The International Museum of the Red Cross and Red Crescent presents the first European solo exhibition of Guatemalan Maya Kaqchikel artist Angélica Serech (*1982). Pach’un Q’ijul (Temps entrelacés – Deep Time) intertwines ancestral weaving gestures with personal and collective memory, drawing on Serech’s history shaped by Guatemala’s civil war. Using self-built looms and natural materials like corn husks and branches, her works explore resilience, repair, and the deep ties between textile traditions and humanitarian action.
Alice Izzo presents Botanic Circus, an immersive installation that transforms natural elements into a poetic visual performance. Through site-specific sculptural forms, coloured assemblies of flowers, plants and fruit become staged protagonists, inviting slow wandering, close observation and tactile interaction. The work blends installation, painted surfaces and ephemeral botanical assemblage to probe nature’s textures, theatricality and human perception. A parallel programme of monthly acrylic painting workshops complements the installation.
Intermezzo, Part 1 & 2 brings together works by Vincent Fournier, Franz Gertsch, Fabrice Gygi, Thomas Huber, Pierre Schwerzmann and Franz Erhard Walther. The group show stages a dialogue between photographic practice, painting and sculptural or performative interventions, highlighting contrasts of scale, materiality and pictorial space. Through composed images, painted surfaces and tactile objects, the exhibition considers modes of representation and the viewer’s bodily relation to works, encouraging slow looking and attentive spatial experience.
Spanning a century of cinema, this retrospective traces the evolving face of stardom from silent-era pioneers to contemporary icons. Through nine thematic chapters and a curated selection of one hundred films, it examines the star system, shifting modernities, emerging representations of desire and identity, and the rise of anti-heroes. Shot and assembled for a keen focus on the human visage, the program foregrounds cinematic techniques that reinvent how films capture presence and persona.
Sylvia Sleigh’s portraiture challenges conventional representations through nuanced figuration and a subversive reversal of traditional gender roles. This presentation highlights her painterly technique, from meticulous brushwork to a restrained palette, alongside selected works that interrogate art-historical narratives and institutional biases. Viewers are invited to observe the artist’s reworking of perspective and presence, where everyday subjects gain dignity and agency and the conventions of the male gaze are critically reconfigured.
An imaginative water festival that turns the lake into a living stage with choreographed fountains, luminous installations, projections, lasers and layered music. Daytime aquatic spectacles ripple with playful choreography and surprise moments, while large evening shows fuse water, light and sound into cinematic tableaux. Two nights feature DJs spinning into the late hours for dancing by the water. Open to all ages, the experience mixes spectacle, choreography and club energy into a single vibrant, sensory stroll.
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