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Friday 5 June, 17:00

Presented by Greta Gratos, Arboretum #32 brings together an eclectic programme of live performances by Ubuntu Live, AZAR, Ignat Khlobystin, Un coglione e due musicisti, El Flecha & Friends and FanzinoGE. The evening blends experimental sound, improvisation and collaborative energy, creating intimate moments and bold sonic contrasts. Visual identity by Manon Fourdrignier complements the performances, reinforcing a DIY, communal atmosphere focused on exploration and spontaneous interaction.

Friday 5 June, 19:00

Led by the trio La Nouvelle Saison, this intimate apéro-concert blends English pop-folk ballads with songs in French and Italian. Stéphanie Palazzo’s luminous voice and piano intertwine with Alex Lodo’s guitar and Giacomo Grandi’s cello, creating warm, travel-tinged textures. The performance favors close listening and gentle dynamics, moving from delicate simplicity to rich, resonant swells. Its atmosphere is convivial and reflective, inviting shared moments and subtle emotional shifts.

5 June – 28 August

Lie back with your baby and listen. In a soft gallery of Swiss landscapes, gentle sounds and quiet stories invite tiny ears to notice wind, water, and birds. Touch fabrics, follow slow movements, and watch colors shift as a cultural mediator and musician play simple tunes. This calm sensory journey lets babies discover new textures, rhythms, and voices while sharing close moments with an adult.

Dates :
Friday 5 June, 09:00, 10:00, 11:15
Friday 28 August, 09:00, 10:00, 11:15

In French. Kids ages 3 months–2 years.

26 May – 7 June

Directed by François Marin, this intimate staging examines the fraught passion between Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt against the moral upheavals of Nazi Germany. Mario Diament’s text, adapted by André Nerman, traces a forbidden love between a philosopher and his student, probing complicity, memory and the struggle to reconcile heart and conscience. Sabrina Martin and Frank Semelet inhabit the roles with spare, intense performances, supported by a precise, austere mise en scène that foregrounds emotional conflict and ethical ambiguity.

In French.

28 May – 7 June

Bold and poetic, “Insuline” is a powerful denouncement of virilist and heteronormative excesses. Combining the sharp words of Lou Lepori, the music of Marc Berman, and the performance of Cédric Leproust, this fiery recital challenges conventions and unspoken norms. This queer show, driven by tumultuous and subversive expression, celebrates a body that rejects imposed normality.

In French.

28 May – 7 June

Alexandre Baumgartner presents a body of paintings, sculptures and drawings that straddle contemporary practice and art brut. His work evokes hybrid, often ambiguous creatures, balancing an apparent innocence with acute perceptual intensity.
Using gestural drawing, tactile paint surfaces and sculptural forms, the pieces probe the boundary between presence and disappearance. The exhibition questions how simple contours and raw mark-making reactivate buried affects, revealing fragile emotional registers and the paradox of clarity within naiveté.

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Events running for an extended period

Friday 5 June, 19:00 and 21:00; Saturday 29 August, 19:00 and 21:00; Saturday 3 October, 19:00 and 21:00

An interactive courtroom thriller that places the audience in the jury box. You’ll hear testimonies, examine evidence and vote as the case unfolds in a tense, theatrical investigation. In case no. 3 a missing diamond necklace and a disputed suspect reveal shifting motives and surprises. Conceived, directed and artistically led by Les Enfants Terribles, the production relies on tight staging and a committed ensemble: Johanna Tixier, Mathieu Dubloclard, Manon Barthélémy, Fatah Boudia and Etienne Diallo. Expect moral dilemmas and collective decision-making.

In French.

27 May – 12 June

Anna Tosello Liatti presents works by participants of her Drawing and Pastel and Mixed Techniques courses that reimagine the history of Plan‑les‑Ouates. Charcoal drawings, pastel landscapes, paintings and monotype experiments depict historical figures, sporting and occupational scenes, and still lifes of old and modern objects. The exhibition weaves personal and collective memory using observational technique and painterly composition to evoke local narratives, question how everyday activities shape communal identity, and celebrate the visual traces of a community’s past.

Opening: Tuesday 26 May – 18:00

12 May – 6 June

Ulises Lozano presents a body of mixed‑technique works that explore surface, materiality and narrative. The exhibition gathers illustrations and experimental compositions that combine drawing, collage and painterly gestures to interrogate memory, identity and urban experience. Lozano’s practice foregrounds texture and layered imagery, inviting close looking at the interplay between figuration and abstraction. The presentation also references the artist’s recent book HIGHLINE and the graphic sensibility that informs his studio work.

Opening: 12 May, 18:00

29 April – 31 December

This exhibition brings together archival photographs, historical medical objects and contemporary works to examine how illness is represented and embodied. Through photography, installation and mixed-media pieces, artists probe how bodily experience resists language and is translated into image, narrative and presence. The presentation includes a new work by Sabrina Röthlisberger Belkacem and is curated by Sara Petrucci with scenography by OnLab, creating a dialogue between archives and recent artistic responses.

21 May – 26 June

collectif_fact is composed of Annelore Schneider (born 1979 in Neuchâtel, Switzerland) and Claude Piguet (born 1977 in Neuchâtel, Switzerland). Living and working between London and Geneva, they create mainly video-based works that deconstruct cinematic codes and popular culture stereotypes. Their practice explores notions of (anti-)spectacle, simulacra, and appropriation through fragmented narratives combining dialogue, quotations, music, and references to classic cinema.

Opening: Thursday 21 May, 18:00

22 May – 27 June

German artist Jan Albers (born 1971) develops a practice between painting, sculpture and architecture. His works often take the form of reliefs built through accumulation: assembled, layered and compressed surfaces of wood, metal, polystyrene, ceramic and polymer plaster that evoke fragments of architecture, models or landscapes. These reliefs oscillate between saturation and erasure, balance and collapse, revealing their complexity only through a slow, attentive gaze.

Opening: Thursday 21 May, 18:00

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Geneva Classics

Visiting for the first time? A quick guide to the city’s top attractions.

The MEG is a renowned museum dedicated to the exploration and presentation of cultural diversity from around the world. Located in the heart of Geneva, it houses an extensive collection of over 80,000 objects, including artifacts, textiles, and artworks that highlight the rich traditions and histories of various communities. The museum emphasizes interactive and immersive exhibitions, engaging visitors with contemporary issues related to culture and identity.

Cool fact: The e-MEG app serves as a digital twin of the permanent exhibition, providing an audio guide and detailed descriptions along with photographs of all displayed objects.

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Since its opening in 1994, the MAMCO Geneva (Musée d’art moderne et contemporain)  has staged 450 exhibitions with works dating from the 1960s to the present day. Mamco’s holdings include works by Christo, Martin Kippenberger, Jenny Holzer, Dan Flavin, Sarkis, Franz Erhard Walther and Sylvie Fleury, among many others.

Cool fact: The MAMCO is the epicenter of the “Nuit des Bains”, held three times a year.  During this event, the district around the museum is transformed into a large gallery and attracts thousands of art lovers and sightseers each night.

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With a collection of 27,000 items from Switzerland, Europe and the Middle and Far East, and a witness to twelve centuries of ceramic art from the Middle Ages to modern times, the Ariana is one of Europe’s great museums specializing in glass and ceramics.

Cool fact: On the first Sunday of each month, the Ariana Museum opens its temporary exhibitions to the public.

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