In a dialog guided tour and presentation, Tomas Baumgartner will provide insights into his artistic work and its contexts.

The driving force behind Baumgartner's artistic practice can be traced to a desire to understand how the mechanisms of memory and imagination are connected to the world of physical objects and spaces. How are we shaped by what we have seen and perceived? To what extent do these experiences control us, and how freely can we move beyond them?

Starting with his works presented in the current exhibition, Tomas Baumgartner will give participants an insight into the creation process of his works, discuss the material qualities of the pieces, and talk about potential references within art. Additionally, during the portfolio presentation, previous works will be discussed, including a body of work created in 2024 that played a crucial role in the development of the exhibited pieces.

In a dialog guided tour and presentation, Reinhard Tobler will provide insights into his artistic work and its contexts.

Reinhard Tobler's artistic practice often revolves around himself, reflecting on his upbringing in a multicultural family, growing up between Trogen and beyond this village, or navigating life between Switzerland and Korea. He seeks to distill experiences and stories, translating them into the present. Even in his media-based works, Tobler explores the concept of "in-between." He navigates between the analog and digital realms, as well as across various media. These moments of transition often become integral to, or the very subject of, his works.

The presentation begins with a discussion of Tobler’s work on display at the Kunsthaus. Following this, there will be an opportunity to watch the artist’s videos together with the artist, offering additional insights into his multifaceted artistic practice.

In a dialogue guided tour and presentation, Reinhard Markus Ebner will offer insights into his artistic work and its development.

Great fidelity to nature and a love for detail dominate his early etchings. These works feature fantastical scenarios set in dreamlike architectures and landscapes, sometimes subtly critical of society, but always with a tendency toward alienation. After the turn of the millennium, Ebner shifted to canvas painting and abandoned the world of objects. No more stories, no titles, no pathos.

This shift marked a Copernican turn in his creative journey. Liberating himself from rigid representational meaning and reducing his expressive means to purely geometric elements opened up vast space for personal interpretation. Through imagination, viewers bring themselves into the artwork, participating in the creative process and forming "their" unique interpretation of the piece.

During the presentation, Ebner will discuss his approach to interpreting abstract works directly in front of his pieces.

On this afternoon for children, participants will learn the technique that artist Susann Toggenburger developed for creating her drawings. We will experiment with pigment and fat on paper, use stencils and monotypes, and have the freedom to bring our own ideas to life. A guided viewing of artworks will provide space for exchange and inspiration.

Since 2021, Susann Toggenburger has been working with graphite, pigment, acrylic, and fat on paper. Through playful interaction with materials and tools, random processing marks emerge, forming the basis of her drawings.

For ages 9 and up, max. 10 children.

Pre-registration by 28 February 2025 at info@kunsthausglarus.ch.

In a dialog guided tour, Rhona Mühlebach will provide insights into her artistic work and its contexts.

Rhona Mühlebach uses narrative forms to explore moments of dissonance between people, language, and the natural world. In Mühlebach’s video and installation work, human characters are tormented by idealism and disillusionment. They try and fail to express their feelings. Reality falls short of expectations. Unmoved by human anxieties, nature generally holds the upper hand. Mühlebach is interested in the limitations of language. This emerges where the failure of words to accurately describe human emotion (regardless or even in spite of fluency) complicates the aspirations and desires of her characters. This “failure of words” is a generative space for the artist, who treats language as a malleable, tactile medium to be shaped and reshaped. Nature emerges as a projection space for ideals, where the characters attempt to "find themselves." Unaffected by human anxieties, nature usually retains the upper hand.

Mühlebach delves into the complex development process of Ditch Me (Multimedia Installation, 2023), the video work presented at Kunsthaus Glarus. She reflects on the depicted network of the gradual evolution of a specific landscape and transposes historical aspects into a newly imagined fictional universe. In this universe, a multitude of characters and stories are interwoven — from Roman and medieval soldiers to lovers, and even eccentric figures like lice and a violinist.