Thursday 11 June, 12:30

Meditation with Hodler

MAH

Booking Required

Erwan Tréguer, a Mindfulness instructor, and Murielle Brunschwig, a cultural mediator, lead a two-voice mindfulness session bridging contemplative practice and art interpretation.

The session explores attentive perception through guided breath and listening exercises in relation to Hodler’s paintings, examining how focused attention reveals emotional textures, compositional dynamics, and personal meaning. It investigates ways art can foster presence and reflective awareness and prompts discussion about the relationship between attention, emotion, and interpretation.

In French.

Rue Charles-GALLAND 2,
1206 Genève

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Photo Credit: DR

12 & 13 May

Become Sub-Optimal

Lectures & Workshops

GamMAH

Olivier Hamant’s lecture delves into the shortcomings of traditional measurement and evaluation tools in capturing the complexity of artistic and collective processes. Drawing inspiration from living systems, it suggests alternative approaches that are slower, more flexible, and aligned with relational dynamics and unseen transformations, as part of a collaboration between MAH and least.

In French.

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28 January – 23 December

Our Biodiversity: Memory game

Lectures & Workshops

Jardin botanique

This interactive memory challenge invites participants to test their memory while exploring practical ways to preserve biodiversity based on Geneva’s municipal strategy. Players match “before-and-after” images that illustrate individual and institutional actions, and each correct pair reveals concise information explaining the measure. The activity examines themes such as habitat restoration, species-friendly practices, urban greening and policy responses, helping participants understand the impact and rationale behind everyday and organisational conservation choices.

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28 January – 23 December

Create Your Own Rousseau-Style Herbarium

Lectures & Workshops

Jardin botanique

This workshop explores the traditional process of assembling a herbarium specimen, inspired by Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s collections. Participants learn scientific techniques for pressing and mounting dried plants on old paper, practice botanical labelling and nomenclature, and select specimens to create a personal herbarium sheet. The session examines preservation methods, identification principles and the historical context of Rousseau’s approach, combining practical skills with scientific insight to produce a lasting botanical object.

In French.

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20 April – 7 June

Short-Form Laboratory

Lectures & Workshops

Théâtre des Marionnettes

Designed for emerging professionals and recent graduates, this workshop explores puppetry through the creation of a short performance. Four to five young artists are supported through a guided process from idea to stage, with mentorship in direction, dramaturgy and construction. Participants develop a compact work presented at a public work-in-progress showcase. The programme also offers the chance to win a fully funded four-week training placement in 2027 at Odradek, near Toulouse.

In French.

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Wednesday 13 May, 18:30

Pittard de l’Andelyn Literary Prize

Lectures & Workshops

Maison Rousseau

Alice Botelho, born in Geneva in 2000, graduated from the Swiss Literature Institute in Biel and gained attention for theatrical adaptations of Nelly Arcan and a Bachelor thesis noted for its photographic prose.

This award ceremony includes readings of extracts from her debut novel Folie entre mes doigts and a discussion of the book’s themes: memory, image, and the interplay of color and contrast that shapes her narrative voice. She will reflect on creative process and form.

In French.

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Wednesday 15 April, 10:00

Literary Encounters: Borges and the 20th Century

Lectures & Workshops

Maison Rousseau

Catarina von Wedemeyer, Maître d’enseignement et de recherche at the University of Geneva, is a specialist in Latin American literatures. She held a Humboldt fellowship at Columbia University and is author of Offene Dialektik.

This bilingual series examines Borges’ key stories in relation to twentieth‑century movements such as ultraism and fantastic literature, debating New Historicism and universality. Sessions offer comparative readings with Victoria Ocampo, Silvana Ocampo and Adolfo Bioy Casares, and address poetic analysis and Borges’ cultural interests.

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Meditation with Hodler