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17 – 26 April

FURTHER AFIELD

Visions du Réel, founded in 1969, showcases bold and singular works rooted in past, present, and future realities. For ten days, the festival transforms Nyon into a hub where generations of filmmakers and artists from around the world connect with an engaged audience. Recognized as one of the leading international festivals dedicated to documentary and “cinéma du réel,” it premieres many films globally and serves as a key platform for professional exchange and creative collaboration.

Sunday 26 April, 14:00

John M Armleder is invited for the museum’s sixth Carte Blanche, presenting over 500 works in a thematic traversal that juxtaposes heritage and contemporary creation. The installation-driven exhibition stages dialogues between animals, abstract painting, musical instruments and lighting, using assemblage, ephemeral structures and situational interventions to encourage wandering and reinterpretation. Paintings, sculptures and installations are layered and superimposed to prompt new readings of the collection and to foreground process, chance and visual play.

Guided Visit with an art historian.

In English.

Sunday 26 April, 17:00

Presented by the Association des Concerts des dimanches, Trio la Versoix brings together William Michel, Juliette Giovacchini and Gabrielle Richardson Vasques. Hailing from different corners of the world, the three string players met on the shores of Lake Geneva, their collaboration mirroring the Versoix river’s flow: a dialogue of fluidity and exchange. The programme juxtaposes Smetana’s Trio in G minor with Paul Schoenfield’s Café Music, weaving Romantic density and contemporary wit into an intimate chamber experience.

Sunday 26 April, 11:00

Hélice Hélas Éditeur has championed playful erudition since 2011, publishing across literary fiction, genre, art books and comics. The anniversary programme features authors Chloé Falcy, MarieMo, Nétonon Noël Ndjékéry and Simona Brunel‑Ferrarelli.

The programme explores independent publishing practices, editorial collaboration and creative processes through a fanzine workshop (with MarieMo), a panel on editorial work with the Insécables collective — including Emeline Cusin (Métropolis), Stéphane Fretz (Art&Fiction) and Antoine Viredaz (Presses inverses) — and an author conversation moderated by Elisabeth Chardon.

In French.

24 – 26 April

Photobooks Switzerland brings together Swiss and European photographers, independent publishers and designers to examine the photobook as a creative and material practice. The programme includes exhibitions of artist books and printed projects, talks, and workshops that focus on bookbinding, sequencing and editorial design. Works range from documentary series to conceptual projects, emphasising narrative, tactile materiality and democratic distribution of photographic projects. The festival highlights the photobook’s role in shaping photographic authorship and sustaining independent publishing.

Sunday 26 April, 19:00

Ángeles Toledano leads Sangre Sucia, a flamenco concert that blends tradition and contemporary expression. The cantaora draws on soleá, bulerías and alegrías to explore heritage, modernity, sisterhood and untold personal truths. Accompanied by guitarist Benito Bernal and a close ensemble of musicians, her voice navigates intimate and eruptive moments, alternating shadow and light. Presented in collaboration with Festival Flamenco Nómada and ICAM, the performance delivers an intense, immersive soundscape where storytelling and embodied feeling meet.

17 – 26 April

FURTHER AFIELD

Visions du Réel, founded in 1969, showcases bold and singular works rooted in past, present, and future realities. For ten days, the festival transforms Nyon into a hub where generations of filmmakers and artists from around the world connect with an engaged audience. Recognized as one of the leading international festivals dedicated to documentary and “cinéma du réel,” it premieres many films globally and serves as a key platform for professional exchange and creative collaboration.

Sunday 26 April, 14:00

John M Armleder is invited for the museum’s sixth Carte Blanche, presenting over 500 works in a thematic traversal that juxtaposes heritage and contemporary creation. The installation-driven exhibition stages dialogues between animals, abstract painting, musical instruments and lighting, using assemblage, ephemeral structures and situational interventions to encourage wandering and reinterpretation. Paintings, sculptures and installations are layered and superimposed to prompt new readings of the collection and to foreground process, chance and visual play.

