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Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen

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This is where opposing opportunities, expectations and emotions meet and mix.

Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen has a particular position within the Swiss art scene: it can be described as the smallest of the larger institutions for contemporary art or – conversely – the largest of the smaller exhibitors.

28/05/2026

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As part of the exhibition «Containers Love Disorder» (7.3.–31.5.2026) at Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, the artist installed a ramp for wheelchair users. The ramp made of Lego bricks was realised in collaboration with the Lausanne-based association and Rita Ebel .

A heartfelt thank you to Ramptogo, Rita Ebel, Matthias Sohr and all the volunteers involved for the realisation and donation of the ramp, which helps to break down barriers and improve the accessibility of the Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen!

We look forward to your visits!

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Dans le cadre de l’exposition «Containers Love Disorder» (7.3.–31.5.2026) à la Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, l’artiste a installé une rampe d’accès pour les personnes en fauteuil roulant. Cette rampe, construite avec des briques Lego, a été réalisée en collaboration avec l’association lausannoise et Rita Ebel .

Un grand merci à Ramptogo, Rita Ebel, Matthias Sohr et à touxtes les bénévoles qui ont participé à la réalisation et au don de cette rampe, qui contribue à rendre l’espace d’exposition de la Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen plus accessible !

Nous nous réjouissons de votre visite !

📸1: Matthias Sohr, Ramp #2, 2026 / Mathis Pfäffli, Switchboard IV, 2022/2026. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, E. Sommer. Courtesy: the artist.
📸2: Valentina Ehnimb and (Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen) holding the new ramps / Valentina Ehnimb et Giovanni Carmine (Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen) tenant les nouvelles rampes.

27/05/2026

Last days to see «Containers Love Disorder»!

With: Michèle Graf & Selina Grüter, La Bibliothèque des Ready-Mades, Dominic Michel, Mathis Pfäffli, Matthias Sohr, Kelly Tissot and Paulo Wirz.

Make the most of the last days of May and immerse yourself in this multifaceted exhibition, where artistic strategies of organisation meet curious collections, delicate drawings enter into dialogue with idiosyncratic machines and the Kunst Halle’s own infrastructure takes center stage!

Open until May 31, drop by! 🍀💚

Opening hours are:
Tue–Fri: 12 p.m.– 6 p.m.
Sat & Sun: 11 a.m.–5 p.m.

Thank you to all the artists, visitors and supporters! The exhibition «Containers Love Disorder» is supported by , , Stiftung Temperatio and Oertli Stiftung. Special thanks to , , , and .

📸: Photos: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen/E. Sommer.

23/04/2026

Thank you for joining us for this beautiful book launch! 🎈

«ATLAS Revolving Histories – on translocal performance art Switzerland»

This publication allows readers a first-time overview of the performance scenes, artists, locations and festivals in multilingual Switzerland. Based on collective research and mappings at various locations, the authors describe “performance landscapes” from Santa Maria Val Müstair to Basel, and from Eastern Switzerland to Lake Geneva.
The ATLAS follows the «READER Revolving Histories – on translocal performance art Switzerland», which was released in 2025.

Get your copy at

📸: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen.

16/04/2026

JOIN US! 
🪩 Book Release
«ATLAS Revolving Histories»
21.4.2026
6 p.m.

🪩 ATLAS Revolving Histories
on translocal performance art Switzerland

🪩 Vexer Verlag

Publication; 268 pages (planned), 28 × 21.5 cm portrait format, hardcover, thread binding
Text: Ursula Badrutt, Mathias Balzer, Claire de Ribaupierre Furlan, Esther Maria Jungo, Marie-Ève Knoerle, Muda Mathis, Mary Paterson, Dorothea Rust, Andrea Saemann, Marcel Schwald, Benjamin Sunarjo, Margarit von Büren
Language: German, English
Design: Iris Ganz
ISBN: 978-3-907690-02-4
Price: CHF 45.00
https://vexer.ch/en/products/atlas-revolving-histories-on-translocal-performance-art-switzerland

This publication allows readers a first-time overview of the performance scenes, artists, locations and festivals in multilingual Switzerland. First- and second-hand accounts provide insights into and cross-references between the different performance networks. Based on collective research and mappings at various locations, the authors describe “performance landscapes” from Santa Maria Val Müstair to Basel, and from Eastern Switzerland to Lake Geneva. Starting with the origins of performance art in the mid-1960s, the text contributions reach all the way to current developments. The history of performance art is not uniform. It is made up of various narratives, encompasses plural concepts, and it wends its way through many languages, places and disciplinary frameworks.
This publication follows the «READER Revolving Histories – on translocal performance art Switzerland», which was released in 2025.

