{"id":4856,"date":"2026-09-02T11:57:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T09:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.minesparis.psl.eu\/musee\/?page_id=4856"},"modified":"2026-09-22T13:48:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T11:48:00","slug":"boganium","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.minesparis.psl.eu\/musee\/en\/exhibitions-events\/temporary-exhibitions\/boganium\/","title":{"rendered":"Boganium, Handwavium and others"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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An exhibit by artist Alan Bogana<\/strong><\/p>\n

June 5 until August 3rd, 2018<\/p>\n

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The \u00ab\u00a0Boganium\u00a0\u00bb art series by artist Alan Bogana, installed at the Mineralogy Museum of MINES ParisTech \u00a9 Alan\u00a0Bogana.<\/span><\/address>\n

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The exhibit \u00ab\u00a0Boganium, Handwavium and others\u00a0\u00bb<\/h4>\n

Swiss artist Alan Bogana presents an installation consisting of a series of works based on minerals from the Museum’s prestigious collection<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Through this installation, specially designed for the Museum<\/strong>, he proposes a subjective and fictional system of organization that questions the notions of nature, humanity and the planet’s finite resources, as well as the blurring of borders and contours: the notion of classification itself.<\/p>\n

During a residency at the Cit\u00e9 des Arts in 2014-15, the artist digitized several minerals of the collection, which served as the raw material he used to create digital works. In this new phase of the project, the artist returns to materiality using 3D printing techniques. The crystalline forms are now diverted into a subsequent process of anthropization<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Inspired by various phenomena from the mineral world, such as fluid inclusions and crystal twinning, the artist weaves analogies between the utopia of digital technologies and the complexity of nature. Each element of the installation suggests a story through its form. The whole installation will interact with the enormous richness of shapes and colors of the mineral specimens of the Museum, which are at the origin of the artist\u2019s works themselves<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

About the artist<\/h4>\n

Alan Bogana<\/strong>\u00a0was\u00a0born in 1979 in Switzerland. He’s a multidisciplinary artist based in Geneva, Switzerland. His art practice involves sculpture, computer graphics, electronics, time-based media and holography, and his works are usually presented in the form of installations.<\/p>\n

During the last years his research has focused on the exploration, real and fictional, of the behavior of light and its interactions with matter. He investigates this broad field of study\u00a0through various means, such as computer graphics simulations of impossible phenomena or the manipulation of translucent, phosphorescent and holographic materials.<\/p>\n

Alan Bogana completed a Fine Arts Diploma with honors at the Geneva University of Art and Design, a specialization in computer graphics and one in artistic research methodologies at the Z\u00fcrich University of Art and Design. He exhibited in Europe, in the United States, in the Emirates and in South Africa. He has been artist in residence at the Swiss Institute in Rome, at the Cit\u00e9 Internationale des Arts in Paris, at the Sommerakademie Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern, in Cape Town with Pro Helvetia and in Zug with the Landis & Gyr Foundation.<\/p>\n

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All the shapes of Alan Bogana’s artwork are derived from scans of minerals from the Mineralogy Museum of MINES ParisTech.\u00a0\u00a9 Alan\u00a0Bogana.<\/span><\/address>\n
Education<\/strong><\/h5>\n

2012-13<\/strong> ZHDK, Z\u00fcrich and HEAD, Geneva \u2013 CAS Program on artistic research methodologies<\/p>\n

2004-09<\/strong> Haute Ecole d\u2019Art et Design, Geneva \u2013 HES HEA Diploma in Visual Arts with honours<\/p>\n

2007<\/strong> National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland, exchange program<\/p>\n

2006<\/strong> Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, United Kingdom, exchange program<\/p>\n

Solo shows<\/strong><\/h5>\n

2018<\/span><\/strong>\nBoganium, Handwavium et les autres,\u00a0Mineralogy Museum MINES-ParisTech, Paris, FR (upcoming)<\/span><\/p>\n

2017\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>\nSurely Many Very Early Men Just Sat Under Native Palms,\u00a0La Rada,\u00a0Locarno, CH<\/span>\nGamma Pool Confabulations\u00a0(in collaboration with Hunter Longe), Lokal-int, Bienne, CH<\/p>\n

2016<\/strong>\nTransmutations I, OnOff, Winterthur, CH<\/p>\n

2015<\/strong>\nThe Hypothetical Cabinet of Phlogistronics,\u00a0Kunsthaus Langenthal, Langenthal, CH\nConsider that and measure, measure and receive the carmine, One Gee in Fog, Geneva, CH<\/p>\n

2013<\/strong>\nTony and the Shape Junkies II, Hard Hat, Geneva, CH\nTony and the Shape Junkies, Espace Duplex, Geneva, CH<\/p>\n

2012<\/strong>\nPersistence of persistence\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Orchids, prisms and lenses, Usine Kugler, Geneva, CH<\/p>\n

2011<\/strong>\nOpuntiarium\u00a0\u2014\u00a0No Present, Blank Projects, Cape Town, ZA<\/p>\n

2009<\/strong>\nMorlockian mockups and Eloian prototypes, Galerie Ruine, Geneva, CH<\/p>\n

To discover more about Alan Bogana’s work, consider having a look at his website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

PHOTO GALLERY<\/h4>\n

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Focus on the \u00ab\u00a0cuprite\u00a0\u00bb, part of Alan Bogana’s artpiece, realized from a 3D scan of a cuprite of the Mineralogy Museum MINES ParisTech.\u00a0\u00a9 Alan\u00a0Bogana.<\/span><\/address>\n

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Computer graphics illustration. \u00a9 Alan Bogana.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00ab\u00a0Lava\u00a0\u00bb, part of Alan Bogana’s artwork, realized from a 3D scan of a lava bomb from the Mineralogy Museum MINES ParisTech.\u00a0\u00a9 Alan\u00a0Bogana.<\/span><\/address>\n

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Illustration from a computer image of the lava bomb.\u00a0\u00a9 Alan\u00a0Bogana.<\/span><\/address>\n

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Alan Bogana’s artpiece becomes part of the main gallery at the Mineralogy Museum of MINES ParisTech.\u00a0\u00a9 Alan\u00a0Bogana.<\/span><\/address>\n

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