2.6.–28.9.2024

The next BIENNALE BREGAGLIA 2024, will take place from 2 June to 28 September 2024. This third edition explores the theme «Architecture and Gardens». After an open dialogue with the local population, the curator chose the Swiss village of Bondo as the main venue for the exhibition. An international selection committee has choosen 10 site-specific projects of national and international artistic positions. Besides Bondo, the entire valley beyond the Swiss border—from Isola (CH) to Chiavenna (IT)—will be included and connected through an interdisciplinary accompanying programme.

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The call for artists for the BIENNALE BREGAGLIA 2024 has closed on 1 October 2023.

The international Jury chaired by Chiara Dynys (I, artist), Davide Fogliada (CH, organiser and architect) San Keller (CH, artist), Lorenzo Madaro (I, art historian) and Laurence Schmidlin (CH, art historian) selected 10 positions from 230 applications from 21 countries.  A big thank you to everyone who applied!

The third edition of the BIENNALE BREGAGLIA explores the theme «Architecture and Gardens» in the Swiss village of Bondo (insights of the photographer Michel Gilgen). Between June and September 2023, Swiss and international artists were invited to apply with a new, site-specific project that springs and reflects on these topics.

The jury selected 10 positions from over 230 applications from 21 countries: Kotoaki Asano, Lisa Collomb, Athene Galiciadis, Georg Gatsas, Marcel Herbst, Piero Maspoli, Juliana Rios Martinez, Lea Schaffner, Ines Marita Schärer and Jonathan Steiger are the artists of the upcoming BIENNALE BREGAGLIA 2024.

Curator, Misia Bernasconi, kuratorium@biennale-bregaglia.ch
Press, Myrta Holinger, kommunikation@biennale-bregaglia.ch
Art Education, Allegra Giorgi Giani, kunstvermittlung@biennale-bregaglia.ch
Organizer, Progetti d’arte in Val Bregaglia, mail@progetti-arte-bregaglia.ch

Press Release

20.12.2023, The artists of the 3rd BIENNALE BREGAGLIA unveiled

15.10.2023, The jury of the 3rd BIENNALE BREGAGLIA unveiled

02.07.2023, Architecture and gardens – from Isola to Chiavenna across the Bregaglia valley

Press Images
General Impressions 

Press Coverage

02.03.2024, Engadiner Post – Im Tal der Kunst laufen die Vorbereitungen für die Biennale – Stefanie Wick Widmer

02.03.2024, EngadinerPost – Kulturpasta abgesagt

16.01.2024, Corriere del Ticino – Definiti i nomi di Biennale Bregaglia

18.10.2023, La Bregaglia.ch – Determinata la giuria della terza edizione

17.10.2023, arttv.ch – Die Jury der Biennale Bregaglia 2024 steht fest

06.07.2023, Il Grigione Italiano – Le foto di Roman Signer a Villa Garbald – Renato Tomassini

23.06.2023, Tessiner Zeitung – Ein-Ausblick auf die Biennale Bregaglia 2024 – Marianne Baltisberger

04.2023, Kunstbulletin – Misia Bernasconi

16.03.2023, Il Grigione Italiano – Primo passo per la Biennale 2024 – Renato Tomassini

09.03.2023, Il Grigione Italiano – Biennale Bregaglia 2024

The association Progetti d’arte in Val Bregaglia was founded in 2012 and is engaged in the promotion and realisation of contemporary art exhibitions, projects and events in Bergell. Until 2018, these art projects were each organised under a new name. From 2020, the art event will be called BIENNALE BREGAGLIA. As before, the social, historical and political structures of the valley are the focal points of the interventions. The association committee elects the curator, who is responsible for the concept, organisation, selection of the artistic positions and realisation.

Misia Bernasconi (*1988) completed the B. A. in Art History, Classical Archaeology and Theory and History of Photography at the University of Zurich and the M. A. in Art History with specialisation in Museology and Exhibitions with a focus on Architectural History at the University of Bern. She has gained professional experience as a research assistant for the Federal Office of Culture (FOC) at the Vincenzo Vela Museum in Ligornetto (TI) (2019–2021), at the Federal Art Collections in Bern (2016–2020), as co-curator with Luciano Fasciati for the Grison associations Art-Public Chur (2019) and Progetti d'arte in Val Bregaglia (2018), and as a research volunteer at the Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur (2017). She is member of scientific board of the Vereinigung der Kunsthistorikerinnen und Kunsthistoriker (VKKS) der Schweiz.