This travelling exhibition will be hosted in Geneva after having visited 22 municipalities of the Greater Geneva area since 2016. Céline Gispert and Marc Charbonnier are the two prize-winning photographers in a competition; their photographic work, atypical and rooted in the local region, takes a sensitive look at the diversity and dynamism of the men and women from the region. These shots also provide a view on the identity of Greater Geneva from an interesting angle.

By hosting this exhibition, SIG wishes to express its interest in the region, as well as its commitment to the Franco-Vaud-Geneva conurbation project. For SIG, culture has no borders and must be universally accessible.

On the occasion of its 150th anniversary, the newspaper Le Courrier invites you to attend its itinerant exhibition, "Irreductible", at Quartier Libre SIG, from January 21st to 28th.

Implemented in partnership with the High School of Art and Design (HEAD) in Geneva, this exhibition will cover the history of Geneva, Switzerland and the world through, the eyes of its editors. It will also address topics which are cherished by the newspaper, as well as the challenges of quality information in an increasingly restrictive Swiss media landscape.

This exhibition highlighted the collection of the Puppet Theatre of Geneva, partner of the event. It invites the public to discover or rediscover characters staged in shows from 1930 to 2015, providing an insight into the evolution of the art of puppetry in our city.

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SIG and the Cantonal Fund for Contemporary Art presented the "Art & Tram" exhibition as an extension of the six artistic events, permanently staged on the tram 14 line between Cornavin and Bernex. Visitors were able to admire the works of renowned Swiss artists: Silvie Defraoui, John Armleder, Pipilotti Rist, Ugo Rondinone, Eric Hattan and Lang/Baumann. An opportunity to become acquainted with art in the public domain, as well as with the backstage of a public works project.

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SIG’s Quartier Libre presented an exhibition of the most beautiful portraits and self-portraits of six photographers from the Magnum agency and invited the viewer to reflect on self-representation. From the renowned images of Philippe Halsman, Elliot Erwitt, Martin Parr, Paolo Pellegrin, Steve McCurry and Brice Gilden, the "Picture Yourself" exhibition offered a panorama of contemporary photography that these masters of the genre helped to shape.

Bertrand Stofleth presented a photographic series of 850 km along the Rhône, from its source, a glacier in the Valais, to its estuary in the Mediterranean Sea.
The artist constructed a dialogue between the river landscape and its border space, questioning what is at stake between the fantasy of a yet wild nature and its deeply domesticated character. 

Nature invited itself to Quartier Libre SIG during the Hundertwasser exhibition. A tribute to this great Austrian painter who throughout his life encouraged and developed an ecological way of life. Through his works and architecture, he tried to reconcile man and his environment in the hope of restoring a living environment in harmony with nature. 

The aim of this interactive exhibition was to (re)discover the border, to dwell on it in order to understand its origin, its legal implications, its particularities and its ‘short singular stories’. An opportunity to render evident the trace of time in space and to celebrate the bicentenary of Geneva’s entry into the Swiss Confederation.

For the first time in Switzerland, this exhibition presented the largest collection of posters created by Keith Haring, an iconic artist who marked the alternative scene in New York during the 1980s. These works highlighted the importance of raising public awareness to major causes such as AIDS prevention, racism, drugs, environmental protection or the promotion of culture. 

Quartier Libre SIG presented an exhibition hosted in partnership with ZEP and Stan&Vince, authors of the Chronokids comic strip. An invitation to travel back in time with the heroes Adèle and Marvin to discover the most beautiful inventions of History and their famous creators.

This exhibition was an opportunity for Olivier Föllmi to continue his reflection on the themes of diversity, spirituality and the humility of Man in the face of nature. He invited the public to meditate on these issues by way of a dialogue between fifty photographs and the presentation of a new series of videos.

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An interactive exhibition that leads visitors to meditate on the need to fight pollution and waste. The opportunity to discover the solutions implemented by specialised organisations, such as UNESCO and to create your own footprint. 

This exhibition dedicated to the ‘Father of Op Art’ is a retrospective of some fifty works by Victor Vasarely. It shows the multiple facets of this extraordinary plastic artist who, based on elementary geometrical forms, created the illusion of movement.

SIG and Reporters Without Borders presented photographs taken by six great Swiss reporters, Reto Albertalli, Christoph Bangert, Thomas Kern, Didier Ruef, Meinrad Schade and Olivier Vogelsang, on the theme of the environment and conflicts around the world.

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