February 2025
Born in the USA, artist Susan Hiller (1940-2019) studied anthropology before moving to London in 1970. There she created a body of work of formal diversity, which she herself described as being at the interface between conceptual art and the paranormal. Over the course of her 50-year career, Hiller explored automatic writing, dreams, postcards, television programmes, magic, extraterrestrial encounters and other folk practices. Her way of working is guided by the search for alternatives to the supposedly objective neutrality demanded by science.
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The video artist, sculptor and scenographer Denis Savary (*1981) has been developing a simultaneously challenging and playful oeuvre full of references of all kinds over the last twenty years. Each of his exhibitions spins its own story, in which the most banal everyday life and the most insignificant detail meet fantastic narratives and grandiose images. The large Salle Poma offers space and opportunity to present existing and newly created sculptures, as well as a new film in a own scenographic arrangement.
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The Louise Aeschlimann and Margareta Corti Grant (AC Grant) is a prestigious private grant for visual artists in the Canton of Berne. It has been awarded annually to emerging artists of the younger generation since 1942. A total prize money of CHF 50,000 is available for the grant and main scholarships, which is awarded by a jury in a two-stage application process. This year, 23 artists have been selected from the 91 submissions in the first round to show their works in the exhibition at the KBCB.
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