AARAU.- At the end of the year, a great variety of artworks are on view at the Aargauer Kunsthaus in Auswahl 18, the traditional annual exhibition of Aargau artists. A joint project of the Aargauer Kuratorium and the Aargauer Kunsthaus and running from 1 December 2018 to 6 January 2019, this show provides an overview of current artistic production in the region. A wealth of current art that inspires and offers food for thought.

As always at the end of the year, the Aargauer Kunsthaus hosts a special event in cooperation with the Aargauer Kuratorium: For a five-week period, the annual Auswahl exhibition assembles both new discoveries and more renowned artists who, together, offer a survey of thematically and formally varied current artistic production in the region.

Eligible to apply for the Auswahl exhibition format are artists who reside in the Canton of Aargau or who are in a special way connected to the cultural life in the canton may apply. The juries of the Aargauer Kunsthaus and the Aargauer Kuratorium have independently judged the 165 submitted dossiers and extended invitations to 53 artists to present their works in the upper and lower floor galleries of the Aargauer Kunsthaus. .

Guest: Simone Holliger
In conducting her material investigations, Simone Holliger (b. 1986) starts out with drawing and its media-specific and three-dimensional conditions: The artist uses paper as a multi-layered building material that extends into three-dimensional space. Holliger develops her paper shapes from the plane, with the drawing aiding in the form-finding process and serving as a cutting pattern. Large-scale paper sculptures, sometimes arranged through seemingly effortless placement as panorama-like landscapes, focus on the transition from the image into three-dimensional space. Holliger creates sculptures and objects of delicate balance between three-dimensional presence and the flat space of the sheet, between fragility and stability. In doing so, the material qualities of paper – brittle and light as well as robust and rigid – present the artist with the challenge to unify idea and material.

In Auswahl 18, the artist presents a new heterogeneous group of voluminous sculptures. Their arrangement in space forces viewers to relate themselves to the objects as well as to the space and empty space.

The Artists of Auswahl 18
Esther Amrein, Angela Anzi, Valérie Balmer, Leonie Brandner, Christoph Brünggel, Tanja Bykova, Marianne Engel, Remy Erismann, Sonja Feldmeier, Peter Fischer, Philippe Fretz, Emanuel Graf, Stefan Gritsch, Mireille Gros, Michael Günzburger, Philipp Hänger, Thomas Hauri, Valentin Hauri, Jan Hofer, Géraldine Honauer, Esther Hunziker, Nici Jost, Tom Karrer, Lionel Keller, Jason Klimatsas, Stefanie Knobel, koorder, Aurelio Kopainig, Oliver Krähenbühl, Sonja Kretz, Max Matter, Bettina Maurer, Claudio Moser, Barbara Müller, Raoul Müller, Dominic Neuwirth, Pat Noser, Ruth Maria Obrist, Arlette Ochsner, Alain Schibli, Lorenz Olivier Schmid, Roman Sonderegger, Veronika Spierenburg, Mette Stausland, Jonas Studer, Paul Takács, Elena Tamburini, Max Treier, Flurin Tuor, Timo Ullmann, Gabi Vogt, Stefan Wegmüller, Theres Wetzel