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Don’t miss out: Events running for less than two weeks

Monday 4 May, 18:00

As part of our 120th anniversary celebrations, we are pleased to welcome Gilles Babinet for a talk on the major transformations driven by artificial intelligence. Drawing on his experience as an entrepreneur and digital expert, he will explore the evolution of AI and its impact on society, education, and learning practices. This conference offers a timely opportunity to reflect on the opportunities, challenges, and ethical questions raised by these rapidly evolving technologies.

In French.

2 – 9 May

This community festival gathers experts, artists and citizens to imagine shared futures and stimulate collective reflection. Through immersive exhibitions, debates, workshops and performances, it explores major social, environmental and urban challenges and investigates pathways for sustainable transition. Sessions examine cross-cutting themes—innovation, governance, ecological adaptation and cultural practices—offering diverse perspectives and practical insights to help audiences understand systemic issues and identify strategies for local transformation.

In French.

Monday 4 May, 19:00

Francesca Rosati Freeman’s documentary observes the Moso people of the Yunnan foothills, offering an intimate, lyrical portrait of a matrilineal society. Through first-hand testimonies and lingering images of striking Himalayan landscapes, the film probes how a roughly 40,000-strong community organizes daily life around collective solidarity, sharing and a maternal ethic. Quiet, observational camerawork and patient pacing emphasize oral traditions and the fragile persistence of cultural practices under pressure from market forces and mass tourism, evoking both beauty and concern.

In French.

Monday 4 May, 20:00

Thomas Lacoste’s SOULÈVEMENTS unfolds as a choral portrait in sixteen voices, a reflective and intimate study of an intergenerational movement resisting land and water grab, industrial devastation and rising authoritarian pressures. Lacoste favors attentive rhythms and textured close-ups that privilege lived experience over spectacle, interweaving personal trajectories into a collective mosaic. The film gauges how communities experiment with other ways of living and new relations to the living, mapping emotional and political terrains with immersive, tactile images that broaden our sense of political possibility.

The screening will be followed by a discussion with director Thomas Lacoste and representatives from the Geneva Earth Uprisings.

In collaboration with the Geneva Earth Uprisings, Alternatiba Léman, and the Green Film Festival

In French.

Monday 4 May, 20:00

Directed by Jacques Gay, this vocal celebration gathers soloists Fabrice Coccitto and Thibaut Trouche, pianist Raphaëlle Farman and the Comédie Lyrique choir to traverse a repertoire spanning musical theatre, French variété and jazz. Selections range from Aznavour and Voulzy to Queen, ABBA and Sinatra, reimagined with warm ensemble singing and intimate piano textures. The staging favors close harmonies, rhythmic verve and nostalgic timbres, inviting listeners into a convivial yet nuanced sound world.

4 – 9 May

Artist Maëva Weissen presents a collaborative exhibition of handmade flags created by pupils and apprentices from the DIP through guided creative workshops. Using recovered textiles and artisanal techniques, the works interrogate national symbols, folklore and textile know‑how to probe questions of Swiss identity and its coexistence with multiple cultural roots in Geneva. The pieces combine textile craft, assemblage and photography to reflect on adolescence, belonging and the environmental footprint of the fashion industry.

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Events running for an extended period

20 April – 7 June

Designed for emerging professionals and recent graduates, this workshop explores puppetry through the creation of a short performance. Four to five young artists are supported through a guided process from idea to stage, with mentorship in direction, dramaturgy and construction. Participants develop a compact work presented at a public work-in-progress showcase. The programme also offers the chance to win a fully funded four-week training placement in 2027 at Odradek, near Toulouse.

In French.

16 April – 8 May

Presenting works by Julien Fournival, Théa Giglio and Chaolin Li, this exhibition draws on acts of recovery, diasporic narratives and ambiguous forms. Through found materials, sculptural interventions and time-based compositions, the project probes disjointed temporalities where memory and disappearance coexist. The artists intertwine material histories and personal fragments to question how objects and gestures carry traces across loss and migration.

Guided tours in French.

17 April – 30 May

This exhibition presents portraits and personal testimonies of about twenty Swiss centenarians alongside results from the SWISS100 interdisciplinary research project. Photographs, audio testimonies, archival documents and data visualisations dialogue to reveal everyday realities of longevity. The display combines portraiture and research to challenge clichés, exploring memory, loss, care and social infrastructures that shape life after a hundred. Visitors encounter intimate narratives framed by scientific analysis and visual storytelling.

Opening: Thursday 16 April, 18:30 – 20:30

12 March – 9 May

The exhibition brings together three artists, Nnena Kalu, Linda Bell and Marie Gyger, whose practices examine repetitive gesture as a daily discipline. Gyger reflects on the value of labour, while Bell and Kalu pursue more spontaneous, obsessive procedures. Their works, ranging from repetitive drawings and object accumulation to installations and assembled images, show how accumulation sculpts pictorial forms and material narratives, inviting reflection on labour, ritual and the construction of visual meaning.

Opening during Nuit des Bains, Thursday 12 March, 18:00.

28 April – 30 July

HiFlow launches Quand le vivant nous fait agir, a year-long programme that explores how living systems can inspire new ways of thinking and acting. Bringing together artists, researchers, designers, entrepreneurs and thinkers, HiFlow becomes a space for experimentation and dialogue around more sensitive and sustainable futures. The first chapter, “Hybridations fertiles”, transforms the venue into a living laboratory through a collective exhibition, off-site projects, conferences, performances and workshops at the crossroads of art, design, life sciences and hybrid technologies.

22 January – 9 May

This exhibition pays tribute to Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, a seminal figure of Australian Aboriginal art and a pioneer of the Western Desert painting movement. Drawing on Dreaming stories and the ancestral landscapes of his Anmatyerre heritage, Possum translated traditional sand and body painting motifs into monumental canvases that intertwine myth, geography and memory. His richly patterned, large-scale works balance Indigenous cosmology with a striking sense of modern abstraction, affirming his lasting influence on global contemporary art.

Opening during the Nuit des Bains, Thursday 22 January, from 18:00.

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Geneva Classics

Visiting for the first time? A quick guide to the city’s top attractions.

The MEG is a renowned museum dedicated to the exploration and presentation of cultural diversity from around the world. Located in the heart of Geneva, it houses an extensive collection of over 80,000 objects, including artifacts, textiles, and artworks that highlight the rich traditions and histories of various communities. The museum emphasizes interactive and immersive exhibitions, engaging visitors with contemporary issues related to culture and identity.

Cool fact: The e-MEG app serves as a digital twin of the permanent exhibition, providing an audio guide and detailed descriptions along with photographs of all displayed objects.

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Since its opening in 1994, the MAMCO Geneva (Musée d’art moderne et contemporain)  has staged 450 exhibitions with works dating from the 1960s to the present day. Mamco’s holdings include works by Christo, Martin Kippenberger, Jenny Holzer, Dan Flavin, Sarkis, Franz Erhard Walther and Sylvie Fleury, among many others.

Cool fact: The MAMCO is the epicenter of the “Nuit des Bains”, held three times a year.  During this event, the district around the museum is transformed into a large gallery and attracts thousands of art lovers and sightseers each night.

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With a collection of 27,000 items from Switzerland, Europe and the Middle and Far East, and a witness to twelve centuries of ceramic art from the Middle Ages to modern times, the Ariana is one of Europe’s great museums specializing in glass and ceramics.

Cool fact: On the first Sunday of each month, the Ariana Museum opens its temporary exhibitions to the public.

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