Vaduz 9490
Liechtenstein
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein is delighted to announce its 2026 exhibition programme.
The 2026 programme is devoted to fundamental questions facing society. In times of immense and disconcerting change, this seems of particular relevance. At the same time, the programme is infused with a subtle, mostly self-reflective humour that makes complex topics more accessible and opens up new forms of narration.
The participating artists operate with a keen sense for the ruptures of our time: experiences that mark people’s lives in contradictory, polarised or even repressive systems. Unlocking new worlds of imagination and challenging established views, they keep close to the reality of life.
—Christiane Meyer-Stoll, Director Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein
In the Context of the Collection:
RELAX (chiarenza & hauser & co)
What is wealth?
February 6–August 16, 2026
Opening with artist talk: February 5, 6pm
Marie-Antoinette Chiarenza (b. 1957 in Tunis, Tunisia) and Daniel Hauser (b. 1959 in Bern, Switzerland) began collaborating in 1983 and have been operating as RELAX since 1997. The name stands for a stance that suspends speed, the pressure of expectations and tensions, creating space for reflection and fundamental questions.
Their multimedia works challenge social values and the canon and structures of art. With subtle humour and an investigative eye, RELAX open up new perspectives: the installation What Is wealth? (2010–2017) from the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein collection forms the starting point for in-depth considerations on value, property, responsibility, memory—and happiness.
The exhibition is the result of a close collaboration with the artists.
Eleanor Antin
A Retrospective
March 27–September 27, 2026
Opening: March 26, 2026, 6pm
Closing event with performance by Saâdane Afif: September 27, 2026
For more than fifty years, Eleanor Antin (b. 1935 in New York) has counted as one of the influential voices in conceptual and feminist art. Her work questions aspects of identity, history and representation, uniting profound humour with subtle storytelling. Antin’s cross-media practice—which includes photography, film, text, performance, sculpture and installation—invites us to take a fresh look at familiar narratives and discover astonishing perspectives on how we see ourselves and society as a whole.
The focus of her work is on performative self-presentation, a practice with which Antin has been probing the fluid existence of the self since the late 1960s. She develops various personae—including a king, a ballerina and a nurse—that embody different identities, historical references and inner contradictions.
Curated for Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein by Christiane Meyer-Stoll with Henrik Utermöhle. The exhibition was initiated and organised by Mudam Luxembourg—Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean.
Mercedes Azpilicueta
CaccHho CucchhA
An exhibition for children and adults in the kollabor
May 3–November 22, 2026
Opening: May 3, 2026, 3pm
This flexible installation by Mercedes Azpilicueta (b. 1981 in La Plata, Argentina) centres around play as an inventive, emancipatory and community-forming activity. CaccHho CucchhA unfolds into a resonant chamber in which motion, touch and interaction give rise to quiet sounds and rhythms.
In the manner of an open illustrated book, a large-format tapestry weaves together aspects of time and geography with various themes. Play platforms and spatial structures invite visitors to join in. With costumes making sounds, they alter the way they move. Stepping into the role of rattling roots, bouncing barnacles, scratchy cicadas and rainy snails, together children and adults compose stories, gestures and sounds.
“Cacho” describes an immeasurable, leftover fragment of time. “Cucha” means a refuge or safe haven. The exhibition was initiated and curated by de Appel in Amsterdam and was further developed for Vaduz as a co-production with Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein.
Supported by the Hans Groeber Foundation and other sponsors.
In the Context of the Collection:
Evi Kliemand
Walking on Water
September 4, 2026–January 10, 2027
Opening: September 3, 2026, 6pm
Evi Kliemand (b. 1946) is a painter, writer, poet, commentator and art educator. The exhibition takes the artist’s works in Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein’s collection as a starting point to demonstrate various stages in her creative development. In addition to Kliemand’s paintings, the show also features her photographic work in the form of cycles of images along with various insights into her drawing practice. Lyrical sequences and poems from the audiobook editions allow visitors to hear the written work. In addition, works from the recent past demonstrate a multidimensional reality. In the words of the artist: “In search of that which is vanishing or no longer there, that which never became visible—that which we disregard and destroy—the things which touch the senses of those affected, whilst what is perceived remains outside the door. As if walking on water, she stood on the shore of her painting.”
A Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein production curated by Annett Höland.
Anna Jermolaewa
Radical Hope
October 23, 2026–March 29, 2027
Opening: October 22, 2026, 6pm
Anna Jermolaewa (b. 1970 in Saint Petersburg, Russia) trains her keen, empathetic eye on moments of everyday life that are easily overlooked, transforming them into vivid allegories of social and political realities. Often she works in places that feature in her own biography, above all in countries with a reference to the former Soviet Union, where she lived before fleeing in 1989.
Jermolaewa’s artistic practice comprises video, installation, photography, performance, painting and sculpture. Of particular interest to her are the subtle mechanisms of influence that shape our everyday lives.
Jermolaewa has previously featured in two group shows at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein. The collection includes two of the artist’s works, both part of her contribution to the Austrian pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale. The artist is creating several new works for her major solo exhibition.
A Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein production initiated by Letizia Ragaglia.
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein is the national museum for modern and contemporary art in Vaduz. An open place for encounter and exchange, it looks forward to welcoming audiences in 2026.
Free admission every Wednesday.
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