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Kunsthaus Zug, 2018, Photo Jorit Aust Photography
Kunsthaus Zug, 2023, Photo Jorit Aust Photography
Kunsthaus Zug, 2015, Photo Metzger Mensch
Kunsthaus Zug, 2023, Photo Anna Maysuk
Kunsthaus Zug, 2023, Photo Anna Maysuk

The Kunsthaus Zug houses and exhibits regional, national and international art ranging from Classical Modernism to the contemporary, and is also engaged in promoting its holdings by communicating with a broad spectrum of society. Its collection has several thematic focus areas, ranging from the aforementioned Classical Modernism to contemporary art. Thanks to the holdings of the Kamm Collection Foundation, which was set up in 1998, the Kunsthaus Zug has become established as a leading centre for the art of Viennese Modernism. More than 400 works have been given on permanent loan to the Zug Art Society, and these constitute the most important collection of Viennese Modernist art in Europe outside Austria itself. Other focus areas of the collection are Swiss Surrealism, Fantastic Realism, and art from Central Switzerland.

Architecture

The original Kunsthaus Zug opened in 1977 in the Altstadthalle, but since 1990 has been located on the edge of Zug’s old town in a 16th-century complex known as the “Hof im Dorf”. Thanks to its later renovation and conversion by the renowned Swiss architect Franz Füeg (1921–2019), the Kunsthaus has two wings and spacious, modern, clearly defined rooms for visitors to enjoy a personal encounter with artworks. A sculpture garden invites visitors to linger and to discover the works exhibited there by Fritz Wotruba, Michael Kienzer and Richard Tuttle.