Art en Vieille-Ville’s 38th edition presents sixteen concurrent exhibitions that bridge generations, techniques and narrative voices. The programme highlights artists such as Sofia Cacciapaglia, Sylvie Lambert, Étienne Krähenbühl, Yvan Salomone and glass artist Damien François. Works range from glasswork and illustrated books to immersive installations and other contemporary practices. Thematically the shows probe memory, dreamscapes, and the poetic effects of light, revealing intimate dialogues between image, object and book while tracing intergenerational connections and varied material languages.
Joint exhibition openings: May 7
This exhibition assembles objects old and new, from video games and pop culture gadgets to robots like the Omnibot 2000, Daruma statuettes and various oracles. Presented as a cabinet of curiosities, it probes beliefs, technological imaginaries and our relationship to progress. The displays offer strategies for dialoguing with the future, showcase artistic works imagining desirable futures and explore possible developments conceived locally. Content is aimed at ages 8 to 108.
Opening : Wednesday, May 6 at 16:00
Curator-led tours (In French) : 9 – 10 May, 14 June
CineGlobe is a singular science film festival held at CERN, exploring the fertile ground where science, technology and culture meet. Rather than focusing on traditional science fiction or didactic documentaries, it showcases inventive films that draw inspiration from scientific ideas and use storytelling to spark curiosity, reflection and debate. Each edition is guided by a broad thematic thread, offering a bold and imaginative look at contemporary issues — from climate change to digital societies — while celebrating creativity, narrative power and fresh perspectives on science.
An illustrated guided tour that explores how art shaped and reflected the theological debates of the Reformation. The tour examines emblematic paintings and portraiture—among them portraits of Martin Luther and Karel van der Pluym’s Vieille Femme lisant la Bible—to reveal how imagery accompanied spiritual and social transformations. Through close visual readings, thematic groupings and historical context, participants are invited to consider iconography, devotional practices and the role of imagery in reformist discourse. The tour is led by historian Elonora Pimponi.
In French.
Natalia González Martín presents eleven new oil paintings on panel that extend her sustained engagement with still life. Drawing on the visual language of Baroque and Counter-Reformation masters such as Juan Sánchez Cotán and Francisco Zurbarán, the works turn toward the ritual of sobremesa — the suspended time after a meal — and consider it as a gendered social space. Set against tenebrist backgrounds, plates, fruit, glasses and fragments of bodies emerge to reorient still life from display and possession toward duration, relation and the often-invisible labour of togetherness.
Co-created by Pascal Gravat and Julien Mages for Compagnie Revolver, “Nu Vite” (Naked Quickly) is a choreo-biography in which a dancer and an author probe time, ageing and the urgent need to seize each instant. The work blends intimate movement and written testimony, set to music by Pierce Warnecke with sound design by Clive Jenkins and lighting by Alessandra Domingues. The 75‑minute performance explores memory, bodily change and the delicate rhythm between presence and loss.
In French. Adults only (17+).
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