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Performed by Ensemble Sinfonietta Bern and the Quartet Sinfonietta Bern, this programme presents Mozart’s Little Night Serenade with sparkling clarity and buoyant energy. The musicians shape agile string textures and luminous phrasing, revealing grace, charm and radiant colour. The music’s classical poise balances intimacy and brilliance, recalling its Viennese origins in 1787 between The Marriage of Figaro and Mozart’s late symphonies. The result is spirited, luminous and quietly jubilant.
Antoine Piron-Meyer (Agni) presents paintings alongside archival documents and publications that trace his singular artistic trajectory. Combining realism, poetic imagery and rich imagination, his canvases evoke mythic, often Bosch-inspired narratives while archival photographs and documents illuminate his mural and public-art engagements and teaching practice.
The exhibition balances intimate studio works with documentary materials to reveal how historical references, urban interventions and pedagogical commitments shaped a multifaceted practice. Curated by his niece Anouk‑Eva Meyer, it invites reflection on artistic continuity and urban cultural history.
Reserved for previous participants of the Grand Chantier, this workshop deepens marionette staging and performance practice. Facilitated by Chine Curchod and Joël Hefti. Using puppets supplied by the TMG and excerpts from classical and contemporary texts, participants will investigate spatial composition, scenographic devices and dramaturgy, and refine ensemble manipulation and character work. The atelier emphasizes practical exercises, collective exploration and staged fragments to advance technical control and theatrical storytelling.
In French.
Presented by the Association des Comédies Musicales de l’Université de Genève, Projet 51 follows two friends, Robin and Bobby, who encounter a whimsical alien and embark on a time-transcending odyssey. Through original songs and theatrical tableaux, the piece explores family, love and the act of telling one’s life. Staged as an intimate yet expansive musical, it blends humour, tenderness and imagination to create vivid moments that shift between playful wonder and heartfelt reflection.
In French.
Dig into planting and discovery at a lively plant market. Walk between stalls of seedlings, herbs and colorful flowers. Hear gardeners sharing simple tips, smell fresh soil and taste local honey. In a hands-on potting workshop, children will pot a plant, feel soft earth, and take their own creation home. Bright colors, rustling leaves and cheerful voices make the day sensory and playful, sparking curiosity and confidence in caring for plants.
Entre guillemets presents a titleless performance where objects fall, slide and unsettle the stage. The company blends circus, theatre and visual performance to probe the fragility of everyday life and the challenge of keeping emotional and physical balance. Recovered objects from each venue become autonomous elements within a poetic, chaotic set. The piece mixes physical humour, gravity and touching moments. Performers include Camille Boitel, Sève Bernard, Kenzo Bernard and Étienne Charles, with alternating casts.
In French.
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Curator Danniel Tostes brings together works by several generations of artists to examine community as a space of connection, resistance and collective creation. The exhibition assembles photography, installation, sculpture and mixed-media projects that forge dialogues between historical and contemporary practices. Through gestures, archival fragments and collaborative processes, the show investigates memory, solidarity and the forms that communal artistic practices take across time.
Opening : Thursday 30 April, 18:00 (Salle Saint Ours)
Gérard de Palézieux’s illustrated books are presented in a curated selection of some fifty volumes showcasing original prints—etchings and lithographs—that reveal the artist’s draughtsmanship and graphic sensibility. The presentation focuses on the dialogue between image and text, highlighting sequence, typography and the hand of the illustrator. Many volumes come from the library of a prominent European bibliophile; a new catalogue accompanies the selection, documenting plates, editions and printing techniques.
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
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.
Artist Nicolas Ponce presents a personal exhibition of video installations that probe pathways of memory, both personal and collective. Works combine archival footage, film extracts, stolen sequences and found online materials to build layered visual montages. The exhibition text examines mechanisms of remembrance and describes an artistic montage of contradictions that opens a ‘Chamber of Reminiscences’. Ponce’s practice centres on video and installation, interrogating set, landscape, secrets and political narratives through the lens of popular culture.
Opening : Thursday 23 April, 18:00
Meeting with artist : Thursday 7 May, 18:00
Isabelle Perez constructs a contemporary bestiary of the human soul. Her hybrid figures — at the intersection of myth and animality — probe metamorphosis, instinct and memory. Through paintings, drawings, engravings and sculptures, Perez stages bodies that mirror inner myths and primal impulses. The work examines the fragile boundary between human and animal, and the broader human relationship to nature, seeking poetic and anthropological resonances that invite introspection rather than easy identification.
Opening reception on Friday, May 8th at 6:30 pm
The artist will be present on Saturdays and Sundays
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