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8 – 28 August

Created and performed by Marie‑Aude Guignard, L’Art¿ is an expansive outdoor performance that reclaims Geneva’s public space through large-format posters. Using words contributed by 213 local children, the site-specific installation intervenes day and night, transforming streets and official walls into a city-sized poetic playground. The work blends visual audacity with collective voice, offering ephemeral, sensory encounters that disrupt the routines of urban life.

In French.

19 September 2025 – 4 October 2026

The Tender Buttons exhibition offers a multidisciplinary exploration centered on buttons, delving into their identity and historical significance. Featuring over three hundred ceramic and glass buttons, the exhibition interacts with the museum’s works to highlight their role in both formal experimentation and socio-cultural narratives. The exhibition’s architecture evokes the commercial arcades of the 19th century, a pivotal era for button industrialization. Curated by Claire FitzGerald, the exhibition is supported by the Swiss Fashion Museum and showcases never-before-seen pieces from several prestigious collections.

1 July – 1 September

Spanning a century of cinema, this retrospective traces the evolving face of stardom from silent-era pioneers to contemporary icons. Through nine thematic chapters and a curated selection of one hundred films, it examines the star system, shifting modernities, emerging representations of desire and identity, and the rise of anti-heroes. Shot and assembled for a keen focus on the human visage, the program foregrounds cinematic techniques that reinvent how films capture presence and persona.

29 May – 26 August

Together is an immersive experience in three parts that explores multilateralism and the role of international cooperation. Visitors move through a sensory narrative, interact with tactile and audio elements, and cast votes on imagined resolutions. The format mixes storytelling, participation and emotion to produce surprising communal moments. Intimate yet expansive, the experience invites curiosity, playful engagement and reflection on how collective action shapes peace and shared futures.

8 July – 6 September

FAAB G collective presents an exhibition centred on FLINTA* figures connected to Asia, bringing together works by Jeanne Tara, Juli Sando, Sayaka Mizuno, Camille Farrah Buhler, Anaïs Nariman Aïk, Fhunyue Gao and Li Chaolin. Through installation, photography, sculpture and mixed-media, the project interrogates dominant narratives that invisibilize or simplify identities and memories. Nourished by anticolonial and transfeminist perspectives, the show explores political, historical and intimate forms of resistance and proposes encounters between personal testimonies and collective histories.

Opening: Tuesday 7 July, 18:00

13 July – 16 August

Returning for its twentieth edition, Les Aubes brings softness and poetry to Geneva mornings. At dawn, intimate musical encounters offer delicate soundscapes that stir the senses, favouring close listening and subtle atmospheres. The programme highlights a variety of acoustic and experimental projects, from solo performances to chamber ensembles, each designed to awaken the city with refined timbres and attentive pacing. A gentle celebration of morning listening and communal presence.

8 – 28 August

Created and performed by Marie‑Aude Guignard, L’Art¿ is an expansive outdoor performance that reclaims Geneva’s public space through large-format posters. Using words contributed by 213 local children, the site-specific installation intervenes day and night, transforming streets and official walls into a city-sized poetic playground. The work blends visual audacity with collective voice, offering ephemeral, sensory encounters that disrupt the routines of urban life.

In French.

19 September 2025 – 4 October 2026

The Tender Buttons exhibition offers a multidisciplinary exploration centered on buttons, delving into their identity and historical significance. Featuring over three hundred ceramic and glass buttons, the exhibition interacts with the museum’s works to highlight their role in both formal experimentation and socio-cultural narratives. The exhibition’s architecture evokes the commercial arcades of the 19th century, a pivotal era for button industrialization. Curated by Claire FitzGerald, the exhibition is supported by the Swiss Fashion Museum and showcases never-before-seen pieces from several prestigious collections.

1 July – 1 September

Spanning a century of cinema, this retrospective traces the evolving face of stardom from silent-era pioneers to contemporary icons. Through nine thematic chapters and a curated selection of one hundred films, it examines the star system, shifting modernities, emerging representations of desire and identity, and the rise of anti-heroes. Shot and assembled for a keen focus on the human visage, the program foregrounds cinematic techniques that reinvent how films capture presence and persona.

29 May – 26 August

Together is an immersive experience in three parts that explores multilateralism and the role of international cooperation. Visitors move through a sensory narrative, interact with tactile and audio elements, and cast votes on imagined resolutions. The format mixes storytelling, participation and emotion to produce surprising communal moments. Intimate yet expansive, the experience invites curiosity, playful engagement and reflection on how collective action shapes peace and shared futures.

