27.10.2019 – 1.3.2020
Just Another Story about Leaving
An exhibition [1] about the collections of the Glarner Kunstverein curated by Michèle Graf, Selina Grüter and Sveta Mordovskaya in collaboration with Stefan Wagner, Kunsthaus Glarus staff member since 1995.
With works by Eva Barto, Helen Dahm, Maria Eichhorn, Max Ernst, Christine Gallati, Hermann Haller, David Hockney, views of Zoe Leonard’s 1997 exhibition, a title by Urs Lüthi, Bridget Riley, Vre Tschudi, unknown artist, Edouard Vallet, Louis Auguste Veillon, David Wojnarowicz,
a screening of Cheryl Dunye’s film The Watermelon Woman on Thursday January 16, 2020 at 6pm and an artist talk with Eva Barto on Sunday, February 23, 2020 at 3pm.
09.07.2018–20.07.2018 Packing of all the works in the collections of the Glarner Kunstverein, comprising the collection of the Glarner Kunstverein, the deposit holdings of the federal government and the Gottfried Keller Foundation, the Gustav Schneeli Collection, the Othmar Huber Collection (on loan from the Othmar Huber Foundation), the Marc Egger collection (on permanent loan) and the estates of Paul Fröhlich, Christine Gallati, Greta Leuzinger and Jakob Wäch. