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14 & 24 February

The Tavel House offers a delightful storytime club for children. Join us to listen to shimmering winter tales and warm up as we chase away the winter months.

Kids aged 6 and up, accompanied by an adult.

23 – 27 February

Pascal Laajili, lighting designer renowned for his collaborations with Valérie Lesort, Christian Hecq and the Philippe Genty company, leads this technical laboratory. The workshop investigates how light interacts with the puppet’s shifting scale, its multiple layers of reality and unique dramaturgy. Through collective experiments, participants explore lighting strategies that treat light as a play partner capable of revealing, transforming or making the object disappear. The format is workshop-focused and intended for professional practitioners.

In French.

24 – 26 February

This holiday workshop invites children to explore Baroque music through the myth of Castor and Pollux and the opera of the same name. A musician from the Grand Théâtre de Genève will introduce participants to the viola da gamba, a key Baroque instrument, offering a hands-on, musical, and storytelling experience. The workshop is presented in partnership with the Grand Théâtre de Genève and the Bibliothèque de la Cité.

In French. Kids ages 8 to 12.

22 January – 7 March

La Cuisine des Collectionneurs is a convivial, evolving exhibition where contemporary art meets gastronomy. The project invites four collectors to curate walls from their personal collections. It blends scenography, shared collecting, and a collective display, extended into the kitchen through an ephemeral menu inspired by their worlds. Conceived as a living space, the exhibition unfolds with talks, meals, and gatherings over time, celebrating exchange, generosity, and the pleasure of art—on the walls and on the plate.

16 October 2025 – 30 August 2026

The MAH showcases Tonutopie, an innovative installation by German artist Hans-Walter Müller, a trailblazer in inflatable structures. This large, transparent, and habitable sphere, nestled within Vincent Lamouroux’s La Passerelle, offers a unique sensory experience. It delves into the contrasts between the fluidity of inflatable structures and the rigidity of traditional architecture, providing visitors with a fresh perspective on space.

5 – 26 February

Matthias Lecoq investigates the contemporary city as a milieu of existence, probing how urban forms shape subjectivity and appearance. The exhibition centers on abstract paintings that translate urban forces—density, thresholds, fields, circulations, exhaustion and momentum—while photographs anchor the work in everyday situations. Diagrams, cosmologies and textual fragments act as thinking-tools rather than explanations. Through a study of grammars, rhythms and tensions, Lecoq’s practice reveals the conditions that make collective and individual emergence possible within urban life.

14 & 24 February

The Tavel House offers a delightful storytime club for children. Join us to listen to shimmering winter tales and warm up as we chase away the winter months.

Kids aged 6 and up, accompanied by an adult.

23 – 27 February

Pascal Laajili, lighting designer renowned for his collaborations with Valérie Lesort, Christian Hecq and the Philippe Genty company, leads this technical laboratory. The workshop investigates how light interacts with the puppet’s shifting scale, its multiple layers of reality and unique dramaturgy. Through collective experiments, participants explore lighting strategies that treat light as a play partner capable of revealing, transforming or making the object disappear. The format is workshop-focused and intended for professional practitioners.

In French.

24 – 26 February

This holiday workshop invites children to explore Baroque music through the myth of Castor and Pollux and the opera of the same name. A musician from the Grand Théâtre de Genève will introduce participants to the viola da gamba, a key Baroque instrument, offering a hands-on, musical, and storytelling experience. The workshop is presented in partnership with the Grand Théâtre de Genève and the Bibliothèque de la Cité.

In French. Kids ages 8 to 12.

22 January – 7 March

La Cuisine des Collectionneurs is a convivial, evolving exhibition where contemporary art meets gastronomy. The project invites four collectors to curate walls from their personal collections. It blends scenography, shared collecting, and a collective display, extended into the kitchen through an ephemeral menu inspired by their worlds. Conceived as a living space, the exhibition unfolds with talks, meals, and gatherings over time, celebrating exchange, generosity, and the pleasure of art—on the walls and on the plate.

16 October 2025 – 30 August 2026

The MAH showcases Tonutopie, an innovative installation by German artist Hans-Walter Müller, a trailblazer in inflatable structures. This large, transparent, and habitable sphere, nestled within Vincent Lamouroux’s La Passerelle, offers a unique sensory experience. It delves into the contrasts between the fluidity of inflatable structures and the rigidity of traditional architecture, providing visitors with a fresh perspective on space.

5 – 26 February

Matthias Lecoq investigates the contemporary city as a milieu of existence, probing how urban forms shape subjectivity and appearance. The exhibition centers on abstract paintings that translate urban forces—density, thresholds, fields, circulations, exhaustion and momentum—while photographs anchor the work in everyday situations. Diagrams, cosmologies and textual fragments act as thinking-tools rather than explanations. Through a study of grammars, rhythms and tensions, Lecoq’s practice reveals the conditions that make collective and individual emergence possible within urban life.

