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Geneva Art Week is a vibrant celebration of contemporary art that brings together galleries, museums, foundations, independent spaces, and artists through an inspiring program of exhibitions, performances, studio visits, talks, screenings, and immersive experiences. Designed as a citywide journey through creativity, the event transforms Geneva into an open platform for artistic discovery, encouraging dialogue between the public and the local and international art scenes in a dynamic, festive, and accessible atmosphere.
Directed by Darius Marder, Sound of Metal follows a drummer confronting imminent hearing loss and the upheaval it brings to his identity and relationships. Shot with intimate close-ups and an immersive sound design, the film favours sensory experience over exposition, placing viewers inside the protagonist’s perception. At once raw and tender, it explores grief, adaptation and the fragile edges of communication, offering a quiet, visceral meditation on silence, resilience and the costs of change.
Panelists Karim Berrah (Data Analytics Specialist, Amazon Web Services), Katherine Tatarinov (Assistant Professor, HEC Lausanne), Sara Šaljić (Digital Learning Lead, Geneva Research Lab for Digital Impact) and Sharon Compton (Chief, Talent Management, ILO) offer expertise in analytics, strategy and digital learning.
This session examines how organizations can build lifelong learning ecosystems to close the emerging ‘second digital divide’. Through expert discussion, demos and a hands-on exercise, speakers investigate structured learning, learning-by-doing and peer learning as pathways to continuous skill development and organizational adaptation.
In English.
Frank Martin’s opera La Tempête, after Shakespeare with a libretto by August Wilhelm von Schlegel and Johann Ludwig Tieck, returns in a new French-language production. Conductor Thierry Fischer leads the score while director Netia Jones stages a striking conception that makes electricity the source of Prospero’s powers. The cast brings poetic intensity to the island’s drama—Miranda, Caliban and the spirit Ariel—blending vocal nuance, atmospheric design and inventive staging to revisit exile, magic and reconciliation.
In French.
Festival de piano 2026 brings together Orchestre Concertus under the baton of Matthieu Schweyer for an evening of Romantic piano concertos. Pianist Lucas Chiche performs Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with lyrical refinement, while Nathalia Milstein delivers the sweeping passion of Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2. The programme balances intimate lyricism and virtuosic drama, framed by orchestral colour and nuanced phrasing to create a richly expressive concert experience.
Book launch and presentation of Season of Wolves, the final monograph by Professor Mohammad‑Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou, completed after his passing in 2024 by his PhD students, former students and family. The presentation examines the book’s historical analysis of the post‑9/11 world, its key arguments and contributions to contemporary international history. Contributors include Marie‑Laure Salles, Davide Rodogno, Bahiya and Kemal Mohamedou, along with Geneva Graduate Institute students and alumni.
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On the occasion of her first institutional solo exhibition in Geneva, Marisa Cornejo presents El Taller de la Fragilidad, bringing together new sculptures, drawings, and installations. Born in Chile and based in Switzerland, the artist draws on her experience of exile to explore the relationships between memory, displacement, absence, and repair. Several of the works have been created especially for Halle Nord, examining the forms of resilience that emerge from uprootedness. Recipient of the Fondation Francine Delacrétaz Prize (2023) and a Swiss Art Award (2024), Marisa Cornejo’s practice spans sculpture, drawing, installation, performance, and archival research.
Opening: 3 September, 18:00
Guided tour: 11 September, 18:00
Reading by Pedro Jimenéz Morrás: 11 September, 18:30
Dany Gignoux (photographer) and poet Georges Haldas present a compelling dialogue between documentary photography and lyrical prose. The exhibition brings together photographs and written fragments that register everyday life in Geneva’s cafés, combining on-the-spot reportage with memory-infused “prose inspirée.” Through intimate black-and-white images and spare, evocative texts the works transfigure mundane scenes into poetic testimony, revealing social undercurrents and human tenderness. Archival materials frame this historic encounter between two generations of cultural chroniclers.
The Tender Buttons exhibition offers a multidisciplinary exploration centered on buttons, delving into their identity and historical significance. Featuring over three hundred ceramic and glass buttons, the exhibition interacts with the museum’s works to highlight their role in both formal experimentation and socio-cultural narratives. The exhibition’s architecture evokes the commercial arcades of the 19th century, a pivotal era for button industrialization. Curated by Claire FitzGerald, the exhibition is supported by the Swiss Fashion Museum and showcases never-before-seen pieces from several prestigious collections.
Pierre La Police presents a retrospective of his work, spanning contemporary comics, digital art, installations, video and short film. Renowned for an absurdist sensibility and skewed humour, his practice blends hand-drawn sequences with experimental visual techniques and digital processes. The show traces recurring motifs—playful disruption, narrative fragmentation and visual experimentation—offering a layered survey of an artist who has expanded the language of comic art into installation and moving image.
Antoine Roth presents a photography exhibition focused on atmospheric and optical phenomena observed over Lake Geneva. Working with a digital camera and a long‑focal lens, he photographs distant horizons where light, water and air converge. The series documents rare mirages, notably the Fata Morgana, exploring the boundary between perceptual illusion and measurable physical event. Through patient field observation and precise framing, Roth examines how light and thermal gradients sculpt landscape appearances and challenge our sense of materiality.
Opening: 27 August, 18:00
Votive brings together Rachel Labastie and Robert Montgomery in an exhibition exploring desire, belief, memory and shared dreams for the future. Through sculpture, poetry, light, and site-specific installations, the artists reflect on peace, human connection, and the transformative power of art.
Opening: Wednesday 3 September at 18:00.
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Geneva Classics
Visiting for the first time? A quick guide to the city’s top attractions.
Located in the heart of Geneva’s international district, the Portail des Nations is a space dedicated to dialogue, cooperation, and global issues. Through exhibitions, talks, and cultural events, it offers visitors an entry point into the major challenges shaping our world and Geneva’s role as a hub for international governance.
Nestled in the Geneva countryside, the Collection du Crest showcases a remarkable selection of modern and contemporary art. Through temporary exhibitions and its private collection, this unique venue offers an intimate encounter with artistic creation, in dialogue with the history and landscape of the estate.
Discover one of the world’s most remarkable libraries and museums, home to an exceptional collection of manuscripts, rare books, and historical documents spanning over 5,000 years of human history. Located in Cologny overlooking Lake Geneva, the Fondation Martin Bodmer offers a unique journey through literature, philosophy, religion, science, and the arts, bringing together some of humanity’s most significant written treasures.
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