Inspired by historical chambers of art and wonders, the 2024 members’ exhibition explores the question of what still amazes us today. Contemporary art is often associated with the preconception of being aloof, elitist and incomprehensible. But never before has art been as diverse in its media, themes and forms of expression as in our multimedia present. As a result, there is a wide range of artistic works that can seduce, touch and captivate us through visual (or acoustic) stimuli. The WUNDERKAMMER show takes this into account with a conscious commitment to sensuality and emotion and a multifaceted exhibition tour that aims to show the wide range of artists in the Künstlerhausvereinigung. Expansive and colorful, playful and cheerful, but also irritating and surprising, mysterious and thought-provoking.

The WUNDERKAMMER exhibition thus offers an attractive opportunity to take a particularly broad and in-depth look at the diversity of artistic expression. At the same time, thematic brackets provide visitors with orientation, but also enable new, unusual dialogs and surprising perspectives.

The chambers of art and curiosities of the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance were encyclopaedic universal collections of princes and wealthy citizens who sought to capture all the knowledge of their time. However, the intention was also to document the diversity of nature and our world. Above all, the unique and rare, the extraordinary and excellent, but also the rare, strange and curious were considered worth showing. The aim was to evoke a sense of wonder in the viewer. Just like in the exhibition at the Künstlerhaus.