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Ridley Scott’s 1982 Blade Runner plunges into a rain-drenched, neon metropolis where bounty hunter Rick Deckard tracks synthetic replicants. The film’s measured pacing and lingering frames foreground questions of identity, memory and empathy, probing what separates human from artificial life. Dense, noir-inflected visuals and a melancholic atmosphere give the story an elegiac tone, balancing tense encounters with reflective solitude. Its interrogation of consciousness and longing lingers long after the credits.
Screening featuring live analysis and audience discussion. In French.
Federico Novello, a postdoctoral researcher at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, leads this lecture within the seminar Occitan médiéval: introduction à la langue et à la littérature, directed by Professor Caterina Menichetti. The session explores how the First Crusade was recounted in Occitan, highlighting the literary and historical uses of language in medieval narrative traditions. It offers a focused look at the transmission of crusading memory through poetic and prose forms, as well as the cultural context that shaped these texts.
In French.
Anne-Frédérique Widmann’s documentary traces the long fight of Shewit Tekie, whose search for safety becomes a portrait of resilience and self-determination. Moving from Eritrea to Libya and then to Switzerland, the film follows her struggle to rebuild her life after exploitation, uncertainty, and the threat of deportation. Filmed over ten years, it blends testimony and intimacy in a restrained, human approach that gives full weight to a powerful story of emancipation.
The screening will be followed by a short discussion with the film’s protagonist, Shewit Tekie; the director, Anne-Frédérique Widmann; and the co-head of the organization AMIC, Melete Solomon.
Led by musical director Tovinho, Alceu Valença celebrates eight decades with a career-spanning concert blending Northeastern Brazilian rhythms—frevo, maracatu and cirandas—with contemporary arrangements. Backed by Cássio Cunha (drums), Zi Ferreira (guitar), Nando Barreto (bass), André Julião (accordion) and Costinha (flutes), and featuring guests Lui Coimbra (cello) and Natalia Mitre (percussion), the show pairs vibrant percussion and sunlit melodies with dreamlike projections by Rafael Todeschini, summoning carnival energy and intimate nostalgia across his repertoire.
Five selections from Georg Philipp Telemann’s “Quadri” or Paris Quartets bring the art of musical conversation into focus. Italian vivacity and virtuosity meet the refinement of French dance and the contrapuntal ingenuity of German style. Chouchane Siranossian (violin), Karel Valter (traverso), Jonathan Pesek (viola da gamba), Hadrien Jourdan and Marc Alomar (continuo) shape a lively dialogue across sonatas, concertos and a suite. The programme features Concerto 1 in G major, Sonata seconda in G minor, the Second Suite in B minor, Sonata prima in A major and Concerto secondo in D major.
Directed by Guy Cassiers and starring Valérie Dréville, this stage adaptation of Camille de Toledo’s novel blends documentary and fiction. Through photographs, letters and manuscripts, the performance traces a family’s history across generations as a man seeks rebirth amid loss. The staging mixes intimate memory, myth and collective history with a restrained visual language and careful dramaturgy, inviting a delicate, atmospheric encounter with grief, identity and transmission.
In French.
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The Acedia project by French photographer Louise Desnos offers a contemplative photographic exploration of slowness, fatigue and intimacy. Through sensitive, minimalist compositions and staged portraits, Desnos elevates inertia and non-events into a quiet poetics. The series examines idleness as resistance, a space for introspection and for reclaiming autonomy. Photographs emphasize material textures, soft light and the presence of bodies at rest, inviting viewers to reconsider cultural prejudices about productivity and rest.
5 + 5 = Y marks a new chapter in Geneva-based artist Stéphane Ducret’s practice. Presenting his new Being Matters series, the solo exhibition explores memory, thought and the human psyche through seven large-scale oil paintings and a selection of smaller works. Layered, organic and introspective, the works transform the canvas into a living record of gesture, experimentation and memory.
Opening: Saturday 10 October, 13:00–00:00 and Sunday 11 October, 13:00–19:00
This workshop explores the traditional process of assembling a herbarium specimen, inspired by Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s collections. Participants learn scientific techniques for pressing and mounting dried plants on old paper, practice botanical labelling and nomenclature, and select specimens to create a personal herbarium sheet. The session examines preservation methods, identification principles and the historical context of Rousseau’s approach, combining practical skills with scientific insight to produce a lasting botanical object.
In French.
The Department of Ancient Studies at the Faculty of Humanities (UNIGE) is offering a series of public lectures dedicated to interactions, exchanges, and cultural dynamics in the ancient world. Faculty members and researchers will explore diplomatic relations, the movement of objects, religious and linguistic influences, and issues of identity at the crossroads of the Mediterranean and the ancient Near East.
In French.
Mirella Jaworska’s first solo exhibition presents paintings from 2026 that conjure the uncertain light of waking, when dream and reality blur. Drawing on early Renaissance masters and Japanese painting, Jaworska composes intimate tableaux populated by faces, flowers, skulls, cigarettes and studio objects, alongside recurring figures such as a jockey, a sphinx and a chair pierced by a heart. Her layered brushwork and muted palette explore memory, loss and melancholic reverie.
Opening : Wednesday 7 October
This second chapter of Sonia Zannettacci’s exhibition revisits the legacy of Nouveau Réalisme through works by Arman, César, Christo, Dufrêne, Klein, Niki de Saint Phalle, Rotella, Spoerri, Tinguely and Villeglé. Emerging from the consumer city, their practices challenged traditional painting and sculpture by presenting the object itself. The exhibition reflects on appropriation, accumulation and transformation, following Pierre Restany’s idea of a poetic recycling of urban, industrial and advertising reality.
Opening: (AVV) 5 November, 16:00
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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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