Kunsthaus Langenthal
The Kunsthaus Langenthal is an art house in Langenthal ( BE ). The sponsor of the Kunsthaus is the Kunstverein Oberaargau , an independent association within the meaning of Art. 60ff. ZGB based in Langenthal. The city of Langenthal has been supporting the Kunsthaus's operating costs since 1998. The Kunsthaus Langenthal is housed in the Choufhüsi , a listed building in the center of Langenthal.
history
The Kunsthaus Langenthal was founded in 1992 by a private association, whose members mostly ran the Kunsthaus on a voluntary basis in the first few years. In 1998 the city of Langenthal decided to take over part of the operating costs, which made it possible to professionalise the exhibition. Today the Kunsthaus Langenthal is one of the most important exhibition venues for contemporary art in Switzerland.
In 2009 the Kunsthaus Langenthal received the Federal Prize for Art Spaces , which the Federal Office of Culture awarded to nine institutions for the first time. This is endowed with twenty thousand francs. The Kunsthaus Langenthal was honored for its curatorial concept, which combines the local with international positions, and as a "driving force behind the art discourse in Switzerland."
Conception and mediation
The Kunsthaus Langenthal shows four to seven exhibitions a year. The focus is on current, young Swiss art. Furthermore, thematic group exhibitions shed light on current topics, for several years now again and again on questions of new media and society. Since the beginning of the house there have been exhibitions with historical photography. A reference to the Langenthal location is established in at least one exhibition per year. A catalog or artist publication is published for many exhibitions.
The Kunsthaus Langenthal offers artist talks, guided tours, performances and a program for children.
Exhibitions
| title | Exhibition duration | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| "Casa del Lago" | April 23 - June 8, 2008 | Danica Dakić |
| "Average" | 4.9. – 2.11.2008 | Christian Aebi, Seline Baumgartner, Mathieu Bernard-Reymond, Diana Dodson, Fischli / Weiss , Valérie Mréjen, Gianni Motti , RELAX, Jean-Frédéric Schnyder, Kateřina Šedá, Nedko Solakow , Pascale Wiedemann and Daniel Mettler, Måns Wrange, Simone Zaugg, Artur Żmijewski . |
| "Don't Look Back in Anger" | February 21 - April 20, 2008 | Edit Oderbolz |
| "Christine Streuli, Bruno Jakob" | September 6 - November 4, 2007 | Christine Streuli, Bruno Jakob |
| "Il faut cultiver notre jardin" | February 15 - April 15, 2007 | Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger , Andres Lutz & Anders Guggisberg, Dominik Heim & Ron Temperli, Matteo Terzaghi & Marco Zürcher, Anne-Julie Raccoursier |
Individual evidence
- ^ Frutiger, Barbara, Valentin Binggeli and Ruedi Bösch, 1998. Langenthal, Swiss Art Guide No. 646/647, Bern: Society for Swiss Art History.
- ↑ Appreciation of the Kunsthaus Langenthal and presentation of the current exhibition "Industriebild Langenthal": Steinbrecher und Kirschenvibrationssieb , NZZ on Sunday , May 11, 2008
- ↑ See BAK report on the Federal Prize for Art Spaces 2009 ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 2.
- ^ Exhibition archive on the website of the Kunsthaus Langenthal
- ↑ For an appreciation of the exhibition “Don't Look Back in Anger” by Edit Oderbolz, see the article by Claudia Spinelli in Art Bulletin 4/2008
Web links
Coordinates: 47 ° 12 '43 " N , 7 ° 47' 21.2" E ; CH1903: 626.56 thousand / 229060