The exhibition “Tempesta” is a meditation on contemporary sculpture as a complex and powerful practice that plays a special role in the current artistic context. It proves to be a medium with remarkably diverse connections between form, image, sound, space, and the body, enabling an experience that is both immediately sensual and intellectually stimulating. Art thus becomes a genuine site of experience.

“Tempesta” brings together works by prominent contemporary artists such as Julius von Bismarck, Josh Kline, Jos Näpflin, Vittorio Santoro, Tenant of Culture, Andreas Waldmeier, and Annie Wan Lai-kuen. Neither purely contemplative nor directly narrative, these formally precise works are committed statements that enable an active engagement with the present; they exist self-assuredly in a context marked by multiple social crises, existential threats, and challenges.
Common to all works in “Tempesta” is their openness to the world and their development of individually strong artistic languages. This grants them the rare ability to define a space situated at an equidistant point between the individual and the community.
“Tempesta” also brings together artistic positions from diverse cultural contexts, thereby weaving an extensive network of narratives. Taken together, the exhibition forms a constellation of personal experiences, historical periods, and geographies. “Tempesta” is therefore also a project that renders visible the connections, echoes, and fractures of a global reality.

The exhibition route is guided by the overarching image of a rite of passage, which visitors can engage with upon entering the galleries. Following the tour counterclockwise, distinct scenarios unfold from gallery to gallery, with some artists occupying one and others spanning multiple spaces. Each galelry is conceived as a distinct area with its own logic. They are connected only indirectly, namely through a quasi-ritual character inscribed in all the works.