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Tuesday 31 March, 18:00

Barrie Kosky’s staging of Wagner’s Siegfried follows the mythic hero’s journey with ruthless clarity. Set to Wagner’s towering score and conducted by Antonio Pappano, the production balances blistering orchestral power with lingering moments of lyric intimacy. Andreas Schager inhabits the title role with fearless strain, joined by Christopher Maltman, Peter Hoare and Elisabet Strid in vividly drawn portraits. The drama moves through shattered steel, dragon-scorched confrontation and the hushed reverie of a sleeping Valkyrie, evoking both wonder and brooding mysticism.

Sung in German with French subtitles

Tuesday 31 March, 18:30

Radu Suciu, research associate at the Interfaculty Center for Bioethics and Humanities in Medicine and the Faculty of Arts at the University of Geneva, researches medical history and bioethics.

He examines surprising episodes in the history of anatomy from Aristotle to ChatGPT, interrogating practices like dissections, anatomy theatres and pedagogical rituals. The lecture explores social actors—barber‑surgeons, physicians, students, craftsmen, charlatans—and material culture that shaped anatomical knowledge and its ethical dimensions.

In French.

Tuesday 31 March, 16:15

Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello from the University of Basel showcases the latest developments in computer vision applied to paleography, specifically focusing on Greek papyri. This event, co-organized by the Bibliothèque de Genève and the Digital Humanities Chair at the University of Geneva, features a one-hour presentation followed by an interactive discussion.

In French.

Tuesday 31 March, 18:30

Eliott Henchoz, MA student in General History at the University of Geneva, specializes in early modern Alpine history and Reformed humanist texts. His research includes sixteenth-century representations of the Western Alps.

This lecture examines the sixteenth-century shift from demonic to revelatory perceptions of Alpine space, exploring how believers materialized God’s presence in mountains. It investigates contrasts between Catholic and Reformed expressions, analysing textual and cultural practices that revealed different theological strategies for asserting divine presence in alpine landscapes.

In French.

27 March – 2 April

Pour un temps sois peu is a powerful solo piece by Laurène Marx in which she recounts the life of a trans woman through razor-sharp, intimate detail. Text and performance by Laurène Marx, directed by Laurène Marx and Fanny Sintès, with lighting by Solange Dinand. The show blends anger, wit and tenderness to confront medical procedures, violences, social erasure and heteronormative pressures, shaping a raw, urgent language that reclaims lived experience.

In French.

Tuesday 31 March, 19:00

Marc Silver’s documentary traces a father’s search after his fourteen-year-old daughter, Molly, dies by suicide following exposure to dangerous online content. The film examines how social platforms and opaque algorithms shape youth mental health and public life, moving between intimate testimony and investigative urgency. It frames a moral and legal reckoning—accountability, institutional denial, the stakes for democracy—through a sober, observational lens. Tense, empathetic and unflinching, it foregrounds the human cost of engineered attention.

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Events running for an extended period

12 – 25 March

Eight artists — Fernando de la Rocque, Jean Marie Fahy, Dara Maillard, Lyz Parayzo, Wes Roque, Almeida da Silva, Vivianne Van Singer and Martin Widmer — examine paper as a deliberate field of possibility. Treating sheets as material and gesture, they deploy drawing, cutting, layering and mark‑making to activate intimacy, fragility and resilience. The works reclaim paper as presence rather than support, exploring immediacy, vulnerability and the poetic potential of minimal means.

Opening during the Nuit des Bains, Thursday 12 March, 18:00.

12 March – 1 April

Written by Penda Diouf and staged by Evelyne Castellino, LA GRANDE OURSE is an ecofeminist fable that traces a mother’s descent after a minor incident becomes criminalized. Combining video, choreographed movement and choral voices, the piece weaves police violence, racism and sexism into a hallucinatory, dystopian world where omnipresent surveillance watches every gesture. As the heroine reconnects with ancestral nature by transforming into a bear, the production evokes animal survival instinct, collective gossip and the fragile line between humanity and wildness, offering a visceral, poetic reflection on power and resistance.

In French.

19 February – 9 May

Zoe A. Keller and Batia Suter present a collaborative project that reframes the Eranos archives—about 3,000 archetypal images compiled by Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn and held at the Warburg Institute—as material for critical and photographic inquiry.
Taking the form of a critical essay and a photographic installation, the work questions and re-signifies these images, confronting their entanglement with universalist and violent ideologies. The artists propose the notion of the ‘anarchétype’ to reveal archetypal figures as unstable cultural constellations.

19 September 2025 – 4 October 2026

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.

13 March – 9 May

Naturæ brings together works by Silvia Bächli, Erik Bulatov, Jean Crotti, Franz Gertsch, Fabrice Gygi, Alex Hanimann, Alain Huck, Claudio Moser, Leanne Picthall and Melissa Steckbauer. Through a diversity of practices and generations, this group exhibition explores different artistic approaches to the natural world and its representation.

Opening during the Nuit des Bains, Thursday 12 March, 18:00.

3 March – 2 April

Molière’s Tartuffe tells the story of a slick con-man who hides behind ostentatious piety to worm his way into the wealthy Orgon household. Orgon, dazzled by Tartuffe’s sanctimonious rhetoric, defends him even as the impostor’s hypocrisy poisons family bonds and pushes the household toward ruin.

Director Jean Liermier underscores how, in Molière’s work, the female characters serve as the moral compass and spark of resistance, a beacon of hope against oppression. Staged on a stark, minimalist set that exposes the family’s rigid tensions—and featuring Gilles Privat as an unbending Orgon—this production highlights the play’s continuing resonance in a world beset by egotism, fanaticism, and conspiracy thinking. The central question remains timeless: will society keep falling for Tartuffe’s brand of seductive deceit?

In French. Ages 12 and up.

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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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