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Swiss Location Award® 2024 Palexpo among the best event halls in Switzerland! Palexpo wins the Swiss Location Award® 2024 and is officially among the best event halls in Switzerland! With a score of 9.3, Palexpo receives the “exceptional” quality label in the “event halls” category. This category includes event and exhibition halls suitable for large corporate events, general assemblies, concerts, fairs, shows, parties, etc., and which have at least one room of more than 1,000m². Since 2016, the Swiss Location Award® has distinguished the most beautiful and best locations in Switzerland in various categories, making it the most important quality label in the event industry for hotels, restaurants, meeting venues, congress centers, and unique event locations. Organizers, visitors, and an independent jury of experts evaluate the nominated venues based on different criteria. Depending on the total number of points obtained by the participating venues at the end of the evaluation period, they are awarded the quality label “recommended,” “excellent,” or “exceptional.”

Le salon du livre en ville FOCUS ON THE BOOK FAIR IN TOWN! – TUESDAY, MAY 17, 2022 – Literature is in full swing as the “Salon du livre en ville” is about to open! Come and discover the programme which will be held from May 18 to 22 on the Promenade de la Treille, its central location, and in various emblematic places of the city.  It is still time to sign up for one of the many events or book signings offered over 4 days. An eclectic programme of readings, meetings, storytelling, debates on current affairs, comics, thrillers, children’s literature as well as African literature with the award of the Kourouma prize.  The programme will be supported by Laurent Gaudé (a guest of honour awarded the Prix Goncourt and lover of aloud reading) as well as renowned authors such as Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Raphaël Enthoven, Richard Malka (lawyer of Charlie Hebdo and Mila), Isabelle Carré (actress and writer), Mathias Malzieu (singer of the group Dionysos), Nancy Huston, Hubert Védrine, Constance Debré and Agnès Martin-Lugand, to name but a few. There will be something for everyone! Enjoy your listening!

artgenève artgenève inaugurates a return to normal at Palexpo – Monday, March 7, 2022 – artgenève, which celebrated its 10th anniversary this year, has just closed its doors. An edition, rich in novelties, which attracted the public enthused by face to face and artistic encounters. In 2021, the activity had resumed in Monaco with artmonte-carlo. We can only be delighted that artgenève is the first major event organised at Palexpo this year! Discover the official website

An ecological commitment PALEXPO CONFIRMS ITS ECOLOGICAL COMMITMENT – Monday, March 14, 2022 – ProCert is renewing the ISO 20121:2012 certification awarded to Palexpo for 3 years in 2019. This certification confirms a responsible management system for events organised at Palexpo. This extension underlines the efforts undertaken by Palexpo to limit the ecological footprint of its activities and to align itself with the UN’s 2030 objectives. Discover the ISO website

the watchmaking event of the year Palexpo is looking forward to hosting the watchmaking event! – Wednesday, March 30, 2022 – Watches and Wonders is about to open its doors for a week full of amazing discoveries. A watchmaking summit, where 38 leading watch brands showcase their new products to both public and professional visitors, combined with a vast digital offering, including panel discussions and keynotes. Discover the official website

The Geneva Biennale Sculpture Garden The Geneva Biennale Sculpture Garden is in place until 30 September. – FRIDAY 10 JUNE 2022 – Throughout the summer, Sculpture Garden will form a path punctuated by numerous artistic projects from the Parc des Eaux-Vives to the Parc La Grange and the new Eaux-Vives beach. Curated by Devrim Bayar, curator of the WIELS contemporary art centre in Brussels, the Biennale includes 26 works, more than half of which are produced especially for the exhibition and constitutes a quality cultural event accessible to all. For its third edition, the Geneva Biennale Sculpture Garden will focus on contemporary artists who question our relationships to others and to ourselves, in an increasingly unstable environment into which technologies shape our subjectivities.