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.
Cécile Koepfli creates a site-specific window installation of colorful, poetic drawings. Mischievous characters, everyday objects, and fragments of text assemble into a playful, sensitive imaginary world. The works, rendered directly on window panes, unfold as tableaux and narrative vignettes that invite viewers to imagine the activities and encounters that will animate the space.
A seek-and-find game encourages close looking and slow discovery across the illustrated surfaces.
Carolina Fontana presents Parallaxe, a first solo exhibition in Geneva featuring paintings from her recent Z·E·N series. Produced through contemplative travels across Swiss cantons, Spain and China, the canvases blend figurative motifs with abstract formations to evoke a transcendent, Zen-informed sensibility toward landscape and the sublime. The works emphasise delicate brushwork, layered surfaces and meditative composition, inviting sustained attention to process, rhythm and the poetic interplay between presence and absence.
Opening: Thursday 21 May, 18:00
Our eyes are naturally drawn to light and what shines. Yet what could be more fascinating than shadow? Shadows have enabled many fundamental discoveries: the shape of the Earth, the calculation of its circumference, the identification of electrons, and the understanding of planetary motion. They accompany us and enrich our thinking. Come and explore them to learn more about their role in science.
Exhibition in French & in English.
Before undergoing renovations, La Menuiserie presents its final exhibition, Toucher du Bois, bringing together 24 artists in a celebration of creativity inspired by wood, craftsmanship, and contemporary art. A unique opportunity to discover a diverse range of artistic practices in one of Geneva’s distinctive cultural spaces.
Opening: Thursday 18 June at 18:00
Curator Danniel Tostes brings together works by several generations of artists to examine community as a space of connection, resistance and collective creation. The exhibition assembles photography, installation, sculpture and mixed-media projects that forge dialogues between historical and contemporary practices. Through gestures, archival fragments and collaborative processes, the show investigates memory, solidarity and the forms that communal artistic practices take across time.
Opening : Thursday 30 April, 18:00 (Salle Saint Ours)
Closing event: Saturday 4 July, 18:00 (Salle Saint Ours)
Commented visit by Danniel Tostes (curator): Thursday 11 June, 18:00
HiFlow launches Quand le vivant nous fait agir, a year-long programme that explores how living systems can inspire new ways of thinking and acting. Bringing together artists, researchers, designers, entrepreneurs and thinkers, HiFlow becomes a space for experimentation and dialogue around more sensitive and sustainable futures. The first chapter, “Hybridations fertiles”, transforms the venue into a living laboratory through a collective exhibition, off-site projects, conferences, performances and workshops at the crossroads of art, design, life sciences and hybrid technologies.
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