Nuit des Bains presents an evening when the city’s contemporary art circuit opens as a collective exhibition.
Emerging and established local and international artists activate spaces with installations, performances, painting, photography, and video, offering a multifaceted survey of contemporary practices. The event emphasizes encounter and public imagination, revealing tensions between intimacy and urban spectacle, and questioning how art inhabits shared environments.
An extensive survey assembled from a long-standing research collection devoted to glass, this exhibition takes a contemporary look at a millennia-old material. Over two hundred glass and mixed-media works, including sculptural objects, design pieces and installations, testify to a transdisciplinary experimental spirit. Featuring artists such as Ettore Sottsass, Pierre Charpin, Betty Woodman, Bob Wilson, Giuseppe Penone, Jana Sterbak and James Lee Byars, the show examines materiality, technique and the porous boundaries between craft, design and contemporary art.
Opening : Thursday 23 April, 18:00
Guided Tours (in French)
Etienne Francey and Onoko present a collaborative exhibition exploring the mirage as visual and psychological phenomenon. Francey’s photographic practice treats landscapes as memory, rendering familiar scenes with a soft, recollected quality. Onoko contributes more abstract works that distill atmosphere and luminous degradation into colour fields and ephemeral surfaces. Together their pieces interrogate perception, illusion, and the shifting boundary between apparition and documentation, using photography, colour studies and light to destabilize what the eye assumes to know.
The exhibition highlights Geneva’s remarkable trees and the men and women who care for them. It explores stewardship, memory and urban ecology, revealing how individual trees anchor community histories and daily practices of care. Combining documentary and artistic perspectives, the presentation considers cultural and environmental dimensions of urban trees, inviting reflection on our relationship with living monuments and the labour that sustains them.
Tobias Kaspar (né en 1984 à Bâle, Suisse) est un artiste vivant et travaillant entre Zurich et Riga, ainsi qu’à Mesocco (Suisse) et Salacgrīva (Lettonie), où il dirige The Estate, deux résidences d’artistes et espaces d’exposition. Depuis près de vingt ans, sa pratique multidisciplinaire explore les systèmes à travers lesquels la valeur culturelle, l’auteurité, l’ambition et la signification sont produites et diffusées. À travers la photographie, le textile, l’installation, l’édition, la mode et la conception d’expositions, Kaspar fait souvent des mécanismes de la production culturelle le sujet même de son travail. Son œuvre a été présentée dans de nombreuses institutions internationales, notamment à Artists Space, Hamburger Bahnhof, Kunsthalle Basel, Kunsthalle Bern, MAMCO Genève et au Museum of Modern Art de Varsovie.
Opening: Thursday 2 July, 18:00
Step into the vibrant artistic soul of Carouge at the 4th edition of Carouge Dessiné! This unique open-air event celebrates illustration, comics, and visual storytelling, bringing together talented artists, passionate creators, and curious visitors in a warm and inspiring atmosphere.
Stroll through charming streets filled with live drawing sessions, exhibitions, workshops, and creative encounters. Whether you’re an art lover, a collector, or simply looking for a cultural escape, the 4th edition of Carouge Dessiné promises a day full of discovery, creativity, and connection.
Chris Lovasoa Kauffmann presents a new body of work that explores architectural form and symbolic resonance through sculpture, painting and installation. Minimal geometries and textured surfaces negotiate scale and monumentality, while layered materials and subtle color shifts invite reflection on construction, memory and cultural lineage. The works balance rigorous formalism with tactile evidence of process, proposing an austere yet intimate meditation on how built forms shape perception and collective narratives.
Opening: Thursday 2 July, 18:00
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