Vergangene Veranstaltungen

Vanessa Billy's (b. 1978, CH) sculptural practice explores ecological aspects, energy cycles, dystopian visions and transformative alchemical processes. Using a wide range of both organic and synthetic materials and waste products, including silicone, bio-resin, water, waste oil, metals, glass and plastics, she draws parallels between physical and mental constructs in the context of our relationship with the environment.

The Biel-based duo RITZWIRTH, consisting of architect Katia Ritz (*1973, CH) and designer Florian Hauswirth (*1976, CH), has been creating installation works since 2009. The focus is on intervention in the environment, which the two surprisingly disfigure through their detached approach. In their first large solo exhibition, they present past projects as well as a new monumental installation that reinterprets the functions of the Kunsthaus building.

Emilija Škarnulytė (*1987, LT) explores the psychological power that our environment exerts on us. Her videos and immersive multimedia installations, which interweave fiction with documentary films, reflect on the invisible relationships between the physical world and our social imagination - from the perception of geological time and its influence on our relationship to history to the way violent conflicts inscribe themselves on the structure of the earth.

The Diploma festival of the Master in Contemporary Arts Practice of the Bern University of the Arts brings together works by a young generation of ambitious artists keen to experiment. The artistic approach of the graduates is manifested in different media such as performance, video, installation, painting, literature or music and focuses on current issues.

Jonas Burkhalter, Ramon Feller, Bastien Gachet & Rebecca Kunz, Matthias Gabi, Eva Maria Gisler, Floyd Grimm, Sybill Häusermann, Lukas Hoffmann, Luc Isenschmid, Sibel Kocakaya, Diego Kohli, Daniel Kurth, Karin Lehmann, Fabio Luks, Robin Mettler, Ivan Mitrovic, Noha Mokhtar, PRICE, Nina Rieben, Lorenzo Salafia, Jérôme Stünzi, Vera Trachsel

Nilbar Güreş (b. 1977 in TR) works in a diverse range of media, including painting, photography, film, performance, collage and drawing. She consistently interrogates conventional gender roles and alludes to ways of empowering feminine and queer identities. Imbued with a playful irony, her artistic practice is based on subtle moments of resistance, quietly radical in their enactment on the margins of everyday life. The exhibition focuses on the last six years of Güreş’ career.

Artists: A TEMPORARY ALLIANCE, Bastien Aubry, Sylvie Aubry, Stéphanie Baechler, Linus Baumeler, Cécile Baumgartner Vizkelety, Karin Borer, Nicolle Bussien, Livio Casanova, Lara Dâmaso, Remy Erismann, Edith Flückiger, Gabriel Flückiger, Leolie Greet, Floyd Grimm, Laurent Güdel, Simone Haug, Géraldine Honauer, Jeanne Jacob, Lea Krebs, Vanessa Kunz, Daniel Kurth, Raphael Loosli & Arnaud Wohlhauser, LULU&WHISKEY, Lea Luzifer, Monod_Marcus, Robin Mettler, Alizé Rose-May Monod, Karen Amanda Moser, Susanne Muller, Nico Müller, Ernestyna Orlowska, Nina Rieben, Marie-Françoise Robert, Alan Sahin, Lorenzo Salafia, Julia Steiner, Jérôme Stünzi, Vera Trachsel, Romy Troxler, Lara Wedekind, Prix Kunstverein: Jeanne Jacob, Prix Anderfuhren: Jérôme Stünzi

Miriam Sturzenegger’s (*1983, CH) sculptures and installations are frequently produced on site as a reult of a longer term preoccupation with a specific space. They recall architectural elements; in their development, however, they re consistently reduced. The artistic practice of the Manor ArtAward winner is based on space creating processes and connections and can thus be read as the organisation of space, as shifting or layering.

France-Lise McGurn (b. 1983, GB) is a painter who works both on canvas, as well as directly on the walls, floors and ceilings of her exhibitions, sometimes combining the two. She draws on an archive of imagery and moving image to create figurative paintings exploring themes such as sexuality, dreams, the intimacy of city life, motherhood and nostalgic popular culture. Working intuitively, she uses swift brushstrokes and repeated marks to create loose associations about place and history.

CURRENT VIEWS ON THE 30 YEARS OF COLLECTION - Marking its 30th jubilee this year, the Kunsthaus looks back to 30 years of collecting activity, concentrating on highlights. Oriented at the beginning towards regional art, the Kunsthaus-Collection has focused for several years on works by international artists shown in an exhibition at the Kunsthaus. Today the collection numbers over 1800 works. The jubilee exhibition shows a selection and is expanded by current artists from Biel.  

As the exhibition at Kunsthaus Pasquart (18.-23.6.2020) cannot take place, the Diploma Festival MA CAP of the HKB will be hold as a digital Festival. The Diploma festival of the Masters in Contemporary Arts Practice of the High school of Arts Berne gathers works of a young and joyful experimenting generation of ambitious activists in art. The artistic thought of the graduates shows itself in different medias such as performance, video, installation, painting, literature or music and focuses on contemporary questioning.

The exhibition 2020 at Kunsthaus Pasquart had to be cancelled due to the Corona Pandemic. For this year's award of the Aeschlimann Corti-Grant, the prizewinners will each be honored individually with a video portrait. The works of the participating artists will also be presented in a video compilation.

Before the Kunsthaus extension, designed by Diener & Diener, was constructed, Daniel Zimmermann (*1966, CH), who lived and worked in Biel at the time, laid out a structural field of 10'000 wooden strips in the form and size of the ground plan. By means of a stereoscope, the ephemeral installation was captured from various perspectives: since then 3D panorama-viewers recall as a visual sign the transition to the situation before the big change.

Kapwani Kiwanga (b. 1978, CA) is an Afro-Canadian artist, living and working in Paris. Kiwanga’s artistic process is research-oriented, initiated by marginalised or forgotten histories and political events, which she articulates in a range of materials and media such as sculpture, installation, fabric pieces and video. The artist is preoccupated with the impact of disciplinary architecture on the human body and the research into post-colonial histories, in which truth and fiction are combined.

Organised in cooperation with the Kunstverein Biel, the intercantonal exhibition draws attention to art being made in the region. The selection of works, drawn up by a professional jury, surprises through diversity and originality and thereby creating space for new discoveries. Artists are given possibility to present their works to a large audience and visitors the chance to see these beyond the borders of the canton.

Kunsthaus Pasquart is showing work by the prize-winners of the Kiefer Hablitzel | Göhner Art Prize 2019 for artists under the age of 30. The group exhibition presents new works by Mohamed Almusibli, Natacha Donzé, Bernhard Hegglin, Roman Selim Khereddine, Nils Amadeus Lange, Sveta Mordovskaya and Valentina Triet.

Asta Gröting’s (b. 1961, D) sculptures and videos are characterised by the material transformation of the ordinary and familiar. She shows us the things that cannot normally be seen and perhaps those which we don’t want to see, whether it is the human inner ear, the emotional and physical distance between a couple or the trauma embedded in holes made by bullets in the facades of buildings in Berlin. The exhibition brings together new work with sculptures made in the 1990s.

Andrea Heller (*1975, CH) makes works on paper as well as ceramic and glass objects in which a world of fragile landscapes, associative traces and anthropomorphic hybrids unfolds. Reflecting the conditions of our environment, the Biel artist focuses on aspects such as deconstruction, instability and impermanence and produces room-sized installation that can be experienced in a variety of ways.

Within Céline Condorelli’s practice (*1974, FR/IT), scenographic elements are used to create installations, sculptures and performances, a process that shifts between art, space and architecture. She thus puts the gallery space and the conventions of making exhibitions on display, revealed to be hidden guides that condition and direct how one sees and moves within exhibition spaces. In this way the artist reveals the function of display, and asks us to reflect on notions of value, visibility, communication or manipulation.

The Diploma festival of the Master in Contemporary Arts Practice of the Bern University of the Arts brings together works by a young generation of ambitious artists keen to experiment. The artistic approach of the graduates is manifested in different media such as performance, video, installation, painting, literature or music and focuses on current issues.

The exhibition at Kunsthaus Pasquart brings together for the first time a comprehensive overview of Melanie Manchot’s (b. 1966, Germany) work responding to the landscape, community and tourism-led economic infrastructure of the Swiss mountain valley Engelberg.  It marks ten years of producing both photographic and video works relating to this alpine region, forming a sustained enquiry into our complex relationship with mountains as spaces of real and imaginary exploration of our place in the world.

The Kunsthaus Pasquart is showing the most comprehensive exhibition to date of the work of the Flemish artist Philippe Vandenberg (1952-2009, BE), in collaboration with the Hamburger Kunsthalle, where the exhibition was presented from 16.11.2018 to 24.2.2019. It is the first institutional exhibition of his work in both Switzerland and Germany. Highly acclaimed in his home country of Belgium as one of the most important artists of the last few decades, Vandenberg produced a radical and uncompromising œuvre that is just now achieving greater international acclaim. The extensive retrospective comprises some 70 paintings and 80 drawings and prints from the period 1995 to 2009.

Florian Graf (b. 1980, CH) examines in his work themes connected with architecture and landscape architecture and thus investigates the psychological and emotional impact of spaces. Via sculpture, installation, drawing, video or photography he creates moments of poetic density, in which the borders between reality and imagination are dissolved. In the garden of the Kunsthaus Florian Graf has installed three concrete sculptures, each constructed from three very different basic forms. A circle, an L-form and a jagged figure also function as the building blocks of ceramic models, a photographic work and a series of drawings. Applied in a variety of ways, these structures differ from each other in terms of their composition, size and placement and make reference to the artist’s considerations of new modular social structures. Finally, he has connected these three forms to create large-scale sculptures in aluminium, staging these spectacularly in the monumental Salle Poma. The further exhibition spaces are transformed by the artist into a living situation, in which his seemingly documentary films are presented alongside the other works. In these Graf plays his alter ego, the action artist Graphenheim, thereby parodying himself. Between conceptual logic, visionary power and subtle humour, Florian Graf examines the appropriation of bodies, role models and living spaces, creating a lively construct from imagination, materiality and temporality.

Zara Idelson’s (b. 1987, CH) approach to painting is based on intuition and direct observation as well as a clear set of parameters consisting of small-scale works and a limited palette. Texture is created through thin layers of paint, vital with brushwork over bare priming, where colour is used less to depict than to create a sense of movement. The exhibition focuses on the series of figurative paintings begun in 2017, when the artist moved to London, and reflect her curiosity for her new surroundings. Employing line drawing and intimations of detail, Idelson depicts the places and incidents she comes across in her everyday life, such as the back of a public building seen from a cycle path, underground station entrances and children’s chalk drawings on pavements. Dusky scenes of the city at night are quietly atmospheric, while a preoccupation with framing devices is evident in the frequent depiction of views from windows. Ultimately, however, these images are an exploration of the medium of painting itself.

Maija Luutonen (*1978, FI) exécute principalement ses peintures grands formats aux couleurs vives sur papier, qu’elle choisit pour son adaptabilité à toutes sortes d’expérimentations ainsi que pour la nature immatérielle des espaces «négatifs» blancs qui apparaissent à sa surface. Tirant profit de la qualité transitoire de ce matériau, elle analyse la relation entre temps et mouvement et traite ses œuvres comme un ensemble d’images en constante interaction plutôt que comme des objets accomplis et autonomes. Cette apparence inachevée est soulignée par la présentation de ses travaux tantôt appuyés contre le mur, empilés, pliés ou encore placés contre une porte ou contre une fenêtre. Réunissant couleur et lumière, en référence aussi bien à l’environnement construit qu’à la nature, Luutonen explore la possibilité de créer l’illusion d’une immersion spatiale à travers une surface plane. Elle conserve des éléments dérangeants ou laissés en suspens dans ses peintures, lesquelles restent néanmoins fascinantes et dynamiques.

