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Presented in partnership with the Institut National Genevois, this closing concert brings together prizewinners of the Geneva Competition: violist Brian Isaacs and the Quatuor Elmire. The programme centres on Beethoven’s Quintet alongside two contrasting works, offering intimate chamber music textures. The performers favour clarity of line and heated interplay, shaping a narrative of tenderness and tension. Lighting and staging are understated, focusing attention on timbral richness and communicative ensemble playing to create a luminous, emotionally precise evening.
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An award-winning comedy by Wole Soyinka, this staging follows Sidi, the village ‘jewel’, as she becomes the centre of a satirical clash between tradition and modernity. Director Yvette Stevens shapes a vibrant production that blends storytelling, music and dance, yoking sharp humour to ritual and spectacle. The opposing suitors—Lakunle, a westernised schoolteacher, and the wily chief Baroka—embody cultural tensions that the ensemble explores through lively choreography and precise comic timing.
In English.
Bodil Manz presents “Mit daglige liv med hændelser” (My Daily Life and Its Events), an installation of more than 130 elements in clay, porcelain, plaster, paper and other materials. The work unfolds like an experimental architectural model, using her signature porcelain cylinders as modular units for an imagined city. Drawing on a lifelong devotion to ceramics, it distills influences from Danish Cubism, Constructivism and modernist architecture into a luminous sculptural language.
Assembled at the initiative of Vincent Ruiz and Nicolas Masson, this newly formed quartet offers an open, democratic interpretation of recent compositions by Nicolas Masson. The project blends composed material and responsive improvisation, allowing structures to emerge and be shaped in real time. The ensemble—Nicolas Masson (saxophone), Théo Duboule (guitar), Vincent Ruiz (double bass) and Nathan Vandenbulcke (drums)—explores textural interplay, collective listening and the elasticity of form in contemporary chamber jazz.
For its 500th anniversary, the Grand Council is transforming this seat of power in the Old Town into a stage open to the public. Heritage becomes the medium for a narrative that connects the city’s past to its present. Through a visual and sound-based creation, this event offers a new way to discover the history of Geneva’s institutions.
Choreographed by Olga de Soto, this intimate solo examines Kurt Jooss’s La Table verte through memory, political legacy and the choreographer’s questioning. On a bare stage, de Soto is accompanied by projected archival images and videos, narrating her research and creative process. The piece traces before-and-after echoes of the original ballet, combining investigative reflection with poetic movement. Co-created with Arta Sperto and Dance First Think Later, the work unfolds as a rigorous yet lyrical inquiry into art, history and witness.
In French.
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Two short plays by Anton Chekhov staged by Tibor Ockenfels and Flavie Tapparel, presented as compact dramatic machines where romantic comedy masks escalating confrontations between desire, affection and material interest. Performances rely on precise physical timing, terse exchanges and a lean, playful design to reveal the simmering violence behind courtship rituals. The three actors — Estelle Bridet, Matteo Prandi and Raphaël Vachoux — inhabit heightened character types that shift between farce and darker comic truth, creating a sharply observed, kinetic evening.
In French.
Re:Make highlights transformation. Using reclaimed furniture and materials, each designer is invited to create a unique object. These objects must engage with contemporary work practices—such as deep work, well-being, collaboration, performance, hospitality, conviviality, creativity, and social interaction. Each creation must serve a specific function. The project aims to bring together: a low-tech, sustainable approach; an exploration of new ways of working; an aesthetic of transformation. Designers are invited to conceive objects for contemporary workspaces that foster new behaviors or interactions, while being resource-efficient and intelligently manufactured. Re:Make embodies the idea that a desirable future can emerge from what already exists—through creativity, collaboration, and the reimagining of how things are used.
A project in collaboration with La Renfile and Onl’fait.
Opening: 29 October, 17:00
Artist Carmen-Sibha Keiso presents a continuation of her exhibition, featuring new works that explore ambivalence and the bystander’s gaze. The show includes sculptural and installation pieces alongside printed editions by Fabrice Gygi, Roman Signer and Marie Sacconi. A recently published volume by Keiso accompanies the presentation, extending the exhibition’s themes into a printed, multi-voiced format. The installation work favours material contrasts and subtle gestures that probe perception, memory and relational dynamics.
Opening: Friday 23 October, 18:00
This exhibition brings together a selection of works by more than twenty artists from the Fonds cantonal d’art contemporain de Genève, with a focus on sculpture, including pieces that may never have been shown to the public. Curated alongside found objects by Varun Kumar, the display creates a quiet accumulation of dormant forms and unlikely encounters. It opens a meditation on the boundary between art and non-art, inviting visitors to read material presence, absence, and slumber as part of the same poetic field.
November 19, 19:00 – guided tour by the curator
January 30, 16:00 – guided tour by the curator and launch of the exhibition publication
Curators Ghalas Charara and Rita Elhajj present the second part of a two‑part exhibition that shapes a liminal space between listening and gesture. Through acts of defunctionalization, duplication, displacement, fragmentation and sabotage, the participating artists generate potentials for action and reclaim rhythmic breaths, steps and voices. Works from the host collection sit alongside invited pieces to evoke survivance, mourning and resistance, where memory becomes an embrace enacted by bodies searching for—sometimes finding—ancestral gestures through repetition, dance and semantic shifts.
Opening: Thursday 17 September, 18:00
Closing: Wednesday 9 December, 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.
An intimate museum in the heart of Geneva, the Musée Tatiana Zoubov presents the refined collection assembled by its namesake collector. Paintings, furniture, porcelain, silverware and decorative objects evoke the atmosphere of a private European collection, offering a glimpse into the tastes and art of living of another era.
In the heart of Geneva’s Old Town, the International Museum of the Reformation traces the history and legacy of the Protestant Reformation from the 16th century to the present day. Historical objects, artworks and immersive displays explore a movement that profoundly shaped Geneva and influenced societies around the world.
Located in the historic heart of Carouge, the Musée de Carouge explores the artistic and cultural heritage of this distinctive town. Its collections and temporary exhibitions bring together fine and decorative arts, local history and contemporary creation, reflecting Carouge’s unique identity and creative spirit.
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