3 – 25 October

Chêne-Bougeries: Yesterday to Today

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An exhibition charting Chêne-Bougeries’s evolution from past to present, drawing on archival photographs, maps, and community memories. The display brings together historical documents, contemporary photography and mixed-media installations to explore urban development, landscape change and local identity. Through curated sequences and interpretive labels, the show considers how everyday life and collective memory shape place. The works use photography, archival material and site-responsive interventions to reveal layers of history embedded in the community.

Opening: Thursday 1 October, 18:30

Route du Vallon 8,
Chêne-Bougeries, Switzerland

Photo Credit: DR

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Photo Credit: DR

26 September – 31 March

From Shadow to Light

Art & Exhibits

MAH

This evolving exhibition explores Geneva painting from public collections, bringing together 82 works created between 1444 and 1782. Unfolding in three acts, the exhibition evolves alongside the museum’s ongoing research and restoration work.

Act I: Before 1535, Surviving the Storm – 26 September 2026 – 21 March 2027
Rare works that survived the Protestant iconoclasm of 1535, including Konrad Witz’s 1444 panels.

Act II: 1536–1685, The Secular Turn – 23 March – 19 September 2027
Following the Reformation, Geneva’s artistic landscape was transformed, with artists increasingly turning to secular subjects for both private and public settings.

Act III: 1685–1782, A Spectacular Flourishing – 25 September 2027 – March 2028
The Age of Enlightenment saw painting flourish in Geneva, with portraits and landscapes by artists including Robert Gardelle, Barthélemy Guillibaud and Jean-Étienne Liotard.

An ever-evolving journey through nearly three centuries of painting in Geneva, revealing its history, artistic techniques and the fascinating work behind its conservation.

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23 September – 11 October

Station 505

Art & Exhibits

Parc des Bastions

Swiss artist Andreas Kressig presents Station 505, a temporary sculpture-pavilion conceived as an architectural and sensory intervention. Built in relation to an existing fountain, the work paradoxically conceals and reveals water while offering both an exterior sculpture to contemplate and an interior space to inhabit. Through material presence and spatial thresholds it interrogates public versus private realms. The project is activated by shared moments with the artist centred on a communal tea service and reflections on its diverse cultural interpretations.

Opening: 23 September, 17:00

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24 September – 6 October

BLOW (Group Exhibition)

Art & Exhibits

Usine Kugler

Stéphane Ducret presents Being Matters, an immersive series of recent paintings that map psyche and the living realm. The presentation gathers seven large to very large oil paintings on linen alongside a series of small-format works on wood. Through layered surfaces, deliberate errors and a dense pictorial process, Ducret explores invisible mechanisms of thought, memory and introspection. The works function as atmospheric studies of materiality and painterly gesture, charting states of mind and organic presence.

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18 September – 19 December

Thinking Through the Line. 250 Years of Drawing in Geneva

Art & Exhibits

Société des Arts

An anniversary exhibition examining 250 years of drawing in Geneva, bringing together historical holdings and contemporary commissions. The show juxtaposes patrimonial studies, preparatory sketches and finished works with twenty-five newly commissioned pieces, alongside student works from the local drawing school. Themes include portraiture and landscape, technical innovations, urban and territorial perspectives, ornament and botanical motifs. Curated by Silvia Zuccherini Martello, Nicolas Buri and Tom Tirabosco, the presentation traces the medium’s evolving practices and social significance.

Opening: Thursday, 17 September 2026, 18:00
Closing event – Mystery Fresco: Thursday, 17 December 2026, 18:00

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16 September – 14 November

Live Language Model

Art & Exhibits

Centre d'édition contemporaine

Live Language Model brings together a collective exhibition that unfolds across successive sequences, presenting works and critical reflections on attention at the intersection of language and presence. The programme features performance-based pieces by the duo Calling the Operator (Axelle Stiefel and Octave Magescas) alongside new editions and sculptural installations by Thomas Hirschhorn and Olivier Mosset. Through typographic interventions, printed matter, performance and austere minimal forms, the project interrogates how language conditions perception and the social life of objects.

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28 August – 17 October

Au creux de nos âmes

Art & Exhibits

Gallery Brulhart

Anne-Marie Akplogan presents a body of paintings and mixed-media works produced during a recent residency in Paris. Focusing on legs and feet, the works probe the language of the body, the breath of the soul and the memory embedded in the foot. Through layered paint, varied textures and sculptural handling of surface, Akplogan situates intimate anatomy within sensitive, spiritual and anthropological registers, inviting reflection on movement, ritual and embodied memory.

Opening: 27 August, 18:00

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