History of the collection

In 1900 the Bündner Kunstverein began assembling an art collection. Long since, however, it has been the task of the Stiftung Bündner Kunstsammlung (BKS) to systematically acquire works for the Bündner Kunstmuseum in order to enlarge the stock in a sensible way. In the meantime the collection comprises approximately 8000 works from all sectors of fine art from the 18^th century up to the present. A small part of the inventory is exhibited permanently on three floors of the Villa Planta. These are mostly works by artists from Graubünden or Switzerland. These are predominantly works by Swiss or Grisons artists. There are representative works by Angelika Kauffmann, Giovanni Segantini, Augusto Giacometti, Giovanni Giacometti, Alberto Giacometti, Ferdinand Hodler, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, along with exponents of the 'Rot-Blau' group and contemporary Grisons artists such as Matias Spescha, Not Vital, HR Giger, Pascale Wiedemann and Jules Spinatsch. With the video installations by Zilla Leutenegger or Gabriela Gerber/Lukas Bardill media art has been firmly established in the presentation of our collection.

In the annexe (Sulser-Bau) there are about five exhibitions every year. Besides thematic exhibitions and individual shows of historical and contemporary art from Graubünden, there are presentations, group exhibits, and retrospectives of important Swiss and Graubünden artists, and in regular intervals also exhibitions of international contemporary art.