Blumen in Vasen shows around seventy paintings of bouquets of flowers from 1880 to the present day. The exhibition does not follow any specific or classical art-historical questions or arrangements. It merely focuses on the motif of the bouquet of flowers, the medium of painting, and exhibiting as form of representation. This leads to an arrangement of the works that is principally undirected and yet nonetheless very clear. When viewing a bouquet of flowers, the realization that the object depicted is very clearly what it is merges with the act of viewing and questioning its depiction. Appearance and banality are enticingly close together.  The genre of the still life creates a kind of suspended state by means of which visual thinking can take place. It becomes possible to notice your own act of perception.

Several works by the artists Wolfgang Breuer, Ernst Yohji Jaeger, and Dario Wokurka have been created especially for this exhibition.
There will be several dialog tours during the exhibition period, taking different approaches to this exhibition and specific works.

Loaned works come from Kunsthaus Aarau, Caroline Bachmann, Hans Rudolf and Elisabeth Bosshard-Hinderer, Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur, Adolf Dietrich Stiftung Herrenschwanden, Sammlung Arthur und Hedi Hahnloser-Bühler/Villa Flora Winterthur, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Kunstmuseum Olten, Archivio Salvo Torino, Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausen, Kurt und Ernst Schwitters Stiftung Hannover, Helga Sonanini, Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, Peter and Séverine Suter, Kunstmuseum Thurgau, Kunstmuseum Winterthur.

Accompanying the exhibition is an interview with Melanie Ohnemus by Dario Wokurka.