Linus Baumeler, Amedeo Baumgartner, Zora Berweger, Karin Borer, Tashi Brauen, Julian Burkhard, Nicolle Bussien, Raffaella Chiara, Céline Ducrot, Marco Eberle, Carina Emery, Remy Erismann, F&D Cartier, Beat Feller, Fernando F. Fonseca, Petra Frey, Marcel Freymond, Laura Grubenmann, Niklaus Manuel Güdel, Stefan Guggisberg, Béatrice Gysin, Ronny Hardliz, Monika Loeffel, Maya Hottarek/Joelle Neuenschwander, Tamara Janes, Alexander Jaquemet, Anna Malina Jaun, Flo Kaufmann, Manuel Köchli, Lea Krebs, Jérôme Lanon, Brigitte Lustenberger, Selina Lutz, Renée Magaña, Anna Neurohr, Christina Niederberger, Pat Noser, Philip Ortelli, Laurent Perret-Gentil, Fiona Rafferty, Andrea Rickhaus, Christoph Rihs, Nora Schmidt, Julia Steiner, Reto Steiner, Strotter Inst.allation, Jonas Studer, Miriam Sturzenegger, Vera Trachsel, Matthias Wyss, Sinae Yoo, Wolfgang Zät, Zukunft_Schoch

Opening: Sat 8.9.2018, 5pm URSULA BIEMANN - DORA BUDOR - ROMAN BUXBAUM - JULIAN CHARRIÈRE - DANIEL GUSTAV CRAMER - MARTIN CREED - PETER DREHER - ELMGREEN & DRAGSET - CÉCILE B. EVANS - FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES - RODNEY GRAHAM - DAVID HORVITZ - TEHCHING HSIEH - SOPHIE JUNG - ON KAWARA - KAPWANI KIWANGA - RAGNAR KJARTANSSON - KRIS MARTIN - AGNIESZKA POLSKA - POPE.L - BARBARA PROBST - LAURE PROUVOST - PILAR QUINTEROS - RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE - SOPHY RICKETT - MIKKO RIKALA - DIETER ROTH - STÉPHANIE SAADÉ - MICHAEL SAILSTORFER - TARYN SIMON - SLAVS AND TATARS - SMUDGE STUDIO - GERNOT WIELAND - PEDRO WIRZ

Manuel Burgener’s (* 1978, CH) installations, objects and images give an impression of being unfinished and precarious. For his new installation spanning five rooms, the winner of the 2018 Manor Art Award combines video, sound and space. Armed with two mobile cameras in a remote seaside house, the artist captured the temporality and fleetingness of the present moment over a period of twenty-four hours. The duration of the project corresponds exactly to that of the video, which will run continuously throughout the exhibition.

Bharti Kher (*1969, GB, lives and works in New Delhi) exploits the drama inherent in objects, tapping into mythologies and the diverse associations of things. Her painting, sculpture and installation often incorporate bindis (a popular fashion accessory that marks a symbol of the third eye and is reclaimed by Kher as a deliberate sign of gender). She assembles, juxtaposes and transforms found objects. In stripping these of their meaning, she explores cultural misunderstandings and social codes.

Vernissage: Do 14.6.2018, 18:00 Die Diplomausstellung des Masters in Contemporary Arts Practice der Hochschule der Künste Bern ermöglicht einen Einblick in die vielseitigen Arbeitsweisen junger, aufstrebender Kunstschaffender. In Medien wie Performance, Video, Installation, Malerei, Literatur oder Musik untersuchen die Abschlussarbeiten gegenwärtige Themen und verweisen auf eine Generation, die in ihrer künstlerischen Praxis aktuellen Fragestellungen auf den Grund geht.

The work of the artist duo from Biel, Linus Bill + Adrien Horni (both b. 1982, CH) is the result of a dynamic process which is particularly evident in the most recent series Heredity Paintings. Inspired by works they have rejected in the past, the artists take details from these paintings and transfer them to the computer.

This group show explores how Indian classical music has inspired modern and contemporary artists. The exhibition traces a long history: from early Indian miniature painting (Ragamalas) through to drawings, animations and video works from the present day. Including works by pivotal Indian and Pakistani artists, it features a number of works previously unseen in Europe, including new commissions. It also explores the influence of Indian classical music on important American artists in the 1960s, and its wider influence on western popular and counterculture.

The work of Anna Barriball (*1972, GB) moves between the parallel languages of drawing, sculpture and video. She finds mystery and hidden meaning in the overlooked and ordinary: graphite rubbings of walls, doors and windows become heavily material objects while trees or a fireplace are subtly altered and reconfigured as moving images. The exhibition brings together work made over the last 15 years and is the artist’s first solo exhibition in Switzerland.

Known for her expressive, fantastical visual worlds, Klodin Erb (b. 1963, Switzerland) plumbs the limits of painting and simultaneously questions definitions of gender and identity. The alienation of images from their original contexts and playful interpretations of classical genres, styles and motifs characterise her gestural figurative works.

Hand signals engraved in stone, Bibles clamped between false teeth, blurred chalk marks on blackboards, school benches turned into birdhouses. Kemang Wa Lehulere’s (*1984, SA) many-sided work produces haunting, suggestive images, founded in the past of his native country South Africa.

The novel Der einzige Ort by Thomas Stangl tells the story of two men who at the beginning of the 19th century blaze a trail to the city of Timbuctoo, shrouded in legend. As a representative of the super power Great Britain the Scotsman Alexander Gordon Laing travels from Tripolis through the Sahara. The Frenchman René Caillié, a baker’s son, crosses Guinea and Mali. Will they reach their destination and at what price? During four evenings Ariane Gaffron and Stefan Liebermann’s dramatised version for four actors invites us to immerse ourselves in an unpredictable and compelling world. The field reports bring captivating figures to life, make cultures clash and connect mythology with the history of Africa. The Lausanne artist, Sandrine Pelletier (b, 1976, CH) is creating an all-encompassing installation for the project, which will develop further between the four performances.

IRWIN is the name of a five-person Slovenian artists’ collective that has been collaborating on numerous groundbreaking projects both within and outside the group since 1983. How to Read a Map is the fourth and last part of a project spanning several countries, highlighting various aspects of their collaboration, which encompass a wide range of media such as photography, film, installation, interventions in the public space, painting and publications. From the beginning IRWIN has focused on the relationship, interplay and forms of representation of art and ideology.

Livia Di Giovanna’s (b. 1984, CH) video installations, photographs and objects subtly eliminate the boundaries between reality, projection and reflexion. Her investigations of space, time, architecture, movement and light are based on decisions concerning dimensions, scale and volume, the production and direction of light, the character of surfaces and spatial relationships.

MARIE JOSÉ BURKI In her first comprehensive retrospective the internationally renowned artist Marie José Burki (*1961, CH, lives and works in Brussels) highlights the relationships between image, language, narration, identity and time. Through video and photography she questions and deciphers visual codes of images that surround us on a daily basis and influence the ways in which we interpret the world. Her videos show the apparently unspectacular – we see a young woman lying in the sun or people at a convivial picnic. These are moments frozen in time, fleeting impressions of a permanent present. Through the underlying soundtracks and theatrical structures Marie José Burki cleverly nurtures doubt about the reality presented. Her reduced visual language communicates in sober, ironic, even humourous ways a sense of hidden connections. Caught in the artificiality of images, the protagonists make it possible for us to experience our role somewhere between accomplice and voyeur. Her latest video, Un chien sur la route, au passage du promeneur (2017), which was made for among others the Kunsthaus Pasquart, completes the selection of work from the last 22 years.

RACHEL LUMSDEN Rachel Lumsden (b.1968, GB; lives and works in St. Gallen) makes paintings that are at least as big as the artist herself, ensuring both her own physical relationship with the work and a direct engagement of the viewer. They communicate a strong sense of how they were created, of an artist sensitive to the character of her material and how it operates. Lumsden’s paintings are too open-ended and ambiguous to be clearly read as narratives; instead they depict charged atmospheric environments, bristling with energy. Her compositions are inspired by a variety of visual sources, from newspaper photos, art historical images and dream pictures to circuit diagrams and advertising material. Combining the overlooked paraphernalia of the everyday with the fantastical and autobiographical fragments with those from the collective unconscious, Lumsden’s themes often coincide with the Zeitgeist in painting as well as with current social and political issues. The exhibition includes work from the last ten years and is the most comprehensive presentation of the artist’s work to date. It is a collaboration with the Fondation Fernet-Branca in St. Louis, France and the Kunst(Zeug)Haus in Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland.

EXHIBITION: DIETER APPELT, FRANK BADUR, SAMUEL BECKETT, SONIA BOYCE, STAN BRAKHAGE, JANET CARDIFF, SAMUEL EMDE. WILLIAM ENGELEN, ELLEN FELLMANN, TERRY FOX, CHRISTOPH GIRARDET & MATTHIAS MÜLLER, GREGOR HILDEBRANDT, LEO HOFMANN, HIROMI ISHII, BARBARA KASTEN, IDRIS KHAN, BRUCE NAUMAN, CARSTEN NICOLAI, RAHA RAISSNIA, HANS RICHTER, SILVA REICHWEIN, NORA RINGGENBERG, MIKA ROTTENBERG, MARIATERESA SARTORI, JOACHIM SCHÖNFELDT, SUSANNE SCHURICHT, SIMEON SIGG, BILL VIOLA CONCERT WILLIAM ENGELEN, FRANK FIEDLER, BABAK GOLESTANI, MICHAEL HARENBERG, CHRISTINE HASLER, LEO HOFMANN, ROLF LAUREIJS, ERNESTO MOLINARI, MUSICIANS FROM THE DEGREE COURSE MASTER OF ARTS IN SPECIALIZED MUSIC PERFORMANCE, HKB BERN Sat 6.5.2017, 8pm: HKB, Schweizer Opernstudio, Jakob-Rosius Strasse 16, 2502 Biel/Bienne Project initiator, curator: Ellen Fellmann

GUILLERMO KUITCA Guillermo Kuitca (* 1961, Argentina) is one of Latin America’s leading contemporary artists. His painting skillfully reconciles various abstract styles with an illusionist form of figuration and investigates ways in which absence, movement and silence can be expressed on a two-dimensional surface. The exhibition brings together earlier work from the 1990s and 2000s, inspired by architecture, theatre seating plans and cartography, with recent paintings incorporating images of portals, doorways and transitional places. It also marks Kuitca’s return to representing the human figure, primarily female forms which occupy the threshold between the picture plane and the indeterminate realm beyond. Real space will be presented for the first time in Kuitca’s canvases in the form of a free-standing winged altar painting. Guillermo Kuitca’s work has been the subject of exhibitions in major European and American museums. He represented Argentina at the 2007 Venice Biennale. The presentation at Kunsthaus Pasquart is the most comprehensive exhibition of his work to date in Switzerland.

