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Variations Musicales de Tannay presents a ten-day classical music festival offering a series of tented concerts featuring invited soloists, chamber ensembles, orchestral projects and family-friendly performances. Programmes range from intimate recitals and chamber music to larger ensemble and orchestral works, with one free family concert aimed at young audiences. Concerts are staged regardless of weather, and the festival emphasizes artistic variety, lyrical expression and accessible programming that invites listeners of all ages into the world of classical music.
Francesco Pennacchio, photographer and author of Unlike Flowers, speaks with Fred Stauffer, Curator at the Geneva Botanic Garden, and Danaé Panchaud, Director of the Centre de la photographie Genève, about archives and memory.
The session examines how family photographs, field herbarium specimens and layered photographic reconstructions function as repositories of life, methods for processing grief, and instruments of scientific understanding. Pennacchio discusses retracing his mother’s routes and superimposing archival images with new photographs to reconstruct shared memories and reveal the epistemic value of archives.
Medieval Crack is a performative choreography by Collectif Foulles that collapses medieval imagery into a living, queer‑inflected spectacle. Conceived and choreographed by the collective (Collin Cabanis, Auguste de Boursetty, Délia Krayenbühl, Emma Saba and Fabio Zoppelli) and performed by Collin Cabanis, Auguste de Boursetty, Délia Krayenbühl, Clovis Maillet and Fabio Zoppelli, the work unfreezes sacred tableaux through pop‑medieval songs, spoken interventions and dances that shift from ritual to concert. The piece probes historical fissures to reveal other narratives, bodies and modes of existence.
In French.
Be part of the community launch of the Journal des Cropettes, a collective publication featuring Imaginarium, cartographie populaire, portraits and other local contributions. The artist Ghostape will present a sound collection created with children during workshop sessions, and the association will announce the winner of the drawing competition. Families, neighbours and newcomers are warmly invited to share stories, meet contributors and celebrate creative connections across generations.
This guided tour examines the St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, exploring its causes — religious tensions, political manipulation and collective fears — and the immediate dynamics that transformed an attempted assassination into widespread violence. It investigates how the massacre affected relations between Catholics and Protestants, its spread beyond Paris, and its symbolic resonance within the Reformation. The narrative situates the events in broader social and political contexts, revealing the mechanisms that turned political rivalry into mass sectarian bloodshed.
Jackie Reem Salloum’s documentary traces the rise of Palestinian hip hop in the late 1990s through intimate portraits of artists such as DAM, Mahmood Shalabi (MWR), Abeer Al Zinati, Arapeyat and Palestinian Rapperz. Shot with observational empathy, the film blends road-like encounters and performance footage to capture anger, resilience and lyrical dissent against occupation, inequality and gender discrimination. Raw, rhythmic and compassionate, it foregrounds music as a vehicle of identity, resistance and communal longing.
Original version with French subtitles
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Cécile Koepfli creates a site-specific window installation of colorful, poetic drawings. Mischievous characters, everyday objects, and fragments of text assemble into a playful, sensitive imaginary world. The works, rendered directly on window panes, unfold as tableaux and narrative vignettes that invite viewers to imagine the activities and encounters that will animate the space.
A seek-and-find game encourages close looking and slow discovery across the illustrated surfaces.
Spanning a century of cinema, this retrospective traces the evolving face of stardom from silent-era pioneers to contemporary icons. Through nine thematic chapters and a curated selection of one hundred films, it examines the star system, shifting modernities, emerging representations of desire and identity, and the rise of anti-heroes. Shot and assembled for a keen focus on the human visage, the program foregrounds cinematic techniques that reinvent how films capture presence and persona.
Step into the vibrant artistic soul of Carouge at the 4th edition of Carouge Dessiné! This unique open-air event celebrates illustration, comics, and visual storytelling, bringing together talented artists, passionate creators, and curious visitors in a warm and inspiring atmosphere.
Stroll through charming streets filled with live drawing sessions, exhibitions, workshops, and creative encounters. Whether you’re an art lover, a collector, or simply looking for a cultural escape, the 4th edition of Carouge Dessiné promises a day full of discovery, creativity, and connection.
This exhibition explores the careers of Édouard Naville, Switzerland’s pioneering Egyptologist, and his wife Marguerite Naville, whose contributions alongside him are now recognised in their own right. Through archival documents, excavation records and pharaonic objects, the presentation illuminates their archaeological practice and Marguerite’s role, while situating their work within the political, religious and humanitarian commitments that shaped scholarly life at the turn of the twentieth century.
In French and in English.
Traces of Presence gathers artists whose practices examine what remains beyond immediate visibility. Through painting, photography, abstraction and material transformation, the show explores presence as memory carried through matter, process and perception. Roxana Bergt reworks still-life into vessels of memory and resilience; José Yaruro reinterprets classical forms; Marie Deforche paints quiet moments of solitude. Luca Mancone repurposes receipts and thermal paper; Eilena Braye converts microscopic structures into vivid abstraction; Justyna Maria Porowska and Didier Van der Borght negotiate geometry, surface and imagined silhouettes.
Opening: Thursday 11 June, 18:00-20:00
Pleasing the Spirits invites you on a journey through the Barbier-Mueller Collection, showcasing artworks from around the globe. Curated by Séverine Fromaigeat and Paul Maheke, the exhibition offers an open-ended exploration of diverse objects, awakening spirits and uncovering territories to discover.
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Located in the heart of Geneva’s international district, the Portail des Nations is a space dedicated to dialogue, cooperation, and global issues. Through exhibitions, talks, and cultural events, it offers visitors an entry point into the major challenges shaping our world and Geneva’s role as a hub for international governance.
Nestled in the Geneva countryside, the Collection du Crest showcases a remarkable selection of modern and contemporary art. Through temporary exhibitions and its private collection, this unique venue offers an intimate encounter with artistic creation, in dialogue with the history and landscape of the estate.
Discover one of the world’s most remarkable libraries and museums, home to an exceptional collection of manuscripts, rare books, and historical documents spanning over 5,000 years of human history. Located in Cologny overlooking Lake Geneva, the Fondation Martin Bodmer offers a unique journey through literature, philosophy, religion, science, and the arts, bringing together some of humanity’s most significant written treasures.
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