Lemme

Lemme is an exhibition space for contemporary art in Sion VS, Switzerland and a sculpture by the artist Pierre Vadi. Vadi conceived Lemme as an art and construction project for the park of the Les Arsenaux cultural center. From 2019 to 2021, he himself curated twelve exhibitions in this miniature architecture. In 2022 and 2023, Josiane Imhasly took over the curation of the space and realized nine exhibitions and a performance program. Her program 360º Lemme envisaged an exploration and investigation of this sculpture. The sculpture, and with it the exhibition space, was palpated and transformed in a movement from the inside to the outside.

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For her last exhibition in Lemme, curator Josiane Imhasly invited musician, video artist and activist Richard Jean. Not only does he live in the immediate vicinity of the concrete block, he is also one of the biggest admirers of Pierre Vadi’s sculpture (not least because of its cube shape). When asked what it is like… Continue reading Trous Noirs

Martina-Sofie Wildberger shows her installation P-Pants in Action in Lemme. Since 2017, Wildberger has been regularly going on high-altitude tours. She noticed that the higher she went, the fewer women were present on the mountain. From then on, she posted photos of high-alpine summit ascents with ice axe, rope and crampons on Instagram with the… Continue reading P-Pants in Action

The project Walking with the Rhone by the artist duo Willimann/Arai consists of presentations at two exhibition venues and nine days of walking between Sion and the Rhone Glacier: It starts on 22 July 2023 with farewell drinks at the base station of the project, Lemme, in Sion and the opening of the exhibition in… Continue reading Walking with the Rhone

Si vous travaillez et que vous êtes fatigué·e, écrivez à jungninety@gmail.com (If you’re working and tired, write to jungninety@gmail.com) Florence Jung distributed this advertisement in Sion at the beginning of March. One of the people who answered it – a tired, freelance person – is paid to sleep an hour longer than usual every day… Continue reading Jung90

The windowpanes of the space vibrate, transporting a sound produced by synthesizers throughout the duration of the exhibition and transforming Lemme into a sound sculpture. Polyphonic sounds and intricate rhythms can be heard, which serve as the soundtrack for two video works that Thomas Julier places in dialogue with one another. The two videos, Chameleon… Continue reading Dawn Chorus Protocol

In the installation Umgehen von Tatsachen (Bypassing Facts), Herbert Weber uses Lemme to generate images and transforms the sculpture into a permeable, translucent shell. The image-sculptures which are set in the space become invisible from a certain point of view. He achieves this with his repeatedly tested method, which triggers an optical illusion in the… Continue reading Umgehen von Tatsachen

In the exhibition WELCOME STRANGER, the miniature exhibition space Lemme is understood as a house. The works on display by seven Swiss and international artists address aspects of domesticity. Within this framework, the exhibition focuses on the relationship between the intimate sphere and the public space. In doing so, the location of this “house” as… Continue reading Welcome Stranger

From a distance, you can see a number of ochre-yellow objects, wall works and sculptures. They are all covered in corduroy and seem to have stepped out of the same alternative reality, frozen in another time. Approaching, the sculptures reveal themselves to be two skeletons inhabiting the exhibition space. The installation Fool’s Gold by COUPLE… Continue reading Fool’s Gold