DELPHINE REIST Delphine Reist’s (b.1970, Switzerland) solo exhibition sheds light on a social model apparently close to collapse. To this end the Geneva artist examines via installations and video the effects of globalisation, rationalisation and automation of our economy. Comparable to a factory consisting of production line, fuel reserves, tool storage, offices or changing rooms, the exhibition recalls a production site strangely withdrawn from reality. An oil barrel rolls undeviatingly through the space. Containers of synthetic foam are made to explode or office chairs revolve on their own axes. Through the transformation of everyday objects into functionless apparatus the artist questions our engineered environment and its self-sustaining momentum without content. Efficiency is translated into irony, functionalism into roguishness. In her most comprehensive presentation to date Delphine Reist produces an image of an economy that has outstripped ideas of progress and has become lost in empty actionism.

Cantonale Berne Jura Artists: Martin Aeschlimann, Kathrin Affentranger, Franziska Maria Beck, Zora Berweger, Julia Bodamer, Marlys Bratschi, Christophe Bregnard, Christoph Brünggel, Angela Cerullo & Giorgio Bloch, Jeanne Chevalier, Claudia Dettmar, Diana Dodson, DONAU, Marco Eberle, Barbara Ellmerer, Clemens Fellmann, FRACTION EXTREME CENTRE, Magdalena Gerber, Eva Maria Gisler, Bettina Grossenbacher, Fritz Guggisberg, Filip Haag, Christoph Hess, hoferoppliger, Katrin Hotz, Andreas Jäggi, Tamara Janes, Lea Krebs, Lucie Kunz, Jérôme Lanon, Franziska Lauber, Lorenzo le kou Meyr, Reto Leibundgut, Julie Lovens, Dominic Michel, Monsignore Dies, Ka Moser, Willi Müller, Fraenzi Neuhaus, Christina Niederberger, Pat Noser, Patdieseal, Deirdre O‘Leary, Bastian Oldhouse, Philipp Ortelli, Janosch Perler, Adela Picón, Florance Plojoux, Kotscha Reist, Adrian Remund, Adrian Scheidegger, Isabelle Schiper, Robert Schüll, Rudolf Steiner, Bruno Sutter, Lieselotte Togni, Hansueli Urwyler, Pierre von Gunten, Sygrid von Gunten, Sibylla Walpen, Andrea Anastasia Wolf, Emmanuel Wüthrich, David Zehnder. Prix Kunstverein: Vera Trachsel Prix Anderfuhren: Katrin Hotz, Raphael Loosli

SUSAN MORRIS Self Moderation Susan Morris (b.1962, Birmingham, GB) subverts traditional notions of self-portraiture by replacing external ‘appearance’ with recorded traces of everyday activity and automatic, bodily, movement. She has used year planners to track events such as crying jags, sleepless nights or her presence/absence in the studio, transcribing the data to produce abstract screen prints. Interested in the obvious futility of attempts to capture an unconscious, Morris made a series of Plumb Line Drawings using a plumb bob and restricting expression to an absolute minimum. The related group of Motion Capture Drawings trace the elaborate movements that take place between each pluck of the plumb line string via sensors attached to various points on her body. More recently, in the SunDial:NightWatch series, large Jacquard tapestries were woven from digital recordings of her sleep/wake patterns, governed by clock and calendrical time as well as by artificial light. This sense of being trapped in a socially constructed network is also explored in her Concordances - samples of newspaper reportage taken over a ten-year period and configured as verb lists.

Mon art à moi Das Leben besteht aus Beziehungen – wir wachsen an ihnen, werden durch sie getragen oder verlieren uns gar in ihnen. Beziehungsgeschichten der besonderen Art durchdringen die Ausstellung Mon art à moi, Beziehungen zwischen den Kunstwerken und den Menschen, die diese Kunst in der einen oder anderen Form für sich gewählt haben: Sie leben mit ihr, arbeiten in ihrer Gegenwart oder begegnen ihr sporadisch. Im Zentrum der Ausstellung stehen die Werke der Stiftung Kunsthaus-Sammlung CentrePasquArt und der Kunstsammlung der Stadt Biel; sie bilden seit 1990 mindestens alle vier Jahre Gegenstand einer Ausstellung im CentrePasquArt. Für die Edition 2016, Mon art à moi, wurden Personen – die durch ihr gesellschaftliches und kulturelles Engagement das öffentliche Leben von Biel mitgestalten – eingeladen, jeweils entweder Werke aus einer der genannten Sammlungen auszuwählen, oder der Ausstellung die in ihren Arbeitsräumen installierten Arbeiten aus der städtischen Kunstsammlung zur Verfügung zu stellen. Die vielfältige Auswahl aus älteren sowie neuen Ankäufen oder Schenkungen reflektiert die Vorlieben und den Geschmack der beteiligten Personen, deren Wahl in einem Zitat erläutert wird.

Tina Schulz Tina Schulz (*1975, D) untersucht gesellschaftliche Handlungsräume, indem sie die Aufmerksamkeit auf das Spannungsfeld zwischen Bild und Sprache richtet. Einer Archäologie des Gedächtnisses verpflichtet, hinterfragt sie kulturelle Codes, mediale Bildwelten und Architektur und damit Aspekte gegenwärtiger Lebenskontexte. Die Zeichnungsserie Soft Facts, die seit 2013 fortgeführt wird, bildet den reflexiven Ausgangspunkt der Ausstellung. Sie basiert auf Bildern aus dem Internet und suggeriert eine Überlagerung von verinnerlichten Vorstellungen sowie medialen Repräsentationen der Welt. Die Umsetzung der Motive erfolgt mit Graphitstaub, Wasser und Graphitkreide – eine Technik, die sich die Speicherfähigkeit des Papiers zu Nutze macht. In der Farbigkeit zwischen Stein und Haut gehalten, bezieht sich eine Gruppe von Gemälden auf Architekturfragmente und verdrängte Körperlichkeit. Eine Videoinstallation thematisiert mit einer Textmontage die Verbindung zwischen Dekonstruktion und Erinnerung und schlägt eine Brücke zu den ortsspezifischen Werken der Ausstellung.

Diplomausstellung MA CAP Auch 2016 präsentiert der Mehrspartenmaster CAP in Contemporary Arts Practice (MA CAP) an der Hochschule der Künste Bern seine Abschlussarbeiten wieder in Biel. Neben der Ausstellung und den Performances im CentrePasquArt finden Konzerte in der Burg und im Le Singe statt. Der Master MA CAP steht für eine Ausbildung in den Künsten auf dem historisch gewachsenen Stand höchster Durchlässigkeit zwischen den Sparten. Verbindlich bleiben die individuellen Haltungen.

20th Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography Permis de construire To mark its 20th anniversary, the Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography will reveal how the contemporary image (re)constructs reality. Under the title “Permis de construire” this year’s festival will address themes such as the construction of identity, historical reconstruction, and artificiality.

Aernout Mik Aernout Mik (b. 1962, NL) questions political authorities and social imbalances in global society and uses these to develop video installations. Inspired by media images of the everyday, Mik creates multi-channel videos with actors, shown on large screens. Although his videos are fictional, they give the impression of being documentary and thereby evoke a play of perception between reality and staging.

Barbezat-Villetard, Michael Blaser Simon Fahrni, Maya Hottarek, Katrin Hotz, Martin Jakob, Matthias Liechti, Selina Lutz, Thomas Moor, Nicolas Raufaste / Magali Dougoud, Rebecca, Tanja Schwarz / Roger Fähndrich, Sereina Steinemann, Reto Steiner, Vera Trachsel, Sinae Yoo

Clare Goodwin Constructive Nostalgia Clare Goodwin’s (*1973, GB) paintings present formally precise, hard-edge compositions, reduced to line, shapes and patterning. Her habit of titling the works with English names common in the past introduces humour and intimacy into the usually austere realm of geometric abstraction. The paintings are thereby imbued with possible narratives as well as references to real and fictional people. Although Goodwin’s work may appear to be situated in the legacy of the Zurich Concrete artists, it is her engagement with an emotional, abstract representation of the external world that distinguishes her approach from their mathematical logic and rejection of the depiction of reality. The exhibition sets up a conversation between a new group of paintings and a selection of older works, as well as bronze objects and recent marble sculptures. These are juxtaposed with a number of spatial interventions throughout the exhibition. Although 10 years apart, these different bodies of work all originate in Goodwin’s reductive approach, often inspired by discarded items dating from the 1970s and 80s. In terms of both their aesthetic qualities and their symbolism, these acquire the status of contemporary “memento mori”.

Esther van der Bie The presentation in Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt is the most comprehensive exhibition to date of the photographer and installation artist, Esther van der Bie (*1962, CH). A series of new works questions the relationship of people to nature and their world views that result from this. Through photographs, videos and installations the artist examines ethical attitudes and economic phenomena. The exhibition makes connections between global, collective challenges and subjective efforts. Highlighted are aspects such as the desire for control or dependency, linked to existential fear. Idealisation and romanticisation, on the other hand, are often manifest in trendy, urban gardens, while spiritual longing is reflected in the individual aspiration for healing and well-being. A central work is the film Die Rückeroberung (“The Recapture“), 2015, which tells the story of an exiled tree, fleeing the Swiss forestry industry. A precious porcellan bonsai, a park made of plastic tubes as well as a vibrating city landscape complete the field of tension in the exhibition. The artist creates an aesthetic of nature which, partly ironically and partly critically, sharpens our awareness of the role of nature in our society.

Barbezat-Villetard, Bildstein/Glatz, Anja Braun, Christophe Bregnard, Martin Chramosta, Romana Del Negro, DONAU, Bianca Dugaro, Marcel Freymond, Markus Furrer, Michel Graf, Bettina Grossenbacher, Laurent Güdel, Haus am Gern, Andrea Heller, Christian Helmle, Sarah Hugentobler, Martin Jakob, Flo Kaufmann, Matthias Liechti, Mingjun Luo, Selina Lutz, Line Marquis, Dominic Michel, Manuella Muerner Marioni, Olivia Notaro, Gil Pellaton, Christian Räber, Nicolas Raufaste, RebeccaRebekka, Isabelle Richner, Lorenzo Salafia, Sigrid Seuberlich, Eva Streit, Daniel Turtschi, Lukas Veraguth, Gabriela Weidmann, Matthias Wyss, Sinae Yoo, Daniel Zahner Prix Kunstverein Andrea Anastasia Wolf Prix Anderfuhren hoferoppliger

Stipendium Vordemberge-Gildewart Every year the Vordemberge-Gildewart Foundation supports an exhibition in an art institution presenting the work of artists under 35 years of age from its region. In this context, a prize-winner is selected for a grant. Vittorio Brodmann, Sarah Burger, Chloé Delarue, Emilie Ding, Gina Folly, Christopher Füllemann, Matthias Gabi, Mathis Gasser, Thomas Julier, Florence Jung, Sonia Kacem, Tobias Kaspar, Laure Marville, Luc Mattenberger, Kaspar Müller, Hayan Kam Nakache, Marta Riniker-Radich, Veronika Spierenburg, Ramaya Tegegne, Hannah Weinberger

Martin Ziegelmüller Martin Ziegelmüller (b. 1935 in Graben near Herzogenbuchsee, lives in Vinelz) has been one of the most important and influential artists of the region and beyond since the 1970s. He is as well known for his printmaking as for his oil paintings and watercolours. This exhibition is dedicated to two cycles of etchings which reveal his apocalyptic and often witty visions of the relationship between humans and nature. Juxtaposed with the cycle Rauch der Hexenfeuer, 1990-1996, which Ziegelmüller donated to the Kunsthaus-Collection CentrePasquArt Foundation, is the „male“ counterpart, Teilchenbeschleuniger, 2013-2014. Rauch der Hexenfeuer teems with executioners and both genuine and fake witches. However, the cycle also shows violent storms, mysterious moonlit nights and magical landscapes. Black, wild images alternate with calm, almost lyrical scenes. In contrast, the Teilchenbeschleuniger pursues the questions of space and time, theories of physics, digitalisation and speed. Here, the entire view of the world is dissolved in rushing and whirling particles and is an attempt to make visible the invisible.

