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Musée Jenisch
- Type
- Fine arts museum
- Address
- Avenue de la Gare 2, 1800 Vevey
Opened in 1897, the Musée Jenisch is Vevey’s fine arts museum: specialising in works on paper, it houses the Cabinet cantonal des estampes and the Oskar Kokoschka Foundation. Its place in the Riviera’s musical landscape rests on ART&SONS, run with the Montreux Jazz Artists Foundation: in front of certain works, a QR code plays on the visitor’s phone a piece composed for it. In front of a Picasso, for instance, the code plays “Alice in the Sky”, ten minutes by the Zurich trio Rusconi with the guitarist Fred Frith. The series are also gathered in playlists on Spotify. The dialogues are devised by Stéphanie-Aloysia Moretti, art historian and artistic director of the foundation, to whom the museum gave carte blanche; the permanent-collection trail, twenty-seven tracks written by contemporary Swiss musicians, was inaugurated on 30 April 2021, UNESCO’s International Jazz Day. Further series have followed with the exhibitions, and concerts are given in the galleries, among the paintings: the Byron Quartet among the Kokoschkas, the Valais singer Marc Aymon before a packed room, or recitals from the Vevey Spring Classic. It was also here that, in 2019, the collection of Pierre Keller was shown, the man who turned the Montreux Jazz Festival poster into a contemporary art collection.
Canvas and sound
A showcase for works on paper
The second art museum of the canton of Vaud, the Musée Jenisch displays, in a neoclassical setting fifteen minutes by train from Lausanne, a permanent collection of paintings — Bocion, Courbet, Corot, Hodler, Vallotton, Picasso, Morandi.
But its singularity lies in works on paper: its Cantonal Print Cabinet ranks among the five most prestigious collections of printed art in Switzerland, and the museum holds the world’s largest body of graphic works by Oskar Kokoschka, as well as more than eleven thousand drawings. Its vocation today: to bring works on paper to light, in a dialogue between ancient and contemporary art.
ART&SONS: jazz meets the print
In collaboration with the Montreux Jazz Festival and the Montreux Jazz Artists Foundation, the museum pairs its works with pieces by Swiss musicians: a multisensory visit where, in front of certain paintings, a QR code triggers on your phone the music composed for the work. Concerts are also given in the halls, among the canvases.
It was here, in 2019, that the “Friends etc.” collection of Pierre Keller was shown — the man who turned the Montreux Jazz Festival poster into a collection of contemporary art.
Related artists :Pierre Keller