Special Exhibitions

Auswahl 09

Aargau Artists
Guest: Pascal Häusermann
28 November 2009 - 10 January 2010


At the end of the year the Aargauer Kunsthaus and the Aargauer Kuratorium present the Auswahl 09. This traditional annual exhibition of Aargau artists offers a multifaceted overview of current art practices in the Canton of Aargau. For many years now the annual exhibition has provided Aargau artists with an important platform for presenting their work. Any artist living in or coming from the Canton of Aargau can apply to be included in the juried exhibition. This year a total of 216 artists has submitted their files. 68 art practitioners were invited by the jury to present their works in the Auswahl 09. Marking the presentation of the Auswahl 09, the Aargauer Kuratorium will award its grants for work in the visual arts. The recipients will be announced at the opening of the exhibition on 27 November 2009. At the same time the Neue Aargauer Bank will present its annual advancement award to a young artist. This presentation will take place at the opening of the exhibition.

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CARAVAN 5/2009: Taiyo Onorato&Nico Krebs

Series of exhibitions of young art
28 November 2009 - 24 January 2010


Taiyo Onorato (b. 1979) and Nico Krebs (b. 1979) both studied photography at the Zurich Hochschule der Künste and they started their collaboration in 2003. In their photographs the artists create their very own pictoral worlds in which reality and fiction coalesce. In the exhibition at the Aargauer Kunsthaus the artist duo surprises with new works which are the short-term output of their spontaneous creative process.

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Interiors

Collected Insights
5 September - 8 November 2009 (extended until 10 January 2010)


Views of interiors constitute a pictorial category within the much broader category of genre painting, which takes as its subject the world of the everyday and the private. It focuses on views of interior spaces, with individual objects, figures or events being ancillary to them. Paintings of interiors show a confined world: they take us into a private, intimate realm. At the same time, however, they invariably include hints at an outside world, allowing the tension between two separate realms to fuel the works. Their exploration of inner worlds opens up unknown zones, widens spaces and taps extraordinary imagery, as the works in this exhibition – paintings, drawings and objects from the holdings of the collection – illustrate. The interior view acquires a highly topical edge at a time when there is a withdrawal into the private sphere, when individual living space serves as a refuge and interior decoration is considered of such importance, as to provide a barrier against the rigours of the outer world.

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Abstractions

Non-Representative Tendencies in the Collection
28 March - 9 August 2009 (extended until 3 January 2010)

The Aargauer Kunsthaus owns important works of abstract and concrete Swiss art of the classic avant-garde. In this exhibition, they enter into a dialog with works by younger artists who examine abstract-concrete themes, vacillating between conceptual rigor and playful lightness. Superb works by early practitioners of abstract art such as Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Clara Friedrich and Hans Arp are confronted with works by artists currently dealing with non-representative imagery and, in some cases, directly referring to the older generation. This is the first installment of a two-part exhibition to be continued in 2010.

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