14 & 24 February

The Tavel House offers a delightful storytime club for children. Join us to listen to shimmering winter tales and warm up as we chase away the winter months.

Kids aged 6 and up, accompanied by an adult.

23 – 27 February

Pascal Laajili, lighting designer renowned for his collaborations with Valérie Lesort, Christian Hecq and the Philippe Genty company, leads this technical laboratory. The workshop investigates how light interacts with the puppet’s shifting scale, its multiple layers of reality and unique dramaturgy. Through collective experiments, participants explore lighting strategies that treat light as a play partner capable of revealing, transforming or making the object disappear. The format is workshop-focused and intended for professional practitioners.

In French.

24 – 26 February

This holiday workshop invites children to explore Baroque music through the myth of Castor and Pollux and the opera of the same name. A musician from the Grand Théâtre de Genève will introduce participants to the viola da gamba, a key Baroque instrument, offering a hands-on, musical, and storytelling experience. The workshop is presented in partnership with the Grand Théâtre de Genève and the Bibliothèque de la Cité.

In French. Kids ages 8 to 12.

22 January – 7 March

La Cuisine des Collectionneurs is a convivial, evolving exhibition where contemporary art meets gastronomy. The project invites four collectors to curate walls from their personal collections. It blends scenography, shared collecting, and a collective display, extended into the kitchen through an ephemeral menu inspired by their worlds. Conceived as a living space, the exhibition unfolds with talks, meals, and gatherings over time, celebrating exchange, generosity, and the pleasure of art—on the walls and on the plate.

16 October 2025 – 30 August 2026

The MAH showcases Tonutopie, an innovative installation by German artist Hans-Walter Müller, a trailblazer in inflatable structures. This large, transparent, and habitable sphere, nestled within Vincent Lamouroux’s La Passerelle, offers a unique sensory experience. It delves into the contrasts between the fluidity of inflatable structures and the rigidity of traditional architecture, providing visitors with a fresh perspective on space.

5 – 26 February

Matthias Lecoq investigates the contemporary city as a milieu of existence, probing how urban forms shape subjectivity and appearance. The exhibition centers on abstract paintings that translate urban forces—density, thresholds, fields, circulations, exhaustion and momentum—while photographs anchor the work in everyday situations. Diagrams, cosmologies and textual fragments act as thinking-tools rather than explanations. Through a study of grammars, rhythms and tensions, Lecoq’s practice reveals the conditions that make collective and individual emergence possible within urban life.

26 February – 1 March

Directed by Francesca Bruni from a text by Adriano Bennicelli, Quattro is an Italian comedy that traces the tangled affections of four friends reuniting after fifteen years. The five-member cast — Caterina Boitani, Francesca Bruni, Antimo Natale, Marco di Teodoro and Simone Buffa — navigates a delicate balance of joy and melancholy through playful confessions, comic missteps and sudden revelations. The staging favors intimate realism and rhythmic dialogue, revealing the absurdities and fragilities of love and friendship with warmth and keen emotional precision.

In Italian, with English and French surtitles.

26 & 28 February

Tarab is a physical and sensory immersion into contemporary musical and poetic cultures of Egypt, Lebanon and Palestine. Created by company Shōnen with musician Rayess Bek and choreographer Éric Minh Cuong Castaing, the collective, immersive piece brings together eight dancers from Egypt, Palestine and Lebanon, mixing social dances (dabkeh, taa’kib), contemporary gestures and live music. The performance evokes a trance-like celebration where voice, music and movement generate intense emotion. The work pays tribute to artists from Gaza and stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people.

Saturday 28 February, 21:30

The Grand Théâtre de Genève and Antigel join forces for the return of Late Night – EXTRAVAGANZA, a masked, immersive night inspired by the unsettling universe of Stanley Kubrick. Taking over the impressive Cube at HEAD, the event unfolds as a nocturnal ritual of dancefloor energy, sensual performances and voguing, where masks are mandatory and boldness is encouraged. Expect elegant, kinky extravagance — and a brand-new Best Dressed Spectator catwalk for those ready to shine.

Saturday 28 February, 14:00

Yves Lottaz, aromatologist, and the mediation team bring practical expertise in scent analysis and plant extracts based on scientific research and collection work.

The workshop challenges participants to identify seven natural extracts — barks, spices and seeds — and to recognise the molecules that define each plant. Combining herbarium specimens, chemistry and perfumery, the session examines how these species contribute to health, heritage and daily aromas.

In French.

