The Kunsthaus Zug Schaudepot will open its doors on 25th August 2024 with the exhibition “Dynamics of (dis)order”. Around 40 sculptures, statuary art and installations will be on display in the hall covering over 700 square metres of the historic V-Zug site. The exhibition centres on questions about the dynamic interplay between order and disorder.
The Kunsthaus Zug Schaudepot will open its doors on 25th August 2024 with the exhibition “Dynamics of (dis)order”. Around 40 sculptures, statuary art and installations will be on display in the hall covering over 700 square metres of the historic V-Zug site. The exhibition centres on questions about the dynamic interplay between order and disorder.
The collection of the Kunsthaus Zug contains around 10,000 works. The existing depots are bursting at the seams. The opening of the Kunsthaus Zug Schaudepot creates new opportunities for storing and experiencing art. Starting point for the first exhibition is a playful approach to the depot as a place to store art. No matter how diferent depots may be, they have one thing in common: every depot has its order, every object has its fixed location, is inventoried and catalogued. There are good reasons for this - after all, it is important to maintain an overview and to be able to find every object fast. But what happens when the logic of the depot is transferred to an exhibition? In “Dynamics of (dis)order”, around 40 sculptures and installations of approximately 20 artists are presented in alphabetical order - an order that is in itself arbitrary and unbiased. However, the factor of coincidence creates unexpected and exciting relationships that sometimes take on a surreal character. “...beautiful, like the coincidental encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissecting table”, to quote the famous sentence by the poet Lautréamont, which the Surrealists loved so much.
The spacious hall invites visitors to stroll around and make new discoveries. In addition to coincidental encounters and artworks in only half-opened boxes, the historical development of sculpture also becomes visible: from the naturalistic representation of the human body in the 19th century to the free sculptural forms of the artistic avant-garde. Movements such as Cubism, Surrealism and Abstraction redefine sculpture. Forms are fragmented, distorted, reassembled, abstracted or conceived as non-representational. The further we move into the present, the more freely and experimentally artists deal with the concept of sculpture. This ultimately raises the question of the artistic view of systems of order. Since Modernism, artists have been consciously breaking with existing orders, conventions and visual habits. This desire for disorder and rule-breaking contrasts with the strict structure of an art warehouse. The result is a dynamic interplay: Order and disorder are constantly questioned and placed in relation to each other.
With works by: Jo Achermann, Hans Aeschbacher, Hans-Peter von Ah, Anna Margrit Annen, Joannis Avramidis, Serge Brignoni, Trudi Demut, Olafur Eliasson, Hans Fischli, Karl Geiser, Florin Granwehr, Hermann Haller, Bethan Huws, Ödön Koch, Karl Prantl, Jakob Probst, Katharina Sallenbach, Roman Signer, Fritz Wotruba.