Jenseits des Barocks — Beyond Baroque

For the third consecutive year, the Berne-based non-profit organisation art+château is pleased to announce the launch of its next exhibition of contemporary art in an historic castle.

This year’s exhibition Beyond Baroque will take place at the stunning  Schloss Waldegg (Waldegg Castle, Canton of Solothurn), bringing together fourteen Swiss and international contemporary artists whose artistic practices demonstrate an intimate yet unexpected visual relation with the traditional formal vocabulary of the Baroque period. The artworks included in the exhibition highlight different aspects of the permanence and reinterpretation of the Baroque style in contemporary art and in today’s society, offering a fresh and surprising insight into this subject. Artworks of different media – drawings, paintings, videos, sculptures, installations, and a music performance – enter into dialogue with the architecture of Waldegg Castle and some of its most iconic, historic holdings.

The exhibition is conceived and curated by Dr. Valentina Locatelli. With Giulia Busetti acting as curatorial assistant.

Der Berner gemeinnützige Verein art+château freut sich, zum dritten Mal in Folge eine Ausstellung zeitgenössischer Kunst in einem historischen Schloss anzukündigen.

Die diesjährige Ausstellung Jenseits des Barocks findet im malerischen und imposanten Schloss Waldegg (Kanton Solothurn) statt und bringt vierzehn Solothurner, Schweizer und internationale zeitgenössische KünstlerInnen zusammen, die sich mit dem Formenvokabular des Barocks auseinandersetzen. Die künstlerischen Ansätze der ausgewählten Kunstschaffenden sind einzigartig und bieten Raum für eine freie und vielfältige Interpretation des Themas. Dadurch werden verschiedene Aspekte der Beständigkeit und Neuinterpretation des Barocks in der zeitgenössischen Kunst und in der heutigen Gesellschaft beleuchtet. Die Kunstwerke, die sowohl im Schloss als auch auf dem Schlossgelände ausgestellt werden, treten in einen Dialog mit der Architektur des Gebäudes und seiner Ausstattung.

Die Ausstellung ist konzipiert und kuratiert von Dr. Valentina Locatelli. Kuratorische Assistenz von Giulia Busetti.

Pável Aguilar (born 1989 in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Lives and works in Basel, Switzerland) with Mar Boreal (born 1991 in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Lives and works in Tegucigalpa) - Jan Bajtlik (born 1989 in Warsaw, Poland. Lives and works in in Chamonix, France) with Lynn Frydman Kuhn (born 1964 in Ohio, USA. Lives and works in La Rippe, Switzerland) - Franziska Baumgartner (born 1987 in Solothurn, Switzerland. Lives and works in Basel, Switzerland) - Kaspar Flück (born 1989 in Solothurn, Switzerland. Lives and works in Basel, Switzerland) - Christian Fogarolli (born 1983 in Trent, Italy. Lives and works in Trent) - Charlotte Hug (born 1965 in Zürich, Switzerland. Lives and works in Zürich) - Luisa Kasalicky (born 1974 in Prague, Czech Republic. Lives and works in Vienna, Austria) - Alina Kopytsia (born 1983 in Poliske, Kyiv region, Ukraine. Lives and works in Zürich, Switzerland) with Coco Schwarz (born 1983 in Zürich, Switzerland. Lives and works in Zürich) - Gergana Mantscheva (born 1975 in Sofia, Bulgaria. Lives and works in Solothurn, Switzerland) - Verena Thürkauf (born 1955 in Basel, Switzerland. Lives and works in Basel) - Yuan Yuan (born 1973 in Zhejiang, China. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany).