Two thousand years, one site. Opened in September 2026, Geneva’s newest archaeological space brings together a Roman dwelling, a medieval cemetery and a church, and 16th-century fortifications. Archaeology meets contemporary architecture — with temporary art projects adding another layer to the story.
Renowned for dissolving the boundaries between artist and audience, his work celebrated collaboration, transformation, and human connection through ever-changing, interactive creations. Blending political engagement with poetic imagination, Medalla explored themes of identity, migration, ecology, memory, and collective experience, leaving a lasting influence on contemporary art. This exhibition offers an opportunity to discover the work of one of the most visionary and experimental artists of the twentieth century, whose playful yet profound practice continues to inspire new generations of artists and audiences alike.
Iris Macculi, an amateur photographer from the Saint-Mathieu neighbourhood, presents a series of portraits and everyday scenes captured during years spent in Africa. Her images trace intimate moments, expressive gazes and gestures, and candid exchanges that counter prevailing media narratives. The exhibition offers a contemplative exploration of the continent’s visual diversity and human complexity, encouraging viewers to appreciate personal stories and the nuanced everyday realities that shape African life.
Antoni Tàpies presents the complete series “Variations on a Musical Theme”, twenty lithographs created in 1987. The suite reveals Tàpies’s fascination with the interplay between visual art and music: each variation establishes its own rhythm, material presence and visual language. Treated as a continuous sequence, the works unfold like a musical score, inviting an immersive reading of process, texture and symbolic gesture within the artist’s graphic practice.
An anniversary exhibition examining 250 years of drawing in Geneva, bringing together historical holdings and contemporary commissions. The show juxtaposes patrimonial studies, preparatory sketches and finished works with twenty-five newly commissioned pieces, alongside student works from the local drawing school. Themes include portraiture and landscape, technical innovations, urban and territorial perspectives, ornament and botanical motifs. Curated by Silvia Zuccherini Martello, Nicolas Buri and Tom Tirabosco, the presentation traces the medium’s evolving practices and social significance.
Opening: Thursday, 17 September 2026, 18:00
Closing event – Mystery Fresco: Thursday, 17 December 2026, 18:00
More a time capsule than a traditional museum. Step into Countess Zoubov’s elegant 18th-century world, where furniture, paintings, porcelain, and decorative arts remain arranged much as she intended in the 1950s. Among the 525 recorded pieces are numerous objects connected to Catherine II’s Russia.
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.
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