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Over three days, a local conservatory opens for a diverse Fête de la musique programme that explores jazz, chamber music, orchestral classes, electroacoustic creations, opera fragments, percussion, guitar, strings and pop-rock workshops. Performances range from intimate recitals to ensemble pieces, highlighting emerging students and guest artists. The programme is designed for all audiences, offering varied atmospheres from contemplative listening to rhythmic celebration, and showcasing both tradition and contemporary experimentation.
Planète Rouge returns with an immersive celebration of music, bringing together live performances, DJ sets, and its signature Face2Face sessions across two of Geneva’s most iconic cultural venues. From afternoon concerts in an open-air setting to an energetic late-night afterparty, the event offers more than fifteen hours of continuous music and collective experience. Blending emerging talents and established artists, Planète Rouge creates a vibrant atmosphere where discovery, connection, and dance take centre stage, transforming the city into a dynamic meeting point for music lovers and celebrating the unifying spirit of contemporary live culture.
Join Corner 25 and friends for a warm, late-night reggae and dub sound meeting. The Corner 25 crew — JoRed, High Frequency, Selecta Ranks, Roots Glider, UpFull Vibes, Jah Roots Hi Fi and King’s Tone — share deep bass, dubbed rhythms and a welcoming atmosphere. Open to everyone from teenagers to seasoned fans, the gathering is about community, shared music and dancing together in a relaxed, family-style setting.
A whole Sunday of eclectic Afro-soul jazz. Come celebrate the Fête de la Musique in the old town with Maquis DéKalé and its program that promises to get you dancing.
On a triple bill by the Ballet Junior de Genève, three new works unfold: Yuval Pick’s Revoada, Émilie Leriche’s sad game and Sharon Eyal & Gai Behar’s Untitled Black. The company moves with collective intensity, shifting between taut physicality and lyrical surges. Pick teases singularity through vibrant movement, Leriche propels the dancers into precise, breathless lyricism, and Eyal/Behar impose a hypnotic, technically demanding finale. The evening is charged, communal and viscerally alive.
For the Fête de la Musique (Music Festival), we invite you to join us all weekend to enjoy a friendly atmosphere, live concerts, and our seasonal cuisine. Reservations recommended: +41 22 753 17 55
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Events running for an extended period
Curators Ghalas Charara and Rita Elhajj present a first collaborative exhibition that scrutinizes the collection through a shared, probing gaze. The presentation assembles works from the collection alongside archival materials and curatorial interventions, foregrounding fragments, indexes and ruptures.
It interrogates the ruinous logics of archives, the anxieties encoded in preservation, and the ways memory is displaced or exiled. The show stages dialogues between history, material traces and acts of remembrance.
Opening: Thursday 21 May, 18:00
Momar Seck presents a series of drawings that accompany his new monograph Poïétiques. Through delicate studies of foliage, roots, textures and organic forms, Seck explores the invisible links between matter, nature and emotion. His sensitive visual language oscillates between close observation and inner poetics, inviting the viewer to slow down and perceive the subtle traces left by time, the earth and the breath of life. The show establishes a dialogue between image and writing.
Opening and book signing on 11 June at 18:30.
Carolina Fontana presents Parallaxe, a first solo exhibition in Geneva featuring paintings from her recent Z·E·N series. Produced through contemplative travels across Swiss cantons, Spain and China, the canvases blend figurative motifs with abstract formations to evoke a transcendent, Zen-informed sensibility toward landscape and the sublime. The works emphasise delicate brushwork, layered surfaces and meditative composition, inviting sustained attention to process, rhythm and the poetic interplay between presence and absence.
Opening: Thursday 21 May, 18:00
Physis presents a two-person dialogue between sculptor Ernst Gamperl and the drawing practice of Shunshun. Gamperl’s internationally recognised sculptures, rooted in exceptional woodwork, explore growth, material presence and a generative life force. Shunshun’s delicate, layered line drawings shift from architectural training to intimate studies of spatial depth and quiet emotional resonance. Together the works consider intergenerational perspectives on form, technique and the elemental meanings of nature.
Opening: Wednesday 20 May, 17:00
German artist Jan Albers (born 1971) develops a practice between painting, sculpture and architecture. His works often take the form of reliefs built through accumulation: assembled, layered and compressed surfaces of wood, metal, polystyrene, ceramic and polymer plaster that evoke fragments of architecture, models or landscapes. These reliefs oscillate between saturation and erasure, balance and collapse, revealing their complexity only through a slow, attentive gaze.
Opening: Thursday 21 May, 18:00
Genevan artist Gérald Grosjean presents a focused series of paintings and handcrafted maquettes that examine industrial and railway landscapes. The show gathers twenty-seven canvases and three models made from reclaimed materials, emphasising a pointillist approach to structures such as stations, bridges, dams, factories and viaducts. Through meticulous dots and assembled found objects, Grosjean explores the aesthetic presence and collective memory of infrastructure, inviting reflection on material reuse and the visual poetry of engineered landscapes.
Opening : Tuesday 19 May, 18:00
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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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