3 September – 1 October

Indigenous Peoples Facing Contemporary Challenges

Free

On its 40th anniversary, the association Traditions pour demain commissioned five photographers from Bolivia, Ecuador and Guatemala to present documentary photographs portraying daily life, ancestral knowledge and resilience among Indigenous communities of Latin America. The series explores entangled crises—climatic, social and cultural—that shape their present, using intimate portraiture and landscape studies to reveal survival strategies, intergenerational transmission and forms of resistance. The work invites reflection on living traditions as sites of knowledge and hope.

Quai Wilson,
1201 Geneva

Photo Credit: Traditions pour Demain

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Photo Credit: Traditions pour Demain

4 June – 25 October

MAMCO x MAH – Sylvia Sleigh: Refaire collection

Art & Exhibits

Musée Rath

Sylvia Sleigh’s retrospective pairs the artist’s figurative painting with ‘Refaire collection’, a polygraphic project offering a feminist rereading of art-history canons. Sleigh, a Welsh painter active in New York, is known for reversing gendered norms—placing the male nude where the female traditionally appears—and for portraits of the 1960s–70s New York art community. ‘Refaire collection’ gathers Swiss holdings and works by artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Meret Oppenheim, Pipilotti Rist, Joan Semmel and the Guerrilla Girls across painting, sculpture, video, drawing and photography.

Opening: 4 June 18:00

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29 October – 30 September

Pleasing the Spirits

Art & Exhibits

Musée Barbier-Mueller

Pleasing the Spirits invites you on a journey through the Barbier-Mueller Collection, showcasing artworks from around the globe. Curated by Séverine Fromaigeat and Paul Maheke, the exhibition offers an open-ended exploration of diverse objects, awakening spirits and uncovering territories to discover.

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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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1 – 27 September

BLCG Grants for Young Contemporary Creation

Art & Exhibits

Le Commun

Ten selected artists and designers present new projects supported by the BLCG grants for young contemporary creation. The programme awards two CHF 10,000 bursaries for artists under 35 and provides each exhibiting artist a CHF 3,000 production allowance.
Works include installation, sculpture, photography and design-based practices that interrogate cultural and professional conditions of artistic labour, creative development and public recognition.
Projects by Marine Aebischer, Yann Stéphane Bisso, Behzad Dehno, Victoria Jospin, Camille Kaiser, Nicolas Ponce, Valentin Rilliet, Sabrina Smaili, Mina Squalli-Houssaïni and Xavier Weber.

Opening and announcement of the winners on Tuesday, September 1st, 18:00

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11 August – 16 October

Léman être vivant

Art & Exhibits

Espace Léman

Hydromondes, a multidisciplinary collective, presents a two‑year field investigation into Lake Geneva through visual and narrative works. Combining art, science and activism, the group brings together architecture, theatre, hydrology, popular education, landscape design, biology, music, ethnography and engineering to produce mixed-media, research-driven installations and documentary narratives. Drawing on dialogues with local residents and ecological knowledge, the works examine water infrastructures, cultural imaginaries and governance, proposing experiments that reveal and question our relationships with the lake.

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2 September – 3 January

EXEM aux urnes – 40 ans d’affiches politiques

Art & Exhibits

Quartier Libre SIG

EXEM aux urnes – 40 Years of Political Posters brings together 40 political posters by Geneva-based illustrator EXEM between 1988 and 2023. Spanning nearly four decades of Swiss direct democracy, the exhibition explores the distinctive language of political posters at the intersection of graphic art, satire, and political commentary.

Through EXEM’s sharp and engaging imagery, the exhibition traces the political issues and communication styles that have shaped Swiss public life, and offers insight into the artist’s creative process and the stories behind his iconic posters.

Opening: Tuesday 1 September, 18:00

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