In collaboration with the Ciné-Theater in Gstaad, the CinemArt film series returns this winter from 9 January to 27 February 2026. The program presents a curated selection of films on modern and contemporary art, offering unique insight into the work of significant international artists including Mary Heilmann, Niki de Saint Phalle & Jean Tinguely, Anselm Kiefer, Paul Gauguin, Gerhard Richter, Jackson Pollock and Marcel Duchamp. The series also reflects on the life of Giuseppe Panza di Biumo and his influential career as a collector of contemporary art.
Tickets are available at www.cine-theater.ch or at the cinema box office.
Friday 9 January
Mary Heilmann: Waves, Roads & Hallucinations
Matt Creed, 2023, EN
New York based artist Mary Heilmann is one of the most influential American abstract painters of her time. This documentary offers a visually immersive journey through the artist’s life, using rare archival material and in-studio footage to explore her mind and practice.
'Mary Heilmann: Waves, Roads & Hallucinations' (film still), 2024 © Mary Heilmann.
Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth, and 303 Gallery, New York
Friday 16 January
Niki de Saint Phalle und Jean Tinguely: Komplizen der Kunst
Sabine Jainski & Thorsten Ernst, 2025, DE
Niki de Saint Phalle, with her vividly colored Nanas, and Jean Tinguely, with his inventive kinetic machines, continue to captivate audiences today. Their friend and curator Pontus Hultén gave them a platform for their most ambitious works, including one of their earliest and most iconic collaborations, ‘Hon en katedral’ (She—A Cathedral) (1966).
Stravinsky Fountain by Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely in Paris, 1982, Skull sculpture by Niki de Saint Phalle in front.
Photo: © Medea Film Factory / Thomas Bresinsky. Artworks: © 2025 Niki Charitable Art Foundation, ADAGP, Paris / Jean Tinguely © ADAGP, Paris
Friday 23 January
Anselm – Das Rauschen der Zeit
Wim Wenders, 2023, DE
In this film, Wim Wenders draws the portrait of one of the most innovative and significant visual artists of our time: Anselm Kiefer. The work offers its audience an immersive journey through the oeuvre of an artist whose practice explores human existence and the cyclical nature of history—drawing inspiration from literature and poetry, history and philosophy, science, mythology, and religion.
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Friday 30 January
Giuseppe Panza di Biumo: Art Collector
Giampaolo Penco, 2007, IT/EN/en
This film was made over an eight-year period and follows follows the Panza Collection through a series of exhibitions around the world, containing interviews with many of the artists involved, and reconstructs the story of Panza’s life and career as a pioneer of contemporary collecting.
Giuseppe Panza di Biumo: Art Collector (film still), 2005, courtesy VIDEOEST
Friday 6 February
Gaugin: Voyage to Tahiti
Edouard Deluc, 2017, FR/de/fr
In 1891, Paul Gauguin set off for the South Sea Island. In the wilderness of Tahiti, as a free man, he sought a new direction in his painting—far away from the moral, political and aesthetic values of values of Europe. He defies loneliness, poverty and illness, and meets Tehura, who becomes his wife andi nspiration for some of his most famous paintings.
Gaugin: Voyage to Tahiti (film still), 2017, © Paul Gaugin. Courtesy of the artist, FRENETIC FILMS AG
Friday 13 February
Gerhard Richter Painting
Corinna Belz, 2011, DE/EN/de
The German artist Gerhard Richter has spent over half a century experimenting with a tremendous range of techniques and ideas, addressing historical crises and mass media representation alongside explorations of chance procedures. This film is a thrilling document of Richter’s creative process, juxtaposed with intimate conversations with his critics, his collaborators as well as rare archive material.
Gerhard Richter Painting (film still), 2011, © zero one film
Friday 20 February
Pollock
Ed Harris, 2000, EN
This film traces the turbulent life of the well-known artist Jackson Pollock. Although his wife, Lee Krasner, is dedicated to carving Pollock’s name into art history, Pollock finds himself in a downward spiral that threatens to destroy not only his marriage and promising career but, perhaps, even his life.
Pollock (film still), 2000, Courtesy of Park Circus/Sony Pictures
Friday 27 February
Marcel Duchamp: Art of the Possible
Matthew Taylor, 2020, EN
Marcel Duchamp’s radical redefinition of art has irrevocably changed our perception of what art can be and opened up endless possibilities of artistic expression. In the words of Jeff Koons: ‘It is hard to think of art in the twenty-first century without Marcel Duchamp.’ Koons, as well as other renowned artists, such as Marina Abramović, Ed Ruscha and Larry Bell, discuss Duchamp’s legacy as this 2019 documentary explores the life and philosophy of the French artist.
Marcel Duchamp: Art of the Possible (film still), 2018, © Marcel Duchamp.
Courtesy of the artist and Electrolift Creative, LLC
