5 November – 18 December

Exhibition of the 5th Edition of the International Contest for Minority Artists

Free, Booking Required

Artists from minority communities present works responding to war and reconciliation, exploring identity, territory, place and community. Through installations, photographic series and mixed-media pieces, the exhibition examines how cultural memory, displacement and local ties shape artistic strategies. The selection highlights the role of minority artists as human rights defenders, using visual language to question histories of conflict and modes of repair. Curatorial texts frame dialogues between personal narrative and collective memory.

Awards ceremony: Tuesday 24 November, 19:00

Rue Marie-Thérèse Maurette 7,
1208 Geneva

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Photo Credit: DR

18 June – 19 September

Kids Garden — Gautier Hardy

Art & Exhibits

Jagal Maison d'Art

Artist Gautier Hardy presents ‘Kids Garden’, a series of works that inhabit a territory between childhood and the adult world. Through open diary fragments and an instinctive plastic language that draws from art brut, street art and neo‑expressionism, the exhibition brings together paintings, drawings and mixed‑media pieces. The works explore memory, play, and the uneasy passage to adulthood, using gestural mark‑making and raw materials to evoke intimacy and emotional intensity.

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2 July – 12 September

Summer Vibes: Summer Group Show

Art & Exhibits

Fabienne Levy Gallery

Summer Vibes gathers six gallery artists whose works celebrate the season’s light, warmth and vitality. Through painting, sculpture, collage and installation, the show explores colour, atmosphere and emotional resonance. Lucia Hierro and Carlo D’Anselmi engage everyday materials and narrative, while Ben Aprea, Anna Fasshauer, Séverin Guelpa and Romane de Watteville investigate form, texture and spatial perception. The exhibition foregrounds colour relationships and materiality, balancing intimate gestures with immersive compositions.

Opening: Thursday 2 July, 18:00

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28 May – 10 September

Crossings

Art & Exhibits

Gowen Contemporary

Crossings brings together Swiss artist Maria Ceppi and Japanese artist Tami Ichino in a poetic dialogue exploring memory, transformation, and the hidden resonance of everyday forms. Through sculpture, painting, and assemblage, the artists reinterpret familiar materials and natural elements into evocative compositions that move between abstraction and recognition. Blending intuition, symbolism, and material experimentation, the exhibition creates immersive spaces where personal narratives intersect with broader reflections on nature, coexistence, perception, and the shifting relationship between humanity and the world around us. Hosted by GOWEN Contemporary, Crossings invites viewers into a contemplative journey where objects, landscapes, and emotions continuously evolve across forms, meanings, and states of being.

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2 September – 4 October

Narrating Death – Exhibition

Art & Exhibits

Jardin botanique

An itinerant exhibition conceived by researchers from the Haute école de travail social et de la santé Lausanne (HETSL | HES-SO) in collaboration with artist Virginie Rebetez. The project brings together six audio narratives presented as podcasts and twelve photographs to explore questions of end of life, memory, funeral rites, transmission, mourning and remembrance. Through intimate soundscapes and photographic tableaux, the work prompts reflection on our relationship to the living, biodiversity, funerary landscapes and the disappearance of non-human life.

Guided tour: Sunday 27 September, 13:30

Collective listening session of a podcast episode, followed by a discussion with Veronica Pagnamenta and Marc-Antoine Berthod (HETSL | HES-SO) : Sunday 27 September, 15:00.

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16 March – 17 October

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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11 August – 12 September

Current Collection

Art & Exhibits

Opera Gallery

The collective exhibition gathers modern and contemporary works by international artists including Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso, Jean Dubuffet, Willem de Kooning, Sam Francis, Manolo Valdés, Juan Genovés, Ron Arad, Pablo Atchugarry, Andy Denzler and Fred Eerdekens. The presentation spans painting, sculpture and installation, juxtaposing gestural abstraction, figuration and conceptual drawing. Emphasis is placed on materiality, scale and painterly process, prompting reflection on artistic lineages and the evolving language of modern and contemporary art.

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Exhibition of the 5th Edition of the International Contest for Minority Artists