Cantonal cultural center Palais Besenval

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The Besenval Palace in front of St. Ursus Cathedral

The cantonal cultural center Palais Besenval was a state cultural center in the Swiss city ​​of Solothurn , which existed from 1990 to 2000. It was located in the Palais Besenval at Kronengasse 1 and served mainly as an art gallery .

history

The cultural center was founded on May 6, 1990 by the Board of Trustees for Cultural Promotion of the Canton of Solothurn . It occupied the ground floor (two exhibition rooms with a total of 230 m², and documentation center) and the garden (560 m²) of Palais Besenval, while the upper floor was occupied by the Solothurn Office of Justice. The logo of the cultural center was designed by Hans Küchler .

The purpose of the cultural center was the "intra-cantonal exchange of contemporary art", the "expansion of the cultural network within the canton", the "promotion of cultural exchange beyond the canton's borders" and the "documentation on art, culture and customs". Like the Waldegg meeting center for the inter-cantonal area, the Palais Besenval saw itself as an "inner-cantonal bridge from person to person, from region to region ..." ( Peter André Bloch , 1990). The cultural center mainly organized art exhibitions. The board of trustees repeatedly combined visual arts with literature, for example on Friedrich Dürrenmatt (pictures, drawings and sketches) at the Solothurn Literature Days (1991), or on the “painter friendship” between Hermann Hesse and Cuno Amiet (1998).

After ten years of operation, the cultural center fell victim to the “SO Plus” tax policy austerity package: the Solothurn government council decided to close the cultural center and advertised the ground floor and the garden of the Palais Besenval for rent. The cultural center heralded its end with its dance of death exhibition from April to May 2000. On August 31, 2000, the Palais Besenval cantonal cultural center was dissolved. In the following years, the canton centralized its culture department in Waldegg Castle .

Exhibitions

title year Catalog
Opening of the Palais Besenval 1990 OCLC 75598097
Friedrich Dürrenmatt : Pictures, drawings, sketches from the Hans and Kathy Liechti collection 1991 ISBN 9783952011911
Benno Geiger 1903–1979 1991 OCLC 84346861
White Book Black Boy Country 1991 ISBN 9783952011904
Annemarie Würgler: sculptural work 1992 OCLC 983477580
Alois Winiger: "Your and my everyday life" 1993 OCLC 83742770
Outer Worlds - Inner Worlds: Landscape in Contemporary Art 1994 OCLC 75675114
Body language: Ursula Baur, Marianne Flück-Derendinger, Rosmarie Gehriger, Sandra Meister, Barbara Meyer Cesta 1996 ISBN 9783952011997
Franz Anatol Wyss : Overview: Drawings and original prints for the anniversary 30 years of artistic work 1996 OCLC 80109908
At the 47th parallel 1997 OCLC 81374955
August Jaeger 1881–1954 1998 ISBN 9783906592008
Hope dies last: Belarus in the year twelve after Chernobyl 1998 ISBN 9783855026371
Hermann Hesse and Cuno Amiet - a painter friendship 1998 OCLC 313526364
Rome photo 1998 ISBN 9783906592022
Hermitage meditation path: the Solothurn Way of the Cross near the Verena Gorge 1999 OCLC 1084736909
Or in Venice: photo montages 1999 ISBN 9783858811141

literature

  • Rosmarie Gehriger: Dear Kathrin! Stories that the painting wrote (=  edition of the artist's book ). Karin Fischer Verlag, Aachen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8422-3923-4 , Palais Besenval, p. 35–41 (literary text about the creation of an art exhibition in the cantonal cultural center Palais Besenval).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Peter André Bloch : Palais Besenval: symbol of cantonal cooperation . In: Opening of the Palais Besenval, cultural center of the Canton of Solothurn on May 6, 1990 . Cantonal cultural center Palais Besenval, Solothurn 1990, OCLC 75598097 .
  2. ↑ a b Roland Schär: Cantonal cultural center Palais Besenval. Retrieved July 28, 2019 .
  3. ^ Swiss exhibitions: Hesse and Amiet: a friendship? In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , July 24, 1998.
  4. ^ "Culture and education belong together": A conversation with Government Councilor Ruth Gisi on cantonal cultural policy. In: Solothurner Zeitung , June 28, 2001.
  5. ↑ Besenval is not abandoned without a fight: "Selected", art from the Black Boy Country in the Palais Besenval. In: Solothurner Zeitung , September 6, 1999.
  6. ↑ «No brothel and no MacDonald's»: The government is promoting the re-use of Palais Besenval. In: Solothurner Zeitung , October 28, 1999.
  7. ↑ Palais Besenval is advertised: Cantonal cultural center has bad cards. In: Solothurner Zeitung , October 28, 1999.
  8. ↑ Fränzi Zwahlen-Saner: Leaving head of the Office for Culture: "The canton is lacking the cultural-political debate" . In: Solothurner Zeitung . December 16, 2016 ( online [accessed July 28, 2019]).
  9. ^ "Dance of Death" for the cultural center: Palais Besenval - farewell with a major interregional event. In: Aargauer Zeitung , April 17, 2000.
  10. ^ Eva Buhrfeind: At the end an exhibition on the dance of death: cultural workers in the Palais Besenval cultural center in Solothurn. In: buhrfeind.ch. April 25, 2000. Retrieved July 29, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Besenval closes. In: Solothurner Zeitung , August 30, 2000.
  12. ↑ The curtain has fallen: Palais Besenval - it was closed yesterday. In: Aargauer Zeitung , September 1, 2000.
  13. ^ Waldegg as a cantonal cultural center. In: Solothurner Zeitung / MLZ , May 28, 2003.
  14. ↑ Not everyone still likes the new picture: “Kultur Schloss Waldegg” The new cultural center will open with a party on Saturday. In: Solothurner Zeitung / MLZ , June 16, 2005.


Coordinates: 47 ° 12 '24.4 "  N , 7 ° 32' 19.7"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and seven thousand five hundred and ninety  /  228430