Situated within the International School of Geneva’s Grande Boissière campus in Chêne-Bougeries, the Centre des Arts, serves as a cultural hub offering a diverse range of events open to the general public. Its program encompasses stage productions, conferences, and exhibitions, providing a rich and varied cultural experience.
Piece of Love is a collective exhibition inspired by Michelangelo Pistoletto’s Third Paradise, bringing together student projects and works by around fifteen international artists. Dedicated to life, humanity and peace, the exhibition explores our relationship with nature, each other and the world around us, inviting visitors to imagine a more sustainable and harmonious future.
Opening: Tuesday 8 September at 17:00
Created and performed by Igor Mamlenkov and directed by Kostya Novitskiy, Kto Tam? is a 60-minute non-verbal visual tragicomedy that explores exile, memory, loneliness and resilience. Through precise movement, object manipulation and evocative shadow play, Mamlenkov animates forgotten belongings into companions, transforming absence into tender, absurd and deeply human encounters. Drawing on Slavic physical theatre traditions, the piece uses gesture and poetic imagery to build a universal, wordless journey into the heart of solitude.
Artists from minority communities present works responding to war and reconciliation, exploring identity, territory, place and community. Through installations, photographic series and mixed-media pieces, the exhibition examines how cultural memory, displacement and local ties shape artistic strategies. The selection highlights the role of minority artists as human rights defenders, using visual language to question histories of conflict and modes of repair. Curatorial texts frame dialogues between personal narrative and collective memory.
Awards ceremony: Tuesday 24 November, 19:00
Drawing on the poetry of Alda Merini, this new creation by Cie Linga brings seven performers and dedicated collaborators together in a politically charged, poetic ensemble. The piece explores collective choreography as a living, shifting organism: bodies merge, diverge and form ever-changing configurations that reveal individual singularities within a shared consciousness. Through intimate physical connections and circulating emotions, the company imagines diversity as a source of collective richness and a hopeful vision of communal joy.
Area Jeune Ballet and Equilibrio Dinamico bring together four choreographic visions in an evening shaped by encounter, identity and the expressive force of the body. Under the artistic direction of Guillaume Chevalier-Siard and Roberta Ferrara, the programme features works by Nnamdi Nwagwu, Édouard Hue and Rossana Caldarera. From intimate introspection to collective tension, the dancers move through contrasting energies, with music that deepens the emotional charge of each piece.
Peter and the Wolf is presented in a chamber arrangement for wind quintet by J. Linckelmann, performed in a version by the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. This musical tale combines vivid instrumental characterization with narrated storytelling: Marion Fontana leads the narration while Sarah Rumer (flute), Simon Sommerhalder (oboe), Benoît Willmann (clarinet), Luis Marquez Teruel (bassoon) and Clément Charpentier-Leroy (horn) bring Prokofiev’s motifs to life.
In French.
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