Thursday 12 March, 14:00

Guided Visit: Ernest Pignon-Ernest

Wilde

Booking Required

An exhibition of Ernest Pignon-Ernest presenting the artist’s rigorous figurative practice. Elected to the Académie des beaux-arts in 2021, Pignon-Ernest was a precursor of street art in the 1960s. His work combines technical mastery with ethical commitment, producing striking images and portraits. The presentation brings together pieces that address abortion, exclusion, AIDS and migration, and highlights his long-standing dialogue with poetry and social questions.

Visit organised by the Société de Lecture.

In French.

Blvd Georges-Favon 19,
1204 Geneva

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Photo Credit: Marc Perrin

20 January – 7 March

What’s hiding in your digital objects ?

Art & Exhibits

Multiple locations

Association NoOps (No Planned Obsolescence Switzerland) presents a travelling display that foregrounds the materiality of our phones. Through two vitrines and a selection of recovered components, the exhibition points to the precious metals embedded in devices and to “urban mines” hiding in drawers. Combining didactic panels, curated specimens and small installations assembled from reclaimed circuitry, it examines resource extraction, waste and value in contemporary consumer electronics, asking how reuse, repair and awareness can reframe our relationship to everyday technologies.

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29 October 2025 – 31 May 2026

Pleasing the Spirits

Art & Exhibits

Musée Barbier-Mueller

Pleasing the Spirits invites you on a journey through the Barbier-Mueller Collection, showcasing artworks from around the globe. Curated by Séverine Fromaigeat and Paul Maheke, the exhibition offers an open-ended exploration of diverse objects, awakening spirits and uncovering territories to discover.

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10 December 2025 – 19 April 2026

Elles. Contemporary Indigenous Artists

Art & Exhibits

Musée Rath

ELLES brings together powerful contemporary Aboriginal women artists whose work bridges ancestral storytelling and modern abstraction. Featuring major figures such as Emily Kam Kngwarray and Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori, alongside artists from the Bérengère Primat Collection / Fondation Opale, the exhibition at the Musée Rath highlights symbolic, vibrant works rooted in land, memory, and spirituality. Between tradition and contemporary expression, these intimate visual cartographies celebrate the deep connection between culture, nature, and creation.

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28 January – 15 March

Almost Tender

Art & Exhibits

Ferme de la Chapelle

Swiss artist Grégory Sugnaux presents a body of paintings that stage ambiguous, often hybrid figures—part human, part animal, serial androids and distorted, sometimes monstrous bodies. Combining grotesque allusion with ironic self-reflection, he mixes genres and pictorial techniques to render surfaces alternately smooth and vibrating, fracturing legibility.
A composed soundtrack threads through the installation, amplifying the exhibition’s uneasy pulsation. The works negotiate a fragile balance between fascination and self-critique, revealing vulnerability beneath playful, unsettling imagery.

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22 January – 7 March

Valse Velue

Art & Exhibits

Halle Nord

Valse Velue brings together Jessy Razafimandimby and Cathy Josefowitz in a cross-generational dialogue that juxtaposes performative practice with a body of studio-based works. The presentation combines live and time-based actions with constructed objects and window-front pieces by Tito Honegger and Nicolas Ponce. Through movement, improvisation and attentive materiality, the exhibition interrogates presence, memory and the afterlives of artistic gestures. Curatorial framing highlights exchange, contingency and how ephemeral performances resonate alongside durable artifacts.

Opening Thursday 22 January, from 18:00.

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16 January – 1 February

Geneva Lux

Art & Exhibits

Multiple locations

Geneva Lux stages a luminous parcours through the city centre and Old Town of Geneva, presenting for over twelve years an evening programme of light installations and live performances. Around twenty works transform public streets and historic architecture into immersive, often poetic environments. The festival foregrounds sensory and spatial experience, exploring how light reconfigures perception of urban space and winter, and how temporary interventions reveal layers of memory, intimacy and collective circulation in the nocturnal city.

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Guided Visit: Ernest Pignon-Ernest