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Jules Spinatsch. 1964 – 2155

Name: Jules Spinatsch. 1964 – 2155
Start: 2026-08-22T00:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-11-15T23:59:00+01:00
Location: Bahnhofstrasse 35, 7000 Chur, Schweiz

Bahnhofstrasse 35, 7000 Chur, Schweiz
Chur, Switzerland
Sat, August 22 - November 15, 2026 (12:00 am - 11:59 pm)

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Description

Jules Spinatsch has created an extensive body of work over the past 35 years, exhibited, collected, and published both domestically and internationally. The exhibition at the Bündner Kunstmuseum showcases the broad media spectrum of his works and approaches. The artist transforms his own and found imagery into publications, image series, photographic installations, and video works. Starting from a documentary approach – “of what is, not what should be” – Spinatsch explores the possibilities of photography: from the direct observation of social events on site to the use of semi-automatic recording methods that combine seemingly opposing principles such as chance and control into new image forms. Places like the Vienna Opera Ball, the WEF in Davos, software companies, nuclear power plants, prisons, winter sports events, or bubbling mud pools in Iceland become his research spaces. At the Bündner Kunstmuseum, the artist realizes a presentation that introduces a new spatial dramaturgy in the second basement. Spinatsch invites – and simultaneously challenges – the audience to engage with questions of perception, power, and control as well as their construction and representation through media images. He examines issues of authorship and creator rights while also revealing the potential, limits, and instability of photographic images. On the occasion of the exhibition, a two-volume publication will be released by Roma Publications, including the large-format picture book pitalismus ist ill and the reader On Jules Spinatsch with art-historical and essayistic texts.

Highlights

Comprehensive retrospective of Jules Spinatsch
New spatial dramaturgy at the Bündner Kunstmuseum
Thematic focus on perception, power, and control

General Information

The exhibition at the Bündner Kunstmuseum presents the broad media spectrum of Jules Spinatsch's works, who has created an extensive body of work over the past 35 years. It includes publications, image series, photographic installations, and video works that explore social events and their perception.