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Yalla Miku blends Ethiopian krar tradition with a modified banjo, deep electric bass and experimental electronics to create a dialogue between the Horn of Africa and European experimental scenes. The ensemble’s music moves through trance, electronic pulses and suspended textures, with voices weaving in and out of dense sonic layers. Performers include Samuel Ades Tesfagergsh (krar, voice), Louise Knobil (electric bass, voice), Cyril Bondi (drums, percussion, voice), Emma Souharce (machines, synths, voice) and Cyril Yeterian (Ufo banjo, electric guitar, voice).
Geneva’s Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp offers a nomadic musical odyssey that blends fervent rhythms, sonic experimentation and a spirit of freedom. For nearly twenty years the collective has shaped a distinctive sound: layered voices, interweaving textures and songs that confront the present without succumbing to despair. Carried by an impressive constellation of brass, strings, percussion, marimbas and guitars, more than fifteen musicians create generous, mobile and intensely alive music that moves between communal celebration and joyful escape.
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“Pour the Water as I Leave” is an immersive cinematic experience that blends experimental filmmaking, visual art, and atmospheric storytelling into a deeply contemplative journey. Moving beyond conventional narrative, the film explores themes of memory, identity, transformation, and the emotional landscapes shaped by water, inviting audiences to engage with its evocative imagery and sensory sound design. Through its poetic visual language and meditative rhythm, the screening offers a space for reflection where cinema becomes both an artistic and emotional encounter, appealing to lovers of independent film and contemporary audiovisual creation.
Directed by Yuval Dishon, Zanco’s 20th Anniversary Show revisits five emblematic creations in a mobile, immersive promenade. Performers including committee members Vlady Wagner, Micha Hersch and Cyril Lenz animate papier‑mâché ghosts, masks and puppetry, accompanied by music from POL and Guillaume Lagger and sound design by Ivan Verda. The artistic team (Stella Giuliani, Jessica Haener, Olga Andreichikova, Mehdi Duman, Dinu Corminboeuf, Oliver Robertson) reframes memory, language and myth to probe democratic crisis, fear and social fragmentation in a nocturnal, poetic atmosphere.
Festival Sey’maz Musique invites the community to a lively four-day celebration of classical and contemporary music. The program blends chamber concerts, organ recitals, solo performances, electro-acoustic pieces and activities for young audiences, offering accessible and demanding repertoire presented in historic and cultural settings. Families, neighbours and music lovers of all backgrounds are welcome to come together, share experiences and discover new sounds through collaborative performances and participatory moments that foster connection and belonging.
Performed and directed by Eve Aouizerate, this incisive solo creation blends autofiction and faux stand-up to turn fairy-tale promises into a sharp satire. Using humour and precise stagecraft, Aouizerate interrogates reactionary online imaginaries and the contemporary allure of tradwives, exposing tensions between domestic idealisation and feminist inheritance. The piece mixes intimate confession, comic timing and critical observation to probe identity, boredom and the pressures shaping women’s lives.
In French.
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Puissance 5 brings together five women artists from different generations in a dialogue between matter and spirit. Their intersecting trajectories produce works where gravity, metal, graphite and cosmic imagery become recurring motifs. The exhibition presents pieces in metal, pencil and mixed media that interweave tactile presence and poetic restraint, exploring materiality, perception and the enduring force of feminine creation across time and space.
Opening: 16 September, 16:00
Summer Vibes gathers six gallery artists whose works celebrate the season’s light, warmth and vitality. Through painting, sculpture, collage and installation, the show explores colour, atmosphere and emotional resonance. Lucia Hierro and Carlo D’Anselmi engage everyday materials and narrative, while Ben Aprea, Anna Fasshauer, Séverin Guelpa and Romane de Watteville investigate form, texture and spatial perception. The exhibition foregrounds colour relationships and materiality, balancing intimate gestures with immersive compositions.
Opening: Thursday 2 July, 18:00
Alice Izzo presents Botanic Circus, an immersive installation that transforms natural elements into a poetic visual performance. Through site-specific sculptural forms, coloured assemblies of flowers, plants and fruit become staged protagonists, inviting slow wandering, close observation and tactile interaction. The work blends installation, painted surfaces and ephemeral botanical assemblage to probe nature’s textures, theatricality and human perception. A parallel programme of monthly acrylic painting workshops complements the installation.
Photographer Florian Luthi’s Fantômes Météores is inspired by the 1954 wave of UFO sightings across France, especially along the Franco‑Swiss border. From one of these accounts he revisits childhood landscapes—mist‑shrouded forests, deserted villages and the Jura—and composes a photographic narrative where truth wavers and legends endure. The series uses long exposures, muted palettes and staged absence to probe memory, collective fear and the boundary between documentary and myth. A collaboration with Fondation Convergences.
Artist talk with Florian Luthi Thursday 27 August 2026, 18:30
In French
Artist Gautier Hardy presents ‘Kids Garden’, a series of works that inhabit a territory between childhood and the adult world. Through open diary fragments and an instinctive plastic language that draws from art brut, street art and neo‑expressionism, the exhibition brings together paintings, drawings and mixed‑media pieces. The works explore memory, play, and the uneasy passage to adulthood, using gestural mark‑making and raw materials to evoke intimacy and emotional intensity.
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.
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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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