Studio Naegeli, located in the historic Chalet Naegeli in Gstaad, is a gallery for contemporary art, an artist's residence and photo archive of Gstaad photographer Jacques Naegeli (1885 - 1971).
The gallery presents exhibitions, talks and other events. Our focus is on visual art, but we are also interested in the interfaces between art and design, art and architecture, and art and science. With our program we want to bridge the gap between local and global as well as between tradition and innovative, diverse art making. The House of the Photographer should be enlivened by art and welcome both the local community and international guests.
Part of the work of Jacques Naegeli is already available in book form: "Welt & Gstaad". The book was published in 2014 by Suzanne Potterat and Christian Högl in collaboration with the "Museum Saanen". Accompanying the book was a short film and a museum exhibition. In the exhibition, photos, films as well as historical photography equipment were shown to the public. The visitors got exciting insights into the history of the region and the travel stops of the photographer. The Naegeli archive with its extensive fund of original photographs is now being scientifically processed in cooperation with the Swiss National Library.
A few times a year, Studio Naegeli will offer a residency to invited artists. Here, surrounded by the impressive alpine scenery and unique spirit of the mountain village, artists can work on their artistic research and create new art pieces. The art works made during the residency period will be presented in a final show.
Curator Studio Naegeli
Anna Högl is a Swiss based curator and art advisor. She comes from a family of renowned artists and filmmakers and studied at the universities of Göttingen in Germany, University of Bern and Fribourg in Switzerland as well as at the University of Moscow and holds two Master degrees in International Relations and Anthropology. She curates various art projects in Switzerland and internationally. Among her other activities, she is a founder of the artspace Dreiviertel in Bern and the art & science project "Reagenz". Anna was a guest curator on the research project "Museum Global" at State Museum Lenbachhaus in Munich and a guest curator at the Art Center Viafarini in Milano. She collaborated with art institutions in Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and in Asia, she worked as an international liaisons officer for the Moscow Art Fair COSMOSCOW.
The great-grandson of Jacques Naegeli has been working for some time on the recovery of the oeuvre of the renowned Gstaad photographer and documentalist. His path has taken him from furniture making to software development. He is responsible for the ecommerce platform of the music label for electronic music, Kompakt, in Cologne. Christian Högl is co-founder of the art space Dreiviertel in Bern and co-author of the project "Welt & Gstaad", which includes a book, a museum exhibition and a short film.
