Vernissage Saturday December 7th, 6pm

Anwandstrasse 9, 8004 

What is a mountain? A feature of the landscape, a resource, an environment, a sacred being? Are the dunes in the desert a mountain? Are underwater volcanoes a mountain? We asked these questions while spending some time in the alps, yet definitive answers remained elusive. Along the way, we realized how diverse our relationship to the idea and experience of mountains truly are. Kinship, cultural imaginaries, territorial situatedness, political hierarchies - among other factors - all shape how we access and understand a mountains. 

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"To be with our Mountain Eyes" is the first exhibition of our program for 2025, dedicated to mountains. This group exhibition explores what it means to be with and to look at mountains, revealing some of the structures that shape our understanding of them, while celebrating playful or rebellious approaches that challenge established narratives of mountains. 

From feminist mountaineering, to the queering of objects associated with mountain landscapes,to the critique of extractivist practices, the enactment of rituals and the mirroring between human and earthly/non human bodies, the works in the exhibition present different “entry” or “access points” to mountains, that relate to how we experience them with our bodies/eyes.

With works by Paloma Ayala, Michael Hirschbichler & Guillaume Othenin-Girard, Manuela Morales Délano, Oz Oderbolz, Alessandro Valerio Zamora and Martina-Sofie Wildberger & Josiane Imhasly for the Feminist Alpine Club.