📸: Gisela Hochuli, About Nothing oder 3x eine Kerze lang, 2012, BONE 15 – Festival für Aktionskunst Bern, Photo: Martin Rindlisbacher.

04/02/2026

Big moment!

The transformation project of our foyer is entering the next phase 🪄🪩

So excited! Stay tuned for more.

13/01/2026

This Saturday! ✨👀

Join us at Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen for an Artist Talk with Sam Porritt and Giovanni Carmine – a top opportunity to learn about Sam’s artistic perspective first-hand and discover the many facets of his current exhibition «One Thing After Another (Drawings 2005–2025)».

✔️ SAT, 17 January 2026, 4 p.m.
✔️ Open to all, free of charge.

Come by – we look forward to starting this new year with you!

31/12/2025

WHAT A YEAR!

Looking back at the incredible year that was 2025 and the big 40th anniversary of our institution, we want to extend a huge THANK YOU to all the artists, collaborators, friends and supporters – you are the heart and soul of Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen!

We look forward to many more moments of celebration, dancing, eating, conversing and gathering around art with you all 🤗🍜👀💭✏️

2026 let’s go! 🔝

Much love & see you soon,
Your Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen

Artists and collaborators 2025: .navarro .fuer.alle

24/12/2025

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🌟Happy Holidays from the whole team of Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen 🌟

If you feel like art in these special days, we warmly invite you to discover the current exhibition «One Thing After Another (Drawings 2005–2025)» by Sam Porritt!

Our opening hours during the holidays:

Tue–Fri: 12 p.m.–6 p.m. Sat & Sun: 11 a.m.–5 p.m.

👉 CLOSED ON 24.12. / 25.12. / 31.12. / 1.1.

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19/12/2025

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«One Thing After Another (Drawings 2005–2025)», 29.11.2025–15.2.2026

The first room of the exhibition is devoted (almost) entirely to black ink drawings on white paper. The oldest ones still bear witness to a search for the threshold between confusion and recognisability. What gives the line its expression? Where is the boundary between abstraction and the identification of a face, a landscape or an object in space? It is this tension between expression and interpretation, between what is meant and what is recognised, between language and meaning, which is inherent in the process of perception and cognition itself and which interests Porritt. Captivated by his impulse to find faces in things, Porritt now begins to draw them freely. Over a period of three years, hundreds of character heads are created. Sometimes they were drawn with an assured hand, at other times a tense or restless one, directly feeding into the attitude of the conjured characters.

Opening hours are: Tue–Fri: 12 p.m.– 6 p.m. Sat & Sun: 11 a.m.–5 p.m.    
📸: Sam Porritt, «One Thing After Another (Drawings 2005–2025)», installation view, 2025. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, E. Sommer.

04/12/2025

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«One Thing After Another (Drawings 2005–2025)» by Sam Porritt is now open!

The main protagonists of Sam Porritt’s investigations are the most elementary means of drawing itself: line, colour, form. Porritt repeatedly puts these to the test, varies them and takes them to extremes, suddenly revealing something new in the process. In a playful way, but with a critical eye, Porritt demonstrates how the simplest gestures can weave larger contexts. In his first institutional show in Switzerland, he guides us through twenty years of intensive work, opening up diverse, sometimes unexpected connections along the way. In their entirety, the drawings form a testimony.

Come see the show until 15 February 2026! ✏️

Opening hours are:⁣
Tue–Fri: 12 p.m.– 6 p.m.⁣
Sat & Sun: 11 a.m.–5 p.m.⁣

📸1: Sam Porritt, Prehistory, 2006. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, F. Rindlisbacher.
📸2: Sam Porritt, «One Thing After Another (Drawings 2005–2025)», installation view, 2025. Photo : Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, E. Sommer.
📸3: Sam Porritt, Ups and Downs, 2025. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, F. Rindlisbacher.

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Öffnungszeiten

Dienstag	12:00 - 18:00
Mittwoch	12:00 - 18:00
Donnerstag	12:00 - 18:00
Freitag	12:00 - 18:00
Samstag	11:00 - 17:00

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