Exhibition cooperation
For 100 years, Swiss Post has been committed to supporting artistic creation in Switzerland. In the anniversary year 2024, we launched our exhibition collaborations. Together with selected art institutions in Switzerland, we place works from our collection in dialogue with artworks from the respective museum collections. In doing so, we open up new perspectives on current topics and make two collections accessible to an interested audience.
The Art Collection in Dialogue
Glimmers of Home
Kunstmuseums St. Gallen
27. June to 18. October 2026
In the Glimmers of Home exhibition, the Swiss Post art collection engages with the collections of the St. Gallen Art Museum. The collaborative exhibition explores what “home” could mean today from the perspective of contemporary positions and selected historical works. Traditional ideas of home are being questioned, and new perspectives are being opened on a globally networked world shaped by technological transformations, migration and climate change. The multi-faceted exhibition tour makes Switzerland tangible as a social, cultural and emotional space – beyond geographical borders.
Giardino di acclimatazione
Museo Villa dei Cedri, Bellinzona
14.09. to 10.11. 2024
Swiss Post has a long tradition of promoting art, dating back to the Confederation's commitment under the Federal Decree of 1887 and, in particular, the Ordinance of 1924. To celebrate this long-standing commitment, it has developed various exhibition projects in collaboration with Swiss art museums. Following an initial exhibition at the Bündner Kunstmuseum in Chur (May to Aug. 2024) on the fragility of today's world, a new exhibition has been conceived in collaboration with the Museo Villa dei Cedri in Bellinzona. Around 40 works from the Swiss Post collection, together with around 30 paintings, prints, sculptures and photographs from the museum's collection and a number of loans, explore the theme of the “acclimatization garden”, i.e. the ability to adapt to a diverse and changing environment.
The collections of Swiss Post and the Museo Villa dei Cedri share many interests and concerns. Both aim to document cultural and social change in Switzerland - the Museo Villa dei Cedri with a particular focus on the relationship between man and nature and works on paper, and Swiss Post with a focus on the contemporary Swiss art scene and works that address current social issues. This encounter gave rise to the exhibition Garden of Acclimatization.
Fragile
Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur
18.05. al 25.08.2024
The Swiss Post art collection’s first collaborative exhibition is open. For 100 years, Swiss Post has been committed to art and to promoting Swiss artists. For the first time, the general public is now being given an insight into these efforts. Diana Pavlicek, collection curator and head of Swiss Post’s commitment to art, and Stephan Kunz, Artistic Director of the Grisons Museum of Fine Arts in Chur, opened the exhibition at a preview on 17 May 2024.
News on our exhibition collaborations
Swiss Post gives an insight into its art collection for the first time
The Swiss Post art collection’s first collaborative exhibition is open. For 100 years, Swiss Post has been committed to art and to promoting Swiss artists.
Garden of acclimatization. The Swiss Post art collection in dialog
Swiss Post has a long tradition of promoting art, dating back to the Confederation's commitment under the Federal Decree of 1887 and, in particular, the Ordinance of 1924. To celebrate this long-standing commitment, it has developed various exhibition projects in collaboration with Swiss art museums.
Cooperation: Robert Walser Center’s “Bureau Bollito” and Swiss Post’s commitment to art
Swiss Post has been committed to promoting artistic work in Switzerland for 100 years. It was therefore quite logical for Swiss Post to join with the Robert Walser Center and become partner to the “Bureau Bollito” project in 2024.