Michael Sailstorfer Michael Sailstorfer (b. 1979, Germany) is one of the most important representatives of a young generation of German conceptual and installation artists. With his inexhaustible wealth of ideas he manages to continually update the definition of sculpture and to locate this in socially relevant contexts. Characteristic of his practice is the translation of everyday artefacts in works which draw attention to the connections between sound and materiality, metaphysics and physicality. At Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt the internationally known artist is presenting his first institutional exhibition in Switzerland. The acoustic and sculptural leitmotifs of the exhibition are created by a drum kit which, taken apart as individual instruments, is distributed throughout the spaces. The sounds of a drum solo are reproduced synchronically on each of these drum instruments. In addition to this sound installation, whose rhythm accompanies visitors through the spaces, are a series of archaic looking masks, large-scale installations made of tubes from lorry tyres and a film. The exhibition complex becomes a physical experience and refers to the potential for the things that surround us in life to acquire new meaning.

Viviane Sassen Viviane Sassen (b. 1972, NL) has garnered parallel critical acclaim as a fashion photographer and in the context of contemporary visual art. The exhibition at Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt focuses on a body of work that Sassen made in Pikin Slee, Surinam in 2013. The Saramacca community lives isolated from the outside world, living without running water, electricity, roads or the internet.In search of a new visual language, Viviane Sassen travelled to the village of Pikin Slee for the first time in 2012. Situated at the head of the Surinam River, in the middle of the rain forest of the South American Surinam Republic, the village is almost totally cut off from civilisation. The only way to access it is by canoe, a journey of about three hours up-river. The villagers live today as their forbears did in unison with nature. They grow their own food on small agricultural plots, producing cassava bread, pressed maripa palm oil and dried coconut.

Degree exhibition MA CAP Nadine Andrey, Claudia Breitschmid, Cléa Chopard, Stefanie Daumüller, Florina Diemer, Daria Gusberti, Christine Hasler, Lucas Herzig, Judith Huber, Lukas Huber, Sarah Keusch, Ariane Koch und Sarina Scheidegger, André Mayr und Marlene Hirtreiter, Janiv Oron, Jonas Probst, Samuel Riot, Christoph Roeber, Stéphanie Rosianu, Matthieu Ruf, Annelies Rüfenacht, Celia und Nathalie Sidler, Anne-Sophie Subilia, Vera Trachsel, Sinae Yoo

Short Cuts At a time in which the digital is omnipresent, the interdisciplinary group exhibition Short Cuts highlights the dialogue between two generations of artists who operate between art, design and technology. This comparison makes clear how technology and its influences are present in the electronic arts of our own times as well as in the concrete and kinetic art of the 60s and 70s. In these works we see graphic design, algorithms, innovative production processes of series and new kinds of aesthetic forms. Comparable with the view through a kaleidoscope, the exhibition allows access to a variety of formal and discursive approaches which refer to the interplay between the increasingly digitalised world in which we live and artistic practices influenced by digital media. The collaborative project Short Cuts is supported by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia in the context of its « Digital Culture » initiative. The School of Graphic Design Bern and Biel, the association TSKZ and Ensemble Vortex are also partners of the exhibition.

Rannva Kunoy The paintings of Rannva Kunoy (b. 1975, Faroe Islands) appear on first sight to consist of a simple, monochromatic surface disrupted by scratch marks that engage with the ghost traces of the frame. Yet on closer inspection the works have a three-dimensional, almost holographic quality. The shimmering colours and shifting forms reinforce the impression that in Kunoy’s paintings something is always just coming into being. This series will be shown alongside another group of paintings with comical overtones. In these, the absurd gives way to lines which almost form a narrative but are never quite clear enough to suggest a definitive subject. A significant feature of Kunoy’s work is the performative aspect. The artist’s movements are clearly recorded in the dynamic line drawings that recall the fleeting pictures traced on frosty windows or with a flashlight in the dark. The paintings also appear to trick the viewer, the space changing and the marks becoming more ambiguous as one moves around the work.

Roger Hiorns Roger Hiorns (born 1975, Birmingham, GB) is a leading artist of his generation. In 2009 he was nominated for the renowned Turner Prize for his celebrated work Seizure, a huge cristallization in an empty bedsit on a South London housing estate. The exhibition at Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt premieres a new body of work by Hiorns’ that presents an oblique investigation of the physicality of the young body. It has been produced in collaboration with Galerie Rudolfinum Prague, where it will be shown subsequently.Roger Hiorns‘ installations and sculptures generate and occupy the lacunae between divergent ideas: construction and destruction, the theological and the technical, the temporary and the permanent, authoritarian control and spontaneity. His work is informed by a functional, material presence which is, however, always combined with a sense of the imaginary, the poetic or the esoteric. For the exhibition at Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt Roger Hiorns is making a number of new works, including an expansive installation consisting of 200 car engine parts.

Cantonale Berne Jura 56 artists of the Canton of Berne and Jura are shown in this years exhibition at Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt : Florence Aellen • Peter Aerschmann • Martin Aeschlimann • Franziska Beck • Julia Bodamer • Neal Byrne Jossen • Françoise Cartier/Daniel Cartier • Raffaella Chiara • Romain Crelier • Daniela de Maddalena • Beat Feller • Sonya Friedrich • Christophe Grimm • Stefan Guggisberg • Andrea Heller • Hans Hofmann • Sylvia Hostettler • Katrin Hotz • Matthias Huber • Brigitte Jost • Hendrikje Kühne/Beat Klein • Florine Leoni • Matthias Liechti • Mingjun Luo • Fabio Marzo • Chantal Meng • Lorenzo le kou Meyr • Natascha Moschini/Pascal Schärli • Ka Moser • Franziska Neuhaus • Anna Neurohr • Tobias Nussbaumer • Gil Pellaton • Maja Rieder • Aniko Risch/Duosch Grass • Sara Rohner • Ines Marita Schärer • Anna Schmid • Patricia Schneider • Robert Schüll • Ise Schwartz • Andreas Spitteler • Dominik Stauch • Julia Steiner • Michael Streun • Miriam Sturzenegger • Grégory Sugnaux • Bruno Sutter • Andrea Thüler • Esther van der Bie • Egle Vido • Caroline von Gunten • Sygrid von Gunten • Bettina Wachter • Andrea Anastasia Wolf • Sinae Yoo + Works of the awardee of the Prix Kunstverein

Mouvement III - The City Performed Vito Acconci, Francis Alÿs, Pablo Bronstein, Stanley Brouwn, Trisha Brown, Paulo Bruscky, Martin Creed, Felipe Ehrenberg, VALIE EXPORT, Dara Friedman, Gelitin, Tomislav Gotovac, Alberto Greco, Anna Halprin, Maria Hassabi, Noritoshi Hirakawa, Sanja Iveković, Christian Jankowski, Jiří Kovanda, Liz Magic Laser, Klara Lidén, Marko Lulić, Babette Mangolte, Rachel Mason, Dave McKenzie, Dieter Meier, Ocaña, Neša Paripović, Ewa Partum, Alexandra Pirici, Miervaldis Polis, Kim Sooja, Mladen Stilinović, Beat Streuli, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Ulla von Brandenburg, Ai Weiwei. The 12th edition of the Swiss Sculpture Exhibition, entitled Le Mouvement, challenges the very definition of public art by creating no sculpture at all. The three-part exhibition is dedicated exclusively to performance in the city. While the first two movements take place in the streets of Biel/Bienne, the third one is shown in a museum.

Andreas Eriksson Since his youth, the Swedish artist Andreas Eriksson (b. 1975, Björsäter) has been preoccupied with painting both as medium and as subject. His atmospheric works are evocative of the landscape surrounding his studio in the Swedish countryside. At the same time, he is less interested in creating images than in using canvas and paint to project and formulate his visual and emotional experience of the natural environment. Eriksson also works in photography, sculpture, video and weaving. However, he regards these media ultimately as different ways to explore painting, in particular its ability to translate the everyday into a more diffused space for the viewer to dwell in.

Haus am Gern Know the Knoll The artist duo from Biel, Barbara Meyer Cesta (*1959, Aarau) and Rudolf Steiner (*1964, Niederbipp) has been working since 1998 on interdisciplinary projects under the name Haus am Gern. Their practice focuses on socially relevant themes which they appropriate with a lightness of touch, irony and a refined critical eye, translating these into context-specific works. Their artistic output is characterised by a variety of media in which drawing, photography, video, object, installation and performance are placed in relationship with each other in a conceptual framework. With Know the Knoll, 2014 Haus am Gern are producing an installation over a series of rooms, simultaneously incorporating the Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt and the PhotoforumPasquArt. A mirroring of the spaces in different media embroils the viewer in a game in which they loose themselves between photography and installation, behind the scenes and the stage - finding themselves again in an ambivalent arrangement of spaces and objects.

Konrad Smoleński EVERYTHING WAS FOREVER UNTIL IT WAS NO MORE - TIME TEST Previously shown in the Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2013, the sound sculpture by Konrad Smoleński (b. 1977, Kalisz, Pl) is based primarily on the manipulation of the tolling of a bell, an ancient instrument that has for centuries set the rhythm of our earthly and “eternal” lives. Through the process of transforming the familiar tone of church bells, Smoleński also changes its meaning. Not only does the artist abstract the familiar sound from its usual associations; he also frees the signal from its source by recording it in real time and then processing it with the use of delay and reverberation. As a result, the enormous speakers retransmit the acoustic waves, providing the broadcast sound with a force that affects all persons and objects in its vicinity.

CAPTCHA Diplomausstellung / Exposition des travaux de diplôme Samuli Blatter, Florian Bürki, Nicolas Delaroche, Magali Dougoud, Konrad Gruber, Violaine Hayoz, Manuela Imperatori, Silvia Isenschmid, Natalie Reusser, Pascal Schärli, Peter Schreuder, Oliver Stein, Liza Trottet, Elliot Vaucher

frölicher I bietenhader juxtapositions The multifaceted installations of frölicher I bietenhader (Selina Frölicher & Micha Bietenhader, CH *1985) are characterised by a complex as well as intelligent approach to different spatial conditions and media. For their first institutional solo exhibition the young Swiss artists have made an imposing multimedia installation across a number of spaces which allows the microcosm of the immediate environment to penetrate the museum.Months before the opening of the exhibition frölicher I bietenhader already took the first pictures of the architecture as well as the flora and fauna in the vicinity of the CentrePasquArt. They are interested above all in the microcosm: tiny buds just before blossoming, root formations, bugs and spider webs or traces of chalk on the facade of the building that are barely visible to the naked eye. Partly furnished with the more or less discrete addition of „foreign“ (architectonic) elements, these shots are continually built on, in order to serve eventually as raw material for the installation.

