In 2003 the museum building was expanded based on designs by Herzog & de Meuron Architects in collaboration with the artist Rémy Zaugg, creating a total exhibition space of 3000 square metres. Each year the Kunsthaus presents about ten large and smaller-scale exhibitions, showcasing major national and international artistic approaches. Particular attention is also paid to young artists and to artists from the Aargau region. An innovative, wide-ranging art education programme serves to foster public appreciation, particularly on the part of a younger audience, of the exhibitions and the permanent collection, with the latter regularly being presented in new arrangements. In this way the Aargauer Kunsthaus promotes access to the visual arts, providing the opportunity for nuanced reflection and exciting encounters.
Aargauer Kunsthaus Aarau
In 2003 the museum building was expanded based on designs by Herzog & de Meuron Architects in collaboration with the artist Rémy Zaugg, creating a total exhibition space of 3000 square metres. Each year the Kunsthaus presents about ten large and smaller-scale exhibitions, showcasing major national and international artistic approaches. Particular attention is also paid to young artists and to artists from the Aargau region. An innovative, wide-ranging art education programme serves to foster public appreciation, particularly on the part of a younger audience, of the exhibitions and the permanent collection, with the latter regularly being presented in new arrangements. In this way the Aargauer Kunsthaus promotes access to the visual arts, providing the opportunity for nuanced reflection and exciting encounters.
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Aargauer Kunsthaus Aarau
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Ishita Chakraborty (*1989) is the winner of the Manor Art Prize Aarau 2024, which is awarded every two years to promote young Swiss art. In her artistic work, Chakraborty deals with displacement ...

Public guided tour through the exhibitions "Ishita Chakraborty. Manor Art Prize 2024" and "Dishcomfort" with Brigitte Haas, Ursula Meier or Astrid Näff, art historians. Dishcomfort shows food as a ...


Ishita Chakraborty (*1989) is the winner of the Manor Art Prize (Aarau) 2024, which is awarded every two years to promote young Swiss art. In her artistic practice, Chakraborty deals with displacement ...

You can discover works by Marcia Hafif, Verena Loewensberg, Adrian Schiess, Jerry Zeniuk and many more.

Barbara Müller (1956-2023), born in Aarau, developed a powerful abstract painting from her fascination with color. Her works were created in a slow, intensive process in which superimposed layers of ...

We are all simultaneously fragile and strong, serious and funny, alone and embedded in friendships. Sometimes we are everything and the opposite. We are constantly adapting to society in order to stay ...
![Schmid, Doris (*1968), I speak the night, 2023 [Videostill] Video, Full HD, Farbe, Stereoton, 19' Foto: Caroline Minjolle, Zürich Auswahl 25](/sites/default/files/styles/masonry_list_double/public/museums/2567/14878/4ae2b786e401b6612e5b32e76e169f3f8c6938cc_836349880%5B1%5D.jpg?itok=71dCYJyk)
The exhibition provides a comprehensive insight into current art in the region.