Where I come from. Works of art tell their own story

Over the centuries, works of art travel from hand to hand, taking on the marks of time. Sometimes their existence is extended in a permanent place: a museum. Since 1897, thousands of works have converged on the Jenisch Museum Vevey, which today preserves a rich heritage of 53,000 paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures, from the Renaissance to the present day.

The exhibition « Where I come from » focuses on the Vevey collections and their origins. It invites the public to enter into a dialogue with some sixty emblematic works by Courbet, Dürer, Dix, Giacometti, Hodler, Ingres and Picasso, by observing them from a different angle. Where does this heritage for future generations come from? What paths did it take? There are so many paths and so many stories to be discovered on a tour of the institution’s permanent galleries.