5 November – 5 December

Close Encounter

Free

Close Encounter brings together French artist and draughtsman Jérôme Zonder and Swiss sculptor Jan Steenman in a focused dialogue on portraiture, the body, and material presence. Zonder’s small-format drawings, made with pencil, graphite, and charcoal, hover between likeness, caricature, and abstraction, while his fingertips leave visible traces in the pigment. Steenman’s ceramic sculpture Numinous explores a hidden human presence absorbed within form. Together, their works shift between recognition and estrangement, rewarding close and sustained looking.

Opening: (AVV) 5 November, 16:00

Grand Rue 23,
Switzerland

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Photo Credit: Jérôme ZONDER | Les fruits du dessin #76, 2018 | Graphite et fusain sur papier, 24 x 32 cm, © The Artist and Galerie Nathalie Obadia

5 November – 16 January

Alexandre de Spengler

Art & Exhibits

L'Exemplaire

L’Exemplaire dedicates its next exhibition to Alexandre de Spengler, spotlighting a lesser-known facet of his practice: printmaking. Gathering engravings produced between 1925 and 1955, the presentation invites visitors to rediscover an artist deeply tied to Geneva and its artistic life. A selection of graphic works reveals his place in the city’s cultural landscape, while archival documents shed light on his career, activity, and relationships within the local art milieu. It is a renewed encounter with a body of work that deserves close attention.

Opening: (AVV) 5 November, 16:00

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28 October – 8 November

Quelque chose a changé

Art & Exhibits

Usine Kugler

Lola Jay investigates memory, imagery and the ways we reconstruct our past. Working at the intersection of painting and visual culture, she produces oil paintings and painted-objects that reinterpret family photographs, film stills and found images. Her compositions borrow photographic framing to isolate gestures and everyday fragments, questioning how selection, framing and repetition transform recollection. The exhibition examines the porous boundary between intimate and collective memory, showing how images do not merely preserve the past but reshape and remake it. Lola Jay is based in Geneva.

Opening : 28 October, 18:00
Closing : 8 October, 17:00

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14 October – 27 November

Carouge as seen by Joël Alessandra

Art & Exhibits

Carouge

Through a series of sketches made from life, Joël Alessandra takes a sensitive and poetic look at Carouge. This open-air exhibition invites you to rediscover the city from an artistic angle, between heritage, scenes of life and urban atmospheres.

In collaboration with Galerie Séries Rares.
16 original drawings on display at the gallery, available to view from November 7

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Permanent exhibition

The Humanitarian Action, here and now

Art & Exhibits

Red Cross Museum

What does humanitarian action actually look like? Personal stories, objects and immersive installations bring visitors face-to-face with questions of dignity, displacement, family and resilience. The permanent exhibition is currently evolving towards a completely redesigned experience in 2028 — and remains open throughout the process.

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3 October – 7 February

Liotard and Marie-Antoinette

Art & Exhibits

MAH

Jean-Étienne Liotard’s portraits of the imperial family, notably Marie‑Antoinette, include eleven drawings widely regarded as masterpieces. This project examines the identification of the sitter children and the works’ provenance through a cross-disciplinary investigation. In collaboration with the University of Oxford, the Idiap research institute and the School of Criminal Sciences at the University of Lausanne, historians of art and specialists in the eighteenth century join AI researchers and forensic experts to reveal new insights into authorship and history.

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13 October – 15 November

Dance First Think Later

Art & Exhibits

Le Commun

Dance First Think Later brings together choreographers, performers, visual artists and videographers to investigate convergences between dance, performance and moving image. The exhibition combines installations, video works, sculptures, drawings, scores and archival materials alongside durational performances.
Through embodied gestures and staged movement, the programme examines how bodies register history, politics, migration, gender, urban space, ecology and technology. Curated by O. Kaeser, the project foregrounds relational practices that reveal and question the choreographies shaping social and spatial life.

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