Guided Visit with an art historian.

In English.

Sunday 26 April, 17:00

Presented by the Association des Concerts des dimanches, Trio la Versoix brings together William Michel, Juliette Giovacchini and Gabrielle Richardson Vasques. Hailing from different corners of the world, the three string players met on the shores of Lake Geneva, their collaboration mirroring the Versoix river’s flow: a dialogue of fluidity and exchange. The programme juxtaposes Smetana’s Trio in G minor with Paul Schoenfield’s Café Music, weaving Romantic density and contemporary wit into an intimate chamber experience.

Sunday 26 April, 11:00

Hélice Hélas Éditeur has championed playful erudition since 2011, publishing across literary fiction, genre, art books and comics. The anniversary programme features authors Chloé Falcy, MarieMo, Nétonon Noël Ndjékéry and Simona Brunel‑Ferrarelli.

The programme explores independent publishing practices, editorial collaboration and creative processes through a fanzine workshop (with MarieMo), a panel on editorial work with the Insécables collective — including Emeline Cusin (Métropolis), Stéphane Fretz (Art&Fiction) and Antoine Viredaz (Presses inverses) — and an author conversation moderated by Elisabeth Chardon.

In French.

24 – 26 April

Photobooks Switzerland brings together Swiss and European photographers, independent publishers and designers to examine the photobook as a creative and material practice. The programme includes exhibitions of artist books and printed projects, talks, and workshops that focus on bookbinding, sequencing and editorial design. Works range from documentary series to conceptual projects, emphasising narrative, tactile materiality and democratic distribution of photographic projects. The festival highlights the photobook’s role in shaping photographic authorship and sustaining independent publishing.

Sunday 26 April, 19:00

Ángeles Toledano leads Sangre Sucia, a flamenco concert that blends tradition and contemporary expression. The cantaora draws on soleá, bulerías and alegrías to explore heritage, modernity, sisterhood and untold personal truths. Accompanied by guitarist Benito Bernal and a close ensemble of musicians, her voice navigates intimate and eruptive moments, alternating shadow and light. Presented in collaboration with Festival Flamenco Nómada and ICAM, the performance delivers an intense, immersive soundscape where storytelling and embodied feeling meet.

17 – 26 April

FURTHER AFIELD

Visions du Réel, founded in 1969, showcases bold and singular works rooted in past, present, and future realities. For ten days, the festival transforms Nyon into a hub where generations of filmmakers and artists from around the world connect with an engaged audience. Recognized as one of the leading international festivals dedicated to documentary and “cinéma du réel,” it premieres many films globally and serves as a key platform for professional exchange and creative collaboration.

Sunday 26 April, 14:00

John M Armleder is invited for the museum’s sixth Carte Blanche, presenting over 500 works in a thematic traversal that juxtaposes heritage and contemporary creation. The installation-driven exhibition stages dialogues between animals, abstract painting, musical instruments and lighting, using assemblage, ephemeral structures and situational interventions to encourage wandering and reinterpretation. Paintings, sculptures and installations are layered and superimposed to prompt new readings of the collection and to foreground process, chance and visual play.

Guided Visit with an art historian.

In English.

Sunday 26 April, 17:00

Presented by the Association des Concerts des dimanches, Trio la Versoix brings together William Michel, Juliette Giovacchini and Gabrielle Richardson Vasques. Hailing from different corners of the world, the three string players met on the shores of Lake Geneva, their collaboration mirroring the Versoix river’s flow: a dialogue of fluidity and exchange. The programme juxtaposes Smetana’s Trio in G minor with Paul Schoenfield’s Café Music, weaving Romantic density and contemporary wit into an intimate chamber experience.

