21 May – 21 June

ruine l’archive / archive dread / مَنفى الذاكرة

Free

Curators Ghalas Charara and Rita Elhajj present a first collaborative exhibition that scrutinizes the collection through a shared, probing gaze. The presentation assembles works from the collection alongside archival materials and curatorial interventions, foregrounding fragments, indexes and ruptures.
It interrogates the ruinous logics of archives, the anxieties encoded in preservation, and the ways memory is displaced or exiled. The show stages dialogues between history, material traces and acts of remembrance.

Opening: Thursday 21 May, 18:00

Chemin du 23-Août 5,
1205 Genève

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Photo Credit: Laurent Fiorentino

6 – 21 June

Mosaïques

Art & Exhibits

Villa Dutoit

Three artists—Adriana Passini, Frédérique Haessig and Érica Mugny—present a collective exhibition that traces a dialogue between poetry and the natural world. Passini’s delicate engravings, Haessig’s carved stone sculptures and Mugny’s mixed-media paintings explore gesture, texture and material memory. The show foregrounds traditional print and sculptural techniques alongside painterly surfaces, and references several illustrated volumes produced in collaboration with the artists, offering a thoughtful encounter with form and narrative.

Opening: Friday 5 June, 18:30

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7 May – 10 July

Yvan Salomone — 2611

Art & Exhibits

Galerie Sonia Zannettacci

Yvan Salomone presents a series of recent watercolours that transform anonymous buildings and soulless industrial sites into evocative landscapes. Through delicate, velvety tones, subtle colour modulations and watery traces that suggest life, the artist elevates banal subjects and transfigures objective reality. The exhibition’s title, 2611, alludes to Salomone’s practice of assigning eleven‑letter titles composed from the alphabet, producing names that detach the work from literal description and invite poetic reading.

Opening: Thursday 7 May , 16:00

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10 – 26 June

Chu Teh-Chun Prize Exhibition

Art & Exhibits

Le Cube – HEAD

Students from La Grande Boissière present a collective exhibition of visual art responding to the life and work of Chu Teh‑Chun. Through paintings, drawings and mixed‑media pieces, the show examines perseverance, multicultural influences and the role of self‑reflection in artistic practice. Works offer personal interpretations and visual languages that articulate each student’s perspective on form, colour and memory. A jury selects outstanding pieces and the overall winner receives an artist residency.

Opening and Prize Award Ceremony on Wednesday 10 June at 17:00.

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20 May – 31 July

Industry in a Thousand Points

Art & Exhibits

Quartier Libre SIG

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

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27 May – 14 June

Pipas 2026 – Trouble

Art & Exhibits Cool Stuff

Multiple locations

PIPAS 2026 – Trouble-accueil is a playful, slightly subversive entry in the PIPAS biennale curated by Paul Oberson. It unfolds as a series of unexpected encounters and atmospheric interventions that tilt everyday hospitality into moments of disorientation and delight. The piece invites visitors to reconsider welcome, movement and the social choreography of shared spaces through visual, auditory and performative gestures. Expect a curious, tactile experience that favors surprise, thoughtful mischief and sensory discovery.

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7 May – 20 June

Forza Silenziosa – Sofia Cacciapaglia

Art & Exhibits

MABE Gallery

MABE Gallery presents Forza Silenziosa, the second solo exhibition of Sofia Cacciapaglia, whose paintings evoke a quiet, fluid world where forms, bodies, and landscapes gently merge, expressing a soft yet powerful feminine presence rooted in emotion, connection, and subtle energy.

Her work emphasizes transformation, intimacy, and dreamlike atmospheres, where silence carries intensity. Using reclaimed cardboard from her Milan neighborhood, she connects to the ethos of Arte Povera—a movement theorized by Germano Celant and associated with artists like Michelangelo Pistoletto and Jannis Kounellis—by embracing ‘poor’ materials and their histories; however, she diverges through her distinctly figurative and painterly approach, transforming humble surfaces into poetic images that bridge material awareness with narrative, imagination, and contemporary femininity.

Opening: Thursday 7 May, 16:00 – 21:00

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ruine l’archive / archive dread / مَنفى الذاكرة