8 July – 6 September

FAAB G collective presents an exhibition centred on FLINTA* figures connected to Asia, bringing together works by Jeanne Tara, Juli Sando, Sayaka Mizuno, Camille Farrah Buhler, Anaïs Nariman Aïk, Fhunyue Gao and Li Chaolin. Through installation, photography, sculpture and mixed-media, the project interrogates dominant narratives that invisibilize or simplify identities and memories. Nourished by anticolonial and transfeminist perspectives, the show explores political, historical and intimate forms of resistance and proposes encounters between personal testimonies and collective histories.

Opening: Tuesday 7 July, 18:00

13 July – 16 August

Returning for its twentieth edition, Les Aubes brings softness and poetry to Geneva mornings. At dawn, intimate musical encounters offer delicate soundscapes that stir the senses, favouring close listening and subtle atmospheres. The programme highlights a variety of acoustic and experimental projects, from solo performances to chamber ensembles, each designed to awaken the city with refined timbres and attentive pacing. A gentle celebration of morning listening and communal presence.

8 – 28 August

Created and performed by Marie‑Aude Guignard, L’Art¿ is an expansive outdoor performance that reclaims Geneva’s public space through large-format posters. Using words contributed by 213 local children, the site-specific installation intervenes day and night, transforming streets and official walls into a city-sized poetic playground. The work blends visual audacity with collective voice, offering ephemeral, sensory encounters that disrupt the routines of urban life.

In French.

19 September 2025 – 4 October 2026

The Tender Buttons exhibition offers a multidisciplinary exploration centered on buttons, delving into their identity and historical significance. Featuring over three hundred ceramic and glass buttons, the exhibition interacts with the museum’s works to highlight their role in both formal experimentation and socio-cultural narratives. The exhibition’s architecture evokes the commercial arcades of the 19th century, a pivotal era for button industrialization. Curated by Claire FitzGerald, the exhibition is supported by the Swiss Fashion Museum and showcases never-before-seen pieces from several prestigious collections.

1 July – 1 September

Spanning a century of cinema, this retrospective traces the evolving face of stardom from silent-era pioneers to contemporary icons. Through nine thematic chapters and a curated selection of one hundred films, it examines the star system, shifting modernities, emerging representations of desire and identity, and the rise of anti-heroes. Shot and assembled for a keen focus on the human visage, the program foregrounds cinematic techniques that reinvent how films capture presence and persona.

29 May – 26 August

Together is an immersive experience in three parts that explores multilateralism and the role of international cooperation. Visitors move through a sensory narrative, interact with tactile and audio elements, and cast votes on imagined resolutions. The format mixes storytelling, participation and emotion to produce surprising communal moments. Intimate yet expansive, the experience invites curiosity, playful engagement and reflection on how collective action shapes peace and shared futures.

8 July – 6 September

FAAB G collective presents an exhibition centred on FLINTA* figures connected to Asia, bringing together works by Jeanne Tara, Juli Sando, Sayaka Mizuno, Camille Farrah Buhler, Anaïs Nariman Aïk, Fhunyue Gao and Li Chaolin. Through installation, photography, sculpture and mixed-media, the project interrogates dominant narratives that invisibilize or simplify identities and memories. Nourished by anticolonial and transfeminist perspectives, the show explores political, historical and intimate forms of resistance and proposes encounters between personal testimonies and collective histories.

Opening: Tuesday 7 July, 18:00

13 July – 16 August

Returning for its twentieth edition, Les Aubes brings softness and poetry to Geneva mornings. At dawn, intimate musical encounters offer delicate soundscapes that stir the senses, favouring close listening and subtle atmospheres. The programme highlights a variety of acoustic and experimental projects, from solo performances to chamber ensembles, each designed to awaken the city with refined timbres and attentive pacing. A gentle celebration of morning listening and communal presence.

8 – 28 August

Created and performed by Marie‑Aude Guignard, L’Art¿ is an expansive outdoor performance that reclaims Geneva’s public space through large-format posters. Using words contributed by 213 local children, the site-specific installation intervenes day and night, transforming streets and official walls into a city-sized poetic playground. The work blends visual audacity with collective voice, offering ephemeral, sensory encounters that disrupt the routines of urban life.

In French.

19 September 2025 – 4 October 2026

The Tender Buttons exhibition offers a multidisciplinary exploration centered on buttons, delving into their identity and historical significance. Featuring over three hundred ceramic and glass buttons, the exhibition interacts with the museum’s works to highlight their role in both formal experimentation and socio-cultural narratives. The exhibition’s architecture evokes the commercial arcades of the 19th century, a pivotal era for button industrialization. Curated by Claire FitzGerald, the exhibition is supported by the Swiss Fashion Museum and showcases never-before-seen pieces from several prestigious collections.

