Nuit des Bains presents an evening when the city’s contemporary-art circuit opens as a collective exhibition. Emerging and established local and international artists activate spaces with installations, performance, painting, photography, and video, offering a multifaceted survey of contemporary practices. The event emphasizes encounter and the public imagination, revealing tensions between intimacy and urban spectacle, and questioning how art inhabits shared environments.
This exhibition brings together archival photographs, historical medical objects and contemporary works to examine how illness is represented and embodied. Through photography, installation and mixed-media pieces, artists probe how bodily experience resists language and is translated into image, narrative and presence. The presentation includes a new work by Sabrina Röthlisberger Belkacem and is curated by Sara Petrucci with scenography by OnLab, creating a dialogue between archives and recent artistic responses.
Minor Tides brings together three young photographers — Lina Geoushy, Sarah Jade Sullivan and Farren van Wyk — who centre portraiture in work that interrogates family histories and cultural heritage.
Through staged and documentary photographic portraits, the artists examine collective identity, colonial legacies and processes of reclamation: Geoushy revisits pioneering women in Egypt’s past; Sullivan documents youth in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines navigating economic and colonial afterlives; van Wyk stages family portraits that rework violent colonial iconographies and affirm mixed identities. The exhibition traces subtle currents of change beneath visible histories.
Opening: Wednesday 1 July, 18:00
Genevan artist Gérald Grosjean presents a focused series of paintings and handcrafted maquettes that examine industrial and railway landscapes. The show gathers twenty-seven canvases and three models made from reclaimed materials, emphasising a pointillist approach to structures such as stations, bridges, dams, factories and viaducts. Through meticulous dots and assembled found objects, Grosjean explores the aesthetic presence and collective memory of infrastructure, inviting reflection on material reuse and the visual poetry of engineered landscapes.
Opening : Tuesday 19 May, 18:00
The exhibition highlights Geneva’s remarkable trees and the men and women who care for them. It explores stewardship, memory and urban ecology, revealing how individual trees anchor community histories and daily practices of care. Combining documentary and artistic perspectives, the presentation considers cultural and environmental dimensions of urban trees, inviting reflection on our relationship with living monuments and the labour that sustains them.
Gina Proenza explores how language shapes power and human relationships. Working across sculpture, installation, drawing, and video, she uses words, symbols, and bodily gestures to question communication and meaning. Rooted in her Colombian and French heritage and bilingual upbringing, her practice examines the intersections of language, identity, and interaction.
Opening: Thursday 2 July, 18:00 (Nocturne d’été des Bains)
Featuring pieces by Faye Toogood, Studiopepe, Domingos Totora and Clément Thévenot, DOMUM invites you to discover their new exhibition, taking inspiration from food shapes and colors: Bread&Butter.
Opening: Thursday 21 May at 18:00
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