Anstehende Veranstaltungen

Before the Kunsthaus extension, designed by Diener & Diener, was constructed, Daniel Zimmermann (*1966, CH), who lived and worked in Biel at the time, laid out a structural field of 10'000 wooden strips in the form and size of the ground plan. By means of a stereoscope, the ephemeral installation was captured from various perspectives: since then 3D panorama-viewers recall as a visual sign the transition to the situation before the big change.

The Bernese Art Society BKG advertises annually the Louise Aeschlimann and Margareta Corti-Grant. This is the largest private grant for visual artists in the Canton. The competition is linked to an exhibition, shown in rotation in four institutions, including the Kunsthaus Pasquart. Artists under forty who live or have their «Heimatort» in Canton Bern are eligible to apply.

Nilbar Güreş (b. 1977 in TR) works in a diverse range of media, including painting, photography, film, performance, collage and drawing. She consistently interrogates conventional gender roles and alludes to ways of empowering feminine and queer identities. Imbued with a playful irony, her artistic practice is based on subtle moments of resistance, quietly radical in their enactment on the margins of everyday life. The exhibition focuses on the last five years of Güreş’ career.

The Diploma festival of the Masters in Contemporary Arts Practice of the High school of Arts Berne gathers works of a young and joyful experimenting generation of ambitious activists in art. The artistic thought of the graduates shows itself in different medias such as performance, video, installation, painting, literature or music and focuses on contemporary questioning.

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.  

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.

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.

Accomplished in cooperation with the Kunstverein Biel, the intercantonal exhibition leads the view on regional art activity. The selection of works, drawn up by a professional jury, surprises through diversity and originality and creates thereby space for new discoveries. Art activists receive the possibility to present their works to a large audience and visitors obtain the chance to see the works beyond the canton borders.