Dear friends,
In February 2018 we carried an off white table into a sixteenth century house in the Engadin for an exhibition in the mountains. It was the first SOAP table Sabine Marcelis made – cast resin worked to a soft, matte, almost soapy surface. That single piece grew into a series, and the collaboration has run ever since. Actually since 2013 when the gallery showed her graduation project in Copenhagen.
This summer Sabine comes back to the same mountains. We are opening Maloja Fog at The Barn, our new space in Maloja, and it is her first exhibition there.
The title belongs to the valley. At the head of the Engadin a low cloud sometimes forms at the pass and slips down toward the lakes in one long line. People here call it the Maloja Snake, and it has drawn painters and filmmakers for a century.
Sabine has said her sense of colour comes from the mountains, from the light above the clouds where sun and cloud mix. In Maloja that is simply the weather outside.
The show brings together new foggy gradient mirrors, coloured glass that fades from clear reflection into a soft haze, and SOAP tables in cast resin, the series that began here in the Engadin. At 1,815 metres the light changes by the hour, and the work answers it in a way no gallery interior can. The painter Giovanni Segantini settled at this exact altitude in 1894 for the same reason, chasing a light he could not find anywhere else.
We would love to see you there. Maloja Fog opens July 10th at The Barn, Maloja, and runs through 12 September 2026.
Practical information
Maloja Fog opens July 10th 2026 and runs through 12 September 2026 at The Barn, Capolago 63, Maloja, Engadin, Switzerland. Viewings by appointment. For press images, interviews, and enquiries, please contact info@etageprojects.com or call +41 79 732 32 40
Photography by Ivan Erofeev
Go to artist page: Sabine Marcelis
