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Friday 30 July 2021
Festival Ticino Musica
Sorengo, Canobbio, Paradiso, Morcote, Lugano
18 - 31 July 2021
The TICINO MUSICA Festival is an international meeting of young musicians attended every year by hundreds of musicians and singers from all over the world – a fusion of mature artistry and nascent talent.
Namad the ancient art of felt in Iran and Central Asia
Museo delle Culture, Villa Malpensata, Lugano
01 March - 03 October 2021
“Namads” are impressive carpets made from felted wool, created by nomadic peoples of central Asia to decorate their interior spaces.
Souvenir du Japon. Postcards from The Ceschin Pilone Collection (1898-1960)
Museo delle Culture, Villa Malpensata, Lugano
01 March - 05 September 2021
Postcards of geisha, cherry blossoms, views of Mount Fuji and sumo wrestlers are juxtaposed to illustrations, graphic and photographic celebratory images capturing historical events of the early 20th century.
Masterworks of modern photography 1900-1940: The Thomas Walther Collection at The Museum of Modern Art, New York
MASI Lugano Sede LAC, Lugano
25 April - 01 August 2021
The creative possibilities explored through photography were never richer or more varied than in the years between the two world wars, when photographers tested the medium with unmatched imaginative fervor.
LAC en plein air
LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura, Piazza, Lugano
06 July - 10 September 2021
The summer festival LAC en plein air is back.
Nicolas Party - Rovine
MASI Lugano, Sede LAC, Lugano
27 June 2021 - 09 January 2022
MASI presents the first large solo exhibition devoted to Nicolas Party, the Swiss artist who in recent years has established himself as one of the leading names on the international art scene.
Luigi Pericle. Ad astra
Masi Lugano, Palazzo Reali, Lugano
18 April - 05 September 2021
Curated by Carole Haensler in collaboration with Laura Pomari.
LongLake Festival 2021
Lugano
01 June - 19 September 2021
The 11th edition of the LongLake Festival will offer 111 days of festival for a host of diverse events, with international and national guests, scattered between Piazza Manzoni, Parco Ciani with its beloved Boschetto, the Agora external space of the LAC, Piazzetta San Carlo and other places in the city thanks to the offerings of museums, beaches and institutions.
Hans Georg Berger. Discipline and senses. A retrospective
Museo delle Culture, Villa Malpensata, Lugano
13 May 2021 - 16 January 2022
The German photographer’s journey touches the roots of spirituality by portraying man’s inner universes with extraordinary composure.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and the grandeur of the mountains
Fondazione Gabriele e Anna Braglia, Lugano
01 April - 31 July 2021
The exhibition focuses on Kirchner’s output during his stay in the Swiss Alps between 1917 and 1938.
La Collezione
Masi Lugano, Palazzo Reali, Lugano
01 March - 31 December 2021
The exhibition presents different focuses linked to specific historical periods, artistic movements and artists well documented in the collections, alongside an introduction to the history of MASI, born in 2015 from the merger between the Museo Cantonale d’Arte and the Museo d’Arte di Lugano.
Rilke, Hesse, Dürrenmatt and the wine
Museo Hermann Hesse, Montagnola
28 March - 30 November 2021
Wine unites the artists, and is an important element of their work: as a metaphor it makes visible the theme and message inherent in the text.
Nakama - Aoi Huber Kono and Victoria Díaz Saravia
Galleria Doppia V, Lugano
16 July - 13 August 2021
The Doppia V Gallery in Lugano presents the works of Aoi Huber Kono and Victoria Diaz Saravia in a double solo exhibition.
Calder, what a circus!
Museo in Erba, Lugano
28 November 2020 - 31 July 2021
An exhibition/workshop on Alexander Calder.
Ettore Silini - Photographs
Museo Cantonale di Storia Naturale, Lugano
01 April - 30 December 2021
The photographic exhibition by Ettore Silini, born in 1978, from Besazio, shows incredible images of insects, taken using the technique of focus stacking, namely a combination of several photographs taken at different focus distances to achieve maximum depth of field.
Inzetti
Museo Cantonale di Storia Naturale, Lugano
01 April - 30 December 2021
The educational exhibition, realized in 2020 by Pro Natura Ticino on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the association and adapted by the “Museo cantonale di storia naturale” to its spaces, is conceived with playful supporting activities useful to discover, in an interactive way, the world of insects.
Due passi tra... i libri, percorso alla scoperta di romanzi gialli
Nucleo storico e sentieri, Manno
23 April - 24 October 2021