Pascal Häusermann Pascal Häusermann (*1973, Chur) takes up and reinterprets traditional patterns, forms or representations. Surprising combinations with intelligent references to social, economic or cultural phenomena are created as a result. The artisanal - demonstrated, for example, in the connections with stone masonry, engraving and typography techniques and, as a recent addition, the patterns of mosaic tiles – plays an important role in the artist’s work. In his first institutional solo exhibition Pascal Häusermann focuses on the principle of layering which is groundbreaking for his practice. This form of superimposition plays with the ambiguity between duality and unity. What first appears as a unit reveals itself to be pieced together but can then be synthesised again. The artist is interested not only in the layers of various media, such as photography and woodcut, but also in the superimposition of or connection between historical and current sources of imagery, or of different thematic links.

Raphael Hefti Manor Art Prize For the third time the CentrePasquArt Biel was able to seek candidates and provide the jury with proposals under the following conditions: the proposed artists must be under 40 years old and come from the Canton of Bern or have lived there for at least five years. For 2014 the jury (Chantal Prod’hom, Lausanne, Raffaella Chiara, Bern, Raffael Dörig, Langenthal, Kathrin Grögel, Basel, Pierre-André Maus, Geneva) selected Raphael Hefti (*1978 Biel, lives and works in Zurich and London) as the winner of the Manor Art Prize Biel for the Canton of Bern. The Manor Art Prize is one of the most important and prestigious forms of private art sponsorship in Switzerland. Following Aarau, Basel, Chur, Geneva, Lausanne, Lucerne, Lugano, Schaffhausen, Sion, St.Gallen and Winterthur, Biel is the twelth city able to award the valuable prize. Since its establishment in 1982 in Lucerne more than one hundred young artists have been awarded the prize. The prize consists of CHF 15‘000 as well as an exhibition and publication. In addition Manor acquires a work from the winner for its own collection. The prize is awarded every two years in collaboration with the local art museum; in the Canton of Bern the CentrePasquArt in Biel is the partner and organiser.

Barbara Probst Barbara Probst (* 1964, Munich, lives in New York and Munich) challenges the traditional use of photography to show only one perspective and a single representation of reality. In the series she has been working on since 2000, entitled exposures, she presents multiple viewpoints to communicate the same subject at exactly the same moment in very different ways. Using up to thirteen synchronised cameras released by a remote control either on tripods or managed by assistants, Probst frequently exploits the visibility of the equipment to include the act of photography itself in the images. The exhibition at the Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt is the first institutional presentation of Barbara Probst’s work in Switzerland and shows photographs produced between 2001 and 2012. From the earlier exposures that first negated the concept of hierarchy between images within the same series to the recent bodies of work juxtaposing a larger number of both interior and exterior views, she has continued to explore new aspects of the concept of observation, as well as the ability of photography not to tell a definitive truth but to show reality as the camera saw it.

Telling Tales The exhibition Telling Tales brings together ten artists or artist duos from the Baltic States and Switzerland under the theme of story-telling, in terms of both collective history and personal narrative. A major subject for many Baltic artists is the heritage of the Soviet occupation, followed by Communism and finally independence. Found photographs and film-footage, documenting aspects of the past, provide material for several of the participating artists. Others examine forms of free political and artistic expression or the importance of context for the interpretation of cultural phenomena. In contrast, the Swiss artists are concerned neither with their national past nor with their own biographies. Instead their work develops fictions that concern the creation of myths, evoke period aesthetics or analyse the influence of archival processes on the construction of collective memory.

Cantonale Berne Jura 2013/2014 KünstlerInnen/ Artistes Peter Aerschmann Elia Aubry Sarah Bernauer/ Garrett Nelson Franziska Bieri Boris Billaud Tashi Brauen Françoise & Daniel Cartier Alessandro Chianese Daniela de Maddalena Bettina Diel Charles-François Duplain Noemi Eichenberger Roger Fähndrich/ Tanja Schwarz Barbara Feuz Hans-Rudolf Fitze Markus Furrer Hanspeter Gempeler Philippe Glatz Michael Günzburger Maia Gusberti Filip Haag Philippe Hinderling Sophie Hofer/ Mariann Oppliger Claude Hohl Juice & Rispetta (Olivier Rossel, Marcel Freymond, Johannes Willi) Monica Klingler Lea Krebs Verena Lafargue Rimann/ Cristin Wildbolz Simon Ledergerber Paul Le Grand Christof Lötscher Line Marquis Lorenzo Meyr Noha Mokhtar Pat Noser Andrea Nyffeler Simone Gilles Nyffeler Erestyna Orlowska Gabriela Paiano Adela Picón Irina Polin Philippe Queloz Anne-Sophie Raemy Maja Rieder Marie-Françoise Robert Olivier Rossel Guadalupe Ruiz Adrian Scheidegger Karoline Schreiber Leopold Schropp Filib Schürmann Ise Schwartz Nadine Städler Monika Stalder Sereina Steinemann Antal Thoma Swann Thommen Daniel Turtschi Julia Weber/ Samuel Blaser René Zäch Elisabeth Zahnd.

Fabian Marti MARTI COLLECTION Fabian Marti (b. 1979 Fribourg, lives in Zurich) has become one of the most important protagonists of the Swiss art scene. He works with hybrid media – from photograms to ceramics and wallpaper – that span craft and mass production and question subjects such as creativity and authorship. Instead of aspiring to new developments in his own work, Fabian Marti has used his solo show at Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt as an opportunity to invite artists from his network of friends and colleagues to exchange of work of art with him. His aim was to integrate these with his own work in the presentation. The exchange process is an important element of the artist network because it not only characterises an economy without a currency that avoids the market system but also necessitates communication and discussion.

Claudia Comte & Omar Ba Die zwei jungen Kunstschaffenden aus der Romandie, Omar Ba und Claudia Comte, gehören zu den spannendsten aufkommenden KünstlerInnen der Schweiz. In der gemeinsamen Ausstellung, welche ihre aktuellsten Werke präsentiert, entsteht ein Dialog zwischen den Holzskulpturen, installativen Settings und geometrisch-abstrakten Druckgrafiken und Malereien von Claudia Comte und Omar Bas enigmatischen Bildern und Wandmalereien. Obwohl ihre Herangehensweisen sehr unterschiedlich sind, haben Comte und Ba mehrere Aspekte gemeinsam. Beider Arbeiten sind von einer Fluidität zwischen ernsthaften Themen und einer ironischen Dekonstruktion dieser Themen geprägt; sie sind gleichzeitig sinnlich und rigoros. Zudem verwenden beide Künstler traditionelle Techniken und schlagen trotzdem neue Wege ein.

Jessica Jackson Hutchins Jessica Jackson Hutchins (b. 1971 Chicago, IL) is one of the most prominent artists of her generation in the United States. Her energetic, idiosyncratic sculptures and prints have been the subject of solo exhibitions at major US art institutions such as the ICA Boston and Atlanta Center for Contemporary Art. She is currently participating in the exhibition Il Palazzo Enciclopedico / The Encyclopedic Palace at the 55th Venice Biennale. In collaboration with The Hepworth Wakefield (GB), the exhibition at Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt is the first presentation of Hutchins‘ work in Europe.

Edi Aschwanden AFTER INVENTORY The Biel artist Edi Aschwanden (b. 1957) creates objects and images oscillating between functionality and the imagination. For his exhibition at Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt Aschwanden has conceived each room differently, thus presenting the main aspects of his work – the relationship between surface and volume, the metamorphosis of everyday objects or the aesthetic of disorder – by means of several media and techniques. The exhibition opens with a series of large format bitumen drawings representing objects with a sculptural character, created by the superimposition of lines and the weight of the material. This to-and-fro between material, image, function and space challenges our perception. It is also present in other works such as the modular installation composed of objects made of painted wood distributed over a surface, evoking architectural models and thus creating an ensemble that is painterly as well as three-dimensional.

Karin Lehmann SKLUPTUREN The young Bernese artist Karin Lehmann (b. 1981) employs traditional sculptural techniques and materials. Through experimentation and always with a touch of humour, she continually renews our view of things. Lehmann creates strange plaster forms based on metal constructions with approximately the same proportions as the human body. Other objects presented in the exhibition, such as plaster plaques, are characterised by a method of fabrication that subtly exploits the irregularities left in the plaster surface. For the exhibition at Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt Karin Lehmann is working for the first time with colour by employing the natural tone of beetroot juice. Lehmann is not only using this colour to dye the plaster plaques which are dipped in the juice, but also to paint the windows in the Galleries. The pink light which is filtered from the windows thus gives the white plaster sculptures a pink tinge that will gradually fade in the sunlight during the course of the exhibition.

Diplomausstellung CAP HKB show me, show me, show me Diplomausstellung Master of Arts in Contemporary Arts Practice, Hochschule der Künste Bern, Y Institut Livio Baumgartner, Nicolas Berset, Sara Gassmann, Christina Gähler, Samuel Gfeller, Dagny Gioulami, Emilie Guenat, Andreas Heusser, Till Hillbrecht, Christian Knörr, Florine Leoni, Brigitta Müller, Nicolas Raufaste, Karin Schuh, Swami Silva.

Dexter Dalwood The British painter Dexter Dalwood (b. 1960, Bristol), who was nominated for the prestigious Turner Prize in 2010 is presenting at Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt in Biel his first institutional one-person exhibition in Switzerland. Dexter Dalwood engages in a contemporary form of history painting in his large format paintings. He shows places that are laden with historical meaning and depicts the environments that might have been occupied by well-known figures from culture or politics. Dalwood is interested not only in contemporary history but also in the history of painting: the event or situation depicted is always reflected in the styles of painting that were developed during the periods referred to in the work. The exhibition at Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt concentrates on Dexter Dalwood’s paintings of the last 15 years.

Anja Kirschner & David Panos In the films of Anja Kirschner (*1977, DE) and David Panos (*1971, GR/US), which oscillate between documentary and fiction, historical and literary elements collide with references from popular culture. At Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt the artist duo's presentation includes the two extensive video installations Ultimative Substance (2012) and The Last Days of Jack Sheppard (2009). Both works engage with the critical representation of history and the tensions between empirical research and artistic form, and revisit the past in order to shed light on the present. Drawing on references from archaeology, philosophy, mathematics and ritual, Ultimate Substance departs from the hypothesis that the introduction of coinage in the ancient Greek world effected a profound cognitive shift that was key to the emergence of western philosophic, scientific and dramatic traditions. The Last Days of Jack Sheppard sets the tale of the notorious thief, whose numerous prison escapes made him a folk hero, against the backdrop of frenzied financial speculation in London in the 1720s.

Artists' Artists „Artist’s Artist“ is a well-known term in the artworld for artists who are considered to have a special status among their fellow practitioners. The definition „artist’s artist“ refers primarily to artists who influenced other artists before they met with commercial success or recognition from curators. Through a selection of artists from various cultural contexts and periods the exhibition explores how an artist becomes an „artist’s artist“. It includes artists who are less well-known in Switzerland or whose influence is or was above all local or regional.

