Villa Dutoit is a neighbourhood cultural centre housed in a historic villa in Petit-Saconnex, Geneva. It hosts exhibitions, concerts, workshops, educational activities and community events across multiple creative rooms. Surrounded by a park, the venue supports local artistic projects, family programs and cultural outreach, linking heritage architecture with contemporary cultural life.
Isabelle Perez constructs a contemporary bestiary of the human soul. Her hybrid figures — at the intersection of myth and animality — probe metamorphosis, instinct and memory. Through paintings, drawings, engravings and sculptures, Perez stages bodies that mirror inner myths and primal impulses. The work examines the fragile boundary between human and animal, and the broader human relationship to nature, seeking poetic and anthropological resonances that invite introspection rather than easy identification.
Opening reception on Friday, May 8th at 6:30 pm
The artist will be present on Saturdays and Sundays
Move, listen, and read together in a playful family workshop that mixes picture-book readings with dance. Children and grown-ups explore stories through sound, color and movement. Short readings spark imagination, then simple steps and playful gestures let kids try out the rhythms and shapes of the tale. Sessions are led by a dancer-choreographer and a team of reading animators who guide creative games, gentle warm-ups and shared moments of discovery.
In French. Kids ages 4 and up.
Founded from the eponymous Camerata by Jérôme Gruffel in 2021, Quatuor Contrepoint brings together Nathalie Saudan, Jean-Baptiste Navarro, Jérôme Gruffel and Lisa Cailleton. Their programme moves between classical works and folk traditions, exploring timbral contrasts and cross-cultural dialogues. The quartet maps musical journeys—from Leipzig’s chamber textures to New York’s brassy horizons, across North Sea winds toward Scandinavia and beyond—using close ensemble playing, delicate phrasing and raw energy to create intimate, transportive soundscapes.
Three artists—Adriana Passini, Frédérique Haessig and Érica Mugny—present a collective exhibition that traces a dialogue between poetry and the natural world. Passini’s delicate engravings, Haessig’s carved stone sculptures and Mugny’s mixed-media paintings explore gesture, texture and material memory. The show foregrounds traditional print and sculptural techniques alongside painterly surfaces, and references several illustrated volumes produced in collaboration with the artists, offering a thoughtful encounter with form and narrative.
Opening: Friday 5 June, 18:30
Kesbara is the intimate duo of Dida Guigan (voice and riq) and Romain Luder (guitar and voice). Born from a creative urgency in response to the 2023 crisis in Gaza and the wider Middle East, their music offers a soulful, poignant homage to lives lost. Drawing on Cham region classical and popular repertoire alongside contemporary compositions, their songs weave Arabic and French phrases, building fragile cultural bridges. The result is a tender, evocative musical remedy—coriander as metaphor—for a troubled world.
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