A new, spectacular museum that has opened on the second day – in a tiny village in the swiss alps. The initiator is the Polish businesswoman and art collector Grazyna Kulczyk, one of Poland’s wealthiest people. After unsuccessful negotiations with the authorities in both Poznan and Warsaw, so she chose instead to bet on the remote alpine village of Susch, about two hours drive from Zurich. Where she found by chance a monastery from the 1100s, which in the middle ages was a well-known pilgrimsstopp on the road to Santiago de Compostela.
in Order to preserve the original environment has Kulczyk funded an excavation in the monastery – 9 000 tons of stone have been sent away for the construction of the underground premises!
Öppningsutställningen, with the title borrowed from Siri Hustvedts essay, “A woman looking at but looking at the women,” focuses on female konstpionjärer as Anni Albers, Eva Hesse and Louise Bourgeois. So now learn both the art lovers as feminists pilgrimage to the new the Muzeum Susch.
