Noemi Pfister (*1991) is the winner of the 2025 Manor Art Prize for the canton Graubünden and is marking the occasion with her most extensive solo exhibition to date. In her new paintings, created especially for this show at the Bündner Kunstmuseum, the Graubünden-based artist combines motifs from art history with elements of popular culture. She symbolically weaves themes such as youth, digitality, ecology and the human form into multilayered narratives. Her dreamlike landscapes are inhabited by enigmatic figures that seem to belong to a parallel world. Their anatomies appear distorted – they linger on a terrace, squinting into the sun; they perform gymnastic movements that are more play than exercise or they drink energy drinks in a fight against exhaustion. The visual language at times echoes the compositions of Old Master paintings, yet their clothing, postures, and props reflect today’s youth culture. By intertwining the familiar with the uncanny, her works probe the kinds of communities we might inhabit in the future.