2 September – 4 October

Telling Death

Free

Swiss artist Virginie Rebetez presents a photographic inquiry into objects associated with death and mourning. Through finely composed photographs and careful re-interpretations of found artefacts, the work examines material cultures surrounding mortality, memory and ritual. The series juxtaposes documentary clarity with subtle conceptual interventions to question how objects encode personal and collective narratives of loss. Developed in dialogue with researchers, the exhibition reveals how scientific and curatorial perspectives reframe everyday objects into sites of reflection and knowledge.

Chemin de l'Impératrice 1,
1292 Chambésy, Switzerland

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Photo Credit: Virginie Rebetez

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 January – 25 October

Observatories — Carte blanche to John M Armleder

Art & Exhibits

MAH

John M Armleder presents an interchange-based exhibition that foregrounds objects drawn from students’ suitcases. Through object-based works and subtle interventions, the show probes modes of observation, intimacy and collective memory. Personal belongings are rearranged as visual prompts that evoke histories, pedagogy and everyday cinematics. The artist’s restrained interventions invite reflection on how small domestic items circulate meanings and facilitate encounters, revealing how private narratives surface within a communal field of attention.

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16 July – 13 October

PlasMAH: Flesh and the Siphon

Art & Exhibits

MAH

Artists Daniel Dewar and Grégory Gicquel present a large-scale installation conceived as a traversable architecture that reconfigures the museum courtyard into a mutable living environment. Seven works dialog with sculpture, and two pieces were created specifically to engage the lapidary collection and the Pierre-aux-Dames megalith. Using carved stone surfaces, constructed siphons and modular plaster and resin elements, the project explores material metamorphosis, bodily presence and the shifting relations between monumentality and domestic scale.

Opening: Thursday 16 July, 18:30

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3 July – 5 September

Critical Girls

Art & Exhibits

Xippas

Artists Chloé Delarue, Miriam Laura Leonardi and Gaia Vincensini, curated by Manuella Denogent, present a group exhibition that interrogates systems of representation, value and desire in contemporary society. Through sculpture, installation, photography, video, object-making and light-based interventions, the works reconfigure familiar forms and visual codes to reveal hidden hierarchies and emotional economies. The exhibition emphasises material experimentation and spatial strategies, inviting reflective engagement with how images and objects shape social meanings.

Opening; Thursday 2 July, 18:00

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3 July – 5 September

Pyramids — Chris Lovasoa Kauffmann

Art & Exhibits

Lovay Fine Arts

Chris Lovasoa Kauffmann presents a new body of work that explores architectural form and symbolic resonance through sculpture, painting and installation. Minimal geometries and textured surfaces negotiate scale and monumentality, while layered materials and subtle color shifts invite reflection on construction, memory and cultural lineage. The works balance rigorous formalism with tactile evidence of process, proposing an austere yet intimate meditation on how built forms shape perception and collective narratives.

Opening: Thursday 2 July, 18:00

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6 May – 10 January

Hiwirhi Ipaattoni — Boîte d’Étoiles

Art & Exhibits

MEG

Mi Mawai and Madzerokai present an immersive audiovisual installation born from a residency exchange between the Brazilian Amazon and Geneva. The work invites immersion in Baniwa cosmology through video, layered soundscapes, flutes, traditional singing and dance. Visitors are invited to lie in hammocks and on mats for contemplative encounters with projected landscapes and ritual sonic textures. The piece foregrounds ancestral knowledge, collective memory and multisensory modes of storytelling.

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