Exhibitions and events at Lugano

Lugano, the Giancarlo and Danna Olgiati Collection investigates the expressive power of matter with Prampolini and Burri

The Giancarlo and Danna Olgiati Collection in Lugano opens its fall season with the exhibition Prampolini Burri. Of Matter, curated by Gabriella Belli and Bruno Corà, in collaboration with the Fondazione Burri in Città di Castello. An e...
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Richard Paul Lohse on display at MASI: a retrospective on the rational power of abstraction

More than two decades after the last museum exhibition dedicated to his work, the Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana (MASI)in Lugano offers a new retrospective on Richard Paul Lohse. The Richard Paul Lohse exhibition, on view at the LAC venue from ...
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Exhibition in Lugano compares Morandi with modern and contemporary artists

From Sept. 20 to Dec. 13, 2025, Repetto Gallery will host the exhibition Giorgio Morandi and Beyond, curated by Maria Cristina Bandera, at its Lugano location, which invites reflection on the work of Bolognese painter Giorgio Morandi, presenting the ...
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Landscape works by Ferdinand Hodler and Filippo Franzoni in dialogue at MASI Lugano

From April 13 to August 10, 2025, MASI Lugano is hosting the exhibition Ferdinand Hodler - Filippo Franzoni, curated by Cristina Sonderegger, which aims to celebrate the friendship and bond between two Swiss artists active between the 19th and 20th c...
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Eugenio Schmidhauser: photography beyond Malcantone, between art and tourism

The Museo d'Arte della Svizzera italiana(MASI) in Lugano, in its Palazzo Reali venue, is hosting from March 16 to October 12, 2025 the first institutional exhibition dedicated to Eugenio Schmidhauser (Seon, 1876 - Astano, 1952), one of the most signi...
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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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