Date
30 August – 27 September 2025
Opening
29 August 2025
18:00
Venue
Galerie Luciano Fasciati
Jules Spinatsch, Background, Sporthotel Clavadel, 1980
The room number is almost magical: one hundred and eleven – and even more magical is the idea of growing up in a hotel. That was Jules Spinatsch’s childhood and youth at the Sporthotel Clavadel near Davos, which his grandparents and parents ran from 1957 to 1986.
Life in hotel rooms is shrouded in myth: the Chelsea Hotel in New York was mainly home to poor artists, while rich artists stayed at the Danieli in Venice – and the Sporthotel Clavadel was somewhere in between. Jules Spinatsch spent his youth in a family business that spanned the period from early tourist travel in the late 19th century to the first boom phases of mass tourism.
Shortly before the hotel was demolished in 2019, Spinatsch spent a whole day alone inside the hotel ruins – taking new pictures and recalling inner images and forgotten moments.
His eighth solo exhibition at the Luciano Fasciati Gallery combines his own and historical photographs with postcards, documents, and images from family albums to create an opulent auto-bio-photographic installation in the exhibition space.
Further information: Galerie Luciano Fasciati