A contemplative programme for organ and a cappella choir, In Memoriam Mortuorum brings sacred resonance and choral clarity into close dialogue. Cantus Laetus de Genève joins organist Judith Trifellner-Spalt and conductor Natacha Casagrande in a performance shaped by solemn beauty, luminous harmonies, and a sense of collective remembrance. The music unfolds as an intimate meditation, balancing architecture and breath, ritual and emotion, in a spirit of depth and devotion.
Compagnie de 1602 presents a centenary exhibition that unveils the behind-the-scenes life of a long-standing civic tradition.
Through costumes, ceremonial objects, musical gestures and archival memories, the display juxtaposes individual passions with the collective narrative of communal celebration. The presentation foregrounds performative ritual, material culture and intergenerational transmission, revealing how public pageantry sustains identity and belonging. It evokes the sustained energy of popular commemoration and the work required to keep ceremonial histories alive.
Opening: Tuesday 27 October, 18:00 – 20:00
Directed by Marie-José Malis, Retour au pays revisits Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s letters through a spare, lucid staging. Performers Alexandra Tiedemann and Juan Crespillo inhabit the returning merchant’s disorientation, while Aurélia Ansermet provides live music and sound. Bernard Héritier’s scenography and Jessy Ducatillon’s lighting shape moments of visual surprise, most poignantly a Van Gogh encounter that restores belief in the world. The piece refuses facile answers, offering theatrical lucidity and an austere emotional clarity.
In French.
What Connects Us brings together Susanna Bauer, Michele Landel and Hannah Schmider in a collective exhibition that examines encounters between nature, memory and craft. Delicate crochet, embroidered photographs on reclaimed bed linens and figurative wooden sculptures form a quiet vocabulary that probes human–animal relationships and domestic ecologies. The works emphasise material histories and gesture, inviting careful looking and conversations about care, fragility and the traces left by interspecies bonds.
Opening: 10 October, 11:00 – 15:00
This presentation honours Marguerite Roesgen-Champion, the Geneva-born composer, pianist and harpsichordist, through an exhibition and related programme. Archival manuscripts, scores and recordings illuminate her compositional voice, keyboard repertoire and chamber works. The displays emphasise contrapuntal clarity, timbral detail and performance practice, situating her within the circle of contemporary harpsichordists. Curatorial texts and integrated media explore her contribution to Swiss musical life and interpretive traditions.
Jean-Marc Yersin and Antoine Roth present two photographic projects that probe urban and natural perception.
In Cités délaissées, Yersin composes futuristic images of deserted cities where digital dematerialization, climate strain and demographic decline have hollowed out public life; the photographs evoke frozen infrastructures and virtual withdrawal. Mirages sees Roth using a long-focus digital camera along the shores of Lake Geneva to capture rare atmospheric and optical phenomena—mirages, light and reflections—questioning the materiality of landscape and how perception shapes experience.
Opening: Thursday 27 August, 18:00
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