3 – 25 October

Chêne-Bougeries: Yesterday to Today

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An exhibition charting Chêne-Bougeries’s evolution from past to present, drawing on archival photographs, maps, and community memories. The display brings together historical documents, contemporary photography and mixed-media installations to explore urban development, landscape change and local identity. Through curated sequences and interpretive labels, the show considers how everyday life and collective memory shape place. The works use photography, archival material and site-responsive interventions to reveal layers of history embedded in the community.

Opening: Thursday 1 October, 18:30

Route du Vallon 8,
Chêne-Bougeries, Switzerland

Photo Credit: DR

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Photo Credit: DR

19 September 2025 – 4 October 2026

Tender Buttons

Art & Exhibits

Musée Ariana

The Tender Buttons exhibition offers a multidisciplinary exploration centered on buttons, delving into their identity and historical significance. Featuring over three hundred ceramic and glass buttons, the exhibition interacts with the museum’s works to highlight their role in both formal experimentation and socio-cultural narratives. The exhibition’s architecture evokes the commercial arcades of the 19th century, a pivotal era for button industrialization. Curated by Claire FitzGerald, the exhibition is supported by the Swiss Fashion Museum and showcases never-before-seen pieces from several prestigious collections.

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3 September – 16 October

Their Crops, Our Roots – Portraits of Women in Geneva’s Countryside

Art & Exhibits

Promenade de l'Observatoire

Photographer Bertrand Carlier presents a series of large-format portraits that foreground women working across Geneva’s agricultural landscape. The photographs depict market gardeners, winegrowers, fruit growers, livestock farmers and cellar managers in their working environments, using natural light and documentary framing.
The project explores gender, labour and continuity, revealing how women’s labour shapes rural economies and biocultural traditions. Set against the UN’s International Year of the Woman Farmer 2026, the work invites renewed attention to the diversity of skills and trajectories within contemporary Geneva agriculture.

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16 March – 14 November

Geneva cafés: life itself

Art & Exhibits

Bibliothèque de Genève

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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25 September – 11 October

The Unbearable Lightness

Art & Exhibits

Cartigny

An exhibition titled The Unbearable Lightness investigates themes of transience, memory, and perceptual fragility through a diverse range of visual practices. Works include painting, sculpture, photography and installation that play with materiality, light and absence. The presentation favours subtle textures, layered compositions and spatial interventions to encourage contemplative viewing. Emphasis is placed on process and material experimentation, inviting reflection on how delicate gestures and ephemeral forms shape emotional and historical resonance.

Opening: Friday 25 September, 18:00

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18 September – 15 November

Short Ass Attention Span #3

Art & Exhibits

L'Arcade

Conceived by artist Pauline Coquart, Short Ass Attention Span #3 mixes literary experiment and live performance, assembling texts that range from apocalyptic sketches to risqué autofiction and political essays on sexuality. Editors and collaborators Ethan Assouline and Gaia Vincensini shaped the selection and the edition’s visual identity, while attentive editorial direction and inventive layout treat writing as performative material. The project foregrounds plural contemporary voices, shifting between intimate confession, sharp aphorism and sprawling narrative to create a charged, porous atmosphere.

Opening: 17 September, 18:00
Geneva Art Week: 17-21 September
Guided Tour: 20 September, 11:00
Late night opening: 12 November, 18:00
Closing: 15 November, 16:00

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17 September – 7 November

The Darkroom, Dye Lab & Kiln

Art & Exhibits

Taste Contemporary

An exhibition presenting work by Garry Fabian Miller, Ptolemy Mann and Marit Tingleff, curated by Sarah Griffin. Across photography, weaving and ceramics, the show explores the darkroom, the dye lab and the kiln as sites of material transformation. The artists draw on deep embodied knowledge and long practice, using process, environment and material behaviour to shape outcomes. The works probe attention to texture, colour and time, revealing subtle relations between technique and the natural conditions that inform each practice.

Opening: Thursday 17 September, 18:00

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