In August 2024, the founder of the Berry Museum, Dr. med, Dr. P.R. Berry IV, the curator Cornelia Schwab and the filmmaker and author the filmmaker and author Alexander Kluge met in Sils Maria for a chat. It was a spontaneous meeting. This conversation laid the foundation for the exhibition Kluge-Berry Workshop. It presents unknown works by the painter and new works by Alexander Kluge that comment on his pictures. comment on his paintings.

Kluge's works are inspired, among other things, by Aby Warburg's picture atlas Mnemosyne and his war map. Such constellations are of fundamental interest to the workshop being created here. The exhibition will begin as a work in progress at the turn of the year 2024/25 in the basement of the Berry Museum's new building. The workshop character will allow work to continue during the exhibition period and that cooperation with other artists and commentary on other other works of art remains possible.

The "Kluge-Berry-Werkstatt" invites you to experience art and history from new, challenging perspectives - visually impressive, intellectually impressive, intellectually profound and timelessly relevant.

Alexander Kluge, one of the great minds of our time, interprets the work and life of and life of Peter Robert Berry II in a visionary way. You can see previously unknown works by the painter and works by Alexander Kluge that comment on his pictures. comment on his paintings. Themes such as "longue durée", "violence and war" and "the elegance of animals overcoming gravity" as well as the Engadin. In honor of the painter's father, the regimental doctor and co-founder P. R. Berry I, who served in the First Crimean War (1853-1856) are also on display. The exhibition shows pictures on aluminum and wood, monitors and an installation as a installation as a multiple projection with the title: "Utopia is getting better and better while we wait for it".

We would like to thank all partners and sponsors who supported this extraordinary exhibition. Our special thanks go to the Engadin Tourismus AG St. Moritz.

The SPIEGEL literary canon from October 2024 names his book "Chronicle of Emotions" among the hundred best since 1924. He published the book "December" with Gerhard Richter, in which Richter shows pictures from December in Engadin and Kluge wrote stories for every December day. The current book with the painter Anselm Kiefer "Klugheit ist die the art of remaining faithful under different circumstances" was published by Suhrkamp Verlag in November this year. The volume "Der Konjunktiv", published by Spector Books in Leipzig, also dates from this year. "The Subjunctive of Images". An exhibition at e-flux in New York in June 2024 was based on the English English edition of this book and four related film and exhibition film and exhibition evenings entitled "The Dragonfly's Eye". The most recent exhibitions were: Palazzo Diedo | Berggruen Institute, Venice, "Adventures of Enlightenment", curated by by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Adriana Rispoli and "Onside / Offside", Rathaus Galerie Munich.