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Elevation 1049 is a project by the Luma Foundation, named after Gstaad's geological coordinates (1049).

It features site-specific works by international artists in the Saanenland.

22/01/2026

Countdown to GERHARD RICHTER – STRIP TOWER (962)

Just 6 days to go until STRIP TOWER (962) opens in Sils Maria on 27 January 2026!

Rising over five metres, this monumental work transforms Richter’s six-decade exploration of painting, photography, digital processes, and abstraction into a three-dimensional, immersive experience. Eight interlocking panels, clad in vividly striped ceramic tiles, create a cross-shaped interior that visitors can enter, surrounding themselves with shifting fields of colour and light. STRIP TOWER (962) is inspired by Richter’s 'Strip Paintings' series and the crystalline Alpine landscape that has long captivated the artist.

The installation will be on view for three years, as part of Elevation 1049| 1822, presented by LUMA Foundation.

🗓 Opening: 27 Jan 2026

14/03/2025

Haroon Mirza – Oscillations for Caduceus (2024)

Haroon Mirza’s ‘Oscillations for Caduceus’ features solar panels that capture sunlight in Gstaad, storing energy to power a live sound component. Inspired by the Dyson Sphere concept from Olaf Stapledon’s ‘Star Maker’ (1937) and later explored by Freeman Dyson, the work reflects on harnessing solar energy while critiquing infinite energy expansionism.

An electronic device converts solar electricity into sound in real time. Housed in a former civil aviation authority light dome from Emley Moor transmitting tower, the speaker emits modulated signals using pulse-width modulation, a process used in synthesizers and LED control. The programmed frequencies—40 Hz and 111 Hz—are linked to neurological effects, including potential Alzheimer’s treatment and brain hemispheric influence.

On view at The Station - Gstaadstrasse 2, 3792 Saanen, Switzerland until 16 March 2025.
Part of Elevation 1049: Energies.

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12/03/2025

HIMALI SINGH SOIN – STATIC RANGE (2020–ongoing)

‘Static Range’ is a cross-disciplinary project rooted in a real-life Cold War spy story. In the 1960s, the CIA and Indian Intelligence Bureau placed a nuclear-powered spy device on Nanda Devi Mountain to monitor China. Lost in a snowstorm, it remains missing, leaking radiation into the Himalayas and affecting local communities.

In 1978, Himali Singh Soin’s mountaineer father photographed Nanda Devi from a nearby peak—an image later turned into a national postage stamp. The video features a fictional love letter from the lost device to the mountain, narrated by Soin over a soundscape by David Soin Tappeser on handmade nagada drums. Underground Uighur rhythms emerge as signals of resistance, while the stamp image morphs as if exposed to radiation.

Blending personal and political histories, ‘Static Range’ explores nuclear power, environmental violence, and radioactive leakages as poetic, toxic emissaries across time.

On view at The Carpentry - Schlittmoosstrasse 1, 3778 Schönried, Switzerland until 16 March 2025.
Part of Elevation 1049: Energies.

11/03/2025

🔥 OSCAR TUAZON – FIRE WORSHIP, 2025 🔥

Commissioned for Elevation 1049, Oscar Tuazon’s new installation ‘Fire Worship’ (2025) outside the Station is a functioning firepit, featuring a central cast concrete column surrounded by pinewood seating—the most commonly used wood in the Gstaad area. Designed to welcome visitors during the cold winter months, it offers both warmth and a space for gathering.

Fire, one of the oldest forms of energy harnessed by humans, has been used for warmth, cooking, protection, and social connection for over a million years. Tuazon’s work explores themes of community and the built environment, moving beyond modernist ideals of passive viewership. In past iterations of fireplaces, he has invited communities to use his installations for gathering and even barbecuing.

While fire evokes our archaic past, the materials used—burnt wood and concrete—highlight pressing environmental concerns. Concrete, a major contributor to CO2 emissions, underscores the urgent need to rethink our relationship with nature and sustainability.

On view at The Station in Saanen until 16 March 2025.

06/03/2025

LOUISA GAGLIARDI – ELECTRIC COMPANY, 2025 ⚡✨

For Elevation 1049: Energies, Louisa Gagliardi unveils a 7-metre-high digital painting, mounted on a transformer station tower in Gstaad—an industrial relic of shifting energy infrastructures. Her airbrush-like, surrealist tableau depicts two figures with glowing light bulbs obscuring their eyes, reflecting and distorting their gaze, surrounded by insects drawn to the light.

Blurring boundaries between presence and absence, light and dark, analogue pasts and digital futures, Gagliardi’s work speaks to the hidden materiality of energy, technology, and the electricity that powers our digital world.