Ausstellende KünstlerInnen im Kunsthaus PasquArt: Amuat Lena & Meyer Zoë • Bähler Dimitri • Baumgartner Livio • Beck Franziska • Beckmans Fredie • Billaud Boris • Bregnard Christophe • Chianese Alessandro • Crelier Romain • Daly-Paris Elisabeth • de Maddalena Daniela • Di Giovanna Livia • Dodson Diana • Feller Ramon • Freymond Marcel • Furrer Markus • Gempeler Hanspeter • Gysin Beatrice • Haenggli Jerry • Haus am Gern • Heinzel Nina • Helfenberger Mirjam • Hofer-Gysin Béatrice • Hugentobler Stefan • Jenzer Alain • Jordi Bernhard • Jossen Aurélie • Keller Dagmar / Witwer Martin • Kovacovsky Eva-Fiore • Külling Hannah • Lang Undine • Lustenberger Brigitte • Meyr Lorenzo • Michel Nicole • Mingjun Luo • Monsignore Dies • Müller Willi • Müller Dominique • Niederberger Christina • Noser Pat • Osborne Jeanine • Plojoux Florance • Raufaste Nicolas • Remund Adrian • Robert Marie-Francoise • Schärer Ines Marita • Schmidt Pavel • Schwartz Ise • Stadler Adriana • Stalder Monika • Stoller Remo • Togni Liselotte • von Allmen Jost • Von Gunten Caroline • Wohlfender Bettina • Zacek Peter • Zussau Veronique.

Johannes Kahrs Johannes Kahrs (b. 1965 in Bremen, lives and works in Berlin) is one of the most important protagonists of contemporary German art. He manipulates existing images from films, the media and the internet but also his own photographs to create paintings and works on paper. One of his main themes is the human body, his focus directed frequently at individual parts. Like almost no other artist, in his painting Johannes Kahrs pushes at the physical and psychological limits of what it is possible to represent. In the treatment of still lifes and interiors, too, his works are distinguished by an intense corporeality that simultaneously attracts and repulses, communicating beauty as well as horror.

Condition Sofia Bäcklund, Eva Löfdahl and Nanna Nordström The exhibition Condition unites the work of the three Swedish artists, Eva Löfdahl (b. 1953), Nanna Nordström (b. 1981) and Sofia Bäcklund (b. 1983). All three adapt and combine various materials with the aim of expressing a contemporary condition. In their objects and sculptures that react to and in turn affect the space in which they are placed, apparently contradictory characteristics such as apathy and wittiness are brought together. While the three artists are presenting their work separately in Parkett 2, they are collectively creating a site-specific installation in the Salle Poma.

Kirsi Mikkola The Centre Art Pasquart presents the first institutional one-person exhibition of the Finish artist, Kirsi Mikkola (*1959), who lives in Berlin. In the last few years Mikkola has been concentrating on a very distinct form of abstract painting. In the place of brushstrokes she combines countless strips and fields of coloured paper, laying them next to each other or overlapping them. In both the large and small format works Mikkola continually surpasses her own limits with complex filigree structures and often dissonant colours. She herself describes her paintings less as a process concerning the production and refinement of a harmonious whole but rather as an act of concentrated eruption.

Diplomausstellung HKB 12 noon Barbara Arnold, Nino Baumgartner, Michael Fehr, Angela Hausheer, Stefan Karrer, Wojtek Klakla, Karin Lehmann, Martin Möll, Dominique Müller, Anabel Sarabi, Reto Steiner, David Zehnder. MASTER OF ARTS IN CONTEMPORARY ARTS PRACTICE Diplomausstellung / exposition des travaux de diplôme www.pasquart.ch – Seevorstadt 71–73 faubourg du Lac , CH-2502 Biel / Bienne Öffnungszeiten / heures d’ouverture : Sa & So / sa & di 11h — 18h Eröffnung / vernissage 23 06 2012 um / à 11h es liest / lecture de Michael Fehr Barbara Arnold, Nino Baumgartner, Michael Fehr, Angela Hausheer 1 , Stefan Karrer, Wojtek Klakla 2 , Karin Lehmann, Martin Möll, Dominique Müller, Anabel Sarabi 3 , Reto Steiner, David Zehnder 1 enfilade de paysage: 24 06 16h 2 Gestes éphémères – Audio-visuelles Konzert: Gérald Zbinden (Gitarren, Elektronik); Maïté Colin (Videobass); Michael Egger (Videomixing); Wojtek Klakla (Malerei). 23 06 13h 3 10 percent white: 23 06 11h—24 06 18h 12 noon 23 06 und/et 24 06.

AESCHLIMANN CORTI STIPENDIUM 2012 06 05 - 17 06 2012 (Galeries & Parkett1) Sarah Hugentobler und Olivia Notaro mit dem Aeschlimann Corti Hauptpreis ausgezeichnet Das Louise Aeschlimann und Margareta Corti Stipendium der Bernischen Kunstgesellschaft ist das höchstdotierte private Kunststipendium der Schweiz. Auch in diesem Jahr stand der Jury eine Stipendiumssumme von CHF 70'000.- zur Verfügung. Zwei Hauptpreise gehen an Sarah Hugentobler und Olivia Notaro, mit einem Förderpreis wird Nino Baumgartner ausgezeichnet. Die prämierten Werke und weitere ausgewählte Arbeiten sind vom 6. Mai bis 17. Juni 2012 im Kunsthaus Pasquart Biel zu sehen.

REVIEW Der Stiftung Kunsthaus-Sammlung Kunsthaus Pasquart ist es – unter anderem dank der Gönnervereinigung – in zwanzig Jahren gelungen, trotz bescheidener Mittel eine beachtliche Kunstsammlung zusammen zu tragen. Mehr als fünf Jahre nach der letzten grossen Ausstellung ist es wieder an der Zeit, dem Publikum Einblick in die facettenreiche Kunsthaus-Sammlung zu gewähren. Im Rahmen der Ausstellung REVIEW werden ausgewählte Arbeiten in einem neuen Licht präsentiert. Ausgehend von fünf thematischen Schwerpunkten werden unterschiedliche Werke – Gemälde, Fotografien, Installationen, etc. – vereint, einander gegenübergestellt und in Dialog zueinander gebracht. Die BesucherInnen sind eingeladen, bereits bekannte Werke neu zu entdecken und Neuzugänge kennen zu lernen.

Project 35 A programme of single channel videos, selected by 35 international curators for Independent Curators International, New York. Project 35 setzt sich aus 35 Einkanalvideos zusammen, die von 35 internationalen KuratorInnen ausgewählt worden sind. Diese haben sich jeweils für eine Künstlerin oder einen Künstler entschieden, deren bzw. dessen Werk es verdient, von einem internationalen Publikum wahrgenommen zu werden. Project 35 wurde 2010 von ICI (Independent Curators International), New York, einer führenden Organisation für die Produktion von Ausstellungen zeitgenössischer Kunst, zu deren 35. Jubiläum konzipiert. ICI agiert weltweit und richtet sich an ganz unterschiedliche Publika.

Manufacture Michael Beutler • Vanessa Billy • Dewar & Gicquel • Ida Ekblad • Vincent Ganivet • Dunja Herzog • Hedwig Houben • Brian Jungen • Emmanuelle Lainé • Charles Mason • Vik Muniz • Kilian Rüthemann • Zin Taylor Building upon its successful presentation at Parc Saint Leger and the John Hansard Gallery in 2011, the group exhibition Manufacture now travels to Centre Pasquart in Biel/Bienne (Switzerland). At the invitation of newly appointed director Felicity Lunn, curators Zoë Gray and Sandra Patron expand upon their initial exhibition to present the most ambitious version to date. Bringing together work from an international array of artists with new and recent pieces by emerging Swiss artists, the exhibition explores the current status of production in artistic practice.

x-mas+ 2011: Gilles Porret Gewinner der diesjährigen öffentlichen Ausschreibung von x-mas+ 2011 ist der Neuenburger Künstler Gilles Porret (*1962). Im grössten Saal des CentrePasquArt präsentiert er seine eigens für diese Ausstellung konzipierte Installation Stock.

CANTONALE BERNE JURA 2011 Florence Aellen - Peter Aerschmann - Salomé Bäumlin - Fredie Beckmans & Claude Gigon - Franziska Bieri - Samuel Blaser - Christophe Bregnard - Jacques Bruel (Adrien Horni & Gérome Stünzi) -Christoph Brünggel - Nadine Bucher - f+d cartier - Anaïs Corti - Romain Crelier - Romana Del Negro - Diana Dodson - Chloé Donzé - Sara Gassmann - Marco Giacomoni - Stefan Guggisberg - Max Hari - Haus am Gern - Mireille Henry - Claude Hohl - Sylvia Hostettler - Urs Hug - Martin Jakob - Aurélie Jossen - Barni Kiener - Mohéna Kühni - Verena Lafargue Rimann & Cristin Wildbolz - Christiane Lenz -Reto Leibundgut - Matthias Liechti - Lorenzo le kou Meyr - Ka Moser - susanne muller - Garrett Nelson -Jürg Orfei & Ronny Hardliz - Gil Pellaton - Selina Reber - Nicole Rechsteiner - Christoph Rihs - Mathias Ringgenberg - Sara Rohner - Lorenzo Salafia -Marietta Schenk - Anna Schmid - Patricia Schneider - Steffi Schott - Verena Schwab - Dieter Seibt - Milica Slacanin - Nadja Solari - Jürg Straumann - Swann Thommen - Toll & Kirsche (Stefan Hugentobler & Anita Vozza) - Julia Weber - Verena Welten - Theres Wetzel Pulfer - Martin Wiesli - Gregor Wyder - Peter Zacek - Aline Zeltner - Daniel Zimmermann

11.09.2011 – 27.11.2011 arkhaiologia - Archäologie in der zeitgenössischen Kunst Sei es die Sehnsucht nach vergangenen Hochkulturen oder die Faszination für Ruinen und Ausgrabungsstätten, die Beweggründe, sich mit der Wissenschaft der Archäologie auseinander zu setzen, sind ganz unterschiedlicher Natur. In der bildenden Kunst hat das mit der Archäologie verbundene Interesse an der kulturellen Entwicklung [...]

26.06.2011 – 28.08.2011 Franziska Megert - Jeu de lumière Das Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt präsentiert die erste Retrospektive von Franziska Megert (*1950, lebt in Düsseldorf und Bern), einer Pionierin im Bereich der Schweizer Videokunst. Sie beschäftigt sich in ihrem Werk u. a. mit den vielfältigen Beziehungen der Individuen untereinander und des Einzelnen zur Gruppe, sie interessiert [...]

26.06.2011 – 28.08.2011 Pat Noser - Reise in die verbotene Zone In Reise in die verbotene Zone präsentiert Pat Noser (*1960, lebt in Nidau) erstmals Gemälde, Fotografien und eine Installation aus dem gleichnamigen Langzeitprojekt, das die Künstlerin seit 2006 beschäftigt. Ein Stipendium des Kantons Bern ermöglichte ihr mehrere Reisen in das Gebiet um Tschernobyl, [...]

03.04.2011 – 12.06.2011 Julia Steiner - Kaleidoskop -Manor Kunstpreis Kanton Bern Bereits zum zweiten Mal konnte das CentrePasquArt Biel die Suche nach Kandidat/-innen für den «Manor Kunstpreis Kanton Bern» starten und der paritätisch zusammengesetzten Jury Vorschläge unterbreiten. Der Kunstpreis 2011 geht an Julia Steiner (*1982, Bern). Ihre Arbeiten charakterisieren sich einerseits durch die enorme [...]

16.01.2011 – 13.03.2011 Nouvelles Collections IV Alle zwei bis drei Jahre werden im CentrePasquArt Biel in der Reihe «Nouvelles Collections» junge, sich im Aufbau befindende Privatsammlungen zeitgenössischer Kunst präsentiert. In diesem Jahr gewährt Thomas Spielmann Einblicke in seine facettenreiche Sammlung. Die Ausstellung (Parkett 1 & 2) richtet den Fokus auf zwei thematische Schwerpunkte, den [...]

