«Instant and Eternity»

A pile of tree trunks, an inconspicuously conspicuous cone of gravel, sand ramparts and pebbles on the beach: Jean Nouvel's architecture is thoroughly in keeping with the principle of "camouflage“, with disguising and hiding. The exhibitions on the shores of Lake Murten hide like pearls in a seemingly unobtrusive outer skin, and the monolith, a cube of rusty metal in the centre of the lake, presents a striking contrast to the exhibition landscape.

Accessible by four small boats that sail from the cypress-lined shore, the monolith comprises two panoramas expressive of the field of tension between tradition and change. Some visitors may be reminded of Arnold Böcklins famous painting "The Island of the Dead" on their boat trip to the huge cube.