The Stämpfli Foundation–Contemporary Art presents 75 years of Peter Stämpfli's creative career with a triple exhibition that covers past, present and future

On Saturday, May 10 at 7 p.m., the Stämpfli Foundation – Contemporary Art inaugurates “Narrative Figuration – Imprint 2025 – 1950-2025”, three exhibitions structured in three thematic areas that represent a visual and conceptual synthesis of the main lines that have marked the artistic career of Peter Stämpfli and the Foundation that bears his name.

The exhibition, which will be open to the public from Sunday, May 11, is conceived as a celebration of the 75 years of creation of Peter Stämpfli. The exhibition occupies the three rooms of the museum, managed by the Sitges Heritage Consortium, with unique and complementary proposals, which allow us to explore the different stages of the Swiss artist’s work and his dialogue with other prominent names in European contemporary art.

ROOM 1 – Narrative Figuration
15 years of the Prefiguration of the Foundation's Collection

The first room recovers the founding spirit of the Stämpfli Foundation, focusing on one of its main lines: Narrative Figuration, a movement that emerged in France in the sixties as a critical response to the consumer society and the great political and media stories of the time, in the social context that brought about the events of May 1968.

The room commemorates the 15th anniversary of the first public presentation of the Foundation's collection, which took place in April 2010 at the Miramar Cultural Center. That exhibition was a turning point in the cultural project that would end up being consolidated with the opening of the museum in 2011.

12 fundamental artists of narrative figuration are represented, all of whom are present in the Foundation's collection: Antonio Seguí, Bernard Rancillac, Eduardo Arroyo, Erró, Gérard Fromanger, Gianni Bertini, Henri Cueco, Jacques Monory, Jan Voss, Marco Del Re, Peter Klasen and Peter Stämpfli.

ROOM 2 – Empremta 2025
A large-format installation

The present of art and the Foundation is concentrated in the second room with the proposal Empremta 2025, a unique work by Peter Stämpfli that occupies the entire floor of the room and invites the visitor to immerse himself in his visual language.

With this large-format installation, the artist once again explores the imprint as a plastic symbol and philosophical concept, a line that has marked much of his work, especially since the 1970s. The result is an immersive, physical and visual experience, which offers a new perspective on the exhibition space and the relationship between work and viewer.

ROOM 3 – 1950–2025. 75 years of creation
The first works of an artist in training

The third room concludes the tour with an unusual look at the past: a selection of unpublished and youthful works by Peter Stämpfli, created between 1950 and 1953, when the artist was just establishing his path.

These are gouaches inspired by Impressionist masters, previously kept in private collections, which are being exhibited to the public for the first time. This set reveals the origin of a vocation, the moment when painting ceases to be just learning to become a way of life.

With this triple proposal, the Stämpfli Foundation – Contemporary Art offers a transversal reading of its own history and reaffirms its commitment to the dissemination of European contemporary art.