Ghisla Art Collection Foundation

The Fondazione Ghisla Art Collection was established in April 2014 with the clear vision to make an artistic collection of international significance accessible to the public, to share it with everyone who appreciates the timeless value of art. The futuristic building housing the collection was designed by Locarno architects Moro & Moro and is located in the town centre just a short walk from the harbour.
For its tenth year of activity, starting on 14 March 2025, the Ghisla Art Collection Foundation in Locarno presents a new exhibition itinerary, articulated around a group of sixty-five works selected from those of the collection, with the aim of rendering the wealth deriving from the possible artistic and cultural dialogue between Italian and American art. 

The exhibition In Between. Arte italiana e americana dalla Collezione Ghisla, curated by Federico Sardella, is an extraordinary opportunity to give life to a project built through daring combinations and evocative references between languages and artists, between the works and the spaces of the Foundation. In consideration of the combinations and methods adopted during the exhibition, that dismantle the classic linearity of the chronology of art history or of codified groups and movements, the exhibition will present a path – far from linear – aimed at producing a sort of lattice of information that ideally connects the works present and without priority in their “reading”.

Starting from the very first room, the public is presented with an exhibition that exemplifies the entire itinerary and proposes in close dialogue works by Lucio Fontana, Giorgio Griffa, Richard Serra, Frank Stella and Grazia Varisco. The exhibition itinerary continues in the consistent quest for harmony – or fertile disharmony – between Italian authors and their overseas counterparts, avoiding any kind of forcing, but rather conferring solely the work of art with the authority that affords harmony with a peer. The visitor will be met with fruitful and revealing combinations, such as the one between the works of Carla Accardi, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Pietro Consagra, Sergio Fermariello, Keith Haring and Keith Sonnier: different voices, distinct and distant, that speak the same language and dialogue around the sign. The method with which the works of Giosetta Fioroni and Tom Wesselmann were placed close to one another, those of Enrico Baj, Jean-Michel Basquiat and George Condo, or even those of Alberto Burri with Ettore Colla, Louise Nevelson and Giuseppe Uncini, is not dissimilar.
Included in the entrance fee is a handy audio guide describing the exhibitions in Italian, German, French and English.

Opening hours 14.03.2025-04.01.2026:
March-October: Wednesday - Sunday: 13:30 - 18:00
November-January: Wednesday - Sunday: 13:30 - 17:30

Admission prices:
CHF 18.- Adults
CHF 15.- Seniors (AVS)
CHF 11.- Students (ages 12-25)
Children up to 12 years: free

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