1 July – 1 September

Spanning a century of cinema, this retrospective traces the evolving face of stardom from silent-era pioneers to contemporary icons. Through nine thematic chapters and a curated selection of one hundred films, it examines the star system, shifting modernities, emerging representations of desire and identity, and the rise of anti-heroes. Shot and assembled for a keen focus on the human visage, the program foregrounds cinematic techniques that reinvent how films capture presence and persona.

29 May – 26 August

Together is an immersive experience in three parts that explores multilateralism and the role of international cooperation. Visitors move through a sensory narrative, interact with tactile and audio elements, and cast votes on imagined resolutions. The format mixes storytelling, participation and emotion to produce surprising communal moments. Intimate yet expansive, the experience invites curiosity, playful engagement and reflection on how collective action shapes peace and shared futures.

8 July – 6 September

FAAB G collective presents an exhibition centred on FLINTA* figures connected to Asia, bringing together works by Jeanne Tara, Juli Sando, Sayaka Mizuno, Camille Farrah Buhler, Anaïs Nariman Aïk, Fhunyue Gao and Li Chaolin. Through installation, photography, sculpture and mixed-media, the project interrogates dominant narratives that invisibilize or simplify identities and memories. Nourished by anticolonial and transfeminist perspectives, the show explores political, historical and intimate forms of resistance and proposes encounters between personal testimonies and collective histories.

Opening: Tuesday 7 July, 18:00

13 July – 16 August

Returning for its twentieth edition, Les Aubes brings softness and poetry to Geneva mornings. At dawn, intimate musical encounters offer delicate soundscapes that stir the senses, favouring close listening and subtle atmospheres. The programme highlights a variety of acoustic and experimental projects, from solo performances to chamber ensembles, each designed to awaken the city with refined timbres and attentive pacing. A gentle celebration of morning listening and communal presence.

8 – 28 August

Created and performed by Marie‑Aude Guignard, L’Art¿ is an expansive outdoor performance that reclaims Geneva’s public space through large-format posters. Using words contributed by 213 local children, the site-specific installation intervenes day and night, transforming streets and official walls into a city-sized poetic playground. The work blends visual audacity with collective voice, offering ephemeral, sensory encounters that disrupt the routines of urban life.

In French.

19 September 2025 – 4 October 2026

The Tender Buttons exhibition offers a multidisciplinary exploration centered on buttons, delving into their identity and historical significance. Featuring over three hundred ceramic and glass buttons, the exhibition interacts with the museum’s works to highlight their role in both formal experimentation and socio-cultural narratives. The exhibition’s architecture evokes the commercial arcades of the 19th century, a pivotal era for button industrialization. Curated by Claire FitzGerald, the exhibition is supported by the Swiss Fashion Museum and showcases never-before-seen pieces from several prestigious collections.

1 July – 1 September

Spanning a century of cinema, this retrospective traces the evolving face of stardom from silent-era pioneers to contemporary icons. Through nine thematic chapters and a curated selection of one hundred films, it examines the star system, shifting modernities, emerging representations of desire and identity, and the rise of anti-heroes. Shot and assembled for a keen focus on the human visage, the program foregrounds cinematic techniques that reinvent how films capture presence and persona.

29 May – 26 August

Together is an immersive experience in three parts that explores multilateralism and the role of international cooperation. Visitors move through a sensory narrative, interact with tactile and audio elements, and cast votes on imagined resolutions. The format mixes storytelling, participation and emotion to produce surprising communal moments. Intimate yet expansive, the experience invites curiosity, playful engagement and reflection on how collective action shapes peace and shared futures.

8 July – 6 September

FAAB G collective presents an exhibition centred on FLINTA* figures connected to Asia, bringing together works by Jeanne Tara, Juli Sando, Sayaka Mizuno, Camille Farrah Buhler, Anaïs Nariman Aïk, Fhunyue Gao and Li Chaolin. Through installation, photography, sculpture and mixed-media, the project interrogates dominant narratives that invisibilize or simplify identities and memories. Nourished by anticolonial and transfeminist perspectives, the show explores political, historical and intimate forms of resistance and proposes encounters between personal testimonies and collective histories.

Opening: Tuesday 7 July, 18:00

13 July – 16 August

Returning for its twentieth edition, Les Aubes brings softness and poetry to Geneva mornings. At dawn, intimate musical encounters offer delicate soundscapes that stir the senses, favouring close listening and subtle atmospheres. The programme highlights a variety of acoustic and experimental projects, from solo performances to chamber ensembles, each designed to awaken the city with refined timbres and attentive pacing. A gentle celebration of morning listening and communal presence.

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