Exhibitions and events at Lugano

MASI in Lugano dedicates an exhibition to Luigi Ghirri and his fascination with travel

From Sept. 8, 2024 to Jan. 26, 2025, MASI in Lugano will host the exhibition Luigi Ghirri. Travels. Photographs 1970-1991, curated by James Lingwood. The exhibition, held a little more than 30 years after the untimely death of Luigi Ghirri (Scandiano...
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An exhibition in Lugano on the poetics of the Void and the Full in Yves Klein and Arman

The Giancarlo and Danna Olgiati Collection in Lugano inaugurates its fall 2024 season with an exhibition open from September 22, 2024 to January 12, 2025 entitled Yves Klein and Arman. Le Vide et Le Plein, curated by Bruno Corà and realized in colla...
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In Switzerland, the MASI in Lugano presents a major monographic exhibition dedicated to Alexander Calder

MASI - Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana, in Lugano, Switzerland, presents from May 5 to October 6, 2024, the exhibition Calder. Sculpting Time curated by Carmen Giménez and Ana Mingot Comenge. This is the most comprehensive monographic ex...
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Streams of Spleen: Shahryar Nashat's multisensory solo exhibition at MASI in Lugano

From March 17 to August 18, 2024, MASI, Museo d'Arte della Svizzera Italiana, in Lugano presents the solo exhibition by Shahryar Nashat curated by Francesca Benini entitled Streams of Spleen. The artist intervened with a site-specific project on the ...
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MASI in Lugano pays tribute to Ernst Scheidegger, the Swiss photographer who immortalized Giacometti, Dalí, Miró, Chagall

From February 18 to July 21, 2024, MASI in Lugano presents the exhibition Face to Face. Giacometti, Dalí, Miró, Ernst, Chagall. Homage to Ernst Scheidegger, curated by Tobia Bezzola and Taisse Grandi Venturi, in collaboration with the K...
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Lugano's LAC pays tribute to the eclectic Robert Wilson with his new installation

An artist, sculptor, video artist and filmmaker of international renown, for more than half a century Robert Wilson (Texas, 1941) has never ceased to amaze with his overflowing creativity, which, combined with his personal stylistic rigor, still cont...
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Three hundred masterpieces from Zurich's Graphische Sammlung on display at MASI, from Dürer to Warhol

From September 10, 2023 to January 7, 2024, MASI - Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana in Lugano presents the exhibition Da Albrecht Dürer a Andy Warhol. Masterpieces from the Graphische Sammlung ETH Zürich, curated by the Director of the ...
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Lugano, showcasing prints and drawings by the greatest artists ever, from Dürer to Warhol

From Albrecht Dürer to Rembrandt van Rijn from Francisco de Goya to Maria Sibylla Merian, Pablo Picasso and Edvard Munch presented alongside the works of living artists such as John M Armleder, Olivier Mosset, Candida Höfer, Susan Hefuna, S...
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