SCHOKOLADE

Schokolade explores chocolate as an aesthetic presence, a gentle material, a gourmand glow and a territory of sensual expression. Cocoa reveals its textures, its velvet depth, its dark reflections; it inspires gestures, images and intimate impulses where indulgence meets art.

Chocolate belongs to our everyday lives, to our imaginaries and to our cocoons. A symbol of pleasure, desire, sensuality, indulgence and culinary craftsmanship, it is not limited to these dimensions alone. During these days devoted to the senses, Musarthis hosts works that approach chocolate as a cultural, sensory and literary material. With Schokolade, Musarthis proposes a journey through the history of chocolate, from its origins to its democratization, evoking its major cultural, social and sensitive moments. Artists accompany this delectable exploration, both generous and reflective.

Evolving

exhibition

From January 19 to January 25

The vernissage marks an opening.
The exhibition will unfold and grow day after day, inviting visitors to return, to observe, and to taste differently.

Featured artists

Verly Amé
Mélodie Blaum
Joe D.
NEB (poet)

Access offered by the Swiss Houses of Arthésie

This exhibition is made possible through the commitment of:

Mardès, publishing house of culture and transmission
Mirasis, House of Haute Poetic Pastry
Chocolatésie, Swiss house of poetic chocolate and gourmet literature

Their support establishes a refined space, attuned to indulgence and art.

Curator’s note

Schokolade was born from an attention given to a material that is both familiar and infinitely complex. Chocolate moves through everyday life and imagination, inscribed in gestures, expectations and silences. It engages the body, calls upon memory, and questions our relationship to pleasure, transmission and time.

The exhibition opens as a space of sensitive thought. Chocolate does not operate here as a decorative motif or as a simple object of indulgence; it presents itself as a surface of projection, an embodied language, a cultural material shaped by history, uses and narratives. A substance capable of carrying forms, ideas and tensions.

Evolving by nature, this journey invites return, a shift of gaze, and another way of inhabiting what appears familiar. A gourmand, artistic and philosophical experience, conceived as a shared space, from the cocoon of our interiors.

Marlena Des, curator