The Mountain in Perspective

For a long time kept at a distance, the Alps have become a subject of study and their own pictorial subject ever since the first expeditions in the late 18th century.

This exhibition pays homage to the artists, their approaches varying depending on personality and period. They continuously reorient our perception. Surveyed from every angle, sometimes unchanging and almost eternal, other times fragile and threatened, the mountain is ascended from different perspectives. It reveals itself as dizzying or peaceful, at times surprising, always moving.

Ranging from iconic to surprising, the paintings, engravings, photographs, videos and objects exhibited investigate both the mountain’s wild and tamed character and, in the present context, where climate questions are at the centre of public debate, they reevaluate its indestructible nature.