The Art Museum Graubünden is celebrating its anniversary: 125 years ago, the Bündner Kunstverein was founded and thus laid the basis of our institution. The final event of the anniversary program is the Graubünden artists’ annual exhibition with its theme “à table”.
On this occasion the Art Museum Graubünden is dedicating a commemorative exhibition to Daniel Spoerri as the pioneer of Eat Art who devoted all his life to all forms of dining and culinary culture. Without him much in art within this context would not have become possible. With his death a year ago the art world lost an important artist and mediator. In 1960 Daniel Spoerri was a founding member of the group Nouveaux Réalistes, which included among others Yves Klein, Arman, César, Tinguely and Niki de Saint-Phalle. That same year he created his first “snare-pictures”, which earned Spoerri international fame. With the opening of the Galerie J restaurant in Paris, his deep interest in culinary art first manifested itself. In 1968 he opened the Restaurant Spoerri in Düsseldorf, which became a meeting point of the international art scene. In 1970 the artist installed an Eat-Art gallery above the restaurant. The exhibition brings together representative works by Daniel Spoerri as well as films and countless documents that manifest his specific artistic interests.