Agenda

With Laura Weber, art historian

With Felicity Lunn and Stefanie Gschwend, curators of the exhibition

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.  

Concert Niklaus Erismann et guitar ensemble A varied concert program with pieces by Urs Peter Schneider and works by other composers.

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.

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 Prize winner is based on space creating processes and connections and can thus be read as the organisation of space, as shifting or layering.

Concert: Oscar Strasnoy (composition, direction, piano), Samuel Blaser (conception, composition, trombone), Nathalie Amstutz (conception, harp), Sarah Maria Sun (mezzo-soprano), Mathieu Ogier (turntables, electronics) Franco-argentinian Oscar Strasnoy and trombonist Samuel Blaser orientate their compositions on Luciano Berio's folksongs.