New boss becomes “dialogue with the collection” – Südtirol News
South Tyrolean Letizia Ragaglia presented her first exhibition program
Thursday, January 27, 2022 | 11:20 a.m
South Tyrolean Letizia Ragaglia (52) has been director of the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein in Vaduz since July 1st. On Thursday, the former head of the Bolzano art museum Museion gave her inaugural press conference. Especially the pandemic with its restrictions has sorely missed the museum as a place of encounter. Therefore, the red thread of the exhibition year 2022 is “a lively, preferably physical examination of the museum collection”.
“The constant dialogue with the collection from new or unusual perspectives, its sustainability and liveliness are topics that have taken on an individual significance for me,” says Ragaglia in the documents. That’s why she invited three artists and an artist couple (namely Nazgol Ansarinia, Mercedes Azpilicueta, Diamond Stingily and the Duo Invernomuto) for “C4”, her first exhibition in the house starting on May 20, to also present at least one work from them in their respective individual presentations to include in the collection.
A joint exhibition project by the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein and the Hilti Art Foundation, housed in the same building, is dedicated to the photographic work of Candida Höfer. She produces for her own Liechtenstein series of works, which are presented in dialogue with both collections. From April 1st, an exhibition of drawings and paper works will be dedicated to the Liechtenstein artist Matthias Frick in the Kunstlichtsaal entitled “Storing cold in cold countries for warm countries”. An exhibition curated by Roman Kurzmeyer about the 93-year-old Irish-American conceptual artist and writer Brian O’Doherty “invites reflection on the museum space and the artist’s self-image,” it said.
From April there is free admission to the museum every Wednesday. The side light room on the ground floor of the museum is intended to be used as a space for encounters and joint projects. A retrospective from the estate of the British-Romanian artist Paul Neagu (1938-2004) is being designed for the Bruseum at the Neue Galerie Graz, which can be seen there from March 18.
From: apa