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.