2025 marks the silver anniversary of our love of art! It's going to be an eventful year, with everything centred around our living collection.
– Letizia Ragaglia, Director of Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary in 2025. With four exhibitions and performances, projects and special events, you are invited this year to enjoy a wide range of art experiences.
The year kicks off with the exhibition Silver Suits You. 25 Years Loving Art with works from 24 years of collecting and three "wish-works" that outline a vision for the future. The focus of the show is on the stories of the works, the museum and the audience. Liechtenstein artists Eliane Schädler and Adam Vogt are illustrating a selection of stories from around the country, thus making them part of the exhibition.
Artist Hanna Roeckle was invited to redesign the entrance area of Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein: with A Silver Lining, she brings a special lustre to the cloakroom and the staircase to mark the start of the 2025 anniversary year. In addition, the Kunstmuseum and Hanna Roeckle jointly publish an exclusive anniversary edition.
The group show On the Street explores public space as a source of inspiration for artistic work and as a site for radical and poetic actions. Works from the collection and interventions by international artists including Francis Alÿs, Klara Lidén and Agnès Varda examine the richly varied relationships between art and the urban environment.
As part of the series In the Context of the Collection, Danish artist Henrik Olesen (b. 1967) is initiating a dialogue with the Kunstmuseum collection. His minimalist spatial interventions and collages question social constructions of identity and the historiography of art.
With his unique form of video essay, Tony Cokes (b. 1956, Richmond, USA) introduces a new perspective into the collection. His exhibition takes a critical look at the visual commodification of Afro-American communities, combining artworks by means of the aesthetic of sampling.
2025 is a momentous year for the Hilti Art Foundation too: Not only does it mark the tenth anniversary of the museum building in Vaduz, it also prompts the Foundation to take a deliberate look into the future. Together with Karin Schick, who has been Director since April, the aim is to provide new impetus. In Touch. Encounters in the Collection, the first show curated by Karin Schick, sees art as a potent space of connections, contact and exchange. Forty paintings and sculptures from the collection of the Hilti Art Foundation span around one hundred years of artistic creation.
On Saturday, 28 June, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein and the Hilti Art Foundation invite visitors to an open-house Summer Party. The anniversary year comes to a close on 11 November with a Birthday Party for the Kunstmuseum.
Join in the celebrations and let our passion for art inspire you!
