This year the Verbier 3-D Foundation will present the work of Austrian artists Michaela Scwentner and Nik Thoenen in Verbier as part of a collaboration with the Austrian Cultural Forum of Bern and TedX Verbier. The TedX event is on 19 August under the theme of HABITAT. The Foundation has invited these artists to Verbier […]
From ocean waves to soundwaves, from electromagnetic waves to brain waves, I’m very attracted to chaotic systems—waves, electricity, energy—that are present in nature, and how our perceptual apparatus engages with them. The Verbier 3-D Foundation is pleased to announce British artist Haroon Mirza as our 2023 Artist-in-Residence. Mirza has won international acclaim for creating immersive environments, performances […]
We are proud to announce that 2016 residency artist Chloe Dewe Mathews will be exhibiting the work developed during her residency - In Search of Frankenstein - for the first time in Switzerland at Le Musée des Beaux-Arts du Locle (MBAL). The collective exhibition Le plaisir du texte (The pleasure of text), is an exploration […]
This September, the Foundation will be launching The Altis Billboard Project - a public art project which invites artists to submit work to be exhibited in the form of a billboard at the Ruinettes lift station in Verbier. The works will be on display for one year focusing on the theme of WATER. The Altis Billboard Project increases the public’s access to local […]
The Verbier 3-D Foundation presents Global Wiring, a new site-specific sculptural work by Swiss art collective Fragmentin. The artists were invited for a one-month residency to become immersed in the local alpine environment to develop new work responding to current debates referencing global topics of water and climate concerns, inspired by the materials, technologies and ecological […]
The Verbier 3-D Foundation is proud to announce the Swiss Post as our new supporter! We are pleased to be placed among their Art in the Periphery events which are a series of temporary, curated non-profit art events held outside urban hubs. Swiss Post has been promoting and collecting contemporary art since 1924. Today the […]
Image from Burningcollection.tv, 2019. Fragmentin and Lauren Huret The Verbier 3-D Foundation is pleased to announce Swiss artist collective Fragmentin as our 2022 Artists-in-Residence. While residing within a dynamic community in the Alps, the residency will focus on the development of a sculptural work examining the global topics of water and climate concerns inspired by the materials, technologies […]
Too much importance is attached to the writing of music, too much to the formula, the craft: we seek ideas inside ourselves, when in fact they should be sought from outside. We combine, we construct… we do not hear around us the countless sounds of nature, we do not sufficiently appreciate this immensely varied music […]
The Verbier 3-D Foundation has invited sound artist Philip Samartzis to develop a project utilising the practice of Eco Acoustics to consider the importance of listening to WATER - as a means towards a better understanding of the complex environmental changes facing our planet. Eco Acoustics is an emerging interdisciplinary science that investigates natural and […]
The Verbier 3-D Foundation has launched our special Capsule Collection with Puzzles With Purpose. ARTXPUZZLES selected our curator Alexa Jeanne Kusber and the Verbier 3-D Foundation to develop a special collection within their Puzzles With Purpose project to support international contemporary artists during the global pandemic with a percentage of proceeds supporting select Artist Choice Charities. The Curator's Choice is a global initiative by […]
This Summer starting from 2 July, the Verbier 3-D Foundation will offer E-Bike Art Tours through the Sculpture Park and new exhibition every Tuesday and Friday! CHF 85.- includes: E-bike rental for the day Guided Tour of the Verbier 3-D Sculpture Park Guided Tour of the Verbier 3-D 2021 Ecoacoustic Exhibition Access to the inside […]
Join us on Saturday 26 June for the Vernissage of - Eco Acoustics: Listening To A Changing Environment with sound artist Philip Samartzis. Too much importance is attached to the writing of music, too much to the formula, the craft: we seek ideas inside ourselves, when in fact they should be sought from outside. We […]
In 2021 the Foundation will experiment with a new format for our Residency Programme that will act as a response to creating art and building community during the time of social distancing. From using Instagram as a sketchbook to online open discussions and virtual happenings - the 2021 Residency with Native American artist Natalie Ball will exist in […]
The Verbier 3-D Foundation is proud to continue our support and collaboration with the Verbier Art Summit. From 29 to 30 January 2021, the Summit will celebrate its fifth edition continuing around the important theme: RESOURCE HUNGRY - Our Cultured Landscape and its Ecological Impact Next year a new format will also take form as the virtual Verbier […]
Join us for two online open discussions surrounding the themes of the exhibition and global experience of The Great Pause ... How are artists living and creating during this time? What is the role of art in times of pandemic? What is their current personal reflection on the world around them? How has their practice been affected? […]
Natalie Ball / Olaf Breuning / James Capper / Donna Dodson / Gregory Coates / Andrea Hasler/ Tarik Hayward / Musa Hixson / Ilya and Emilia Kabakov / Etienne Krähenbühl / Andy Moerlein / Julien Marolf / Tessa Perutz / Josette Taramarcaz / Kiki Thompson / Jonathan Wright The year 2020 will be long remembered […]
The Foundation is releasing a limited edition print with artist Andrea Hasler as part of The Great Pause ... exhibition. Andrea HaslerShifting Commodities, 2020C-Type Metallic Print44.8 x 60 cmEdition of 200Signed and numbered by the artist175 CHF The original artwork in an edition of 5 is also available for purchase.Please inquire here for further details. Hasler was part of our 2014 Artist Residency […]
In these extraordinary times, we hope you are taking care of yourself, staying healthy and hopeful. With great sadness we have had to cancel this year's Artist Residency and exhibition. Right now, the health of everyone is our priority. Artist Natalie Ball will join us in 2021 for her residency in a changed world to […]
I make art as proposals of refusal to complicate an easily affirmed and a consumed narrative without absolutes. - Natalie Ball The Verbier 3-D Foundation is pleased to announce Native American artist Natalie Ball as our 2020 artist-in-residence. Continuing in the 5th year of the Verbier 3-D Foundation’s climate and glacial project, the artist will be invited to live in […]
As part of our continued cultural partnership in 2020 with the Verbier Art Summit, we would like to invite you to experience two ERRATIC afternoons during the Summit with 2019 residency artist Karsten Födinger. On 31 Jan, we invite you to join us at Medran lift station in Verbier to participate in Födinger's cultural intervention for the Summit weekend. Utilising the […]
The Verbier 3-D Foundation is proud to be a Cultural Partner of the 2020 Verbier Art Summit. RESOURCE HUNGRY: OUR CULTURED LANDSCAPE AND ITS ECOLOGICAL IMPACT The 2020 Verbier Art Summit will ask how to envision a way forward in finding harmony between art, ecology and resources. Jessica Morgan comments on the theme, “How does […]
Vernissage Weekend: 27-28th July 2019 I don’t see myself as the only author of my works, but as a catalyst between the forces of nature and the logics of material. The Verbier 3-D Foundation presents PILIER ERRATIQUE, a new site-specific sculptural work by German artist Karsten Födinger. The artist was invited to live for one […]
Residency during Frieze New York. The Verbier 3-D Foundation is proud to present Avant/Après N°5, an installation by Swiss artist Andrea Hasler shown in New York PRVTVW as part of her Time + Space Artist-Residency during Frieze New York. Set in the heart of New York City’s SoHo district, this invitation-only, in-house residency program is […]
2019 Artist-in-Residence : KARSTEN FÖDINGER The Verbier 3-D Foundation is pleased to announce German artist Karsten Födinger as our 2019 artist-in-residence. Realized through the engineering or construction techniques, the oeuvre of Födinger brings forth the role of the mechanics as a constitutional element of sculpture. His work reminds the viewer that it is such a genre that rigidly follows […]