From November 2025 to May 2026, the Musée Visionnaire is dedicating a group exhibition to the radical fusion of life and art. It presents personalities who uncompromisingly shape their existence as an artistic synthesis of the arts - local, international, living and deceased.

The focus is on Dora Koster, Emil Manser and Polina Raiko: three people whose work cannot be separated from their biographies. Koster - wild, untamed, deeply social - was a phenomenon of Zurich's Niederdorf, a performer, poet, musician and chronicler of the margins. Her works and her estate (Zentralbibliothek Zürich) form a central focus of the exhibition, complemented by readings and guided tours.

Polina Raiko painted her entire house in the Ukraine as art - a poetic counter-world, destroyed by war but preserved in her paintings. Emil Manser was Lucerne's philosophizing sandwich man - his public work is brought to life in documentary form.

The project is complemented by living positions such as Lea/n Rüegg, whose performative works interweave language, body and ritual, and Erwin Schatzmann, whose "Morgenland" in Winterthur can be visited by shuttle - a living art universe. Also taking part: Elon Liberman, who explores new and unconventional ways of producing sound and music, and Christoph Köpfli, who integrates scanned objects into a light show and accompanies them live with electro beats and DJ performances.

All in stands for uncompromising presence, for art that is not taken down, but remains - in life, in urban space, in everyday life.


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