Don’t miss out: Events running for less than two weeks
Discover exquisite flavours and unforgettable culinary delights.
We promise a feast you won’t be able to resist, with plenty of surprises along the way! More than 60 food trucks, stalls, and bars will be serving local specialities, alongside DJs from Thursday evenings through to Saturday nights.
New this year: La Cuisine Ouverte! A space showcasing the expertise of Geneva-based chefs, featuring a different pop-up each day. In total, 11 local addresses and 11 styles of cuisine to discover, in addition to the 60 street food specialists already on site.
So mark your calendars and don’t miss the must-visit food event right in the heart of the city!
Arooj Aftab stands out as one of the most singular voices in today’s music scene. She blends jazz, minimalism, South Asian traditions and avant-pop to create an intimate, audacious and deeply felt repertoire. Her breakthrough album Vulture Prince earned a Grammy and drew international recognition, leading to collaborations with renowned ensembles and performances on major stages. Her music unfolds through sparse, luminous arrangements that emphasize voice, silence and emotional nuance.
Join a five-day cultural adventure where kids explore music, dance, storytelling and visual arts from around the world. They will learn rhythms from Turkey, songs from Rajasthan and Andean dances, play with sound in a computer music workshop, and shape colorful crafts with hands-on art projects. Storytime sparks imagination and care for the planet, while clowns and group games bring laughter. The week ends with a lively show where every child can share their creations and performance.
Kids ages 6–12. In French.
Inspired by the literary world of Leonora Miano, this series of paintings portrays a fictional people embodying a utopian vision of Pan-Africanism. Through richly imagined figures and narratives, Ismaël Touré explores identity as plural, fluid, and deeply rooted in a shared collective memory.
Opening: Thursday 25 June, 18:30
Gather materials and weave in a shared workshop led by the artist Marie Jambers. Like birds building nests, children will move between inside and outside, collect grasses, wool, paper scraps and carded wool, and learn basic weaving techniques. They will experiment with different formats, prepare fibres, and shape small woven pieces together. Soft textures, bright threads and rhythmic movements invite creativity, observation and playful collaboration as the group builds a collective story through making.
In French. Kids ages 7–12.
But what is “reality”?
A forgotten cassette in a tape recorder becomes the key to a journey through time.
Two coworkers, Kurt and Willard, are plunged into the heart of an unprecedented psychiatric experiment where delirium and lucidity intertwine.
They must piece together a puzzle that will lead them to the very edge of madness. “Why are you so angry? …Because all of a sudden I was taking control of something? …Huh? Until now you were used to completely controlling the situation, and now this strangeness has crept into your life…”
In French.
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Events running for an extended period
Five Mini Shows presents distinct exhibitions across separate rooms, bringing together major figures of Australian Aboriginal painting alongside contemporary painting, installation, drawing and sculpture. Works by Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori and Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi sit next to new and historical painting by John Armleder, expansive installations by Chiharu Shiota, sculptural interventions by Balint Zsako and drawing-based work by Rachel Marks. The programme explores materiality, relational display and dialogues between indigenous traditions and contemporary abstraction.
Opening: Thursday 21 May, 18:00
Featuring pieces by Faye Toogood, Studiopepe, Domingos Totora and Clément Thévenot, DOMUM invites you to discover their new exhibition, taking inspiration from food shapes and colors: Bread&Butter.
Opening: Thursday 21 May at 18:00
Eleven Brazilian artists spanning the twentieth and twenty-first centuries engage in a group exhibition that examines how form is inhabited by belief systems, memory, ritual and everyday experience. Through painting, sculpture and assemblage, the works trace dialogues between modern and contemporary practices shaped by Afro‑Brazilian religions, Indigenous cosmologies and vernacular knowledge. Materials range from painted canvases and carved works to found objects and textile interventions, revealing layered narratives of lineage, syncretism and embodied memory.
Traces of Presence gathers artists whose practices examine what remains beyond immediate visibility. Through painting, photography, abstraction and material transformation, the show explores presence as memory carried through matter, process and perception. Roxana Bergt reworks still-life into vessels of memory and resilience; José Yaruro reinterprets classical forms; Marie Deforche paints quiet moments of solitude. Luca Mancone repurposes receipts and thermal paper; Eilena Braye converts microscopic structures into vivid abstraction; Justyna Maria Porowska and Didier Van der Borght negotiate geometry, surface and imagined silhouettes.
Opening: Thursday 11 June, 18:00-20:00
Diego Cibelli presents an exhibition that considers notions of futurity and personal trajectory. Through a practice that blends installation, photographic fragments and sculptural assemblage, Cibelli interrogates memory, migration and the acts of anticipating life to come. The works deploy found materials, layered imagery and subtle spatial interventions to create a provisional narrative space where biography, material traces and collective histories converge.
Summer cocktail : Thursday 2 July, 18:00 – 21:00
Measures of Infinity brings together works by Susanna Bauer, Frankie Gao and Carol Prusa in a contemplative exhibition of drawings, installations and meticulously crafted objects. Bauer transforms fragile leaves into intricate, almost meditative compositions; Gao offers pared-back drawings and open installations that evoke cosmic structures; Prusa constructs pieces informed by scientific models and unseen phenomena. Across scale and material, the show explores perception, precision and the tension between the intimate and the vast, inviting close looking and slow attention.
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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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