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Christopher Fabian, co‑founder of Giga and UNICEF’s Digital Inclusion Lead, brings decades of experience at the intersection of technology, policy and humanitarian action. He examines where AI’s greatest promise lies and what its greatest lies may promise, focusing on universal, safe and fair access to opportunity for the most vulnerable. The talk explores how technology can serve humanity and the strategic role Geneva can play in shaping inclusive digital futures.
In English.
Geneva Art Week is a vibrant celebration of contemporary art that brings together galleries, museums, foundations, independent spaces, and artists through an inspiring program of exhibitions, performances, studio visits, talks, screenings, and immersive experiences. Designed as a citywide journey through creativity, the event transforms Geneva into an open platform for artistic discovery, encouraging dialogue between the public and the local and international art scenes in a dynamic, festive, and accessible atmosphere.
The editorial team of Transbordeur joins scholars from European universities, including Estelle Blaschke (University of Basel), Max Bonhomme (Université de Strasbourg) and Claire‑Lise Debluë (University of Lausanne), to reflect on a decade of editorial work.
This session examines the journal’s retrospective and presents the anniversary issue ‘Money: Photography, resources, labour, currency,’ exploring how photographic scholarship addresses material, economic and institutional dimensions of the medium, labour relations, and the circulation of images in contemporary economies and cultural practices.
Pling-Klang is a physical theatre duo by Étienne Manceau and Mathieu Despoisse that turns the iconic IKEA KALLAX shelf into a mischievous stage partner. Building furniture becomes an acrobatic and comic ritual: screws are tightened and loosened, objects are juggled and bodies find precarious balance. Through precise object manipulation, deadpan humour and inventive acrobatics, the piece reveals the small catastrophes and tender compromises of couple life, combining slapstick with intimate emotion.
In French.
Written by Stéphane Bouquet, Six heures plus tard is an intimate stage performance for two performers that explores the fragile bonds between a man and a woman through poetic text, live-filmed images, spare lighting and pared-down stage presence. The piece treats silence as a shared, collective resource and recomposes itself according to each venue’s architecture and the state of the bodies, creating an unusual proximity and contemplative atmosphere.
In French.
Yacine Nemra offers an intimate solo show that turns personal crisis into comic material. A gifted improviser, comedian and regular chronicler on Couleur 3 and La Première, Nemra navigates depression, burn‑out and fragile health with sharp observation and warm vulnerability. Mixing stand‑up and theatrical storytelling, the piece balances dark honesty and hopeful absurdity, inviting laughter as a form of survival. Raw, humane and sharply scripted, the performance crafts a portrait of resilience.
In French.
Nuit des Bains presents an evening when the city’s contemporary-art circuit opens as a collective exhibition. Emerging and established local and international artists activate spaces with installations, performance, painting, photography, and video, offering a multifaceted survey of contemporary practices. The event emphasizes encounter and the public imagination, revealing tensions between intimacy and urban spectacle, and questioning how art inhabits shared environments.
Christopher Fabian, co‑founder of Giga and UNICEF’s Digital Inclusion Lead, brings decades of experience at the intersection of technology, policy and humanitarian action. He examines where AI’s greatest promise lies and what its greatest lies may promise, focusing on universal, safe and fair access to opportunity for the most vulnerable. The talk explores how technology can serve humanity and the strategic role Geneva can play in shaping inclusive digital futures.
In English.
Geneva Art Week is a vibrant celebration of contemporary art that brings together galleries, museums, foundations, independent spaces, and artists through an inspiring program of exhibitions, performances, studio visits, talks, screenings, and immersive experiences. Designed as a citywide journey through creativity, the event transforms Geneva into an open platform for artistic discovery, encouraging dialogue between the public and the local and international art scenes in a dynamic, festive, and accessible atmosphere.
The editorial team of Transbordeur joins scholars from European universities, including Estelle Blaschke (University of Basel), Max Bonhomme (Université de Strasbourg) and Claire‑Lise Debluë (University of Lausanne), to reflect on a decade of editorial work.
This session examines the journal’s retrospective and presents the anniversary issue ‘Money: Photography, resources, labour, currency,’ exploring how photographic scholarship addresses material, economic and institutional dimensions of the medium, labour relations, and the circulation of images in contemporary economies and cultural practices.
Pling-Klang is a physical theatre duo by Étienne Manceau and Mathieu Despoisse that turns the iconic IKEA KALLAX shelf into a mischievous stage partner. Building furniture becomes an acrobatic and comic ritual: screws are tightened and loosened, objects are juggled and bodies find precarious balance. Through precise object manipulation, deadpan humour and inventive acrobatics, the piece reveals the small catastrophes and tender compromises of couple life, combining slapstick with intimate emotion.
In French.
