More a time capsule than a traditional museum. Step into Countess Zoubov’s elegant 18th-century world, where furniture, paintings, porcelain, and decorative arts remain arranged much as she intended in the 1950s. Among the 525 recorded pieces are numerous objects connected to Catherine II’s Russia.
Swiss collective PROJEKTIL stages the emergence of life through an immersive audiovisual installation. Site-responsive animated projections and sculptural light sequences transform walls and ceilings, accompanied by an atmospheric musical score. Using cutting-edge technology and layered animation, the work evokes cosmogony and the fragile origins of existence, inviting reflection on formation, scale and temporal unfolding. The piece reveals how digital media can translate primordial themes into sensory, architectural experience.
Artists Emma Souharce and Lauren Huret present an audiovisual window installation born from a year of collaboration and response to the large wildfires devastating forests in south‑west France and the Basque Country. Combining sound, manipulated recordings and projected imagery, the work stages feverish, delirious visions of apocalyptic birds. The sound score reworks the Basque song Txoria Txori (Hegoak) by Joxean Artze, evoking resistance and memory. Curated by Elise Lammer with institutional support. Curator: Elise Lammer. With the support of Pro Helvetia, the City of Geneva, and the Republic and Canton of Geneva.
Opening: 29 October, 18:00
Dance First Think Later brings together choreographers, performers, visual artists and videographers to investigate convergences between dance, performance and moving image. The exhibition combines installations, video works, sculptures, drawings, scores and archival materials alongside durational performances.
Through embodied gestures and staged movement, the programme examines how bodies register history, politics, migration, gender, urban space, ecology and technology. Curated by O. Kaeser, the project foregrounds relational practices that reveal and question the choreographies shaping social and spatial life.
More a time capsule than a traditional museum. Step into Countess Zoubov’s elegant 18th-century world, where furniture, paintings, porcelain, and decorative arts remain arranged much as she intended in the 1950s. Among the 525 recorded pieces are numerous objects connected to Catherine II’s Russia.
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.
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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