 7 p.m. & 9 p.m.
Pub­lic guided tours in French with Olivi­er Zappelli

Book present­a­tion: Inventaire d’av­ant-hier
Fri, May 29, 2026, 6:30 p.m.
by Marc Boiv­in, illus­tra­tions by Olivi­er Zappelli

Clos­ing event
Sun, June 28, 2026, 4:00 p.m.
with Olivi­er Zap­pelli, Ivan Mari­ano & Car­oline Schuster Cordone

Explositions !

Musée d’art et d’his­toire Fri­bourg — mahf.ch
Rue de Mor­at 12, 1700 Fri­bourg — Map

La lettre d’Oz

Votre accès priv­ilé­gié à l’oeuvre et à l’univers d’Olivi­er Zappelli.

The Newsletter of Oz

Your priv­ileged gate­way to the works and uni­verse of Olivi­er Zappelli.

Olivier Zappelli Art