Sunday 26 April, 11:00

Hélice Hélas Éditeur has championed playful erudition since 2011, publishing across literary fiction, genre, art books and comics. The anniversary programme features authors Chloé Falcy, MarieMo, Nétonon Noël Ndjékéry and Simona Brunel‑Ferrarelli.

The programme explores independent publishing practices, editorial collaboration and creative processes through a fanzine workshop (with MarieMo), a panel on editorial work with the Insécables collective — including Emeline Cusin (Métropolis), Stéphane Fretz (Art&Fiction) and Antoine Viredaz (Presses inverses) — and an author conversation moderated by Elisabeth Chardon.

In French.

24 – 26 April

Photobooks Switzerland brings together Swiss and European photographers, independent publishers and designers to examine the photobook as a creative and material practice. The programme includes exhibitions of artist books and printed projects, talks, and workshops that focus on bookbinding, sequencing and editorial design. Works range from documentary series to conceptual projects, emphasising narrative, tactile materiality and democratic distribution of photographic projects. The festival highlights the photobook’s role in shaping photographic authorship and sustaining independent publishing.

Sunday 26 April, 19:00

Ángeles Toledano leads Sangre Sucia, a flamenco concert that blends tradition and contemporary expression. The cantaora draws on soleá, bulerías and alegrías to explore heritage, modernity, sisterhood and untold personal truths. Accompanied by guitarist Benito Bernal and a close ensemble of musicians, her voice navigates intimate and eruptive moments, alternating shadow and light. Presented in collaboration with Festival Flamenco Nómada and ICAM, the performance delivers an intense, immersive soundscape where storytelling and embodied feeling meet.

17 – 26 April

FURTHER AFIELD

Visions du Réel, founded in 1969, showcases bold and singular works rooted in past, present, and future realities. For ten days, the festival transforms Nyon into a hub where generations of filmmakers and artists from around the world connect with an engaged audience. Recognized as one of the leading international festivals dedicated to documentary and “cinéma du réel,” it premieres many films globally and serves as a key platform for professional exchange and creative collaboration.

Sunday 26 April, 14:00

John M Armleder is invited for the museum’s sixth Carte Blanche, presenting over 500 works in a thematic traversal that juxtaposes heritage and contemporary creation. The installation-driven exhibition stages dialogues between animals, abstract painting, musical instruments and lighting, using assemblage, ephemeral structures and situational interventions to encourage wandering and reinterpretation. Paintings, sculptures and installations are layered and superimposed to prompt new readings of the collection and to foreground process, chance and visual play.

Guided Visit with an art historian.

In English.

Sunday 26 April, 17:00

Presented by the Association des Concerts des dimanches, Trio la Versoix brings together William Michel, Juliette Giovacchini and Gabrielle Richardson Vasques. Hailing from different corners of the world, the three string players met on the shores of Lake Geneva, their collaboration mirroring the Versoix river’s flow: a dialogue of fluidity and exchange. The programme juxtaposes Smetana’s Trio in G minor with Paul Schoenfield’s Café Music, weaving Romantic density and contemporary wit into an intimate chamber experience.

Sunday 26 April, 11:00

Hélice Hélas Éditeur has championed playful erudition since 2011, publishing across literary fiction, genre, art books and comics. The anniversary programme features authors Chloé Falcy, MarieMo, Nétonon Noël Ndjékéry and Simona Brunel‑Ferrarelli.

The programme explores independent publishing practices, editorial collaboration and creative processes through a fanzine workshop (with MarieMo), a panel on editorial work with the Insécables collective — including Emeline Cusin (Métropolis), Stéphane Fretz (Art&Fiction) and Antoine Viredaz (Presses inverses) — and an author conversation moderated by Elisabeth Chardon.

In French.

24 – 26 April

Photobooks Switzerland brings together Swiss and European photographers, independent publishers and designers to examine the photobook as a creative and material practice. The programme includes exhibitions of artist books and printed projects, talks, and workshops that focus on bookbinding, sequencing and editorial design. Works range from documentary series to conceptual projects, emphasising narrative, tactile materiality and democratic distribution of photographic projects. The festival highlights the photobook’s role in shaping photographic authorship and sustaining independent publishing.

