Since the early 1990s, the Kunsthaus Zug has been exploring alternative forms of collecting. Under the banner "The Collection on the Collection", artists have been creating new works in dialogue with existing works of their own choice from the collection. What’s old is made topical, and what’s new is given a historical anchor. In a creative process that takes place beyond all external classification criteria, the collection is continuing to grow out of itself, as it were.
Sara Masüger felt inspired by Friedrich Kiesler and created a kind of "echo" to Kiesler's The Earth's Finger (1962-63) with her work Untitled (2024). Bethan Huws created her blue light work The Large Glass (2013) in response to a blue glass by the Viennese architect and designer Josef Hoffmann. Till Velten has been exploring the activities of the Viennese industrialist Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, who died after emigrating to Switzerland. His silver shaving set is held by the Kunsthaus alongside sketches for the portrait by Gustav Klimt of Bloch’s wife, Adele Bloch-Bauer I (Golden Adele) of 1907. Plus works by Anna Margrit Annen, Heidulf Gerngross, Michael Kienzer, Christoph Rütimann, Richard Tuttle and Heimo Zobernig.