Kunstmuseum St. Gallen: Program 2024
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Kunstmuseum St. Gallen presents its 2024 Program
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen is proud to present a diverse and innovative 2024 program for its two locations – LOK and Kunstmuseum – bringing together the local and the global, the past and the future. This year’s program includes solo exhibitions showcasing the work of influential international artists, presentations shedding new light on different aspects of the Kunstmuseum’s collection, and group exhibitions addressing urgent topics at play in society at large. With Heimspiel, the contemporary art production of the region will also be given a major platform. As Gianni Jetzer, Director of Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, elaborates: "The 2024 program forges new paths. In addition to the group exhibition Experimental Ecology, which brings together artists and scientists, the exhibition Rethinking Family offers a provocative look at the nuclear family, or what remains of it. The solo exhibition of Anne Marie Jehle’s work retrospectively examines this artist’s fascinating oeuvre, well represented in our collection. In the LOK, we give a prominent stage to important international artists that haven’t had much exposure in Switzerland, such as Arthur Simms from New York and the Geneva collective RM."
Our 2024 programming in detail:
Spotlight
24 November 2023 – 24 March 2024
The permanent collection of the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen is a treasure trove. Working with our extensive holdings to present them anew provides an exciting challenge. Following the exhibition Unexpected Encounters, in which works from the collection were placed in dialogue with carefully selected loans, and Collection Fever, which explored the history of collecting, Spotlight focuses on individual artists who are among the best represented within the museum’s collection : John M Armleder, Candice Breitz, Silvie Defraoui, Sharon Hayes, Sara Masüger, Judy Millar, and Carl Ostendarp.
Arthur Simms
10 February – 7 July 2024
The art of Arthur Simms encompasses a captivating blend of influences, including his American and Jamaican heritage as well as music, folk culture, and impressions from elsewhere around the world—all of which are incorporated into his unique sculptures. His work is a profound exploration of origin and transformation and embraces his bicultural identity. Through meticulous craftsmanship—his works are often elaborately wrapped in string—Simms breathes life into objects that might otherwise be dismissed as trash. In his use of technique, Simms draws inspiration from 20th-century art history, particularly from Surrealism and Marcel Duchamp’s “Readymades.”
New Acquisitions and Donations
2 March – 5 May 2024
In recent years, alongside acquiring high-quality works, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen has received significant donations and long-term loans. The artworks that have entered the collection range from Old Master paintings to contemporary sculpture, video, and conceptual art. Included in the representative selection of these new arrivals to be displayed are works by international artists, such as Marcia Hafif and Tschabalala Self, as well as artists from Eastern Switzerland, including Barbara Signer and Sebastian Stadler.
Experimental Ecology
6 April – 24 November 2024
What can art contribute to the increasingly urgent debates taking place around environmental issues? The Experimental Ecology project provides a contemporary platform for transdisciplinary collaboration between five artists and five scientists working in the field of ecology. In the spirit of the legendary collective Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), formed in 1967 to bring artists and engineers together, Experimental Ecology initiates an exchange between art and science as part of the ongoing discourse surrounding the relationship between humans and the natural environment. Experimental Ecology is a project undertaken by the KBH.G Foundation, Basel.
Expanding Horizons: Videos from the Collection and Beyond
26 November 2023 – 24 November 2024
For the duration of this year-long project, a new video work will be shown every month on the main screen in Kunstmuseum St. Gallen’s lower-level gallery. A video from the collection, selected by the curatorial team, will be followed by a video suggested by the artist whose work was screened the month before. Once the project begins, the museum’s video collection will expand in new directions, having taken the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen existing holdings as its starting point. At the end of the year, the museum will acquire one video proposed by an invited artist.
Burning Down the House: Rethinking Family
1 June – 8 September 2024
The concept of “the family” can contain deep contradictions: on one hand, a family may be seen as a fundamental support structure, providing love and care, but on the other, it can be a source of conflict and violence. This international group show takes a close, critical look at family constructs across geographies, histories, and scale, providing a rare overview of contemporary art practices connected to this topic. We live in a moment of reckoning when institutions are being profoundly questioned. It is time to reconsider what family means today.
Little Artists
5 – 9 August 2024
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen’s educational program offers a wide range of activities for school children, young people, and adults. The program focuses on individual observation, exploration, and experimentation: Little Artists is an example of this. For one week, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen’s Lokremise (LOK) transforms into an experimental laboratory for children. There will be an abundant supply of recycled materials and plenty of space, and the children will receive guidance from artists as they create their own XXL-sized installations.
RM
24 August – 10 November 2024
Founded in 2015 in Geneva, RM (formerly known as Real Madrid) is an artist collective whose work is situated at the intersection of sexuality, consumption, and identity. Through large-scale sculptures and installations, RM investigates social and political reactions to stigmatized sexually transmitted diseases and infections. For Kunstmuseum St. Gallen’s Lokremise, RM creates a site-specific installation in which syringes are staged as towering symbols. Since the COVID-19 vaccination program, this medical tool has been visible at the global level and often controversially discussed.
Thi My Lien Nguyen
From 7 September 2024
Thi My Lien Nguyen (born 1995, St. Gallen) is a Swiss-Vietnamese artist. Through the exploration of rituals, customs, traditions, and folklore, Nguyen’s artistic practice focuses on the understanding of home and the sense of belonging. She is interested in postmigrant realities. Using inclusive, participatory methods, Nguyen creates integrative spaces. The artist will implement a Pop-Up café as a place for exchange that also provides insight into the diverse culinary culture of Vietnam. Visitors can expect a communal experience that bridges continents, cultures, and eating habits.
Anne Marie Jehle
28 September 2024 – 2 February 2025
The forward-thinking work of Austrian-Liechtenstein artist Anne Marie Jehle (born 1937, Austria; died 2002, Vaduz) encompasses various media, including sculpture, installation, painting, drawing, photography, and text. At its core is her critical engagement with societal structures and power dynamics, particularly those relating to female identity. In the 1970s, Jehle achieved international recognition, but she withdrew from the public eye in the mid-1980s and abruptly ended her artistic pursuits. In honor of a generous donation, made in 2022, by the Anne Marie Jehle Foundation, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen presents the work of this overlooked, singular artist whose oeuvre can be placed within the context of the feminist avant-garde and the Fluxus movement.
Heimspiel
14 December 2024 – 2 March 2025
After three years, it’s that time again: The Heimspiel (“home game”) is calling! This cross-border exhibition of contemporary regional art from Vorarlberg and Liechtenstein, as well as from the cantons of Appenzell Ausserrhoden and Innerrhoden, St. Gallen, Thurgau, and Glarus, provides an overview of and insight into the current art scene and promotes exchange between artists. The curators of the exhibiting institutions—Kunsthalle Appenzell, Kunstraum Dornbirn, Kunsthaus Glarus, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, and Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen—have considered hundreds of applications and selected the artists to be included based on their exhibition concepts.
Collection Fever
Since August 26, 2023
With Collection Fever, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen mounts a presentation of its extensive holdings, which span more than five centuries. The exhibition highlights the unique background of our museum, its origins in the 800-year history of textile production, the private collections from which it was assembled, and the influence of the art market. The artworks are presented along a timeline that traces the chronology of the different textiles produced in St. Gallen over the centuries. The feverish energy that leads to the new and unexpected has been the guiding principle for Collection Fever, which also considers how collecting, money, and prestige are linked with art.
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