The salon or Petersburg hanging, which allows a close positioning of the works, made it possible to include numerous works. They show the protagonists in different situations.
Walking past or looking at the works, one simultaneously gains a small insight into the history of the Baloise collection: the two portraits from 1916 of the company founders Rudolf Iselin and Rudolf Paravicini, together with the self-portrait by Paul Basilius Barth from 1917, are among the oldest exhibits. Among the youngest are works by Dominique Bondy, Seline Burn, Elise Corpataux and Ritsart Gobyn.
The exhibition also addresses the idea of promotion, which includes purchases of winning works of the Baloise Art Prize. Thus, works by Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, Keren Cytter, Ryan Gander, Geert Goiris, Peter Piller, Mary Reid Kelley, Ben Rivers and Tourmaline can be discovered in the hanging.
Differences in materiality and technique heighten the excitement and invite visitors to linger. Works by Marlene Dumas, Anne-Lise Coste, Zilla Leutenegger, Thomas Schütte, Thomas Ruff, Franz Erhard Walther, Luc Tuymans or even Anselm Stalder hang closely together with works by Ernst Baumann, Walter Dahn, Max Kämpf, Walter Schneider, Peter Stettler, Ernst Stocker and of course Walter Kurt Wiemken.