As well as its museums’ collections, Switzerland boasts other significant public art collections that are less well known and comparatively inconspicuous. These include the Swiss Post collection, which goes back to the federal ordinance for the enhancement and promotion of Helvetic art and has existed for approximately 100 years. Swiss Post is celebrating its longstanding tradition as a patron of the arts by offering an insight into the numerous activities it undertakes, in collaboration with Swiss museums.
At Villa dei Cedri, the dialogue will focus on themes that are fundamental to the Museum's identity, such as the relationship between humanity and nature, the natural habitat of species, and acclimatisation: the need, that is, to adapt to a changing environment. From Félix Vallotton's Intimités to works generated in collaboration with artificial intelligence by Dorota Gaweda & Eglé Kulbokaité, the exhibition reflects – not without a certain irony – different responses to the need to yield to the conditions of life on earth and of technological evolution.
Curated by Carole Haensler and Diana Pavlicek.
With Tonatiuh Ambrosetti, Badel/Sarbach, Brigham Baker, Mirko Baselgia, Fiorenza Bassetti, Joseph Beuys, Giuseppe Bolzani, Julian Charrière, Andriu Deplazes, Klodin Erb, Aldo Ferrario, Fischli/Weiss, FRAGMENTIN, Alexandre Hollan, Philipp Gasser, Dorota Gaweda & Eglé Kulbokaité, Gerber/Bardill, Giovanni Giacometti, Christina Hemauer & Roman Keller, Alain Huck, Monica Ursina Jäger, Thomas Julier, Lucie Kohler, Isabelle Krieg, Jérôme Leuba, Emilio Longoni, Armando Losa, Douglas Mandry, Marta Margnetti, Gian Paolo Minelli, Janet Mueller, Harald Naegeli, Hayan Kam Nakache, Giulia Napoleone, Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs, Flavio Paolucci, Imre Ferenc Jozsef Reiner, Kotscha Reist, Philipp Schaerer, Markus Schinwald, Shirana Shahbazi, Rita Siegfried, Jean-Vincent Simonet, Una Szeemann, Kelly Tissot, U5, Félix Vallotton, Ester Vonplon.
