One month before the end of the year, the Aargauer Kunsthaus opens its doors to regional art and presents the Auswahl in collaboration with the Aargauer Kuratorium. The diversity, dynamism, and potential of Aargau’s artists are on display in 50 works. This year, 151 submissions were received. The jury, jointly appointed by the Aargauer Kunsthaus and the Aargau Kuratorium, decides which artists will be included in the Auswahl 26.

As part of the selection process, the Aargauer Kuratorium awards grants for works in the fields of visual arts and performance.

Artists:
Silvan Aeschbach, Pavel Aguilar, Rosângela de Andrade Boss, Marie-Claire Baldenweg, Claudia Breitschmid, Edlyn Brucker-Mundinger, Rachel Buehlmann, Mattia Comuzzi, Cédric Eisenring, Christoph Eisenring, Meinrad Feuchter, Christina Flaschberger, Christina Frey, Max Frey, Pearlie Frisch, Gaby Fust, Thomas Galler, Andrea Gerber, Tomaz Gnus, Viviana González Méndez, Otto Grimm, Mireille Gros, Roman Gysin, Philipp Hänger, Camille Hagner, Thomas Hauri, Noël Hochuli, Sara Victoria Holdt, Nici Jost, Stefanie Knobel, Oliver Krähenbühl, Sonja Kretz, Bernhard Lehner, Rafael Lippuner, Mathias Lüscher, Laura Mietrup, Willi Müller, Ruth Maria Obrist, Tristan Amor Rabit, Andrea Ricklin, Ursula Rutishauser, Milena Seiler, Jürg Stäuble, Levin Stettler, Barbara Stutz, Max Treier, Timo Ullmann, Evelyn Vonesch, Noëmi Zingg, Beat Zoderer

Invited: Levent Pınarcı
Under the title Morphing Fossil, Levent Pınarcı (*1989, Aarau*) presents new works in this year’s exhibition that intertwine family history with the industrial history of Aargau. Drawing on research in his family archive, Pınarcı explores the history of his relatives as Turkish guest workers at Bally and Kern. Morphing Fossil conceives of the archive as a fluid form of archaeology: fragments, gaps, and material traces give rise not to fixed reconstructions, but to speculative forms of memory.