Ernst Scheidegger
e la Bregaglia

31 may – 19 october 2025

Ernst Scheidegger (1923–2016) is one of the most important Swiss photographers of the 20th century. Today he is internationally recognised above all for his portraits of artists. In the Bregaglia valley he repeatedly photographed Alberto Giacometti and later Varlin (Willy Guggenheim). However, his legacy also includes around 5000 photographs of the Bregaglia proper: Landscapes, villages, buildings and, much less frequently, people. These images have rarely been exhibited or recognised to date. The exhibition Ernst Scheidegger e la Bregaglia shows a selection of around 60 photographs and enables visitors to discover Bregaglia as Ernst Scheidegger saw it.

“I first came into contact with the Bregaglia during the war and found access to the local people through Alberto Giacometti. Later, I chose a second home in Bondo, in the neighbourhood of my friend Varlin, and today I feel almost like the emigrants, as a homesick Bregagliotto.”

Ernst Scheidegger, 1994