Since 2005, the Art Museum Graubünden has used Villa Garbald in Castasegna as an off-site venue. The premises do not function as a gallery; rather, art is intended to provide inspiration and stimulate reflection in the “Villa Garbald Think Tank.” This year’s guest is the renowned Swiss artist Cécile Wick.

Cécile Wick (*1954) belongs to the generation of Swiss artists who, around 1980, sought a new way of dealing with the medium of photography and freed it from its attachment to visible reality. Her experimental processing gives the pictures a painterly quality and an aura of mystery. For the Fondazione Garbald, she uses her camera to capture the garden around the Semper Villa in the cycle of the seasons. Just as important as the on-site shooting are the subsequent artistic processes that lead to the special image quality. These new pictures by Cécile Wick deal with the fluid process of becoming and passing away and at the same time build a bridge to the artist photographs of Andrea and Margherita Garbald. The art installation in Villa Garbald is curated by Stephan Kunz.

Vernissage: 4 July 2026, 5:00 p.m.
Villa Garbald, Castasegna

The collaborative partnership with the Art Museum Graubünden began in 2004 with the establishment of the “Think Tank Villa Garbald”. Since 2005 the Art Museum Graubünden regularly organises “Art Installations” that meet the needs of the Villa Garbald as an art space. Every year an artist is commissioned to develop a photographic project for Gottfried Semper’s Villa Garbald and for Miller & Maranta’s Roccolo, and to integrate their own work in a specific way into the broader context. Thereby the photographer Andrea Garbald is shown due honour and a meaningful contribution is made to this out of the way valley.

There is a booklet in German, Italian and English to go with each art-installation. 

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