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!
Roger Melt teams with Santosh on tablas for an intimate musical evening that blends jazz, reggae and funk with Antillean flavours. Melt’s songwriting and multi-instrumentalism — kora, voice, guitar and harp — weave warm melodies and rhythmic textures, while tablas and subtle grooves bring a creole pulse. The programme balances improvisation and structured songs, inviting a relaxed, danceable atmosphere accompanied by Afro‑European cuisine.
Village des Cultures offers a cycle of adult workshops organized by ADEM and eMa, focusing on world music, voice and dance practices. Participants explore circle songs, cantos de trabajo, body percussion and diverse dance forms—sabar and flamenco—through practical sessions led by artists and pedagogues including Marine Pelletrau-Duris, Rebecca Roger Cruz, Roberto Castillo, Khady Sarr, Mbar Ndiaye and Felipe Clivio. The programme emphasizes technique, cultural context and collective improvisation to develop expressive and rhythmic skills.
Science Night brings together hundreds of researchers and science enthusiasts to present hands-on stands and activities for the public. The event fosters public engagement, showcasing diverse scientific disciplines and informal learning practices. It explores how interactive demonstrations and conversations can inspire curiosity, deepen knowledge, and connect specialist research with everyday experience. Themes include science communication, interdisciplinary dialogue, and cultivating wonder as a driver for learning and civic participation.
The Inédits Théâtre du Courrier and the Sélection suisse en Avignon present the publication 10 ans, 10 textes, 10 auteur·ices, marking a decade of highlighting contemporary dramatic writing. This special print gathers ten plays and additional texts to showcase Swiss francophone dramaturgy, offering readers and practitioners insight into emergent voices and themes in theatre today. The launch includes a short public reading of excerpts by actors, underlining the collection’s focus on text and performance.
In French.
The Geneva International String Academy presents an exceptional series of concerts celebrating the artistry of emerging musicians and internationally renowned performers through a rich programme of chamber music, recitals, and masterclasses. Bringing together talented young violinists, violists, and cellists from around the world, the Academy creates a unique environment where education and performance meet, fostering artistic exchange, excellence, and creativity. Set in some of Geneva’s most inspiring cultural venues, these concerts offer audiences an intimate and vibrant musical experience while highlighting the next generation of classical talent alongside distinguished guest artists and professors.
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This exhibition brings together archival photographs, historical medical objects and contemporary works to examine how illness is represented and embodied. Through photography, installation and mixed-media pieces, artists probe how bodily experience resists language and is translated into image, narrative and presence. The presentation includes a new work by Sabrina Röthlisberger Belkacem and is curated by Sara Petrucci with scenography by OnLab, creating a dialogue between archives and recent artistic responses.
Senegalese artist Adji Diouf presents a solo exhibition of paintings that move between figuration and abstraction. Colour structures the compositions, with warm, luminous palettes where the gaze becomes an anchor in abstract fields. Recurrent cultural motifs emerge across canvases, informing a poetic and visual vocabulary. The show highlights the artist’s sustained practice and pictorial exploration of memory, identity and transmission through layered surfaces and rhythmic forms.
Crossings brings together Swiss artist Maria Ceppi and Japanese artist Tami Ichino in a poetic dialogue exploring memory, transformation, and the hidden resonance of everyday forms. Through sculpture, painting, and assemblage, the artists reinterpret familiar materials and natural elements into evocative compositions that move between abstraction and recognition. Blending intuition, symbolism, and material experimentation, the exhibition creates immersive spaces where personal narratives intersect with broader reflections on nature, coexistence, perception, and the shifting relationship between humanity and the world around us. Hosted by GOWEN Contemporary, Crossings invites viewers into a contemplative journey where objects, landscapes, and emotions continuously evolve across forms, meanings, and states of being.
This spring, Villa Bernasconi hosts Helvetropicos, a platform that brings together Switzerland-based artists with strong ties to Latin America. The exhibition explores hybrid identities and contemporary forms of cultural mixing through diverse works—installations, sculptures, paintings, and more—inviting visitors to rethink how reality is shaped and experienced.
Opening: Tuesday 5 May, 18:00 – 21:00
Closing event: Sunday 5 July, 16:00 – 18:00
To mark 30 years of Hortus Botanicus Helveticus, this exhibition presents the diversity and conservation work of Swiss botanical gardens through thirty panels. Each display showcases living collections and highlights the scientific, conservation and educational roles gardens play in safeguarding plant biodiversity. The presentation combines photographic and interpretative elements with botanical specimens to reveal how gardens document, protect and communicate the value of plant life.
Le Palais des Tressaillements brings together a group of contemporary artists who examine the legacy and circulation of images. Through photography, installation, mixed media and archival practices, the exhibition investigates how visual cultures shape identities, memory and collective narratives. Works by Yvan Alvarez, Tim Bruggeman, Aline d’Auria, Lina Geoushy, Mårten Lange, Magdalena Wysocka and others propose strategies of appropriation, re-signification and poetic reassembly to resist dominant representations and to imagine alternative filiations.
Opening: Tuesday 9 June, 18:00 and guided tour with the artists (in French and English)
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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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