Originally from the Jura region, Géraldine Kosiak is a French illustrator and writer. Since 2020, she has been working on her series “Les 10,000 choses” (The 10,000 Things).
Artist, illustrator and author Géraldine Kosiak has been developing a unique body of work since the 1990s, in which she sensitively explores writing, work, collective memory, heritage and craftsmanship in the places she visits.
In 2025, she stayed in Saint-Gervais to complete a new stage of the project ‘Les 10,000 choses’ (The 10,000 Things), a series of paintings begun in 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, based on online museum collections. Through this project, she questions the notion of heritage on the scale of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. After three stops in Drôme, Ardèche and Rhône, Géraldine Kosiak is stopping off in Saint-Gervais and taking over the Museum of Sacred Art of Saint-Nicolas de Véroce and La Cure to present the exhibition L'autel, le trésor et le montreur de marmottes (The Altar, the Treasure and the Marmot Showman). Inspired by objects brought back by peddlers in the 18th century, preserved in the collections of the museums of Saint-Gervais, she invites visitors to retrace the stories and collective narratives that stem from them. She thus takes a fresh look at this religious and popular heritage, which enters into dialogue with that of the other places already encountered.
Exhibition curator: Emma Legrand, director of the cultural department of Saint-Gervais and curator of the Archipel Art Contemporain programme.
In 2025, she stayed in Saint-Gervais to complete a new stage of the project ‘Les 10,000 choses’ (The 10,000 Things), a series of paintings begun in 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, based on online museum collections. Through this project, she questions the notion of heritage on the scale of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. After three stops in Drôme, Ardèche and Rhône, Géraldine Kosiak is stopping off in Saint-Gervais and taking over the Museum of Sacred Art of Saint-Nicolas de Véroce and La Cure to present the exhibition L'autel, le trésor et le montreur de marmottes (The Altar, the Treasure and the Marmot Showman). Inspired by objects brought back by peddlers in the 18th century, preserved in the collections of the museums of Saint-Gervais, she invites visitors to retrace the stories and collective narratives that stem from them. She thus takes a fresh look at this religious and popular heritage, which enters into dialogue with that of the other places already encountered.
Exhibition curator: Emma Legrand, director of the cultural department of Saint-Gervais and curator of the Archipel Art Contemporain programme.