05.12.2010 – 02.01.2011 The city of Biel proudly presents: 2 | 007 - 0I0 Die Kunstkommission präsentiert im Parkett 2 eine Auswahl der Werkankäufe der letzten vier Jahre. Sequenzen wie Maskerade, Kulissen, Szenen und Fiktionen erlauben punktuelle Einsichten in die Sammlung.

05.12.2010 – 02.01.2011 Weihnachtsausstellung 2010 Dieses Jahr bildeten die Mitglieder des Kunstvereins die Jury. Sie haben online abgestimmt, welche 41 der 136 angemeldeten Kunstschaffenden die Möglichkeit bekommen sollen, an der Weihnachtsausstellung 2010 Ihre Werke zu präsentieren.

05.12.2010 – 02.01.2011 x-mas+ 2010: Luc Mattenberger Gewinner der diesjährigen öffentlichen Ausschreibung von x-mas+ 2010 ist der Genfer Künstler Luc Mattenberger (*1980). Im grössten Saal des CentrePasquArt präsentiert er seine eigens für diese Ausstellung konzipierte Installation Black Matter .

19.09.2010 – 21.11.2010 FELICITÀ - Freude, Glück und Emotionen in der zeitgenössischen Kunst. Glück ist ein Bestreben des Menschen, das seit Jahrhunderten in unterschiedlichen Formen und Ausprägungen auftritt und sowohl den Einzelnen als auch die Gesellschaft prägt. Glück kann heissen: Erfahrung von Freude, wenn ein positives Ereignis eintritt; das Einssein des Menschen mit sich [...]

13.06.2010 – 29.08.2010 Ise Schwartz - allora! Ise Schwartz (*1942 Stuttgart, lebt in Biel) kam 1989 als erste Stipendiatin der Atelier Robert Stiftung von Bonn nach Biel, wo sie seither lebt und arbeitet. Die passionierte Malerin experimentiert seit längerer Zeit mit ornamentalen Mustern, sogenannten «Pattern». Mit unterschiedlichen Techniken, Formaten und Farben bringt Ise Schwartz [...]

13.06.2010 – 29.08.2010 Denis Savary - Le Narrenschiff Charakteristisch für Denis Savarys (*1981 Granges-Marnand, lebt und arbeitet in Lausanne und Paris) Schaffen der letzten zehn Jahre sind einerseits formell sachlich gehaltene Videoarbeiten und andererseits fragile Zeichnungen im Kleinformat. Die für die Ausstellung im Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt ausgewählten Videoarbeiten sind zwischen 2005 und 2010 entstanden. Die [...]

05.03.2010 – 29.08.2010 Bruno Meier - Werke aus der Sammlung Das CentrePasquArt verfügt über die grösste Werkgruppe des Künstlers Bruno Meier (1905-1967), ebenfalls gut vertreten ist sein ?uvre in Olten, Vevey und Zürich. Zahlreiche Werke kamen 1997 vorerst als Leihgabe ins CentrePasquArt und wurden 2009 durch das Erbe von Alice Meier definitiv Bestandteil der [...]

06.12.2009 – 03.01.2010 x-mas + 2009 Gewinnerin der diesjährigen öffentlichen Ausschreibung von x-mas+ ist die Bielerin Verena Lafargue Rimann. Damit hat die Künstlerin die Möglichkeit, den grössten Ausstellungsraum des CentrePasquArt mit ihrer Rauminstallation "ein Steinwurf lang - le long d'un souffle" zu bespielen.

06.12.2009 – 03.01.2010 Weihnachtsausstellung des Kunstvereins Biel Vernissage Samstag 5. Dezember 2009

13.09.2009 – 22.11.2009 GENIPULATION Gentechnik und Manipulation in der zeitgenössischen Kunst Kunst und Wissenschaft stehen seit der frühen Neuzeit in einer spannungsgeladenen als auch befruchtenden Wechselbeziehung. Seit einigen Jahrzehnten regt vor allem der Aufbruch in der Biologie, resp. die moderne Biotechnologie zu Diskussionen und Reflexionen an. Besonders die Entschlüsselung des Codes des Lebens (DNA) [...]

28.06.2009 – 30.08.2009 SERIOUSLY IRONIC. Positions in Turkish Contemporary Art Scene Positions in Turkish Contemporary Art Scene Gruppenausstellung Vernissage Sa 27 06 2009, 17h Die Gruppenausstellung SERIOUSLY IRONIC präsentiert zum ersten Mal Positionen der zeitgenössischen türkischen Kunstszene in der Schweiz. Zu dieser bedeutenden Ausstellung wurden 14 aufstrebende oder bereits etablierte junge türkische KünstlerInnen eingeladen, [...]

28.06.2009 – 30.08.2009 COLLAGE-DÉCOLLAGE. Burhan Dogançay - Jacques Villeglé Die Ausstellung COLLAGE - DÉCOLLAGE. BURHAN DOGANÇAY - JACQUES VILLEGLÉ lässt auf einzigartige Weise zwei grosse Namen der Kunstszene der 1960er Jahre in Dialog treten. Obwohl von ihrer Herkunft und ihrer Kultur her verschieden, zeigen Dogançay (*1929, Istanbul, TK) und Villeglé (*1926, Quimper, FR) ein [...]

19.04.2009 – 14.06.2009 San Keller - Show Show Erstmals konnte das CentrePasquArt Biel die Suche nach KandidatInnen für den "Manor Kunstpreis Kanton Bern" starten und der paritätisch zusammengesetzten Jury vier Vorschläge unterbreiten. Der zum ersten Mal im Kanton Bern verliehene Preis geht 2009 an San Keller (*1971 Bern, lebt und arbeitet in Zürich). Der [...]

19.04.2009 – 14.06.2009 Costantino Ciervo - Perversion of Signs Costantino Ciervo (*1961 Neapel, lebt und arbeitet in Berlin) setzt sich in seinen faszinierenden Videoinstallationen mit dem Sein des Menschen in der heutigen Gesellschaft, den geltenden Wirtschaftssystemen und den rasanten regionalen sowie globalen Entwicklungen und möglichen Befreiungsstrategien auseinander. Er befasst sich mit aktuellen Themen wie [...]

25.01.2009 – 29.03.2009 Stéphane Zaech - Visions de Van Die Gemälde von Stéphane Zaech (*1966, lebt und arbeitet in Montreux und Villeneuve) führen auf der Leinwand mehrere Epochen zusammen. Sie beziehen sich auf das Repertoire der klassischen Meister von Tizian bis Picasso, sind aber genauso reich an Details aus unserer zeitgenössischen Umgebung. Zaechs Werke [...]

25.01.2009 – 29.03.2009 Hannes Brunner - à la recherche du temps gagné  Hannes Brunner (*1956, lebt und arbeitet in Zürich) arbeitet an grossen und kleinen Bozzetti; haptisch gemachte Gedanken. Über die Beschäftigung mit Fotografie und Architektur entwickelte er in den letzten Jahrzehnten eine Anzahl raumfüllender Installationen, denen unterschiedliche Themen zu Grunde liegen; z.B. Visualisierung [...]

14.12.2008 – 11.01.2009 Weihnachtsausstellung 2008 Salle Poma: x-mas+ 2008 Reto Leibundgut Installation « Chromatic Itch ». Ein Projekt des Kunsthauses in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Kunstverein Biel Parkett 1 & Galeries Noch wenig bekannten Künstlerinnen und Künstler bietet die WEIHNACHTSAUSSTELLUNG des Kunstvereins die Möglichkeit, ihr Werk einer breiten Öffentlichkeit vorzustellen und von dieser vielleicht als [...]

Salle Poma: x-mas+ 2008 Reto Leibundgut Installation « Chromatic Itch ». Ein Projekt des Kunsthauses in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Kunstverein Biel

14.09.2008 – 30.11.2008 _AURUM Gold in der zeitgenössischen Kunst Gegenwärtig ist Gold hinsichtlich verschiedener Bereiche aktuell: An der Börse erzielte der Goldpreis in diesem Jahr neue Höchstwerte. Der stetig fallende Dollar, Rezessions- und Inflationsbefürchtungen sowie die weltweite starke Nachfrage der Goldverbraucher nach dem Edelmetall sind der Grund dafür. Im Sport wurde diesen Sommer eifrig [...]

29.06.2008 – 31.08.2008 Luo Mingjun - Verwehter Staub Das CentrePasquArt präsentiert die erste Museumseinzelausstellung der seit über zwanzig Jahren in der Schweiz (Biel) lebenden chinesischen Künstlerin LUO Mingjun (*1963 in China). Von zwei unterschiedlichen Kulturen geprägt, beschäftigen sich ihre Arbeiten hauptsächlich mit der Thematik der Identität. In ihrem jüngsten auf die Ausstellung hin realisierten [...]

29.06.2008 – 31.08.2008 Urs Dickerhof - Fantasmi Unter dem Titel FANTASMI gibt Urs Dickerhof (* 1941 Zürich, lebt und arbeitet in Biel) seit Bochum 1992 erstmals wieder in einer Museumseinzelausstellung einen umfassenden Einblick in seine künstlerische Arbeit. Im Zentrum stehen die über vierzig neuen Werke des Künstlers, die eigens auf die Ausstellung hin entstanden [...]

17.05.2008 – 15.06.2008 video lounge Im Laufe der Jahre hat die Stiftung Kunsthaus-Sammlung des CentrePasquArt Videos erworben, die nun erstmals im Rahmen einer Ausstellung gemeinsam präsentiert werden. Dieses heterogene Videoensemble streckt sich über mehrere Jahrzehnte. Die Arbeiten der 70er Jahre von Vito Acconci, Joan Jonas, Les Levine und Bill Viola sind repräsentativ für den [...]

20.04.2008 – 11.05.2008 Aeschlimann-Corti-Stipendium 2008 Stipendienausstellung (Parkett 1 & 2) Vernissage Sa 19 04 2008, 17h

13.04.2008 – 15.06.2008 Chiharu Shiota - Zustand des Seins «Die Fäden weben sich ineinander. Verwirren. Zerreissen. Entwirren sich.» Das CentrePasquArt präsentiert in diesem Jahr die erste grosse Museumseinzelausstellung von Chiharu Shiota in der Schweiz und stellt zwei raumgreifende Installationen der japanischen Künstlerin vor. Die monumentale Installation In Silence (Salle Poma) zeigt ein verbranntes Klavier, [...]

27.01.2008 – 23.03.2008 Emmanuelle Antille - Family Viewing Für ihre Einzelausstellung legt Emmanuelle Antille (*1972, Lausanne) den Akzent auf eine Thematik, die in ihrem Werk einen zentralen Stellenwert besitzt: die familiären Beziehungen. In den drei Sälen des Neubaus präsentiert die Künstlerin ihre neue Videoinstallation Barricata (2007): drei Akte hinter verschlossenen Türen, die die unklaren [...]

27.01.2008 – 30.03.2008 Nouvelles Collections III Alle zwei Jahre werden im CentrePasquArt Biel in der Reihe ?Nouvelles Collections? junge, sich im Aufbau befindende Privatsammlungen zeitgenössischer Kunst präsentiert. In diesem Jahr: die Sammlung Jocelyne & Fabrice Petignat (Genf). Auf ihren Reisen durch die Ausstellungen und Biennalen sammeln Mutter und Sohn gemeinsam neue Positionen der internationalen [...]

