AGENDA

Guided tour in French in the exhibition LORETTA FAHRENHOLZ – Champagner Galopp with Selma Meuli, curator.

Guided tour in the exhibition JIM SHAW – The past is never dead. It's not even past. with Maja Walter, art educator.

To round off our regulars' table series, we would like to invite you to a special round of talks focussing on the connection between artists and the public.

Art at noon – At the table with the Kunsthaus team (de+fr): Short guided tour in the exhibition JIM SHAW – The past is never dead. It’s not even past. followed by a lunch snack from Batavia, CHF 15.-, (without snack regular admission,) registration until the day before: info@kbcb.ch

In her exhibition Champagner Galopp, Berlin-based artist Loretta Fahrenholz presents two new print series, a room installation, and the film Trash The Musical (2023). The objects, techniques and protagonists in the show perform their contextual self-awareness on different temporal levels. Historic dance groups, analog video effects, and replica jewelry rehearse and shift what was and what could be.

Since the late 1970s, Jim Shaw (*1952) has developed a complex and captivating oeuvre comprising photographs, drawings, sculptures, paintings, installations, films and musical performances. References to Pop culture, such as comics, Hollywood films and caricatures are as integral to his work as religion, entertainment culture and amateur artistic practices. His thorough investigation of the way we construct our values and convictions is accompanied by a seemingly inexhaustible visual language. Adapted from last winter's show at the MHKA (Antwerp), the exhibition focuses primarily on the artist's work of the last ten years. In addition to a dozen paintings, a selection of around 145 Study Drawings (2013-2023) offers an overview of the artist's mental landscape. The Kunsthaus has also participated in the production of the immersive installation The Electronic Monster and Thirteen Ghosts (2024). The exhibition is produced in collaboration with MHKA (Antwerp) and with the support of Gagosian.

We warmly invite you to the opening of the exhibition “How like a leaf I am” by Alexandra Baumgartner. Experience the captivating photographic works, immersive audio installations, and thoughtfully designed scenographic elements that explore the complex relationships between humans and plant life. In collaboration with the Seed Carriers collective, Baumgartner highlights the importance of seed diversity and our collective responsibility to protect agrobiodiversity.

"How like a leaf I am" explores the complex relationships between humans and plant life and sheds light on our collective responsibility to protect and preserve agrobiodiversity. In collaboration with the collective Seed Carriers, Baumgartner uses photographic forms of expression, immersive audio installations and thoughtful scenographic elements to introduce visitors to the cyclical life form of plants and highlight the importance of seed diversity.

Throughout 2024, the web radio Lumpen Station will take possession of the Studiolo. By inviting sound artists from various art scenes (local, national and international), the Lumpen Station team will be able to produce public radio programmes: Interviews, performances, concerts... The programmes are then edited, archived and broadcast continuously on lumpenstation.art.