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Showcases the musical worlds of students enrolled in the standardized+ curriculum. Each performer presents a 15-minute set in solo, duo or group formats, offering a compact portrait of their repertoire and artistic approach. The programme gathers varied styles—from singer-songwriters to instrumentalists—and highlights emerging talents: Lina Ruegg (voice, piano), Tess Giordano (voice, guitar), Elia Portela (guitar), Macéo Von Wyss (drums) and Arno Albert (drums). A private debrief with an external expert follows the public performances.
Join this intimate community reading series celebrating letters and journeys, centred on the theme “Beyond the Mountains.” Five outdoor readings present texts by Schwarzenbach, Cingria, Bouvier, Vernet and Eberhardt, performed by Marthe Keller, Jean‑Luc Bideau, Samuel Labarthe, Camille Bordet, Ophélie Gaillard and Geoffroy de Clavière. Each session stands alone and lasts about one hour. The festival invites neighbours, families and everyone curious about literature to come together, listen and share in a quiet, communal experience.
In French.
Under the direction of Christophe Trudeau‑Houle, the Sapaudia choir explores the theme of family through a varied vocal programme. With intimate arrangements and rich choral textures, the ensemble interprets classics such as “Mon Fils ma Bataille”, “Our House” and “Maman”, alongside selections drawn from Québec. The performance balances humour and tenderness, moving from close harmony to fuller, celebratory passages. Careful dynamics and thoughtful phrasing highlight the emotional arc of each song, inviting listeners into a warm, communal experience.
Kesbara is the intimate duo of Dida Guigan (voice and riq) and Romain Luder (guitar and voice). Born from a creative urgency in response to the 2023 crisis in Gaza and the wider Middle East, their music offers a soulful, poignant homage to lives lost. Drawing on Cham region classical and popular repertoire alongside contemporary compositions, their songs weave Arabic and French phrases, building fragile cultural bridges. The result is a tender, evocative musical remedy—coriander as metaphor—for a troubled world.
Directed as an in situ promenade, this performance follows two protagonists, P. and B., through the city’s hidden seams. B. conspires to seed an exuberant vegetal uprising, mastering invasive plants to unsettle urban order. P. slips into the city’s blind spots, picking locks and slipping through barriers to reveal alternative ways of inhabiting public space. The show mixes physical theatre, poetic staging and ecological imagination to explore rewilding, intimacy and civic subversion.
In French.
Now in its fifth edition, the Estival de la Cour des Hutins brings together emerging and established local bands for two days of summer concerts. The lineup mixes indie, rock and electronic flavours, including Katavia, Prune, Lyosun, Emy No Joke, The Resylients, Don’t Kill The Cow and The Hoods Off. Expect energetic sets, a communal outdoor atmosphere and improvised musical moments that showcase Geneva’s grassroots scene.
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This exhibition assembles objects old and new, from video games and pop culture gadgets to robots like the Omnibot 2000, Daruma statuettes and various oracles. Presented as a cabinet of curiosities, it probes beliefs, technological imaginaries and our relationship to progress. The displays offer strategies for dialoguing with the future, showcase artistic works imagining desirable futures and explore possible developments conceived locally. Content is aimed at ages 8 to 108.
Opening : Wednesday, May 6 at 16:00
Curator-led tours (In French) : 9 – 10 May, 14 June
The MAH showcases Tonutopie, an innovative installation by German artist Hans-Walter Müller, a trailblazer in inflatable structures. This large, transparent, and habitable sphere, nestled within Vincent Lamouroux’s La Passerelle, offers a unique sensory experience. It delves into the contrasts between the fluidity of inflatable structures and the rigidity of traditional architecture, providing visitors with a fresh perspective on space.
Etienne Francey and Onoko present a collaborative exhibition exploring the mirage as visual and psychological phenomenon. Francey’s photographic practice treats landscapes as memory, rendering familiar scenes with a soft, recollected quality. Onoko contributes more abstract works that distill atmosphere and luminous degradation into colour fields and ephemeral surfaces. Together their pieces interrogate perception, illusion, and the shifting boundary between apparition and documentation, using photography, colour studies and light to destabilize what the eye assumes to know.
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
Intermezzo brings together a constellation of international and Swiss artists including Pierre-Olivier Arnaud, Silvia Bächli, Franz Gertsch, Olivier Mosset, Claude Rutault and Franz Erhard Walther. The group show juxtaposes painting, drawing, photography and sculptural interventions to explore materiality, repetition and spatial gesture. Works range from refined drawings and large-scale canvases to object-based installations, inviting a dialogue between figuration and abstraction and reflecting on process, surface and the performative possibilities of form.
Opening: Thursday 21 May, 18:00
Ben Thouard is an ocean artist and one of the world’s foremost surf photographers. In his work water becomes a darkroom, an underwater camera obscura that reveals a singular, immersive vision. This exhibition presents previously unseen photography born of a near-daily practice: a language of water and light. Between organic forms, deep textures and shifts of shadow and clarity, Thouard’s images move between abstraction and contemplation, offering a sensory experience that explores the movements and metamorphoses of liquid matter.
Opening : 25 June, 18:00 – 21:00
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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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