Montreux Art Gallery, now in its tenth year, is a contemporary art fair with a juried selection of more than 150 exhibitors. The fair takes place in the Montreux Convention Centre, situated in the heart of Montreux. “We chose the right place,” says Jean-François Gailloud, director of MAG. “The Centre des Congrès is a very […]
La Nuit de la Guitare: Acoustic guitar virtuoso concert
It is rare to have world-class musical talents come together to give performances in lesser known venues in the region. But this is exactly what is happening in Versonnex on 31 October. For fans of the acoustic guitar, this event promises to be memorable with three highly respected masters coming together for just one evening. […]
The Geneva International Film Festival: Tous Écrans
Celebrating its 20th anniversary, the international ‘Tous Écrans’ festival will feature 131 film and TV shows from 6-13November. The gathering will take over the heart of Geneva in Plainpalais’s art nouveau Pitoëff community hall, where two projection rooms will promote 44 Swiss and two European premieres, plus eight international and 10 World premieres. Canada is […]
Exploring the intersection of creativity and war. L’Elysée Lausanne
Situated in beautiful gardens next to the Olympic Museum, L’Elysée in Lausanne is a museum dedicated to photography. The museum strives not only to preserve the photographic medium in the traditional sense, but also to explore and stimulate new advancements in the art of image-making. Currently on view are three politically charged exhibitions that explore […]
Half of Geneva’s flights private
In 2013, Geneva airport recorded some 50’000 landing and take-offs (about 140 per day). What is interesting though is according to Wijet, a private aviation company, nearly half of these were private flights. The same company has announced that it is now offering private flights from Geneva to 1’200 destinations in Europe and North Africa […]
“Antre”, an interactive clay art exhibit by the Chapuisat Brothers at Galerie Laurence Bernard.
Eleven people crawled semi-naked into a dark claustrophobic cave during last month’s triannual Nuit des Bains in Geneva’s contemporary art quarter. The inaugural exhibition at Galerie Laurence Bernard (formerly BTW Gallery) features an interactive site-specific installation, Antre (Lair) by Les Frères Chapuisat. Upon entering the gallery, viewers encounter a hole of 30 square centimetres cut […]
Switzerland grows the world’s largest pumpkin
Beni Meier, a gardener from the canton of Zurich has grown the world’s largest pumpkin according to Jucker Farm where the pumpkin was weighed. At 953.5 kilograms it weighs as much as a small car. This pumkin is big enough to make 2,168 tins of pumpkin, which according to several American websites,would make enough pies […]
Swiss skiing – still the most expensive
Numerous Swiss ski resorts have been obliged to raise their 2014/15 piste rates even further this winter by one to four francs, despite strong competition with cheaper lifts in neighbouring France, Italy, Germany and Austria. Based on a survey by German language newspaper Blick, the most expensive stations include Zermatt St. Moritz, Laax, Saas Fe […]
The Biennale of Moving Images Geneva
The Biennale of Moving Images (BIM) at the Centre of Contemporary Art is a great way to spend the day. This exhibition of time-based art features 22 new commissions and spans five floors within the Bâtiment d’Art Contemporain. Produced by the Centre’s director, Andrea Bellini, in collaboration with Hans Ulrich Obrist, curator and co-director of […]
Visages du Japon – Faces of Japan
Launching on Wednesday 8 October for two weeks, the Fenetre sur Cadre, a small venue at 10, Place du Marché in Carouge, will be exhibiting the work of three photographic artists, Nicolas Bouvier, Matthieu Zellweger and Sylvia Wyder. The artists have come together to each express through photographs, their own personal vision of Japan. Sylvia […]
