Small formats 2025-2026

Overview

As every year, the Oniris gallery presents a new edition of its traditional Small Formats exhibition, a highly anticipated event that showcases small-scale works and works on paper by artists represented by the gallery.

The 2025 edition has special significance: it features a special focus on Atelier Fanal in Basel, which is gradually winding down its activities after several decades of commitment to contemporary printmaking.

Since its foundation, Fanal has supported numerous artists linked to concrete art and various forms of geometric abstraction, offering their research a rare technical rigor and expertise that has become a benchmark. The prints produced in Basel—rigorous, luminous, with great precision of line and color—have helped to spread these artistic approaches far beyond the circle of insiders.

Through a selection of small formats produced over the years, the exhibition pays tribute to this unique publisher, both loyal to artists and a tireless explorer of the possibilities of printing.

It also bears witness to an important chapter in the history of printmaking in general, but also in the history of the gallery, while celebrating the ever-renewed vitality of abstract creation.

With this special edition, the Oniris gallery invites the public to rediscover the legacy of Atelier Fanal: a world of geometric shapes and colors condensed into precise, sensitive, and timeless works.

As in previous years, Oniris also offers an online Mini Store, with a selection of works specifically chosen for remote sales. This selection, distinct from the exhibition on display in the gallery, allows you to discover other available works that could be part of the “Small Formats” exhibition.