Exposition in Musée Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Exhibition and Concert Series at the Rainer Maria Rilke Museum in Sierre, Valais, Switzerland

Opening: Sunday 18 May 2025 — On view until 12 September 2025

In the heart of the Valais region, cradled between the mountains south of Lausanne, a powerful exhibition unfolds at the Rainer Maria Rilke Museum in Sierre — a poetic meeting between visual art and music, color and silence, memory and light.

Nes Lerpa presents a selection of monumental raw and stretched canvases, a vibrant and deeply personal tribute to the spirit of Rilke. Among the highlights is a newly created triptych inspired by Rilke’s poem Blue Hydrangea — a work where poetry and pigment melt into a single breath.

The exhibition features Nes Lerpa's oil paintings and watercolors layered with impressions of light, rhythm, and fleeting emotion.

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.

This exhibition marks a celebration of movement, transformation, and the timeless connection between image and sound.

You are warmly invited to step into this poetic landscape.