Events & exhibitions
Alma M offers events with high emotional value content reflecting Romainmôtier’s DNA combining nature and spirituality
MASAKO OHTA
Masako Ohta is a Japanese classical pianist and composer, spotted by Seiji Ozawa, with a very special sensitivity and has won many awards. She proposes to infuse breath into musical practice , combining exercises in TAI CHI and CALLIGRAPHY.
This workshop is open to both professional musicians or amateur
Masako-ohta.de & YouTube.com/c/masakoohta
Reservations : Isabelle de La Touche info@almam.ch
Workshop 300chf / Concert 30chf
Unique masterclass on how to infuse breath into your musical practice
Piano Masterclass: Saturday July 12 & Sunday July 13, 2025 from 9.30 am to 5 pm
Concert on the theme of WATER, Saturday July 12 at 6 pm, Saint-Sens, Debussy, Miyagi and personal compositions
SHUNSHUN
Exhibition at Espace Alma M from July 6 to October 5, 2025: Wednesday to Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Opening on Sunday, July 6 at 2 p.m. and saxophone and voice concert at the Abbatiale of Romainmotier at 5 p.m. free admission
Closing on Sunday, October 5 with concert/lecture at 5 p.m. at the Abbatiale, of Romainmotier organist/composer Ezko Kikoutchi on her piece: “Prayer”
Shunshun is a Japanese artist whose work I was lucky enough to discover in an exhibition dedicated to The Sea in Hechimé in Japan in February 2024.
Trained as an architect, he changed his life after the 2011 earthquake to devote himself entirely to drawing.
With sensitivity and economy of means, a 038mm midnight-blue ballpoint pen and paper, his work transports us into a meditative and poetic world. An eulogy of the shadow through a line that is sometimes suspended, sometimes pencilled, where the light is that of the paper.
BRENAR
Isabelle de La Touche invites you to discover the world of BRENAR, whose paintings explores the boundaries between past and present, matter and transparency, reality and illusion. Inspired by the Old Masters as much as by contemporary concerns, he plays with light and second thoughts making visible the traces of his hesitations, echoing life's irreversible choices. Through this exhibition, BRENAR invites the viewer to a contemplative experience, where art becomes a bridge between the visible and the invisible, between the material world and a broader quest for meaning and transcendence.
Exhibition at Espace Alma M from Friday, April 18 to Sunday, May 18, 2025
Tour with Brenar on Sundays or by appointment at 079 21 22 155
SHINYA YAMADA
Sunday 15th September 2024 from 11am
The Artistic Residency Alma M in Romainmôtier invites you to the opening of the Japanese artist SHINYA YAMADA.
Born in a famous Kimono makers family in Kyoto, Shinya Yamada works with silks, washi and traditional pigments unique to Japanese culture. Anchored in eastern spirituality, his pieces invite us to introspection and meditation.
At 5pm, Le Cercle Suisse-Japon organizes a concert with Masako Ohta inspired by haikus dedicated to “Tsukimi”, the Full Moon celebration.
Concert reservations at www.cerclesuissejapon.ch
UETA HIROSHI
Isabelle de La Touche and Alma M association invite you to discover the work achieved by the Kyoto calligrapher, Hiroshi Ueta. Known for his unique mastery of ink, he will present pieces made in situ during his month-long residency.
A live calligraphy performance at “La Maison Des Moines”, Echoes of ink, will celebrate the 160th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Switzerland and Japan as well as the sistership between Romainmôtier and Nagaoka.
Opening on 23rd June 2024 at 2pm
Performance 5pm at la Maison des Moines
BEKHBAATAR ENKHTUR
Isabelle de La Touche invites you to discover the work of the young artist from Mongolia Bekhbaatar Enkhtur whose artistic research focuses on the symbolism of animals in his own culture together with the concept of impermanence by using fragile materials.
Practicing modeling since childhood, he chooses to work with beeswax applied on a metal skeleton: a moment of intense rebirth.
Opening on July 2 2023 from 11am
PAST EVENTS
Summer 2024
Hiroshi Ueta : Between stone, ink and paper
Exposition de calligraphie et d empruntes réalisées en Résidence
January 2024
12-14 January Primo Tempo residency concert organised by Sébastien Pittet, Michele Feragalli, Lisette Spinler, Laura Chihaia
19-21 January Laura Chihaia Trio residency and concert organised par Sébastien Pittet, Edward Perraud and Laura Chiaia
November 2023
Hommage to Christian Bobin by Anne-Laure Vieli and Evalotte Rosenholmer (plant prints)
October 2023
Music and acting residency with Carlos Trafic and Albert Pia (guitar)
Celebrating 100ans of the Orden de Toledo with Isabelle de La Touche reciting
Summer 2023
Bekhbaatar Enkthur : Ode to nature
Wax animals and paintings
April 2023
Piano residency with Giovanni Bertolazzi
Concert Liszt
January 2022
Writing residency with Carlos Trafic
Presentation of his own text About life
Summer 2022
Emanuele Becheri and Davide Rivalta : Pas de deux
From Becheri's sublte clay figures to Rivalta’s monumental bronze
August 2021
Dhrupad voice seminar conducted by Mathias Durand
Concert at the Saint-Michel's chapel
April 2021
Residency Pastorale 21 avec Gabriel Prokoviev and Unlimited Verbier Festival
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