Appenzell's Kunstmuseum / Kunsthalle has announced their 2023 program.
Vordemberge-Gildewart Award 2023
12 Rooms
March 19–June 11 2023
Opening: March 18, 5pm
Kunstmuseum Appenzell
Since 1983, the Foundation Vordemberge-Gildewart has organized an annual scholarship competition for artists under the age of 35 in various European nations. The winner of the CHF 60,000 working grant will be chosen by an independent international jury based on a group show organized this year by the Foundation in collaboration with the Kunstmuseum Appenzell.
Twelve artists who are active in Switzerland have been nominated for the group exhibition:
Alfredo Aceto (1991, Turin, Italy, lives and works in Geneva, Switzerland), Natacha Donzé (1991, Boudevilliers, France, lives and works in Lausanne, Switzerland), Marc Norbert Hörler (1989, Appenzell, Switzerland, lives and works in Berlin, Germany), Maya Hottarek (1990, Chironico, Switzerland, lives and works between Italy and Switzerland), Jeanne Jacob (1994, Neuchâtel, lives and works in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland), Roman Selim Khereddine (1989, Zürich, Switzerland), Robin Mettler (1993, Cormoret, Switzerland, lives and works in Bern, Switzerland), Martina Morger (1989, Vaduz, Liechtenstein / Appenzell, Switzerland, lives and works in Balzers, Liechtenstein and Hanover, Germany), Anina Müller (1997, St. Gallen / Appenzell, Switzerland, lives and works in Basel, Switzerland), Tina Omayemi Reden (1991, Zürich, Switzerland), Nina Rieben (1992, Bern, Switzerland, lives and works in Basel, Switzerland), Yanik Soland (1990, Basel, Switzerland).
Francisco Sierra: Corniche
March 19–June 11, 2023
Opening: March 18, 5pm
Kunsthalle Appenzell
Painting, combined with drawings, objects, and installations, is Francisco Sierra’s (1977, Santiago de Chile, Chile; lives and works in Cotterd, Switzerland) artistic medium. His work is distinguished by its independence and dexterity of craftsmanship, as well as by poetry, wit, and ambiguity. He challenges figurative painting by distorting the objective’s actuality, whether through humour, surreal or horrific studies, or the transformational power of painting itself. Sierra walks a tightrope between hyper-realistic and magical graphical realms, dissolving the fine but troublesome dividing line between art and ornamentation. His subjects range from tableware, food, and musical instruments to animal portraiture and erotic absurdity. He frequently paints from models, some of which he has fashioned himself or from his children’s pottery, and uses technically superb realisation and large-format canvases to give mundane things a profound presence.
Alice Channer: Heavy Metals / Silk Cut
July 2–October 8, 2023
Opening: July 1, 5pm
Kunstmuseum / Kunsthalle Appenzell
In her sculptures, Alice Channer (1977, Oxford, UK, lives and works in London) investigates the links between materials, bodies, machines, and industrial or technological processes. She blends her highly industrialised items with human gesture or natural traces such as physical or geological relics with enjoyment. The exhibition is organized into two thematically distinct but interconnected sections: Heavy Metals, an exhibition at the Kunstmuseum, will feature pieces that combine artificial geology, industry, materiality, gravity, and anti-gravity. Silk Cut, an exhibition at Kunsthalle, will focus on the fatal and enticing convergence of fashion, glamour, and violence.
The exhibition will include newly commissioned work, including an architectural intervention, as well as a survey of sculpture, drawing, and installation from the previous decade, as well as a monographic catalogue featuring an essay by Rosanna McLaughlin, a specially commissioned experimental text by Daisy Hildyard, and an interview by Stefanie Gschwend.
Alliances
Arp / Taeuber-Arp / Bill
October 29, 2023–February 25, 2024
Kunstmuseum Appenzell
An exhibition is being developed in collaboration with the Fondazione Marguerite Arp in Locarno that highlights the roles and involvement of Hans Arp, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, and Max Bill in important artist groups and magazines such as Abstraction-Création, Allianz, and plastique-plastic in the 1930s and 1940s. Collective means of communication, forward-thinking ideas, and works of art evolved during a crisis-shattered phase of the avant-garde art fight.
Curated by Simona Martinoli and Stefanie Gschwend.
Zora Berweger
October 29, 2023–February 25, 2024
Kunstmuseum Appenzell
Zora Berweger’s installations (1981, Bern, Switzerland; lives and works in Leipzig, Germany) emerge as a response to space and situate items in connection to the human body. She investigates the exhibition venue as a pictorial environment through painting, drawing, objects, and sculpture, playing with scale, constellations, and displacements, and relating the many mediums. Because the artist is concerned in how places function, she allows the immediacy of the appearances of forms and geometric structures to influence her creative process. Her paintings combine the characteristics of bodies, surfaces, and materiality with the experience of light and color, resulting in a transformed presence.
Kunstmuseum Appenzell
Unterrainstrasse 5
9050 Appenzell
Switzerland
T +41 71 788 18 00
info [at] kunstmuseumappenzell.ch
Kunsthalle Appenzell
Ziegeleistrasse 14
9050 Appenzell
Switzerland
T +41 71 788 18 60
info [at] kunsthalleappenzell.ch
