Agenda

Stefan Zweig (1881 – 1942) was a successful author a collector of literary manuscripts.

He managed to amass an eclectic range of texts that reflect his keen interest in the diversity of European literature, a collection of several hundred autograph texts by the authors he most admired.

This trove includes rough drafts of famous or unpublished works, preparatory notes, personal letters, even manuscripts meant for the printers, from Renaissance writers up to his contemporaries.

Forced into exile in 1934, Zweig chose to part with his collection and turned to the Viennese bookseller Heinrich Hinterberger, with whom he organized the sale of the manuscripts from London.

The greater part of the collection was acquired by the Swiss bibliophile Martin Bodmer (1899 – 1971) The characteristic unity of the Zweig collection was thus largely preserved.

The exhibition (De Stefan Zweig à Martin Bodmer)  offers the opportunity to see some of the finest pages of the world’s literary heritage.

The food on the plate shapes the perceptions of who we are – proving that, as the saying goes, “you are what you eat”.

The exhibition “Fleisch” looks at the processes behind this phenomenon, following meat from the table back via the butcher’s shop to the slaughterhouse and the farm. What is in the meat,  where does it come from, and where lies its future ?

Against the backdrop of climate change and the debate over animal rights, choosing between a sausage and grilled cheese has turned into a question of identity.

The exhibition examines our relationship to meat and investigates the role of a substance that is at once living entity, commodity and gourmet temptation. This multimedia presentation is all about the inner life of carnivores and vegans.

Olafur Eliasson (1967) invites us to explore future forms of coexistence by welcoming multiple perspectives. For his show, the artist immerses the institution in a border-crossing investigation of our preconceptions of nature and culture.

The plants in Life–dwarf water lilies, shell flowers, water ferns, and more –were carefully selected, exploring the perforated lines between nature and culture, acknowledging that we humans are part of larger systems.