Don’t miss out: Events running for less than two weeks
Ciné-Plage brings together music, film and world cuisine for evenings of shared conviviality and celebration. Over several nights, the programme offers live concerts, open-air film screenings and a relaxed guinguette atmosphere where neighbours, families and visitors can meet, chat and enjoy diverse cultural flavours. Everyone is welcome to join a warm, inclusive programme that highlights local and international artistic voices and the simple pleasure of being together.
Inspired by the literary world of Leonora Miano, this series of paintings portrays a fictional people embodying a utopian vision of Pan-Africanism. Through richly imagined figures and narratives, Ismaël Touré explores identity as plural, fluid, and deeply rooted in a shared collective memory.
Opening: Thursday 25 June, 18:30
Build a famous museum work together, brick by brick. With a grown-up by your side, you’ll re-create a colourful artwork using LEGO pieces, fitting blocks and adjusting tiny details. Hear the satisfying clicks as colours stack, feel the textures, and watch shapes emerge. Kids explore observation, teamwork and simple problem-solving while practising fine motor skills and creativity. At the end, take home your own model and share the story you built.
Dates :
Saturday 27 June, 14:00, 15:30
Saturday 15 August, 14:00, 15:30
In French. Kids ages 6 and up.
Discover exquisite flavours and unforgettable culinary delights.
We promise a feast you won’t be able to resist, with plenty of surprises along the way! More than 60 food trucks, stalls, and bars will be serving local specialities, alongside DJs from Thursday evenings through to Saturday nights.
New this year: La Cuisine Ouverte! A space showcasing the expertise of Geneva-based chefs, featuring a different pop-up each day. In total, 11 local addresses and 11 styles of cuisine to discover, in addition to the 60 street food specialists already on site.
So mark your calendars and don’t miss the must-visit food event right in the heart of the city!
Two retired clowns revisit moments from their lives with mischievous tenderness and a sharp, critical eye. The piece unfolds as a series of rapid transformations—each reinvention arriving every three minutes—blending physical comedy, memory and gentle satire. The performers invite laughter through self-mockery and shared recognition, balancing fragility and spirited resilience. Staging privileges rhythm and gesture, creating a warm, bittersweet atmosphere that observes the world through playful yet clear‑eyed humour.
In French.
Presented in collaboration with Fonderie Kugler, Celebration gathers a new generation of creators across contemporary dance, visual arts and electronic music. Choreographic works include Anemoia — created by Milla Ansermet with Thalya Graf, Nora Gisler, Nora Gatti and Elise Gobet — and Dahlia, a solo by Juliette Kuster. Qigong teacher Kiara Lavanchy and DJ sets by Mé and AIEAIEAIE weave movement, improvised scores and electronic textures into a communal tapestry of memory and shared experience.
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Events running for an extended period
Géométries marocaines shows works from Ghizlane AGZENAÏ, Meriam BENKIRANE, Ines-Noor CHAQROUN, Yousef DOUIEB, Yacout HAMDOUCH and Younes KHOURASSANI, exploring geometrical forms and shapes in dialogue with Morocco.
Opening: Thursday 21 May, 18:00
Momar Seck presents a series of drawings that accompany his new monograph Poïétiques. Through delicate studies of foliage, roots, textures and organic forms, Seck explores the invisible links between matter, nature and emotion. His sensitive visual language oscillates between close observation and inner poetics, inviting the viewer to slow down and perceive the subtle traces left by time, the earth and the breath of life. The show establishes a dialogue between image and writing.
Opening and book signing on 11 June at 18:30.
Dany Gignoux (photographer) and poet Georges Haldas present a compelling dialogue between documentary photography and lyrical prose. The exhibition brings together photographs and written fragments that register everyday life in Geneva’s cafés, combining on-the-spot reportage with memory-infused “prose inspirée.” Through intimate black-and-white images and spare, evocative texts the works transfigure mundane scenes into poetic testimony, revealing social undercurrents and human tenderness. Archival materials frame this historic encounter between two generations of cultural chroniclers.
Artist Reggie Khumalo transforms the gallery into an open studio, producing new works on-site that blend painting, collage and mixed-media installation. His practice combines figurative painting with found materials and layered surfaces to explore memory, identity and social histories. Visitors are invited into the artist’s process as he experiments with scale, texture and colour, developing works that will be unveiled at upcoming fairs. The presentation emphasises materiality, narrative fragments and the performative aspects of making.
Artists including Tibfromearth, Inkvizible and arelpnrli present a month-long program of site-specific visual and scenographic interventions that transform industrial surfaces into living artworks.
The exhibition brings together murals, installations, mixed-media interventions and live performance to explore urban transformation, material reuse and the politics of public space. Works invite discovery in alleys and reclaimed corners, revealing layered histories of the city and questioning how art redefines everyday environments.
Opening: 4 June, 18:00
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)
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Geneva Classics
Visiting for the first time? A quick guide to the city’s top attractions.
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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