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Imen Lahmar turns personal history and keen observation into a sharp, playful stand-up performance about ‘francité’ and the wider world. A former media consultant, she mines career change, travels and intimate anecdotes for material, moving between self-deprecating confession and pointed cultural critique. Her delivery mixes rapid-fire jokes and sly sincerity, creating an engaging, conversational atmosphere that feels both candid and crafted.
In French.
For its 500th anniversary, the Grand Council is transforming this seat of power in the Old Town into a stage open to the public. Heritage becomes the medium for a narrative that connects the city’s past to its present. Through a visual and sound-based creation, this event offers a new way to discover the history of Geneva’s institutions.
Choreographed by Catol Teixeira, Baby Teeth is a ten-dancer work that inhabits the mouth as a site of taste, biting and contagion. The piece weaves song, movement and tactile materials into a polyphonic choreography where pleasure and pain coexist. Collaborating with visual artists, poets and lighting designers, the ensemble explores memory, transmission and the birth of language through shifting textures and intimate gestures. The multinational creative team brings a collective, ritual quality to a sensory, transformative journey.
Plunge into dark waters where giant shadows and sea legends come alive. Storyteller and musician weave tales of kraken, the lake serpent, false mermaids and the Leviathan with deep sounds, soft whispers and body percussion. Children follow the rhythm, imitate tentacles, become waves and stir playful storms. The show gives animals a voice and invites young explorers to imagine underwater life, sense textures and listen to mysterious echoes.
In French. Kids ages 7 and up.
FILMAR en América Latina returns to Geneva from 13 to 22 November 2026 for its 28th edition. Switzerland’s leading festival dedicated to Latin American cinema will showcase more than 70 films, including 50 feature-length productions.
This year, the festival pays tribute to Teresa Sánchez, a multifaceted artist and prominent figure in Mexican cinema. The programme also celebrates the richness of Latin American music, with films exploring its many forms as well as screenings followed by live recitals.
Gender and identity, memory, the environment and Indigenous struggles are among the key themes running through this year’s programme. Parties, debates and encounters will further foster dialogue across cultures and generations.
Directed by Guy Cassiers and starring Valérie Dréville, this stage adaptation of Camille de Toledo’s novel blends documentary and fiction. Through photographs, letters and manuscripts, the performance traces a family’s history across generations as a man seeks rebirth amid loss. The staging mixes intimate memory, myth and collective history with a restrained visual language and careful dramaturgy, inviting a delicate, atmospheric encounter with grief, identity and transmission.
In French.
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What Connects Us brings together Susanna Bauer, Michele Landel and Hannah Schmider in a collective exhibition that examines encounters between nature, memory and craft. Delicate crochet, embroidered photographs on reclaimed bed linens and figurative wooden sculptures form a quiet vocabulary that probes human–animal relationships and domestic ecologies. The works emphasise material histories and gesture, inviting careful looking and conversations about care, fragility and the traces left by interspecies bonds.
Opening: 10 October, 11:00 – 15:00
WANDER / WONDER invites you to see the world through a photographer’s eyes. Captured in Japan, Marrakech, China, Hong Kong, Croatia and Egypt, these images explore cultural contrasts, the beauty of places, the emotions they evoke, and the little details that spark our curiosity and inspire us to discover the world.
Opening: Wednesday, 28 October, 18:30.
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)
Mirella Jaworska’s first solo exhibition presents paintings from 2026 that conjure the uncertain light of waking, when dream and reality blur. Drawing on early Renaissance masters and Japanese painting, Jaworska composes intimate tableaux populated by faces, flowers, skulls, cigarettes and studio objects, alongside recurring figures such as a jockey, a sphinx and a chair pierced by a heart. Her layered brushwork and muted palette explore memory, loss and melancholic reverie.
Opening : Wednesday 7 October
Conceived by artist Pauline Coquart, Short Ass Attention Span #3 mixes literary experiment and live performance, assembling texts that range from apocalyptic sketches to risqué autofiction and political essays on sexuality. Editors and collaborators Ethan Assouline and Gaia Vincensini shaped the selection and the edition’s visual identity, while attentive editorial direction and inventive layout treat writing as performative material. The project foregrounds plural contemporary voices, shifting between intimate confession, sharp aphorism and sprawling narrative to create a charged, porous atmosphere.
Opening: 17 September, 18:00
Geneva Art Week: 17-21 September
Guided Tour: 20 September, 11:00
Late night opening: 12 November, 18:00
Closing: 15 November, 16:00
Artist Hunter Longe presents a sculptural installation exploring temporalities that outlast human experience. Overworked and found materials—shaped by erosion, human interventions and geological forces—form mutable constellations where micro- and macro-temporalities meet. The show stages collaborative works including a sound composition with Janiv Oron and ritual-inflected poems by CAConrad, amplifying poetic and material registers. Longe treats found objects as offerings from deep time, repositioning them to shift our perception of duration and agency.
Opening: Thursday 29 October, 18:00
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