Bodil Manz presents “Mit daglige liv med hændelser” (My Daily Life and Its Events), an installation of more than 130 elements in clay, porcelain, plaster, paper and other materials. The work unfolds like an experimental architectural model, using her signature porcelain cylinders as modular units for an imagined city. Drawing on a lifelong devotion to ceramics, it distills influences from Danish Cubism, Constructivism and modernist architecture into a luminous sculptural language.
This presentation honours Marguerite Roesgen-Champion, the Geneva-born composer, pianist and harpsichordist, through an exhibition and related programme. Archival manuscripts, scores and recordings illuminate her compositional voice, keyboard repertoire and chamber works. The displays emphasise contrapuntal clarity, timbral detail and performance practice, situating her within the circle of contemporary harpsichordists. Curatorial texts and integrated media explore her contribution to Swiss musical life and interpretive traditions.
Marta Blanc’s solo exhibition explores the poetry of light, reflection, and shadow through delicate crocheted metal-wire sculptures, her signature medium. Recurring spirals and intertwined infinite loops shape works that feel both airy and precise, while carefully preserved voids become sculptural forms in their own right. For this major presentation, she has created an organic body of work that reflects her craftsmanship, patience, dedication, and deep artistic commitment. Several pieces reach unprecedented scale, expanding the lyrical presence of her visual language.
Opening: (AVV) 5 November, 16:00
Re:Make highlights transformation. Using reclaimed furniture and materials, each designer is invited to create a unique object. These objects must engage with contemporary work practices—such as deep work, well-being, collaboration, performance, hospitality, conviviality, creativity, and social interaction. Each creation must serve a specific function. The project aims to bring together: a low-tech, sustainable approach; an exploration of new ways of working; an aesthetic of transformation. Designers are invited to conceive objects for contemporary workspaces that foster new behaviors or interactions, while being resource-efficient and intelligently manufactured. Re:Make embodies the idea that a desirable future can emerge from what already exists—through creativity, collaboration, and the reimagining of how things are used.
A project in collaboration with La Renfile and Onl’fait.
Opening: 29 October, 17:00
ECAL presents a selection of glass pieces created through a workshop at Musée Ariana, where fifteen students from the Master in Design for Luxury and Craftsmanship collaborated with Swiss manufacturer Niesenglass. Working with a mobile furnace, they explored several glassmaking techniques and developed original, experimental objects. The exhibition highlights process as much as result, revealing how material expertise, risk, and improvisation can shape contemporary design in dialogue with craftsmanship and innovation.
Presented by the Interfaith Platform of Geneva, this exhibition traces ten major rivers across the world through geography, beliefs, traditions, biodiversity, and natural resources. Rather than a purely documentary survey, it reveals rivers as living environments where cultural memory, ecological interdependence, and spiritual meaning converge. The exhibition invites viewers to reflect on the beauty and fragility of these ecosystems, and on the many ways human communities have understood and inhabited river landscapes.
Exhibition at the Maison de l’Avenir, Impact Hub, Geneva – October 30 to December 6
Guided tours of the exhibition – November 12 and 25 at 6:30 PM
Round table discussion – November 24 at 7:00 PM
Public visits in French offer an encounter with Joana Hadjthomas and Khalil Joreige’s temporary exhibition, where film, photography, installation, and archival material open a nuanced reflection on memory, image-making, and historical traces. The works explore how personal and collective narratives overlap, revealing tensions between absence, testimony, and representation.
In French.
10 November: A French Sign Language visit, led by Noha El Sadawy, a deaf cultural mediator, provides an inclusive interpretation of the exhibition for deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences and for people learning LSF.
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