Sunday 26 April, 19:00

Ángeles Toledano leads Sangre Sucia, a flamenco concert that blends tradition and contemporary expression. The cantaora draws on soleá, bulerías and alegrías to explore heritage, modernity, sisterhood and untold personal truths. Accompanied by guitarist Benito Bernal and a close ensemble of musicians, her voice navigates intimate and eruptive moments, alternating shadow and light. Presented in collaboration with Festival Flamenco Nómada and ICAM, the performance delivers an intense, immersive soundscape where storytelling and embodied feeling meet.

17 – 26 April

FURTHER AFIELD

Visions du Réel, founded in 1969, showcases bold and singular works rooted in past, present, and future realities. For ten days, the festival transforms Nyon into a hub where generations of filmmakers and artists from around the world connect with an engaged audience. Recognized as one of the leading international festivals dedicated to documentary and “cinéma du réel,” it premieres many films globally and serves as a key platform for professional exchange and creative collaboration.

Sunday 26 April, 14:00

John M Armleder is invited for the museum’s sixth Carte Blanche, presenting over 500 works in a thematic traversal that juxtaposes heritage and contemporary creation. The installation-driven exhibition stages dialogues between animals, abstract painting, musical instruments and lighting, using assemblage, ephemeral structures and situational interventions to encourage wandering and reinterpretation. Paintings, sculptures and installations are layered and superimposed to prompt new readings of the collection and to foreground process, chance and visual play.

Guided Visit with an art historian.

In English.

Sunday 26 April, 17:00

Presented by the Association des Concerts des dimanches, Trio la Versoix brings together William Michel, Juliette Giovacchini and Gabrielle Richardson Vasques. Hailing from different corners of the world, the three string players met on the shores of Lake Geneva, their collaboration mirroring the Versoix river’s flow: a dialogue of fluidity and exchange. The programme juxtaposes Smetana’s Trio in G minor with Paul Schoenfield’s Café Music, weaving Romantic density and contemporary wit into an intimate chamber experience.

Sunday 26 April, 11:00

Hélice Hélas Éditeur has championed playful erudition since 2011, publishing across literary fiction, genre, art books and comics. The anniversary programme features authors Chloé Falcy, MarieMo, Nétonon Noël Ndjékéry and Simona Brunel‑Ferrarelli.

The programme explores independent publishing practices, editorial collaboration and creative processes through a fanzine workshop (with MarieMo), a panel on editorial work with the Insécables collective — including Emeline Cusin (Métropolis), Stéphane Fretz (Art&Fiction) and Antoine Viredaz (Presses inverses) — and an author conversation moderated by Elisabeth Chardon.

In French.

24 – 26 April

Photobooks Switzerland brings together Swiss and European photographers, independent publishers and designers to examine the photobook as a creative and material practice. The programme includes exhibitions of artist books and printed projects, talks, and workshops that focus on bookbinding, sequencing and editorial design. Works range from documentary series to conceptual projects, emphasising narrative, tactile materiality and democratic distribution of photographic projects. The festival highlights the photobook’s role in shaping photographic authorship and sustaining independent publishing.

Sunday 26 April, 19:00

Ángeles Toledano leads Sangre Sucia, a flamenco concert that blends tradition and contemporary expression. The cantaora draws on soleá, bulerías and alegrías to explore heritage, modernity, sisterhood and untold personal truths. Accompanied by guitarist Benito Bernal and a close ensemble of musicians, her voice navigates intimate and eruptive moments, alternating shadow and light. Presented in collaboration with Festival Flamenco Nómada and ICAM, the performance delivers an intense, immersive soundscape where storytelling and embodied feeling meet.

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Visiting for the first time? A quick guide to the city’s top attractions.

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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