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Thursday 13 April 2023
At the studio
Collezione Giancarlo e Danna Olgiati, Lugano
25 March - 11 June 2023
Curated by Danna Olgiati.
Da ün Giacometti e l’altar
Museo in Erba, Lugano
01 April - 05 November 2023
Monday – Friday 08:30 am – 11:30 am / 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Saturday – Sunday 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Closed on bank holidays
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Friday 14 April 2023
Sentiment and observation Art in Ticino 1850–1950
MASI Lugano Sede LAC, Lugano
09 May 2021 - 31 December 2023
The collections of MASI Lugano reflect the very special history of visual art in Ticino.
Be connected
Diverse location,
03 July 2022 - 19 April 2023
Be connected is based on the idea that people have no limits other than those they impose upon themselves, and that everything in nature is related, connected and alive, as the ancient philosophers taught.
LuganoMusica
LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura, Lugano
02 September 2022 - 17 May 2023
The eighth season of LuganoMusica hosts at the LAC the best performers in a rich programme of symphonic and chamber concerts, recitals, dedicated events, in-depth meetings with musicians and contemporary music.
LAC 2022–2023 season
LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura, Lugano
02 September 2022 - 31 May 2023
The light of the shadow.
The Collection
Palazzo Reali, Lugano
11 September 2022 - 31 December 2023
The exhibition venue of the Palazzo Reali hosts, alongside exhibition projects related to local and international artists, an exhibition dedicated to works from the collection.
OSI in Auditorio
Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano
16 September 2022 - 04 May 2023
The OSI at the Auditorio season comprises four rather imaginative events at the RSI’s Stelio Molo Auditorium, two of them in the Play and Conduct format which allows a guest soloist to perform as conductor as well at the head of the OSI.
Art at the antipodes. The Brignoni Collection
MUSEC – Museo delle Culture, Lugano
10 February - 01 October 2023
The show is a tribute to Serge Brignoni (1903-2002), the Swiss artist and collector who brought MUSEC into being.
Werner Bischof – Unseen Colour
Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana – sede LAC, Lugano
12 February - 02 July 2023
The 2023 exhibition season opens with a show of previously unseen works by Werner Bischof (Zurich, 1916 — Trujillo, Peru, 1954).
Rita Ackermann Hidden
Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana – sede LAC, Lugano
12 March - 13 August 2023
Rita Ackermann’s exhibition titled ‘Hidden’ will focus on a selection of recent paintings in relation to the artist’s early works from the 1990s.
The memory of modernity
MUSEC - Museo delle Culture, Villa Malpensata, Lugano
01 April - 02 July 2023
Drawings by japanese children from the Levoni Collection.
Hedi Mertens
Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana – sede Palazzo Reali, Lugano
02 April - 15 October 2023
Curated by Francesca Benini and Arianna Quaglio.
Attasit Pokpong. The Presence
MUSEC – Museo delle Culture, Lugano
07 April - 11 June 2023
The exhibition 'Attasit Pokpong. The Presence" presents 29 large-scale oil paintings and 22 watercolours, depicting women's faces created by Attasit Pokpong between 2008 and 2023.
Outstanding concert: Krystian Zimerman
LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura, Lugano
14 April 2023
Sobriety, elegance and passion.
Spiritual Concerts in Santa Maria degli Angioli 2022–2023
Chiesa di S. Maria degli Angioli, Lugano
01 September 2022 - 31 August 2023
The 2022–2023 musical season organised by the Parish of S. Maria degli Angioli and the Diocese of Lugano, with the support of the Associazione Bernardino Luini, opens at the beginning of September.
Handimals – The painted hands of Guido Daniele
Museo cantonale di storia naturale, Lugano
17 September 2022 - 04 June 2023
Guido Daniele, artist and body painter of rare skill, has been painting on hands animals of all kinds, as well as plant forms, landscapes and architecture for over 20 years with hyper-realistic and stunning results.
New exhibition at the Galleria Ristorante Arté al Lago
Galleria Artè al Lago, Lugano
01 February - 26 November 2023
In 2002, the gallery-restaurant Arté was opened with the idea that, in addition to culinary art, its guests could come into contact with the visual arts, mainly in the form of sculptures and plastics up to kinetic objects.
Marc Chagall – A love story. Daphnis and Chloé and other works
Fondazione Gabriele e Anna Braglia, Lugano
02 March - 15 July 2023
At the heart of the temporary exhibition are Marc Chagall’s forty-two colourful illustrations for "Daphnis and Chloé", the pastoral novel by the Greek Longo Sophist, written almost two thousand years ago.
Between the Lines. Etchings by Vincenzo Piazza
Porticato della Biblioteca Salita dei Frati, Lugano
25 March - 13 May 2023
Vincenzo Piazza was born in Catania in 1959, where he graduated with a degree in architecture in 1983.
