11 February – 26 April

VideoDatabase – Cartes blanches 2026

FMAC

Free

VideoDatabase – Cartes blanches 2026 gathers four curatorial carte blanche projects that reframe a public video collection through screenings and artist-led playlists.
Conservator-restorer Eléonore Bernard, dancer-choreographer Lucy Nightingale, programmer Christophe Piette, and curators Marie Jeanson and Denis Schuler each present selections of video and moving-image works ranging from early video art to experimental contemporary pieces.
The series explores archival practices, performative temporality, and the shifting histories of moving-image mediums, prompting reflection on preservation, context and modes of display.

Chemin du 23-Août 5,
1205 Genève

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Photo Credit: office-studio / Sonia Garcês

22 January – 26 February

Cornelia Parker: Colour Problems

Art & Exhibits

Wilde

British artist Cornelia Parker is renowned for transforming everyday objects through destruction and alteration, exploring the physical, cultural, and emotional life of materials. Her new exhibition Colour Problems at Wilde Gallery continues this exploration, presenting works that question material transformation, history, and perception while revealing the hidden potential in the ordinary.

Opening during the Nuit des Bains, Thursday 22 January, from 18:00

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4 February – 4 March

Glacier(s) — Works by Bernard Garo and Jacques Pugin

Art & Exhibits

Centre des Arts

Glacier(s) brings together the work of Bernard Garo and Jacques Pugin in a dialogue around mountain landscapes and the fragile presence of ice. The exhibition examines visual and conceptual responses to glaciers—their beauty, gradual transformation and the human imprint on these environments—offering a space for critical reflection. Works are presented alongside paintings by the young artist Albatros, whose canvases give a distinctive voice to mountain forms, in collaboration with FEDRE.

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16 December – 30 April

Michel Mottier – The Passion for Cream Spoons

Art & Exhibits

Musée du Pays-d'Enhaut (VD)

FURTHER AFIELD

This exhibition celebrates the artistry of Michel Mottier, a craftsman from the Pays-d’Enhaut who carves each wooden cream spoon with patience and precision. Discover around a hundred unique handcrafted spoons, each reflecting his remarkable skill and dedication to this singular passion.

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22 January – 5 March

Ben Sadler – Ways of Looking

Art & Exhibits

Taste Contemporary

Taste Contemporary presents Ways of Looking, a solo exhibition by British painter Ben Sadler, bringing together all 24 portraits from his 2024 series You and I, alongside recent works. Through small, quietly compelling paintings of imagined exhibition-goers, Sadler captures fleeting expressions and inner worlds—figures who meet our gaze or drift away, pensive, amused, or absorbed. Subtle and poignant, the works explore the layered experience of exhibitions: the art, the space, the people within it, and the unspoken connections between them.

Opening on Thursday 22 January, from 18:00.

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23 January – 7 March

Access All Areas

Art & Exhibits

Xippas

Curated by Matthias Sohr, Reserved for Groups brings together works by Florian Fouché, Mélody Lu, Xavier Robles de Medina, Orawan Arunrak, Florian Bonny, Stefania Carlotti, Chloé Delarue, Jean-Ulrick Désert, Marina Faust, Anne Duk Hee Jordan, Thomas Liu Le Lann, Pedro Marrero Fuenmayor, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Kyung Roh Bannwart, Philipp Timischl, Ernie Wang, and Lauryn Youden. The exhibition explores subtle interventions within existing social and artistic contexts, presenting the artists’ work while making the gallery space more accessible.

Opening during the Nuit des Bains, Thursday 22 January, frpm 18:00.

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4 – 22 February

Subtle Ballet of Nuances – Luis Marques

Art & Exhibits

Centre culturel du Manoir

Luis Marques, artist and architect, examines his intimate relationship with water through abstract landscapes and text-infused works. Using repeated line, handwritten fragments and layered marks, he constructs an introspective journey that invites contemplative immersion.
The pieces evoke both Lake Geneva and the Atlantic glimpsed from his native Portugal, drawing on the depth of blue and the moving surface of water. By integrating adolescent texts, Marques frames a gentle choreography where line becomes migration and memory is rendered as drawing.

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