Saturday 30 May, 18:00

Nuit des Musées: On your marks, get set, Museums!

MAH

An evening invitation to experience museums in unexpected ways, À vos marques, prêts? Musées! presents a programme that reimagines collection display and public encounter. Visitors encounter painting, sculpture, installation, photography and time-based media alongside talks, performances and guided perspectives that foreground hidden narratives and curatorial experimentation. The event explores how objects and display practices reveal histories, social tensions and personal stories, inviting reflection on what museums conserve, interpret and transform.

Rue Charles-GALLAND 2,
1206 Genève

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Photo Credit: DR

20 January – 7 March

What’s hiding in your digital objects ?

Art & Exhibits

Multiple locations

Association NoOps (No Planned Obsolescence Switzerland) presents a travelling display that foregrounds the materiality of our phones. Through two vitrines and a selection of recovered components, the exhibition points to the precious metals embedded in devices and to “urban mines” hiding in drawers. Combining didactic panels, curated specimens and small installations assembled from reclaimed circuitry, it examines resource extraction, waste and value in contemporary consumer electronics, asking how reuse, repair and awareness can reframe our relationship to everyday technologies.

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6 November 2025 – 15 April 2026

Caravaggesque Paintings in Holland in the 17th Century

Art & Exhibits

Galerie Salomon Lilian

The exhibition delves into the realism, drama, and emotional intensity of 17th-century Dutch artists influenced by Caravaggio. The works of Gerrit van Honthorst and Judith Leyster exemplify the bold use of light and shadow to capture everyday life with theatrical intensity. Their contributions left a significant impact on the art of the era, paving the way for new expressions of the human condition.

Opening during the Art en Vieille-Ville collective vernissage on Thursday, November 6, from 16:00 to 21:00.

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22 January – 7 March

Valse Velue

Art & Exhibits

Halle Nord

Valse Velue brings together Jessy Razafimandimby and Cathy Josefowitz in a cross-generational dialogue that juxtaposes performative practice with a body of studio-based works. The presentation combines live and time-based actions with constructed objects and window-front pieces by Tito Honegger and Nicolas Ponce. Through movement, improvisation and attentive materiality, the exhibition interrogates presence, memory and the afterlives of artistic gestures. Curatorial framing highlights exchange, contingency and how ephemeral performances resonate alongside durable artifacts.

Opening Thursday 22 January, from 18:00.

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22 January – 28 February

Glazed Realities

Art & Exhibits

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Glazed Realities is a group exhibition curated by Vasilis Zografos that examines contemporary ceramic practices as instruments of storytelling, experimentation and transformation. Featuring works by Nacoca Ko, Fernando de la Rocque, Jan Steenman, Heberth Sobral and Irene Venetsanou, the show foregrounds ceramic surfaces as carriers of memory, social narrative and perceptual ambiguity. Through glazing, texture and material manipulation the artists deploy sculpture and object-based installations to probe materiality, luminosity, fragility and the interplay between form and human experience.

Opening during La Nuit des Bains, Thursday 22 January, from 18:00.

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9 October 2025 – 30 August 2026

Angélica Serech Pach’un Q’ijul (Temps entrelacés – Deep Time)

Art & Exhibits

Red Cross Museum

The International Museum of the Red Cross and Red Crescent presents the first European solo exhibition of Guatemalan Maya Kaqchikel artist Angélica Serech (*1982). Pach’un Q’ijul (Temps entrelacés – Deep Time) intertwines ancestral weaving gestures with personal and collective memory, drawing on Serech’s history shaped by Guatemala’s civil war. Using self-built looms and natural materials like corn husks and branches, her works explore resilience, repair, and the deep ties between textile traditions and humanitarian action.

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4 – 22 February

Subtle Ballet of Nuances – Luis Marques

Art & Exhibits

Centre culturel du Manoir

Luis Marques, artist and architect, examines his intimate relationship with water through abstract landscapes and text-infused works. Using repeated line, handwritten fragments and layered marks, he constructs an introspective journey that invites contemplative immersion.
The pieces evoke both Lake Geneva and the Atlantic glimpsed from his native Portugal, drawing on the depth of blue and the moving surface of water. By integrating adolescent texts, Marques frames a gentle choreography where line becomes migration and memory is rendered as drawing.

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