Nationwide exhibition to highlight Switzerland’s disappearing glaciers

More than 35 Swiss institutions and 60 artists will be taking part in the nationwide exhibition ‘Watching the Glacier Disappear’, officially opening on the Rhône glacier in canton Valais on June 29. “The Rhone glacier is the most depicted Swiss glacier in art,” curator Bernhard Fibicher said in an interview with Keystone-SDA news agency. He said the idea for the project came about two and a half years ago, not least because the melting of the glacier is intensifying due to climate change. Initially, the plan was to organise a show in a museum. “But we don't actually need to attract people to a museum, we need to take them outside – to the glaciers,” said Fibicher, and so the project has expanded. + Focus: why melting glaciers affect us all Exhibitions that are part of the project have been running since January, with institutions from Valais to Graubünden involved. The Aargauer Kunsthaus, for example, is exhibiting relevant works from its collection, and the Lucerne Glacier Garden ...