Muzeum Susch
The Muzeum Susch is a museum for contemporary art in Susch in the Lower Engadine in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. It was founded by the Polish entrepreneur, art collector and patron Grażyna Kulczyk and opened on January 2, 2019.
prehistory
The Polish entrepreneur Grażyna Kulczyk acquired a medieval monastery building in Susch and three other old Engadine houses on the same street and commissioned the architects Chasper Schmidlin and Lukas Voellmy to develop the “Muzeum Susch” project from the complex. Kulczyk spells it in Polish with a "z".
building
The whole museum complex consists of four buildings: the Bieraria (brewery), the Bieraria Veglia (old brewery), the Chasa della Santa (House of Health) and the artist residence Temporars Susch , which is currently (2019) still under construction. The entrance to the museum is through the Bieraria basement. The Bieraria Veglia is entered through a pre-existing underground corridor, where, in addition to exhibition space, the headquarters of the “Muzeum Susch / Art Stations Foundation CH” are located.
A restaurant is planned. In the summer, terraced gardens designed by Günther Vogt can be entered from the exhibition rooms.
Since all buildings are under cantonal monument protection, the exhibition areas could only be extended into the interior of the mountain or into the depths. In the first phase of construction, 9,000 tons of rock were blasted out and the cavern-like rooms in the mountain were designed. In some rooms the raw rock was left, so that the location of the room in the mountain can be experienced; in one room one can observe spring water emerging from the rock.
The renovation took three years. Today, the exhibition space on four floors in around twenty labyrinth-like and differently designed rooms comprises 1,500 square meters. The blasted rock ( amphibolite ) was ground up and reused as a sanded floor covering. Other floors consist of local Swiss stone pine , pebbles from the Inn or slabs of the limestone that was used in the previous buildings.
View of the old brewery
View from the village over the Inn
exhibition
Permanent exhibition
The permanent part “Site Specific Works” shows permanent installations by contemporary artists such as Miroslaw Balka , Marlene Dumas , Maria Lassnig , Louise Bourgeois , Heidi Bucher , Adrián Villar Rojas or the Swiss Sara Masüger , who deal with buildings and spaces in different ways .
Temporary exhibitions
- January 2 - June 30, 2019 (opening exhibition): “A Woman Looking At Men Looking At Women”; curated by Kasia Redzisz
- July 27 - November 24, 2019: Drawings by the Swiss healer and researcher Emma Kunz
- December 29, 2019 - June 28, 2020: Work by the American artist Carolee Schneemann
Further program items
In addition to the exhibitions, performances, lectures and artist studios made possible by scholarships are to be given a permanent location at the Muzeum Susch. Based on the fact that the foundation stone of Graubünden Protestantism was laid in a disputation in the neighboring Reformed Church in the New Year's 1537/38 , annual "disputes" on current topics have been held since 2017.
View of the garden
Showroom in the mountain
Connecting passage
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Extract from the commercial register for Art Stations Foundation CH. Graubünden commercial register , accessed on January 7, 2019 .
- ↑ DISPUTAZIUNS SUSCH - On the Reformation and standards of thought. In: MUZEUM SUSCH . Retrieved January 7, 2019 .
Coordinates: 46 ° 45 ′ 2 " N , 10 ° 4 ′ 53" E ; CH1903: eight hundred and one thousand eight hundred ninety-four / 181107