Galerie Peter Kilchmann, in collaboration with Casa St. Moritz and the St. Moritz Art Film Festival, cordially invites you to a conversation between Peter Kilchmann and Diana Segantini.
Tuesday, 26 May 2026
17:00 – 18:30
Casa St. Moritz
Fraumünsterstrasse 2
8001 Zurich
Free entry
The talk will be held in German.
Following the presentation of Movements: If Music at miart 2026 in Milan, Galerie Peter Kilchmann continues the dialogue surrounding the moving image in contemporary art through a new collaboration with Casa St. Moritz. The conversation will focus on two significant film works presented by the gallery within the exhibition programme of Movements: If Music: Nocturno Vivo (2022) by Leiko Ikemura and The Singing Lesson I (2001) by Artur Żmijewski.
Curated by Stefano Rabolli Pansera, Movements: If Music explored the relationship between music and cinema through themes of rhythm, resonance, gesture, and perception. Within this context, both works offer distinct reflections on sound, presence, and emotional experience through the language of moving images.
Leiko Ikemura — Nocturno Vivo (2022)
Presented within the first movement of the programme, Nocturno Vivo unfolds as a large-scale video projection composed entirely of close-up details from Leiko Ikemura’s dark abstract paintings. Through subtle pulsations of shadow and light, the work transforms stillness into a dreamlike and immersive landscape suspended between creation, fragility, and renewal.
Artur Żmijewski — The Singing Lesson I (2001)
Presented within the second movement of the programme, The Singing Lesson I follows a group of deaf students performing the “Kyrie” from Jan Maklakiewicz’s Polish Mass inside the Holy Trinity Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Warsaw. Oscillating between vulnerability and collective strength, the film becomes a powerful meditation on voice, dissonance, and human expression.
Both works will be presented at the fifth edition of the St. Moritz Art Film Festival, taking place from 20–23 August 2026 under the curatorial theme If Music, exploring cinema as a space of resonance and lived experience rather than narrative alone.
