Exhibition in ARTS Caves de Courten

Sierre, canton of Valais, Switzerland, 18/5 – 12/9 2025

The exhibition is in ARTS Caves de Courten at same historical building that houses the Rainer Maria Rilke Museum.

Cradled between the mountains south of Lausanne, in the historic town of Sierre, a powerful and poetic exhibition unfolds at ARTS – Caves de Courten (www.cavesdecourten.art). This unique space becomes the stage for a dialogue between visual art and music, color and silence, memory and light.

Nes Lerpa presents a selection of monumental raw and stretched canvases, alongside smaller, more intimate works. At the heart of the exhibition lies a newly created triptych, inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem Blue Hydrangea - a luminous convergence of pigment and poetry, where language and color breathe as one.

This deeply personal piece is a tribute to Rilke’s enduring spirit and presence, fittingly exhibited within the same historic building that houses the Rilke Foundation and Museum.

Around these works, a series of concerts and encounters will unfold in the opening week, weaving new compositions by Ejnar Kanding, featuring Irina Kalina Goudeva (double bass, voice), and George Vassilev (guitars) into the space — music created especially for this setting, performed live amid the artworks.

Through Lerpa’s work, visitors are invited into a vibrant, contemplative world where painting becomes a form of inner listening—and silence, a source of color.

GVRecords, Ikana Art Studio, and Association Concordia for Music and Art are producers and sponsors of the event.