NO LEFTOVERS
Kunsthalle Bern
Benefit Auction Preview
August 16th – September 10th 2008
Helvetiaplatz 1
3005 Bern
Switzerland
Tel: +41 31 35 000 40
Fax: +41 31 35 000 41
On the 13th of September 2008, Kunsthalle Bern will auction off works by a total of 72 artists who, in the course of their careers, participated in exhibitions at Kunsthalle Bern and defined crucial moments and tendencies in art history. The proceeds will be dedicated in full to Kunsthalle Bern’s ambitious programme for the coming years.
From the 16th of August until the 10th of September, the works will be on exhibition at Kunsthalle Bern under the title NO LEFTOVERS (the title is an artwork by Mexican artist Stefan Brüggemann). The exhibition features young international and Bernese artists like Pamela Rosenkranz, Ivan Grubanov, Roberto Cuoghi or Urs Zahn, as well as established locals such as Franz Gertsch and Balthasar Burkhard. Most of the artists, however, are prominent members of the international art scene, including Raymond Pettibon, Robert Gober, Candida Höfer, Thomas Struth, Julian Opie, Georg Baselitz, John M. Armleder and Luc Tuymans.
Throughout its history, Kunsthalle Bern has had the privilege as well as the audacity to exhibit works by an extraordinarily impressive range of artists. The Kunsthalle offered a platform to some of Switzerland’s most significant artists, from Ferdinand Hodler to Franz Gertsch, and it introduced internationally well-known artists like Edvard Munch, Jesus Rafael Soto, Luc Tuymans and Jutta Koether to a Swiss audience. However, Kunsthalle Bern was and is not only the home of various groundbreaking and bold shows or projects (from the first packaging of a public building by Christo over the seminal exhibition “When Attitudes Become Form” and the exhibition of Sol Lewitt’s wall paintings up to Allan Kaprow’s retrospective last year); it is also an institution which, under its various directors, has always striven relentlessly to offer artists a passionate commitment to their works, to challenge the visitors and at the same time provide them the best possible conditions for experiencing contemporary art.
We are extremely grateful towards the artists that donated works, or in some cases even created new artworks especially for the auction, and their generosity has strengthened us in the conviction that the Kunsthalle needs to keep faith with the artists in the future.
Exhibition opening: 15th of August 2008, 6 pm at Kunsthalle Bern
Benefit auction: 13th of September 2008, 6 pm at Kunsthalle Bern
All the works on auction were collected by Kunsthalle Bern’s director Philippe Pirotte.
Auctioneer: Wolf von Weiler (President of the Verein Kunsthalle Bern)
Online catalogue: benefizauktion.kunsthalle-bern.ch/
The Kunsthalle Bern benefit auction takes place under the patronage of:
Ursula Andress (actress, Rome)
Rolf Bloch (entrepreneur, Berne)
Robert Frank (photographer, New York)
Donald Hess (entrepreneur and collector, Berne)
Thomas Koerfer (director and collector, Zurich)
Participating artists:
John M. Armleder, Carla Arocha/ Stéphane Schraenen, Knut Åsdam, Tonico Lemos Auad, Georg Baselitz, Pierre Bismuth, Mike Bouchet, Herbert Brandl, Stefan Brüggemann, Pavel Büchler, Balthasar Burkhard, Jean-Marc Bustamante, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Ernst Caramelle, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Martin Creed, Roberto Cuoghi, Pascal Danz, Raoul de Keyser, Braco Dimitrijevic, Cecilia Edefalk, Maria Eichhorn, Armen Eloyan, Zhang Enli, Michel François, Robert Frank, Gaylen Gerber/ Michelle Grabner, Franz Gertsch, Robert Gober, Katharina Grosse , Ivan Grubanov, Aneta Grzeszykowska, Thomas Hirschhorn, Candida Höfer, David Hominal, Bethan Huws, Jutta Koether, Alois Lichtsteiner, Christian Marclay, Corey Mc Corkle, Chantal Michel, Jürg Moser, Julian Opie, Raymond Pettibon, Annaïk Pitteloud, Marjetica Potrč, Vaclav Pozarek, Markus Raetz, Arnulf Rainer, Michael S. Riedel, Ana Roldán, Pamela Rosenkranz, Ilona Ruegg, Christoph Rütimann, Gregor Schneider, Albrecht Schnider, Ross Sinclair, Nedko Solakov, Yutaka Sone, Serge Spitzer, George Steinmann, Thomas Struth, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Luc Tuymans, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Lawrence Weiner, Uwe Wittwer, Christopher Wool, Urs Zahn, Otto Zitko, and Gregor Zivić.
Contact: Julia Strebelow j.strebelow@kunsthalle-bern.ch
Kunsthalle Bern
Helvetiaplatz 1
3005 Bern
Switzerland
Tel: +41 31 35 000 40
Fax: +41 31 35 000 41