Kunstmuseum / Kunsthalle Appenzell
The programmes of Kunstmuseum / Kunsthalle Appenzell are characterised by a variety of different exhibition formats and media, concepts that are often developed in close collaboration with artists and allow for experimentation. In all exhibitions and activities, we are committed to topicality and a contemporary view of artistic creation from modernism to the present day.
Plattform24
March 10–April 14, 2024
Kunstmuseum Appenzell
Every year, Plattform24 offers an insight into the work of young artists in Switzerland. This year’s exhibition shows new works by twelve selected Bachelor’s and Master’s graduates from Swiss art academies. The exhibition series takes place annually and has been organised in partnership with the Helvetia Art Prize since 2011. As of 2017, the exhibition has taken place in different regions and is always hosted by another institution. Includint the artists* Marine Aebischer, Mohamed Al-Bakeri, Tereza Glazova, Mimmo Haraditiohadi, Schahed Javanbakhsh, Anastasia Pavlou, Simon Pellegrini, Virginie Sistek, Leevi Toija, Yul Tomatala, Lou-Anna Ulloa del Rio, Gemma Ushengewe. Organisation and jury: Clara Chavan, Katia Leonelli, Selma Meuli, Marius Quiblier, Antonia Rebekka Truninger and Monica Unser
Zora Berweger: Greeting the Unseen
Until April 14, 2024
Kunsthalle Appenzell
Using minimal means and carefully chosen materials, Zora Berweger stages her works as spatial installations. She first examines the exhibition site closely as if it were a pictorial space and then experiments with scale, constellations and displacements while juxtaposing different media. Inspired by the spatial conditions at the Kunsthalle Appenzell, the artist has oriented her work on the figure of a plant. She focuses here on functions, potentials and tasks of different plant parts to create combinations that invariably refer to something unseen or concealed.
Curated by Stefanie Gschwend
Allianzen: Arp / Taeuber-Arp / Bill
May 5–October 6, 2024
Kunstmuseum Appenzell
In cooperation with the Fondazione Marguerite Arp, the Kunstmuseum Appenzell is presenting an exhibition that highlights the friendship and collaboration between Hans Arp, Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Max Bill. Amidst the tensions of transatlantic avant-garde exchange, when artists’ associations and journals took a central place, collective forms of communication, pioneering ideas and works of art emerged, particularly in the years between 1935 and 1947. A complementary chapter to the exhibition will be shown at the Fondazione Marguerite in Locarno (CH) in parallel. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue published by Scheidegger & Spiess.
Curated by Stefanie Gschwend and Simona Martinoli
Opportunity Architecture
May 5–October 6, 2024
Kunsthalle Appenzell
The exhibition Opportunity Architecture (Möglichkeit Architektur) is being developed with the two architects Christoph Flury and Lukas Furrer, Zurich and creates a participatory platform that opens up the discussion on how spaces with a public character are designed. With the involvement of the public and artists, the project aims to create a socially inclusive debate on cultural space that is co-designed by the many and to encourage them to share responsibility for it. The project moves between exhibition, mediation concept and architectural pre-project.
Notes on Kim Lim
October 20, 2024–May 4, 2025
Kunstmuseum Appenzell
The exhibition traces the body of work of artist Kim Lim (1936–97) and explores her work in dialogue with contemporary art. The oeuvre of the Singaporean-British artist includes abstract sculptures made of wood and stone as well as works on paper and photographs that reflect on the relationship between art and nature. This is Lim’s first presentation in Switzerland, but rather than organising a retrospective, the exhibition will examine her work from a contemporary and artistic perspective.
Curated by the Latvian artist Daiga Grantina and Stefanie Gschwend
In cooperation with the Kim Lim Estate, London
Appenzell Now and Then
Ongoing
Kunsthalle Appenzell
In the past, paintings by Carl Walter Liner (1914–97) were displayed on the high walls of the old brickworks, in honour of whom the Kunstmuseum and Kunsthalle were founded. Carl Walter Liner can be seen as a pioneer of modern and abstract art in Appenzell, who revealed artistic possibilities in a rural environment. The project Appenzell Now and Then arose from discussions with local and regional artists. It places the presentation of Liner’s works in dialogue with contemporary regional art. The wall is constantly changing and is complemented and curated together with local artists. The result is a changing presentation and an altered view of the past and present. The start was marked by Christian Meier (*1978, AI) with three paintings. The trained painter soon perceived his own medium as a “one-track mind”. He breaks all boundaries and finds his own dimensions. As a vigilant wanderer he develops conceptual long-term projects. In doing so, he repeatedly provokes basic research with radical and existential experiences.
Today Tank Revision
Kunstmuseum Appenzell
Every first Thursday of the month, director Stefanie Gschwend stands behind the counter of the Kunstmuseum’s art bar Heute Tankrevision (Today Tank Revision). The bar in the building’s former oil reservoir, which was never used, forms part of the museum’s collection and offers a space for social gatherings and exchange. The room is continuously supplemented with small format works by regional artists and contemporary artists that have been shown at the Kunstmuseum / Kunsthalle Appenzell, keeping the collection vibrant.
Kunstmuseum Appenzell
Unterrainstrasse 5
9050 Appenzell
Switzerland
T +41 71 788 18 00
info [at] kunstmuseumappenzell.ch
Kunsthalle Appenzell
Ziegeleistrasse 14
9050 Appenzell
Switzerland
T +41 71 788 18 60
info [at] kunsthalleappenzell.ch