16.12.2007 – 13.01.2008 Weihnachtsausstellung des Kunstvereins Biel Vernissage : 15.12.2007, 17h

04.11.2007 – 13.01.2008 Charles Sandison - Subtext Der Künstler Charles Sandison (*1969, UK, Schottland, lebt und arbeitet in Tampere, Finnland) verwendet eine Kombination aus Sprache, Architektur und Technologie, um eindringliche Installationen aus Datenprojektionen zu kreieren. Der Raum ist in Dunkelheit gehüllt; bewegte leuchtende Worte gleiten über die Wände, Decke und Boden. Der Besucher steht [...]

04.11.2007 – 02.12.2007 UNTER 30 V - Junge Schweizer Kunst Die Kiefer Hablitzel Stiftung ist eine der bedeutendsten kulturellen Stiftungen der Schweiz und verleiht im Rahmen eines Wettbewerbs für bildende KünstlerInnen jährlich Förderpreise. Seit fünf Jahren wird den PreisträgerInnen zusätzlich die Gelegenheit geboten, unter dem Titel «Unter 30» eine Auswahl ihrer Arbeiten in einer [...]

19.08.2007 – 21.10.2007 SURREALITES - Aspekte des Surrealen in der zeitgenössischen Kunst Judith Albert (CH) - Alice Anderson (UK) - Emmanuelle Antille (CH) - Julien Berthier (FR) - Andrea Giuseppe Corciulo (CH) - Damien Deroubaix (FR) - Pierre-Philippe Freymond (CH) - Gloria Friedmann (DE/FR) - Lotta Hannerz (SE) - Anton Henning (DE) - Gary [...]

03.06.2007 – 05.08.2007 Gian Pedretti - Der Maler Zunächst als Plastiker tätig, beschäftigt sich Gian Pedretti (*1926) seit 1966 fast ausschliesslich mit der Malerei. Zu seinen Bildthemen gehören sowohl Landschaften, Porträts, Selbstporträts als auch Stillleben, in denen er die Existenz der Wesen im Spannungsfeld zwischen Sein und Nichtsein hinterfragt. Als Vertreter einer Generation von [...]

03.06.2007 – 05.08.2007 OUT OF ART dalla collezione di Ernesto Esposito In der Ausstellungsreihe von Privatsammlungen im CentrePasquArt, richtet sich die Aufmerksamkeit dieses Jahr nach Italien. Seit mehr als dreissig Jahren sammelt Ernesto Esposito, Designer von internationalem Rang, mit Leidenschaft und visionärem Blick Werke zeitgenössischer KünstlerInnen, die heute zu den grossen Namen der Kunstszene [...]

Anlässlich seiner Einzelausstellung präsentiert Hervé Graumann (*1963, lebt und arbeitet in Genf) neue und representative Arbeiten, die er eigens für die Räume des CentrePasquArt realisiert hat.

Die Einzelausstellung KRIEG MACHT LIEBE von Isabelle Krieg (*1971, lebt und arbeitet in Zürich) thematisiert einerseits die Bedeutung dieser drei Einzelworte und ihre Interaktion, andererseits kann der Aus-stellungstitel als Satz gelesen werden.

In ihrer bisher grössten Einzelausstellung präsentiert Claudia Di Gallo (geb. 1959) im CentrePasquArt Biel ihre persönliche Kosmologie, bestehend aus den drei Sphären Galaksy, Biosphere und Underworld sowie der alles umfassenden Transit Area.

19.01.2007 – 18.03.2007 SELECTED BY... Ankäufe 2003-2006 der Kunstsammlung der Stadt Biel Die Kunstkommission der Stadt Biel bezieht Stellung zu den Ankäufen der letzten vier Jahre. Jedes Kommissionsmitglied bespielt einen Ausstellungsraum (Parkett 1 & 2) mit Werken seiner Präferenz und steht bei einer Führung persönlich Red und Antwort. Die Ausstellung zeigt eine Auswahl der [...]

Weihnachtsausstellung 2006

«Innere und äussere Geologie» nennt Ruedy Schwyn (*1950 in Zürich, lebt und arbeitet in Nidau) seine bereits langjährige, künstlerische Recherche über die seltsamen Konstellationen der menschlichen Existenz. Diese betreibt er in einem breiten Feld, das Zeichnung, Malerei, Installationen, Objekte, Video, Multimedia, Performance und Kurztexte umfasst. Für seine erste grosse Einzelausstellung in einer musealen Institution hat er eigens für die Räume des CentrePasquArt (Salle Poma & Galeries) eine komplexe vierteilige Installation entwickelt, die der heutigen Beschaffenheit alter Menschheitsfragen nachspürt.

BILDER LESEN Zum zweiten Mal präsentiert das CentrePasquArt seine Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst vor allem für das junge und kunstinteressierte Publikum. Die Ausstellung ermöglicht besonders Kindern, Schulklassen, Familien aber auch Erwachsenen einen spielerischen Zugang zur Kunst und zur Bildlektüre. Wie die erfolgreiche erste Ausgabe von «Kinderspiel» (2002) wird «Kinderspiel II» von erlebnisreichen Workshops begleitet. Diese sind thematisch gegliedert und werden von Kunstschaffenden der Schule für Gestaltung Bern und Biel geleitet. Es gibt einen Kreativwettbewerb für Kinder, bei dem die besten drei Arbeiten von einer Jury prämiert werden. Wer mehrere Workshops besucht hat, erhält ein Zertifi kat, das allen TeilnehmerInnen am Abschlusstag der Ausstellung übergeben wird.

Diplomausstellung Kunst der HKB im CentrePasquArt

03.09.2006 – 29.10.2006 Carola Bürgi - Klangkörper Zum ersten Mal wird der monumentale Raum der Salle Poma mit einer Klanginstallation bespielt. Die von Carola Bürgi (geboren 1967 in Luzern, lebt und arbeitet in Lausanne und Genf) realisierte Installation besteht aus vierundzwanzig Säulen. Diese sind aus Plastikfolie geformt, ein Material, das von der Künstlerin wegen [...]

02.09.2006 – 29.10.2006 PHOTOsuisse Die Schweizer Kulturstiftung Pro Helvetia und das CentrePasquArt präsentieren anlässlich der 10. Bieler Fototage die Ausstellung PHOTOsuisse (02 09 - 29 10 2006). PHOTOsuisse versammelt 28 FotografInnen aus allen Landesteilen der Schweiz: Shooting Stars der jungen Szene gehören ebenso dazu wie Arrivierte, die in den vergangenen dreissig Jahren Entwicklungen mitprägten. [...]

11.06.2006 – 20.08.2006 Simply Beautiful. Atem der Natur in der zeitgenössischen koreanischen Kunst Die diesjährige Sommerausstellung des CentrePasquArt Biel präsentiert unter dem Titel SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL zwölf koreanische KünstlerInnen, die aktuell in Südkorea leben und arbeiten und die sich mit dem Thema der Natur beschäftigen. Ganz der Tradition des ostasiatischen Kulturerbes und des ganzheitlichen Denkens [...]

02.04.2006 – 28.05.2006 Branding. Das Kunstwerk zwischen Authentizität und Aura, Kritik und Kalkül Unter dem Titel BRANDING wird in der diesjährigen thematischen Ausstellung des CentrePasquArt erneut ein gesellschaftlich und wirtschaftlich aktuelles Thema aufgegriffen und anhand von verschiedenen Positionen in der zeitgenössischen Kunst beleuchtet. Der ursprünglich für das Brandmarken von Rindern verwendete Begriff Branding gewann [...]

22.01.2006 – 19.03.2006 Nouvelles Collections Die im 2004 gestartete Ausstellungsserie "Nouvelles Collections", die junge Kunstsammlungen vorstellt, wird in diesem Jahr mit der zweiten Ausgabe fortgeführt. Von der eigenen Sammlertätigkeit und der engen Freundschaft zu KünstlerInnen inspiriert, startete das Sammlerehepaar Ruth und Jürg Nyffeler 1994 unter dem Namen "Edition 5" die Herausgabe von dreidimensionalen Multiples [...]

22.01.2006 – 19.03.2006 Stefan Banz - Laugh. I nearly died In seiner Einzelausstellung "Laugh. I nearly died" präsentiert Stefan Banz (*1961) seine neuesten, eigens für die Räumlichkeiten des Neubaus des CentrePasquArt (Salle Poma & Galeries) realisierten Installationen. Provokativ und selbstkritisch hinterfragt er darin u.a. sein eigenes Werk im Spannungsverhältnis zwischen "schöner" Ästhetik und aggressiver [...]

11.12.2005 – 08.01.2006 x-mas+ 2005 Renate Buser Ein Projekt des Kunsthauses in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Kunstverein Biel und mit der Unterstützung der Bank Julius Bär & Co. AG, Basel und einem privaten Spender Salle Poma: x-mas+ 2005 Renate Buser Installation "Omoide Yokocho - Allee der Erinnerungen" (mit / avec inter color foto, Basel) Vernissage [...]

11.12.2005 – 08.01.2006 Weihnachtsausstellung des Kunstvereins Biel Weihnachtsausstellung des Kunstverein und des Photoforum PasquArt (Parkett 1 & 2) Vernissage 10 12 2005, 17h

10.12.2005 – 08.01.2006 3 x 70: Heinz Peter Kohler Danilo Wyss Martin Ziegelmüller Die drei in der Region arbeitenden Künstler Heinz Peter Kohler, Danilo Wyss und Martin Ziegelmüller feiern in diesem Jahr jeweils ihren 70. Geburtstag. Sowohl für den Kunstverein Biel von Bedeutung, haben die drei Bieler Künstler auch Wesentliches für die Stadt Biel, [...]

02.10.2005 – 27.11.2005 HELDEN HEUTE Das Heldenbild in der zeitgenössischen Kunst In der Ausstellung HELDEN HEUTE wird eines der klassischen Themen der Kunstgeschichte aufgegriffen und auf seine Aktualität hin untersucht. Wie die Produkte der Film- und Spielzeugindustrie zeigen, ist das Bedürfnis nach den HeldInnen heute beinahe allgegenwärtig. So jagen immer wieder neue Heroen über [...]

14.08.2005 – 18.09.2005 Directions. Neue Architektur aus Biel Das Architekturforum Biel organisiert unter dem Titel "DIRECTIONS, Neue Architektur aus Biel" vom 14. August bis am 18. September 2005 im CentrePasquArt eine Ausstellung über neue Bieler Architektur. Die Ausstellung präsentiert zehn Bieler Büros, welche das breite Spektrum des aktuellen architektonischen Schaffens aufzeigen. Durch eine öffentliche [...]

14.08.2005 – 18.09.2005 Bruno Meier (1905-1967) Der Künstler und sein Modell Nach den zwei Retrospektiven von 1992 und 1997 widmet das CentrePasquArt dem Künstler Bruno Meier zu seinem 100. Geburtstag eine neue Ausstellung. Mit einer Auswahl von Gemälden, farbigen Blättern und Zeichnungen hat die Ausstellung zum Ziel, die vielfältige Beziehung zwischen dem Maler und [...]

14.08.2005 – 18.09.2005 Unter 30 III - Junge Schweizer Kunst Die Kiefer Hablitzel Stiftung ist eine der bedeutendsten kulturellen Stiftungen der Schweiz, die jährlich im Rahmen eines Wettbewerbs für bildende KünstlerInnen Förderpreise verleiht. Im Juni 2005 wurden in Basel zehn Preise vergeben. Auch in diesem Jahr erhalten die PreisträgerInnen die Möglichkeit, in einer Gruppenausstellung [...]