Nestled in the heart of Geneva’s Old Town, the Museum of Art and History ranks among Switzerland’s largest museums. Boasting a collection of around 650,000 objects spanning applied arts, fine arts, and archaeology across five floors, the museum embraces a dynamic and innovative approach to showcase its treasures through unexpected exhibitions. Annually, it hosts approximately ten temporary exhibitions, frequently inviting contemporary artists to contribute. The museum organizes a variety of surprising events, including yoga classes in the galleries and after-work parties.
The museum’s conservation-restoration team opens their workshops to reveal the technical and ethical labour of preserving cultural heritage. Through close-up demonstrations and explanations of conservation processes, the visit highlights hands-on interventions, material analysis, and preventive care applied to a variety of objects. The presentation focuses on the craft, scientific rigour and decision-making that shape conservation outcomes, inviting reflection on authenticity, material fragility and the responsibilities involved in sustaining collective memory.
In French.
An evening of short thematic guided visits in French, Greek, Ukrainian and Spanish that explores how art negotiates language and understanding.
The programme presents the exhibition Observatoires through works across media by the show’s participating artists, emphasising observational practices, multilingual narration and shared perception. Rather than translating texts alone, the visits reveal how visual and conceptual languages can reconcile incomprehension, invite comparative listening to the same works, and question how meaning shifts across linguistic and cultural frames.
Serval, a Geneva graffiti artist, and Kalonji, an illustrator, facilitate conversational studio sessions that highlight contemporary visual practices and peer exchange.
Participants converse with artworks, experiment with mark-making and illustration techniques, and co-create responses informed by observation and critique. The session examines creative process, material strategies, and the relationship between urban and illustrative vocabularies to stimulate close looking and practice-based reflection.
In French.
Geneva artists Serval (graffiti artist) and Kalonji (illustrator) present a collaborative encounter that foregrounds live creation and dialogue with exhibited works.
Combining graffiti and illustrative practices, they produce spontaneous drawings, interventions and sketches that respond to the visual and conceptual language of surrounding pieces. The project explores authorship, public versus institutional modes of making, and the exchange between street-based mark-making and narrative image-making. It reveals how processual gestures can reframe and question modes of display.
In French.
Serval, a Geneva graffiti artist, and Kalonji, an illustrator from Geneva, lead monthly artist encounters that combine dialogue and shared creative practice.
Participants discuss works in situ and create responses alongside the exhibition, exploring processes of observation, interpretation and collaborative making. The session examines how immediate exchange with artworks can inspire new approaches to image-making and public practice. Attendees are invited to experiment with materials and techniques in response to exhibited works, fostering critical reflection on artistic gestures.
In French.
Genevan artists Serval (graffiti) and Kalonji (illustrator) present collaborative live interventions that foreground process and exchange. Through spray-painted gestures, drawn studies and on-the-spot compositions, their practice brings graffiti’s urban energy into dialogue with illustration’s line and narrative.
The encounters generate ephemeral murals, sketches and hybrid works that respond to surrounding artworks and invite reflection on authorship, community and the visible traces of making. The project emphasizes immediacy, improvisation and the porous boundary between public and intimate mark-making.
In French.
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