Agenda

Concrete is everywhere. Today, concrete is the most widely used building material on earth. Yet increasing awareness of its significant ecological impact has made clear that the status quo of building in concrete is no longer tenable.

The exhibition (“Beton”)presents nine ways of understanding concrete, bringing together, among others, original drawings, models, and photographs from the three main architecture archives in Switzerland in order to illuminate this complex and critical material.

The historical scope of the exhibition is complemented by the public events program, which focuses on the use of this material today and opens the discussion on its possible futures.

The museum will organise a cycle of exhibitions devoted to the body and corporeality in the coming years. The first exhibition is on religious iconography. It shows the body as glorious, suffering or discouraged.

The body is also a tool for communicating with the sacred and saints: man strengthens his link with the spiritual sphere through rituals, clothing, and gestures.

To extend these themes to the 21st century, the exhibited works and artefacts from the religious heritage dialogue with contemporary art, revealing their continuity and changes.

The first privately owned collection of posters presented by the gallery owner Werner Röthlisberger is an expression of his passion for this art, particularly from Pablo Picasso (1881-1973).

The exhibition shows a selection of 55 original posters by Picasso from his collection of 250 . It is one of the world´s most complete collections of posters from Picasso.

Picasso worked intensively with all graphic techniques and experimented with different printing processes such as woodcut, linocut, copper engraving and lithography.

Like many artists of his time, he was intensely involved in printmaking, especially after the end of the Second World War.

We urgently need to rethink our relationship with nature. Plants play a central role here, inspiring designers, scientists, and engineers to devise innovative solutions to current environmental and social issues.

The exhibition Plants Fever  presents around 50 international projects from the fields of product design, fashion and new technologies and explores the hidden potential of plants.

The exhibition «animalistic! Snake, cod liver oil and cortisone – from animals to active pharmaceutical ingredients.» investigates the use of animals as drugs, active ingredients of pharmaceuticals and symbol in the history of pharmacy up to the present day.

The exhibition (tierisch ! Vom Tier zum Wirkstoff) is the fourth of four events in different museums, see also www.tierischbasel.ch.

Tomi Ungerer (1931-2019) is one of the most prominent and provocative illustrators of our time. His oeuvre includes more than 40,000 drawings, oil paintings, poster designs, collages, lithographs, woodcuts and objects.

In addition, his 140 books range from social satire to fairy tales, including modern children’s book classics such as “The Three Robbers” (Die drei Räuber) or “The Moon Man” (Der Mondmann).

The exhibition, which can draw on the rich stock of 250 works by Tomi Ungerer in the Würth collection, offers a cross-section of the contents of the artist’s oeuvre, which is as profound as it is entertaining.

On the occasion of the 150th birthday of the artist Werner Büchly (1871-1942), the Icon Museum in Lenzburg focuses on his great pictorial historical, religious and cultural themes.

Among his most important works are those on the Angelrain Schoolhouse in Lenzburg and the Pestalozzi Schoolhouse in Birr (1906), in the crematoriums in Aarau and Zurich, in the Vindonissa Museum in Brugg or in the parish church in Othmarsingen.

The almost forgotten artist left an impressive oeuvre. His apostles, heroes, gods, scientists and other personalities decorate the halls and facades of schools and other educational institutions, churches, government buildings and villas.

His representations in the exhibition (Helden und Propheten) also depict the great philosophical and religious questions.

Davos (Canton of Graubünden) is the subject of this exhibition (Europa auf Kur. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Thomas Mann und der Mythos Davos).

The (former) mountain village makes European cultural and medical history visible. The show links medical and spa history, architecture, winter sports, art and literature, philosophy and politics.

The high mountain air was a remedy against the contagious disease tuberculosis. From 1870 onwards, Davos rapidly changed from a mountain village into an international health resort.

At the same time, Davos developed into a renowned winter sports resort. The Beau Monde met in Davos: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Katia and Thomas Mann, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, Albert Einstein and Sonja Henie are only a few celebrities who visited Davos.

The exhibition tells their stories. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner left Berlin to stay in Davos. In the novel Der Zauberberg, Thomas Mann describes Davos as a symbol of Europe’s dreams and misfortunes.

The exhibited masterpieces by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner from the Kirchermuseum open a new perspective on European cultural life at the turn of the century.

Other Objects are displayed for the first time. They come from the German National Museum (Germanisches Nationalmuseum), the Davos Historical Museum (Heimatmuseum Davos), the Davos Sports Museum (Sportmuseum Davos), the Medical History of Davos ( Medizinhistorische Sammlung Davos) and the Davos Documentation Library (Dokumentationsbibliothek Davos).

The original diaries, notes and photographs from the Thomas Mann Archives at the ETH Zurich document the history of the Der Zauberberg in an impressive manner.

“From what our eyes see when we walk in streets, anywhere in the world, under and around our feet, on pavements covered with the remnants of paint and chewing gum, wet spots and tyre tracks, I have created photographs and photographic compositions that allude to the world of Atlases, to the pages filled with images of the universe, geographical maps, landscapes, invitations to discover the world and to invent other worlds”.

(A partir de ce qui tombe sous nos yeux quand on marche dans les rues du monde, là autour de nos pas comme dessous, sur les trottoirs couverts de restes de peinture et de cheving-gum aplatis, de taches d’humidité et d’autres traces de pneu, râpées, j’ai réalisé des photographies et des compositions photographiques faisant allusion au monde des Atlas, aux pages remplies d’images de l’univers, de cartes de géographie, de paysages, d’invitations à découvrir comme à inventer le monde, un monde).

As the artist, Alan Humerose (1956) himself, says, the photographs that make up The Great Atlas of Downcast Eyes (Le Grand Atlas des yeux baissés) are nothing more than an invitation. An invitation to explore, change viewpoints, and imagine a different reality, but also and above all to dream.

To walk the pavements as if leafing through an atlas, to get lost in their roughness, to be intoxicated by their colours and to use these unexpected discoveries to form a new poetic and photographic universe, that is what The Great Atlas of Downcast Eyes is about.

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On the occasion of the bicentenary of Greece’s declaration of independence (25 March 1821), the Fondation Hardt pour l’étude de l’Antiquité classique  and the museum put the friendly relations between Greece and Geneva at the beginning of the 19th century into perspective of three personalities.

The museum also organises the exhibition  A taste for the antique. Anna et Jean Gabriel Eynard (Le goût de l’antiqu).

Jean Capodistrias (1776-1831), a Greek citizen, and two Genevans, Charles Pictet de Rochemont (1755-1824) and Jean Gabriel Eynard (1755-1863), played a key role in the independence of Greece. Eynard was also a co-founder of the National Bank of Greece.

These three figures also worked together to integrate Geneva into the Helvetic Confederation in and after 1815. A few years later, Eynard distinguished himself by coordinating the European Philhellenic Committees, which were set up in the wake of the uprising by the Greek people.

Kapodistrias became the country’s first president in 1827. He was assassinated by his opponents in 1831. A decade later, Eynard co-founded the National Bank of Greece.