Written by Stéphane Bouquet, Six heures plus tard is an intimate stage performance for two performers that explores the fragile bonds between a man and a woman through poetic text, live-filmed images, spare lighting and pared-down stage presence. The piece treats silence as a shared, collective resource and recomposes itself according to each venue’s architecture and the state of the bodies, creating an unusual proximity and contemplative atmosphere.
In French.
Yacine Nemra offers an intimate solo show that turns personal crisis into comic material. A gifted improviser, comedian and regular chronicler on Couleur 3 and La Première, Nemra navigates depression, burn‑out and fragile health with sharp observation and warm vulnerability. Mixing stand‑up and theatrical storytelling, the piece balances dark honesty and hopeful absurdity, inviting laughter as a form of survival. Raw, humane and sharply scripted, the performance crafts a portrait of resilience.
In French.
Nuit des Bains presents an evening when the city’s contemporary-art circuit opens as a collective exhibition. Emerging and established local and international artists activate spaces with installations, performance, painting, photography, and video, offering a multifaceted survey of contemporary practices. The event emphasizes encounter and the public imagination, revealing tensions between intimacy and urban spectacle, and questioning how art inhabits shared environments.
Christopher Fabian, co‑founder of Giga and UNICEF’s Digital Inclusion Lead, brings decades of experience at the intersection of technology, policy and humanitarian action. He examines where AI’s greatest promise lies and what its greatest lies may promise, focusing on universal, safe and fair access to opportunity for the most vulnerable. The talk explores how technology can serve humanity and the strategic role Geneva can play in shaping inclusive digital futures.
In English.
Geneva Art Week is a vibrant celebration of contemporary art that brings together galleries, museums, foundations, independent spaces, and artists through an inspiring program of exhibitions, performances, studio visits, talks, screenings, and immersive experiences. Designed as a citywide journey through creativity, the event transforms Geneva into an open platform for artistic discovery, encouraging dialogue between the public and the local and international art scenes in a dynamic, festive, and accessible atmosphere.
The editorial team of Transbordeur joins scholars from European universities, including Estelle Blaschke (University of Basel), Max Bonhomme (Université de Strasbourg) and Claire‑Lise Debluë (University of Lausanne), to reflect on a decade of editorial work.
This session examines the journal’s retrospective and presents the anniversary issue ‘Money: Photography, resources, labour, currency,’ exploring how photographic scholarship addresses material, economic and institutional dimensions of the medium, labour relations, and the circulation of images in contemporary economies and cultural practices.
Pling-Klang is a physical theatre duo by Étienne Manceau and Mathieu Despoisse that turns the iconic IKEA KALLAX shelf into a mischievous stage partner. Building furniture becomes an acrobatic and comic ritual: screws are tightened and loosened, objects are juggled and bodies find precarious balance. Through precise object manipulation, deadpan humour and inventive acrobatics, the piece reveals the small catastrophes and tender compromises of couple life, combining slapstick with intimate emotion.
In French.
Written by Stéphane Bouquet, Six heures plus tard is an intimate stage performance for two performers that explores the fragile bonds between a man and a woman through poetic text, live-filmed images, spare lighting and pared-down stage presence. The piece treats silence as a shared, collective resource and recomposes itself according to each venue’s architecture and the state of the bodies, creating an unusual proximity and contemplative atmosphere.
In French.
Yacine Nemra offers an intimate solo show that turns personal crisis into comic material. A gifted improviser, comedian and regular chronicler on Couleur 3 and La Première, Nemra navigates depression, burn‑out and fragile health with sharp observation and warm vulnerability. Mixing stand‑up and theatrical storytelling, the piece balances dark honesty and hopeful absurdity, inviting laughter as a form of survival. Raw, humane and sharply scripted, the performance crafts a portrait of resilience.
In French.
Directed by Jérôme Bel, this collectively created theatre piece is written and performed by children aged 8 to 14. The work unfolds through improvisation, playful imagination and a celebration of creative freedom, inviting an immediate, joyful stage presence. The ensemble’s spontaneous scenes and open-ended dramaturgy emphasize collaboration and risk, offering spectators an intimate encounter with youthful authorship and theatrical experiment.
In French.
Conceptual artist John M Armleder brings together composer-performers Stephan Eicher and Christian Marclay in the context of his ‘Observatoires’ project. For the first time, these three figures convene in a performance that merges visual installation and live sound. Armleder’s treatment of the space — its silvered surfaces and an emphasis on emptiness — frames fragile melodies, found noises and sustained textures. The result is an immersive sonic-visual dialogue where metallic light, silence and spontaneous interaction reshape listening.
An interactive community festival marking five years of collaborative making and creative exchange. The program presents hands-on workshops (jewellery and wooden toy making, patchwork sewing), practical skateboarding sessions and contests, graffiti and collaborative mural painting, screenprinting, and live music. Participants explore craft techniques, collective artistic processes, and practical skills while artists and makers demonstrate methods and facilitate experiment-driven learning. The event examines how shared creative practices foster community networks and sustain local production.
