Agenda

The exhibition (Les géants du vignoble) shows extraordinary discoveries and presents itself as an excavation experience, a journey of 140 million years into the Cretaceous.

The visitor is immersed in the everyday life of the palaeontologist from field work to reconstruction of the skeletons and environment. In the process, one also learns about the scientific studies related to the fossils found.

The museum’s collections include around seventy engravings and etchings by the painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder (ca. 1526/1530–1569).

The exhibition presents the complete collection of the museum, complemented by selected loans from the Graphische Sammlung ETH Zürich.

His works encompass landscapes, allegorical and religious representations, and scenes from the everyday lives of the peasantry.

The artist is best known for his apocalyptic sceneries with demons .

The lively action on the surface of his works almost always contains a deeper truth. Drawing on his own varied experiences and with evident wit, Bruegel takes aim at human foibles and flaws.

Catherine Meurisse (1980) is one of today’s most famous female French comics artists. She is the author of several graphic novels and comics reportages, drew caricatures and illustrated children’s books.

Catherine Meurisse became the first cartoonist and caricaturist to be made a member of France’s Académie des Beaux-Arts.

The retrospective is the first in the German-speaking world to show original drawings from all works by this multi-award-winning artist.

She also publishes in newspapers and magazines. She became the first female cartoonist to work at Charlie Hebdo, narrowly escaping the 2015 attack.

She has released two graphic novels with autobiographical elements: La Légèreté (The Lightness) and Les Grands Espaces (The Great Outdoors).

In 2014, the comedy “Moderne Olympia” (Olympia in Love)was published, linking paintings and objects from the collection of Musée d’Orsay with a story from the world of painting, dance and early film. In 2019, Catherine Meurisse managed to represent Alexandre Dumas’s memories of Eugène Delacroix in her publication Delacroix.

As the result of two stays in Kyoto, she produced “La jeune femme et la mer” (The Young Woman and the Sea), in which she addresses her perception of the Japanese landscape, nature and way of life.