BEYOND BAROQUE / JENSEITS DES BAROCKS
Contemporary Art at / Gegenwartskunst auf
SCHLOSS WALDEGG
FELDBRUNNEN SANKT NIKLAUS (SO), SWITZERLAND
27.08 – 25.09.2022
A project organized by art+château
The group-exhibition Beyond Baroque took 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 highlighted 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 – entered into dialogue with the architecture of Waldegg Castle and some of its most iconic, historic holdings.
Exhibited Artists: 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).
Curator: Dr. Valentina Locatelli
Exhibition catalogue