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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.
Paella and Watches is a convivial gathering for vintage watch enthusiasts, collectors, and curious visitors alike. Bringing together a selection of specialized dealers, the event offers a unique opportunity to discover exceptional timepieces, exchange expertise, and enjoy a relaxed atmosphere in the heart of Geneva.
An international professional beach volleyball tournament bringing top men’s and women’s teams together for high-level competition and lively spectator energy. Over multiple days, pro pairs face fast, athletic rallies on outdoor sand courts, combining technical skill, endurance and tactical play. The atmosphere blends sporting intensity with a festival-like social vibe, offering accessible viewing for all levels of fans and a showcase of elite beach volleyball performance.
An intimate summer gathering bringing residents and neighbours together around shared meals, stories and music. Mirwais and Alessandra prepare Afghan and Ukrainian dishes while residents Adama, Oleksandra, Kristoff, Ambrosio, Lawo and Aby share personal tales. The evening culminates with Yalla Miku, whose post-kraut grooves, mutated folklore and trance-tinged electronics weave dense, collective soundscapes. Expect a convivial, political atmosphere where food, testimony and dance create encounters across cultures and generations.
Genevan artist Gamo (born 1974) draws from the 1980s graffiti and hip‑hop scene to transform abandoned objects and recovered cardboard into vibrant mixed‑media works. Executed on repurposed cartons, his pictorial surfaces combine acrylic, brush, airbrush and spray to conjure a fantastical urban imaginary.
The exhibition explores recycling, material transformation and memory, questioning consumption while evoking street culture’s visual language and the poetics of found matter.
Opening: Thursday 18 June, 18:00 – 21:00
Frank Zappa’s opera “200 Motels” is showing in Switzerland for the first time. This dynamic musical-theatrical piece is brought to life by director Daniel Kramer and conductor Titus Engel, featuring an impressive and diverse cast, including Robin Adams, Brenda Rae, and legendary guitarist Mike Keneally. Known for his iconic rock career, Zappa presents an experimental and psychedelic work that blends opera, rock, and contemporary classical music. “200 Motels” offers a chaotic and extravagant journey across the United States, mirroring the wild lives of Zappa and the Mothers of Invention.
In English with French subtitles.
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Events running for an extended period
Artist Jessica Decorvet investigates the landscape as an unstable concept where seeing implicates participation and representation transforms the world. The exhibition brings together drawings, textiles, ceramics and living plants to stage tensions between intense, almost vital wonder and cultural framing that distances the living.
Playing with scale from miniature objects to a monumental curtain, Decorvet unsettles assumptions: textiles become stained glass while ceramics verge on reliquary. The works evoke and question how perception and materiality shape our relation to place.
Opening: Tuesday 28 April, 18:00
Dany Gignoux (photographer) and poet Georges Haldas present a compelling dialogue between documentary photography and lyrical prose. The exhibition brings together photographs and written fragments that register everyday life in Geneva’s cafés, combining on-the-spot reportage with memory-infused “prose inspirée.” Through intimate black-and-white images and spare, evocative texts the works transfigure mundane scenes into poetic testimony, revealing social undercurrents and human tenderness. Archival materials frame this historic encounter between two generations of cultural chroniclers.
Eleven Brazilian artists spanning the twentieth and twenty-first centuries engage in a group exhibition that examines how form is inhabited by belief systems, memory, ritual and everyday experience. Through painting, sculpture and assemblage, the works trace dialogues between modern and contemporary practices shaped by Afro‑Brazilian religions, Indigenous cosmologies and vernacular knowledge. Materials range from painted canvases and carved works to found objects and textile interventions, revealing layered narratives of lineage, syncretism and embodied memory.
May 1972 is an exhibition dedicated to Salvatore Emblema (Naples, 1929–2006), bringing together works produced between the late 1960s and the early 1980s. Across paintings, sculptures and installations, Emblema refines a conceptual language that interrogates materiality, form and temporality. The presentation highlights his experimental use of found materials, assemblage and reductive gestures, situating these works within postwar Italian avant‑garde practices and the artist’s evolving exploration of spatial and epistemic limits.
Presented from the private collection of Giuseppe Garrera and curated by Andrea Bellini and Giuseppe Garrera, this exhibition assembles an array of diminutive found objects — trinkets, charms, gadgets, toys, lucky charms and fragments of wood, cloth and glass — rescued from mundane life by artists’ gestures. Hovering between toy, everyday artefact and artwork, the presentation explores the thaumaturgic qualities of objects and childhood as a site of refuge and wonder.
Opening: Tuesday 28 April, 16:00 – 21:00
Guided tours (in English)
Sunday 17 May, 16:00
Thursday 21 May, 18:30 – 19:30 (FR or EN)
Sunday 7 June, 16:00
Intermezzo brings together a constellation of international and Swiss artists including Pierre-Olivier Arnaud, Silvia Bächli, Franz Gertsch, Olivier Mosset, Claude Rutault and Franz Erhard Walther. The group show juxtaposes painting, drawing, photography and sculptural interventions to explore materiality, repetition and spatial gesture. Works range from refined drawings and large-scale canvases to object-based installations, inviting a dialogue between figuration and abstraction and reflecting on process, surface and the performative possibilities of form.
Opening: Thursday 21 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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