Now Open: Heimatflimmern. The Art Collections of the Swiss Post and the Kunstmuseum St.Gallen in Dialogue
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Now Open: Heimatflimmern
The Art Collections of the Swiss Post and the Kunstmuseum St.Gallen in Dialogue
On view until October 18, 2026
In collaboration with the Swiss Post Art Collection, Kunstmuseum St.Gallen presents Heimatflimmern (“Flickering Homeland”), an exhibition exploring the question of what “home” can mean today. Featuring 27 artistic positions, this dialogue between collections examines the multifaceted nature of ideas about home while placing a particular focus on contemporary Swiss art. The collaboration marks the Swiss Post’s nearly century-long tradition of supporting the arts and offers new insights into its collection.
The concept of Heimat—often translated as “home,” “homeland” or “sense of belonging”—has always been open, complex and difficult to define. Our understandings of it are influenced by personal memories, collective imaginaries and broader social developments. In a globally interconnected world characterised by technological, social and environmental change, notions of home are increasingly fluid, while remaining highly significant. The exhibition title responds to this dynamic through the neologism Heimatflimmern (“Flickering Homeland”).
The exhibition explores interpretations of home beyond those shaped by nationalism and identity politics. The selected works demonstrate how traditional ideas of origin, belonging and home can be challenged, reinterpreted and renegotiated.
The installations of Sylvie and Chérif Defraoui and Matthew McCaslin fundamentally question static notions of home. Ester Vonplon, Isabelle Krieg, Gerber & Bardill and Julian Charrière, by contrast, examine the transformation of living environments in the context of structural and climate change. Migration, identity and memory lie at the heart of works by artists including Mina Squalli-Houssaïni, Mona Hatoum and Ishita Chakraborty. Here, home emerges as a social space of experience shaped by the interplay between individual biographies and global power structures. The shift of home into the digital sphere is addressed in works by the artist collective Fragmentin and Aramis Navarro.
Through a dialogue between two significant collections, the exhibition sharpens our understandings of the shimmering complexity of home. It opens up new perspectives on a concept that is continually acquiring new meanings—one located at the intersection of personal experience, societal transformation and global interconnection.
With works by David Bürkler, Ishita Chakraborty, Julian Charrière, Martha Cunz, Fragmentin, Gabriela Gerber & Lukas Bardill, Sylvie und Chérif Defraoui, Giovanni Giacometti, Ferdinand Hodler, marce norbert hörler, Nadira Husain, Mona Hatoum, Monica Ursina Jaeger, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Isabelle Krieg, Douglas Mandry, Aramis Navarro, Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs, Cyril Porchet, Rico Scagliola & Michael Meier, Jean-Vincent Simonet, Monica Studer & Christoph van den Berg, Mina Squalli-Houssaïni, U5, Ester Vonplon, Daniel Zimmermann.
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