26 – 28 February

Hosted by the Fédération d’Improvisation Genevoise, IMPROFOLIES gathers two visiting troupes from Belgium and France for three nights of improvisation themed around the Roaring Twenties. Each evening presents a distinct format — Destin sur Mesure, Le Gala des Vedettes and Le Grand Cabaret — blending comedy, musical pastiche and theatrical spectacle. Performers rely on quick wit, collective invention and audience choices; tokens and a spinning wheel introduce playful competition and unpredictable climaxes.

In French.

Saturday 28 February, 21:00

Led by pianist Gabriel Zufferey, the quartet explores jazz as a living, intergenerational conversation. Drawing on spontaneity and ancestral avant-gardes, the music moves between luminous improvisation and intimate interplay: Domi Chansorn’s drums propel rhythmic waves while Alex Allflatt’s bass and Killian Perret-Gentil’s guitar weave harmonic threads. The repertoire favors reappropriation of collective languages, yielding moments of warmth, tension and release that invite attentive listening and communal resonance.

14 & 24 February

The Tavel House offers a delightful storytime club for children. Join us to listen to shimmering winter tales and warm up as we chase away the winter months.

Kids aged 6 and up, accompanied by an adult.

23 – 27 February

Pascal Laajili, lighting designer renowned for his collaborations with Valérie Lesort, Christian Hecq and the Philippe Genty company, leads this technical laboratory. The workshop investigates how light interacts with the puppet’s shifting scale, its multiple layers of reality and unique dramaturgy. Through collective experiments, participants explore lighting strategies that treat light as a play partner capable of revealing, transforming or making the object disappear. The format is workshop-focused and intended for professional practitioners.

In French.

24 – 26 February

This holiday workshop invites children to explore Baroque music through the myth of Castor and Pollux and the opera of the same name. A musician from the Grand Théâtre de Genève will introduce participants to the viola da gamba, a key Baroque instrument, offering a hands-on, musical, and storytelling experience. The workshop is presented in partnership with the Grand Théâtre de Genève and the Bibliothèque de la Cité.

In French. Kids ages 8 to 12.

22 January – 7 March

La Cuisine des Collectionneurs is a convivial, evolving exhibition where contemporary art meets gastronomy. The project invites four collectors to curate walls from their personal collections. It blends scenography, shared collecting, and a collective display, extended into the kitchen through an ephemeral menu inspired by their worlds. Conceived as a living space, the exhibition unfolds with talks, meals, and gatherings over time, celebrating exchange, generosity, and the pleasure of art—on the walls and on the plate.

16 October 2025 – 30 August 2026

The MAH showcases Tonutopie, an innovative installation by German artist Hans-Walter Müller, a trailblazer in inflatable structures. This large, transparent, and habitable sphere, nestled within Vincent Lamouroux’s La Passerelle, offers a unique sensory experience. It delves into the contrasts between the fluidity of inflatable structures and the rigidity of traditional architecture, providing visitors with a fresh perspective on space.

5 – 26 February

Matthias Lecoq investigates the contemporary city as a milieu of existence, probing how urban forms shape subjectivity and appearance. The exhibition centers on abstract paintings that translate urban forces—density, thresholds, fields, circulations, exhaustion and momentum—while photographs anchor the work in everyday situations. Diagrams, cosmologies and textual fragments act as thinking-tools rather than explanations. Through a study of grammars, rhythms and tensions, Lecoq’s practice reveals the conditions that make collective and individual emergence possible within urban life.

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The MEG is a renowned museum dedicated to the exploration and presentation of cultural diversity from around the world. Located in the heart of Geneva, it houses an extensive collection of over 80,000 objects, including artifacts, textiles, and artworks that highlight the rich traditions and histories of various communities. The museum emphasizes interactive and immersive exhibitions, engaging visitors with contemporary issues related to culture and identity.

Cool fact: The e-MEG app serves as a digital twin of the permanent exhibition, providing an audio guide and detailed descriptions along with photographs of all displayed objects.

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Since its opening in 1994, the MAMCO Geneva (Musée d’art moderne et contemporain)  has staged 450 exhibitions with works dating from the 1960s to the present day. Mamco’s holdings include works by Christo, Martin Kippenberger, Jenny Holzer, Dan Flavin, Sarkis, Franz Erhard Walther and Sylvie Fleury, among many others.

Cool fact: The MAMCO is the epicenter of the “Nuit des Bains”, held three times a year.  During this event, the district around the museum is transformed into a large gallery and attracts thousands of art lovers and sightseers each night.

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With a collection of 27,000 items from Switzerland, Europe and the Middle and Far East, and a witness to twelve centuries of ceramic art from the Middle Ages to modern times, the Ariana is one of Europe’s great museums specializing in glass and ceramics.

Cool fact: On the first Sunday of each month, the Ariana Museum opens its temporary exhibitions to the public.

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