7 May – 20 June

Forza Silenziosa – Sofia Cacciapaglia

MABE Gallery

Free

MABE Gallery presents Forza Silenziosa, the second solo exhibition of Sofia Cacciapaglia, whose paintings evoke a quiet, fluid world where forms, bodies, and landscapes gently merge, expressing a soft yet powerful feminine presence rooted in emotion, connection, and subtle energy.

Her work emphasizes transformation, intimacy, and dreamlike atmospheres, where silence carries intensity. Using reclaimed cardboard from her Milan neighborhood, she connects to the ethos of Arte Povera—a movement theorized by Germano Celant and associated with artists like Michelangelo Pistoletto and Jannis Kounellis—by embracing ‘poor’ materials and their histories; however, she diverges through her distinctly figurative and painterly approach, transforming humble surfaces into poetic images that bridge material awareness with narrative, imagination, and contemporary femininity.

Opening: Thursday 7 May, 16:00 – 21:00

Grand-Rue 25,
Geneva, Switzerland

Photo Credit: Sofia Cacciapaglia

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Photo Credit: Sofia Cacciapaglia

13 March – 9 May

Naturæ

Art & Exhibits

Skopia Art Contemporain

Naturæ brings together works by Silvia Bächli, Erik Bulatov, Jean Crotti, Franz Gertsch, Fabrice Gygi, Alex Hanimann, Alain Huck, Claudio Moser, Leanne Picthall and Melissa Steckbauer. Through a diversity of practices and generations, this group exhibition explores different artistic approaches to the natural world and its representation.

Opening during the Nuit des Bains, Thursday 12 March, 18:00.

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Thursday 7 May, 19:00

Juan Pablo Cámara

Art & Exhibits Performances

MAH

This solo performance by Juan Pablo Cámara traces the contours of attention and encounter. Combining subtle gestures, spoken fragments and calibrated pauses, the piece unfolds as a durational portrait that navigates memory, presence and the politics of looking. The artist’s restrained physicality and keen listening create a charged atmosphere where small actions accumulate into emotional clarity. Presented within the ‘First impressions’ residency curated by Jade Meili Barget.

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7 May – 10 July

Yvan Salomone — 2611

Art & Exhibits

Galerie Sonia Zannettacci

Yvan Salomone presents a series of recent watercolours that transform anonymous buildings and soulless industrial sites into evocative landscapes. Through delicate, velvety tones, subtle colour modulations and watery traces that suggest life, the artist elevates banal subjects and transfigures objective reality. The exhibition’s title, 2611, alludes to Salomone’s practice of assigning eleven‑letter titles composed from the alphabet, producing names that detach the work from literal description and invite poetic reading.

Opening: Thursday 7 May , 16:00

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7 May & 9 May

AVV Guided Visits: Art and the Reformation

Art & Exhibits

Musée de la Réforme

An illustrated guided tour that explores how art shaped and reflected the theological debates of the Reformation. The tour examines emblematic paintings and portraiture—among them portraits of Martin Luther and Karel van der Pluym’s Vieille Femme lisant la Bible—to reveal how imagery accompanied spiritual and social transformations. Through close visual readings, thematic groupings and historical context, participants are invited to consider iconography, devotional practices and the role of imagery in reformist discourse. The tour is led by historian Elonora Pimponi.

In French.

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29 April – 28 June

Childish Things and Oddities: Vertigo of a Collection

Art & Exhibits

L'Arcade

Presented from the private collection of Giuseppe Garrera and curated by Andrea Bellini and Giuseppe Garrera, this exhibition assembles an array of diminutive found objects — trinkets, charms, gadgets, toys, lucky charms and fragments of wood, cloth and glass — rescued from mundane life by artists’ gestures. Hovering between toy, everyday artefact and artwork, the presentation explores the thaumaturgic qualities of objects and childhood as a site of refuge and wonder.

Opening: Tuesday 28 April, 16:00 – 21:00

Guided tours (in English)
Sunday 17 May, 16:00
Thursday 21 May, 18:30 – 19:30 (FR or EN)
Sunday 7 June, 16:00

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7 May – 20 September

Antiquity in Dutch Painting

Art & Exhibits

Galerie Salomon Lilian

Seventeenth-century painter Hendrick Bloemaert explores how antiquity shaped Dutch visual culture. Through oil on canvas portraits and history scenes, Bloemaert merges classical myth with striking realism, balancing idealised themes and everyday detail. His mastery of light, texture and fine draughtsmanship reflects the dynamism of the Dutch Golden Age, where artists reinterpreted ancient subjects to probe human character, moral reflection and pictorial innovation.

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