Commissioned by Luma Foundation for Elevation 1049: Energies.

On view at BKW Tower Gstaad, Bellerivestrasse until October 2025.

02/03/2025

JEAN KATAMBAYI MUKENDI

Jean Katambayi Mukendi’s work explores the paradox of energy shortages in Lubumbashi, DRC—a city rich in copper, a key material for renewable energy, yet plagued by power cuts. His ‘Afrolampe’ drawings, on view at The Station, highlight how Africa’s resources fuel the green transition in the Global North while local communities face scarcity.

Addressing colonial exploitation, civil conflict, and global inequalities—including vaccine distribution during the Covid-19 pandemic—Mukendi exposes the imbalance in access to essential resources.

At The Carpentry, his anthropomorphic sculpture ‘Voyant’ (2015) resembles a robot, built from cardboard, paper, plastics, electrical wiring, and a motor. A commentary on surveillance and resistance, the work contrasts advanced automation with makeshift materials, questioning technological control.

On view at The Station (Saanen) and The Carpentry (Schönried) until 16 March 2025.
Part of Elevation 1049: Energies.

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28/02/2025

MARIA LOIZIDOU – Volants Migrants (2023)

Suspended above visitors at the Carpentry, ‘Volants Migrants’ consists of four inox steel woven textiles, each representing a season through migratory birds of France—swallows (spring), flamingos (winter), robins (autumn), and hoopoes (summer). Woven into the fabric are seasonal elements like cherry blossoms, golden cobs, autumn winds, and frozen lakes.

Created using a traditional Cypriot technique, the works are woven with thin steel wire and crafted with needles in patterns reminiscent of Mediterranean crochet traditions. Made collaboratively over two years by eight artisans, the piece reflects on climate change, migration, and cultural history, as the birds transcend borders and time.

On view until 16 March 2025 at The Carpentry, Schlittmoosstrasse 1, 3778 Schönried until 16 March 2025.
Part of Elevation 1049: Energies.

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25/02/2025

Nikita Gale’s DRRRUMMERRRRRR (2019–present) explores technology, power, and contemporary crises through an installation of industrial materials like scaffolding, tubing, and pumps, combined with percussion instruments activated by water—distributing agency beyond any human player.

Heat plays both a literal and metaphorical role: sound energy gradually silences, producing thermal energy, while a “hot” mic captures signals, raising questions about who listens and who is heard. The work suggests that the Earth itself is a “hot mic,” recording the effects of industrial and technological progress.

Reflecting on climate change, political instability, and technological influence, Gale states: “Any fantasy that humanity may have about its future is circumscribed by the reality of rising sea levels and an increasingly hotter atmosphere.” 🌍🔥

On view at The Carpentry, Schlittmoosstrasse 1, 3778 Schönried until 16 March 2025.
Part of Elevation 1049: Energies.

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21/02/2025

Liu Chuang’s three-channel video installation ‘Lithium Lake and Island of Polyphony II’ (2023) weaves sci-fi, sound, and speculative research to explore human and nonhuman entanglements. Linking Spain’s 16th-century silver mining in Bolivia to today’s lithium extraction, the video reflects on “path dependence” and our struggle to break free from entrenched systems. A floating bone transforms into a flute, evoking Kubrick, polyphonic music, and Joseph Jordania’s theory of singing in treetops. Liu also invokes the Fermi paradox, imagining an alien anthropologist observing humanity’s self-destructive quest for progress.

On view at The Carpentry, Schlittmoosstrasse 1, 3778 Schönried.
Part of Elevation 1049: Energies.

24/01/2025

✨Elevation 1049: Energies✨
Opening weekend: February 1–2, 2025
Exhibition dates: February 2–March 16, 2025
Location: Gstaad, Switzerland

The 6th edition of Elevation 1049 opens on February 1, 2025, in and around Gstaad. Centred on the concept of ‘Energies’, the Luma Foundation has invited , Director of Swiss Institute in New York, as guest curator.

Featuring works by 14 artists and collectives, the exhibition spans two indoor venues—the Carpentry in Schönried and the Station in Saanen, Gstaad—and includes new commissions and outdoor installations.

With:
🔹 Nina Canell & Robin Watkins
🔹 Liu Chuang
🔹 Louisa Gagliardi
🔹 Nikita Gale
🔹 Ximena Garrido-Lecca
🔹 Theaster Gates
🔹 Jean Katambayi Mukendi
🔹 Saba Khan / Pak Khawateen Painting Club
🔹 Maria Loizidou
🔹 Vibeke Mascini
🔹 Haroon Mirza
🔹 Himali Singh Soin
🔹 Oscar Tuazon

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