Kunsthalle Bern will auction off works by a total of 72 artists who, in the course of their careers, participated in exhibitions at Kunsthalle Bern and defined crucial moments and tendencies in art history. The proceeds will be dedicated in full to Kunsthalle Bern’s ambitious programme for the coming years. Thus, the benefit auction at Kunsthalle Bern is not only a singular opportunity to purchase a unique work of art – the purchase of a work during the benefit auction is also tantamount to a direct contribution to Kunsthalle Bern’s exhibition programme.

efore the auction, from the 16th of August until the 10th of September, the works will be on exhibition at Kunsthalle Bern under the title NOLEFTOVERS. The roster of participants encompasses young international and Bernese artists like Pamela Rosenkranz, Ivan Grubanov, Roberto Cuoghi or Urs Zahn, as well as established locals such as Franz Gertsch and Balthasar Burkhard. Most of the artists represented at the benefit auction, however, are prominent members of the international art scene, including, for example, Raymond Pettibon, Robert Gober, Candida Höfer, Thomas Struth, Julian Opie, Georg Baselitz, John M. Armleder and Luc Tuymans – who created a new work specifically for the auction. Consequently, the exhibition will function as a retrospective, a look back into the history of exhibitions at Kunsthalle Bern – but it will also continue this history, since most of the artists donated recent works. Kunsthalle Bern has often been the starting point of an international career, which is one of the reasons why many famous artists happily donated a work. All the works can be viewed online at http://benefizauktion.kunsthalle-bern.ch/

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