Populated by impalpable, fragile, and unsettling presences, Villa Bernasconi presents the exhibition Stitches: A Haunted House and Other Ghost Stories, curated by Collectif Détente. Continuing the curatorial project Stitches initiated in 2020, the exhibition explores the spectral potential of textiles.
By clothing the invisible and giving it form, fabric becomes a messenger between worlds, carrying suspended stories and forgotten memories.
At the threshold of the perceptible, the exhibition questions what the figure of the ghost and its dwelling reveal within contemporary artistic practices. Witnesses to concealed legacies, collective fears, and intimate narratives, the works on view give shape to what cannot—or must not—be seen. With tenderness, mischief, and unease, they reveal the haunting that inhabits domestic objects, living spaces, everyday gestures, and social structures.
In dialogue with the architecture of Villa Bernasconi, the house itself becomes a haunted subject, allowing the voices and absent beings to surface—those “others” with whom we coexist, who follow us, or accompany us.
Stitches: A Haunted House and Other Ghost Stories
Serge Comte, Vidya Gastaldon, Christophe Terpent & Jean-Michel Wicker / Ryan Gander / Dorota Gawęda & Eglė Kulbokaitė / Gotscho / Gregory Tara Hari / Sonia Kacem / Léa Katharina Meier / Meret Oppenheim / Benoît Piéron / Nina Rieben / Li Tavor / Sandar Tun Tun / Claire van Lubeek / Latefa Wiersch, and a film with Heidi Bucher
Exhibition from January 21 to March 22, 2026
Opening hours:
Wednesday – Sunday
2 pm – 6 pm