The collection of over 21,000 paintings, drawings, photographs, videos, sculptures and installations is made accessible to the public through the annual presentation of works from the collection on the upper and lower floors. The works on display refer to current exhibitions, complement them and open up additional perspectives on what is on show.

Parallel to the two exhibitions Manor Art Prize 2024 and Dishcomfort (from 24.5.2025), three works that were also part of the exhibition Model Neutrality will be shown on the first floor. Thomas Hirschhorn’s gigantic sculpture Wirtschaftslandschaft Davos (2001) questions Switzerland’s supposedly neutral role as a platform for international negotiations. In the spatial installation Sphinx, 1931, 1935/1947 (2014), Marc Bauer critically examines the neutrality of museum institutions and holdings using the example of the Swiss artist Karl Ballmer, who is represented in the collection of the Aargauer Kunsthaus. The artist duo huber.huber’s new work No War (2024) is dedicated to the universal desire for peace, which – as can be seen from the peace flags previously displayed on house facades across the country, which have since faded – unfortunately does not materialize in reality.