SMAFF x Casa St.Moritz

Tuesday, 26th May 2026 at 5:00 PM – Casa St.Moritz, Fraumünsterstrasse 2, Zurich

We are delighted to announce a new collaboration with Casa St. Moritz, the temporary urban residency established by St. Moritz Tourismus in the heart of the city.

A conversation between the gallerist Peter Kilchmann and our SMAFF Managing Director Diana Segantini, centred on two artistic videos that will feature in the upcoming fifth edition of the St.Moritz Art Film Festival taking place from 20–23 August 2026 in St. Moritz, Switzerland.The talk will be held in German.

“Nocturno Vivo”
by Leiko Ikemura (2022)

A large-format video projection composed entirely of close-ups from Leiko Ikemura’s dark abstract paintings transforms the stillness of night into a subtly shifting, dreamlike landscape, where shadow and light pulse in continuous motion, evoking inner worlds of creation, crisis, and renewal through immersive sound and an ever-evolving horizon of black and colour.

“The Singing Lesson 1”
by Artur Żmijewski (2001)

A group of young students from the Institute of Deaf-Mute in Warsaw perform the “Kyrie” from Jan Maklakiewicz’s 1944 Polish Mass inside the Holy Trinity Evangelical-Augsburg Congregation in Warsaw, their voices rising uncertainly yet resolutely into the vaulted space as the solemn, monumental resonance of the organ surrounds them, transforming what might at first seem like dissonance into an arresting, deeply human act of devotion and artistic expression.