Every two months on Wednesday afternoons, from 2 – 4 p.m.
Language: Romansh (sursilvan)
Cost: CHF 10.00
Registration: required

For 6 to 12-year-old children, the experiences and conversations around the works and exhibitions they look at are an enrichment of their mother tongue. After visiting the exhibition, the work in the studio also offers the creative implementation of the discoveries and experiences. With art educator Sarah Clavadetscher.

The exhibition by Diego Giacometti (1902-1985) is designed as a large and comprehensive retrospective dedicated to an artist who skilfully moved between applied works and free art.
If Diego Giacometti has always been presented in relation to his famous brother Alberto ("Diego steps out of the shadows"; "The Other Giacometti"), the exhibition claims to pay tribute to the artist's work as an independent work. What is known is that Diego Giacometti's success story only begins after Alberto's death. The exhibition makes it clear that his artistic beginnings lie much earlier. For the first time, works by the artist can be shown that were previously largely unknown and laid the basis for later work.
The exhibition extends over both buildings of the Bündner Kunstmuseum and takes into account the different perspectives of this work in its layout: In the Villa Planta, a former private house, the objects appear as furniture in the context of the Graubünden art collection with works by his father Giovanni Giacometti and his brother Alberto Giacometti; in the extension building, on the other hand, the focus is on the work process and numerous models are on display. In addition, the exhibition provides a comprehensive insight into Diego Giacometti's wealth of forms and motifs, which forms the basis of his artistic work.

The exhibition was created in close collaboration with the "Musée des arts décoratifs" in Paris. The artist Vaclav Pozarek (*1940), who has already appeared several times with innovative and specific forms of presentation, has been won over for the design of the exhibition.

INTRODUCTIONS TO THE TEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS

Diego Giacometti
wednesday, 25 june, 2025
17.00–18.30 for kindergarten to lower secondary level

Date: Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Time: 14:00 – 16:00

For children in the age group of 6 to 8 years and from 9 to 12 years, the art educators have developed an offer that arouses curiosity for works of art and, combined with play and design, leads to their own creations. With the art educator Rahel Guidon.

Registration is required, phone +41 81 257 28 72 or kunstvermittlung@bkm.gr.ch.

Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Time: 14:00 – 16:00

For children in the age group of 6 to 8 years and from 9 to 12 years, the art educators have developed an offer that arouses curiosity for works of art and, combined with play and design, leads to their own creations. With the art educator Rahel Guidon.

Registration is required, phone +41 81 257 28 72 or kunstvermittlung@bkm.gr.ch.

INTRODUCTIONS TO THE TEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS

Diego Giacometti
wednesday, 25 june, 2025
4–5 p.m. for secondary level II with guest speaker Stephan Kunz, curator of the exhibition

• Are there events or incisions in your life that have turned everything upside down?
• How did you deal with the fact that nothing was as you imagined?
• Have realignments, which were completely difficult for you at first, led you to unexpected experiences?

We are curious to hear which incisions in your life have required adaptation and realignment and how you have dealt with them.
In the storytelling café we meet in a small group and tell each other our experiences and thoughts. Nobody judges or judges, everyone is allowed to contribute. The other participants listen.

Direction and moderation: Cornelia Bischoff and Franziska Waldenmaier

We celebrate Swiss Reading Day with the well-known singer-songwriter and writer Linard Bardill. An hour filled with stories and
Music for young and old.

WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2025, 2–3 P.M.

The Swiss Reading Aloud Day is a campaign of the Swiss Institute
for children's and youth media SIKJM.


Orell Füssli EKZ City West, Raschärenstrasse 35, Chur, free admission

Yay, Globi visits us in the bookstore, plays all kinds of pranks and is of course also available for your souvenir photos.
If you want an autograph from him, you can have Globi's latest book signed from 2 p.m. onwards.

SATURDAY, 10 MAY 2025, 1–4 PM,
SIGNING SESSION FROM 2 P.M.

Line-up: Gaudenz Badrutt fx/samp/synth/p

The electroacoustic composition Palace combines the autobiographical, the carefully preserved, the long forgotten and the accidentally forgotten with the spontaneity of rediscovery and reinvention. Badrutt weaves older archive recordings from his time as an Ives-playing pianist, field recordings, randomly rediscovered remnants and new material, but also scraps of his daughter's singing and piano playing into a symphonic density. The title Palace refers to the luxury hotel of the same name in the Engadine.

Badrutt (*1972) has been active in the field of experimental electroacoustic music for almost 25 years. Started as a pianist in the field of composed contemporary music, today the focus is on electroacoustic music: the occupation with the computer as an agile live sampling instrument as well as with electronic devices that are used as sound sources and transformers.