Walk through a leafy urban park, listening for birdsong and spotting passing migrants as they navigate tree canopies and ponds. Guided by ornithologist Laurent Vallotton, the stroll combines close observation with lively explanation of behaviours and flight rhythms. Expect short, gentle paths, moments of quiet listening, and bursts of discovery as species move south. Accessible to older children and adults (from age 10), the experience balances gentle physical activity with active natural interpretation.
Curator Samuel Gross leads a series of roundtable discussions organized by Geneva Art Week and Documents d’artistes Genève. Bringing together artists, curators, critics and cultural institution leaders, the programme investigates Geneva’s contemporary art scenes, examining recent histories, institutional shifts, evolving networks and modes of circulation. Participants discuss curatorial strategies, critical perspectives and the challenges and prospects shaping artistic practices and public visibility. The sessions aim to deepen understanding of the city’s cultural dynamics through interdisciplinary exchange.
In French.
Capucine Pageron presents a series of miniature ceramic interiors in which a female figure performs everyday gestures. Bedrooms, kitchens and bathrooms freeze familiar actions in intimately scaled scenes that blend matte and glossy textures. Vivid glazes articulate a compact, anachronistic visual language, where domestic habit becomes sculptural tableau. The works foreground material tactility and the quiet choreography of ordinary acts, inviting close attention to form, color and the poetics of domestic space.
Opening: 19 septembre 11:00 – 17:00, in the presence of the artist
Closing: 27 septembre 11:00 – 17:00, in the presence of the artist
Join neighbours and community members for a week of activities focused on reducing waste and protecting our environment. The programme offers information stands, hands-on workshops, reuse and repair initiatives, food-waste awareness and community clean-ups such as urban plogging. Activities are suitable for all ages and invite everyone to learn practical tips, share resources and act together for a cleaner, more sustainable neighbourhood. Participation encourages local solidarity and everyday changes that benefit people and nature.
Nuit des Bains presents an evening when the city’s contemporary-art circuit opens as a collective exhibition. Emerging and established local and international artists activate spaces with installations, performance, painting, photography, and video, offering a multifaceted survey of contemporary practices. The event emphasizes encounter and the public imagination, revealing tensions between intimacy and urban spectacle, and questioning how art inhabits shared environments.
Christopher Fabian, co‑founder of Giga and UNICEF’s Digital Inclusion Lead, brings decades of experience at the intersection of technology, policy and humanitarian action. He examines where AI’s greatest promise lies and what its greatest lies may promise, focusing on universal, safe and fair access to opportunity for the most vulnerable. The talk explores how technology can serve humanity and the strategic role Geneva can play in shaping inclusive digital futures.
In English.
Geneva Art Week is a vibrant celebration of contemporary art that brings together galleries, museums, foundations, independent spaces, and artists through an inspiring program of exhibitions, performances, studio visits, talks, screenings, and immersive experiences. Designed as a citywide journey through creativity, the event transforms Geneva into an open platform for artistic discovery, encouraging dialogue between the public and the local and international art scenes in a dynamic, festive, and accessible atmosphere.
The editorial team of Transbordeur joins scholars from European universities, including Estelle Blaschke (University of Basel), Max Bonhomme (Université de Strasbourg) and Claire‑Lise Debluë (University of Lausanne), to reflect on a decade of editorial work.
This session examines the journal’s retrospective and presents the anniversary issue ‘Money: Photography, resources, labour, currency,’ exploring how photographic scholarship addresses material, economic and institutional dimensions of the medium, labour relations, and the circulation of images in contemporary economies and cultural practices.
Pling-Klang is a physical theatre duo by Étienne Manceau and Mathieu Despoisse that turns the iconic IKEA KALLAX shelf into a mischievous stage partner. Building furniture becomes an acrobatic and comic ritual: screws are tightened and loosened, objects are juggled and bodies find precarious balance. Through precise object manipulation, deadpan humour and inventive acrobatics, the piece reveals the small catastrophes and tender compromises of couple life, combining slapstick with intimate emotion.
In French.
Written by Stéphane Bouquet, Six heures plus tard is an intimate stage performance for two performers that explores the fragile bonds between a man and a woman through poetic text, live-filmed images, spare lighting and pared-down stage presence. The piece treats silence as a shared, collective resource and recomposes itself according to each venue’s architecture and the state of the bodies, creating an unusual proximity and contemplative atmosphere.
In French.
Yacine Nemra offers an intimate solo show that turns personal crisis into comic material. A gifted improviser, comedian and regular chronicler on Couleur 3 and La Première, Nemra navigates depression, burn‑out and fragile health with sharp observation and warm vulnerability. Mixing stand‑up and theatrical storytelling, the piece balances dark honesty and hopeful absurdity, inviting laughter as a form of survival. Raw, humane and sharply scripted, the performance crafts a portrait of resilience.
In French.
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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.
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