With Jacques Laurent Agasse, Robert Amrein, Stefan à Wengen, August Babberger, Ursula Bachman, Franz Karl Basler-Kopp, Auguste Baud-Bovy, Sabian Baumann, Alighiero Boetti, Marcel Broodthaers, Berta Bucher, Frank Buchser, Samuel Buri, Michael Buthe, Edouard Castres, Francesco Creta, Jean-Joseph Crotti, Martha Cunz, Charles Georges Dufresne, Roland Duss, Carl Martin Egli, Bernhard Eglin, Franz Elmiger, Hans Emmenegger, Otto von Faber du Faur, Shao Fan, Valérie Favre, Monika Feucht, Oskar Früh, Alexandre-Gaston Guignard, Caspar Herrmann, Ernst Hodel, K. H. Hödicke, Caspar Honegger, Max Hunziker, Joseph Clemens Kaufmann, Per Kirkeby, Bernd Koberling, Rudolf Koller, Rémy Markowitsch, Max von Moos, Jost Muheim d.J., Christa Näher, Meret Oppenheim, Max Pechstein, Jakob Probst, Clara Reinhard, Josef Reinhard, Johann Elias Ridinger, Peter Roesch, Jakob Ruch, Niki de Saint Phalle, Claude Sandoz, Ernst Schurtenberger, Sonja Sekula, Hugo Siegwart, Hans Stalder, Paul Stöckli, Josephine Troller, Varlin, Aldo Walker, Isolde Wawrin, Max Weiss, Albert Welti, Rolf Winnewisser, Philips Wouwerman, Johann Melchior Wyrsch, Robert Zünd

In 2018 the Kunstmuseum Luzern will be transformed into a menagerie! Horses, cows and goats, lions and tigers, eagles and capercaillie cocks, but also centaurs, dinosaurs and dragons will populate the museum rooms—in paintings and drawings, photographs and sculptures.

The Kunstmuseum Luzern has countless works depicting our animal relatives. So the 2018 Collection Presentation is devoted to the relationship between man and animal, which is often close, but not always simple. How are animals depicted in art and what does this say about our understanding of them? What role do they play in our technological and digital society? Is our treatment of them as pampered pets or mere food species-appropriate? What are the alternatives for a different relationship between living creatures in the future? Both the Collection Presentation and the publication, plus a rich fringe programme of readings, panel discussions and special guided tours, will focus on this and other issues.