Art exhibitions

This fall, the artists' town of Klausen presents three unique exhibitions that show the interplay between art and craft, the celebration of a long career as an artist and the creative use of regional materials. Each exhibition invites you to experience and enjoy art from different perspectives.

 

ART THAT WALKS
When craft and art walk together

It all began with a flash of inspiration, a brilliant idea that brought light into the dark times of Covid. Arnold Delmonego, together with his daughter Nora, who is the fifth generation to run the family business in Klausen, wanted to build bridges.
The two master craftsmen, in whose workshop the shoes are still made by hand, suggested that artists and creative minds paint the shoes they had created. A challenge that was met with enthusiasm.
For the artists, it was an incentive to get involved, to break new ground, based on the premise of artistically designing an unusual medium in order to achieve surprising results. Craft and art go hand in hand in this exhibition, with the shoes also being flanked by various works by the artists.

Exhibition in the City Museum of Klausen
Opening hours: TUE - SAT from 9.30 am - 12 pm & 3.30 pm - 6 pm
Closed on SUN, MON and 1^st November

LOTHAR DELLAGO
70 years of sculpture

The ‘Art in the Old Town’ project, which brings the works of well-known artists into the old town of Klausen, is growing steadily and will be displayed in 29 shop windows in the upper and lower town this autumn. The exhibition is a tribute to the sculptor Lothar Dellago and his 70 years of creative work.
Dellago's sculptures - imbued with music - are dancers who sway their bodies to inaudible sounds and express an irrepressible joy in life, movement and mutual encounters. The players, on the other hand, appear almost static, portraying well-known figures from the world of music. Art arises from the imagination, but

Dellago's work is above all mental labour: ‘I try to get to the heart of the matter with just a few strokes.’ His art is the condensation of the line on a smooth surface, the reduction of the narrative to the essentials: the essence of the line.

Exhibition in the shop windows of Klausen
31^st August - 2^nd November 2024

ARTFUL & ART-WOOL

The City Museum continues part of the ‘Kunstgerecht’ exhibition, a joint project entitled ‘La Regione fuori dai vetri’, which is the result of a collaboration between the Autonomous Region of Trentino-Alto Adige and the City Museum of Chiusa. On display are some of the most important works of the region's artistic heritage, created over the course of a century from 1900 onwards. 

They are flanked by the creativity of the three artists Jakob de Chirico, Irmgard Gamper Delmonego and Markus Moling, the designer Alex Terzariol and four young people from the KAOS centre in Klausen, who have artistically reinterpreted balls of wool as part of the ‘Art-Wool’ project. These surprising works were created especially for this exhibition and take up an artisanal speciality of our region.  

Exhibition in the City Museum of Klausen:
TUE - SAT: 09.30 am - 12.00 pm & 3.30 pm - 6.00 pm
SUN - MON & 1^st November closed