KOSMOS VISIONNAIRE

20 January 2027 – 28 February 2027

KOSMOS VISIONNAIRE is somewhere between a ghost train, an inner journey, and a musée intime. It unfolds through a sequence of immersive spaces: acoustically orchestrated, labyrinthine, and dramatically staged. Black and white, melancholic, poetic, aggressive, colourful. A multitude of worlds — urban, galactic, jungle-like.

Realised as an exuberant immersive environment, it resembles a vast, wildly proliferating panorama teeming with details. It merges the visual languages of illustration, cartoon, comics, and contemporary art, occupying a space somewhere between popular culture and art history.

This ephemeral cosmos is created on site from hundreds, even thousands, of individual elements: boxes, fabrics, papier-mâché figures, paper works, textile objects, plastics — loosely connected and assembled like favelas, like a DIY Disneyland.

KOSMOS VISIONNAIRE is a walk-in, three-dimensional comic that all but swallows its visitors whole. The KOSMOS is our life’s work. Over the coming years and decades, it is intended to travel from one art venue to another like a wandering circus. Constantly expanded, updated, transformed, and partially destroyed, it is a growing and evolving organism.

Each encounter with the KOSMOS is a unique event. A true horror vacui in which everything is connected to everything else.

Vernissage: January 19, 2027

WE ARE HERE – Art, Belonging and Resistance

7 April 2027 – 26 September 2027

WE ARE HERE explores questions of belonging, exclusion, migration and social responsibility. The exhibition brings together diverse artistic positions and personal perspectives, drawing attention to social realities that often receive little attention.

A historical introduction provides visitors with an overview of key developments and contexts in Switzerland, establishing the historical framework for the exhibition. The project then unfolds across six chapters, each presented for one month. At the centre are the perspectives of former indentured foster children and children placed in residential institutions, Yenish and Sinti communities, undocumented people, women and mothers, refugee families and young people, as well as seasonal workers and their descendants.

The people whose experiences are represented are not merely part of the exhibition; they also contribute to its development. Personal perspectives find expression through artistic works, creating a multifaceted space for encounter, exchange and reflection.

WE ARE HERE connects art with social questions and invites visitors to engage with different lived realities, experiences and forms of belonging.

WHEN MATERIAL BEGINS TO TELL ITS STORY

27 October 2027 – 30 April 2028

hat do we see when we look at things? An object. Waste. Cardboard. Fabric. Plastic. Something worthless. Or something that already carries a story? Hans Melchior, Sonja Rieser, Danielle Jacqui, Kurt Gubler and André Vladimir Heiz take a closer look. They collect, preserve, touch, sew, crochet, construct and combine. Discarded materials take on new forms, fabrics grow into worlds, wood becomes landscape, and whatever happens to be at hand becomes art.

What connects the five artists is a particular attentiveness to material. They follow its possibilities rather than seeking to fully control it. In doing so, the boundaries between valuable and worthless, found and created, object and artwork begin to blur. Perhaps we do not need to reinvent things. Perhaps we simply need to encounter them differently.

When material begins to tell its story, it also changes the way we see the world.