2022 exhibition programme

Over the past two years, we have all learned just how important personal encounters are for our lives. I would like now to present my vision for the museum as a place of encounter: as a place for people to engage with artworks, as a dialogue between works and as an exchange between people. The 2022 programme encourages people to engage actively and, wherever possible, physically with the museum’s collection, this principle runs like a red thread through the year’s exhibitions. The focus will also be on the collection’s potential, as common property accessible to everyone.
—Letizia Ragaglia, Director of Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein

In the Context of the Collection
Matthias Frick: Storing the Cold in Cold Countries for Hot Countries
April 1–August 7, 2022

After the late 1970s, Matthias Frick (1964 Zurich–2017 Eschen, Liechtenstein) developed a complex universe with his drawings and painterly works on paper: a profound personal cosmology that conceals a delicate humour. Frick saw his work in the context of Art brut.

Curated by Christiane Meyer-Stoll.

C^4
Nazgol Ansarinia/Mercedes Azpilicueta/Invernomuto/Diamond Stingily
May 20–September 4, 2022

C^4 (C to the Power of Four) consists of four solo exhibitions; the artists have been invited by Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein to explore also the museum’s collection in their presentations. All the artists share a special approach to telling stories: by reactivating memories, blending facts and reconstructions, questioning images and events, the works manifest new perspectives on historical time. Additionally, the exhibitions reflect the idea of a ‘flowing museum’ where each new exhibition gives fresh impetus to the existing holdings.

In their distinct practices, Nazgol Ansarinia (b. 1979), Mercedes Azpilicueta (b. 1981), Invernomuto (Simone Bertuzzi, b. 1983, and Simone Trabucchi, b. 1982) and Diamond Stingily (b. 1990) deal with themes of difference, the marginalisation and history of subcultures and the effects of urban transformations. Based on an interdisciplinary approach, the exhibition also incorporates performance and sound.

Curated by Letizia Ragaglia.

In the Context of the Collection
Brian O’Doherty: Artist, Art Critic and Novelist
September 2, 2022–January 8, 2023

The exhibition focuses on the work of Brian O’Doherty (b. 1928, lives in New York) who coined the term ‘White Cube’ in Artforum magazine in 1976. The show centres on O’Doherty’s open self-image and role perception as an individual and as an artist

Curated by Roman Kurzmeyer.

Candida Höfer: Liechtenstein
In Dialogue with the Collections of Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein and the Hilti Art Foundation
September 30, 2022–April 10, 2023

For the first time, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein and the Hilti Art Foundation are presenting a jointly conceived, integrated exhibition. The focus is on Candida Höfer’s photographs, which she has created especially for this show. She mostly photographed the subjects with a large-format digital camera at various locations in Liechtenstein: interior and exterior views of the museums’ architecture, libraries or storage, which serve cultural purposes in both narrow and broad senses. In this way they form part of the groups of subjects for which Höfer has become known. Her photographs are juxtaposed in a dialogue with selected artworks from the two collections.

An acclaimed artist and a member of the Düsseldorf ‘Becher School’, Höfer (b. 1944) has previously created a number of site-specific groups of images, for example in Brussels or Düsseldorf; her series created in and for Liechtenstein continues this tradition.

Curated by Christiane Meyer-Stoll, Letizia Ragaglia and Uwe Wieczorek.

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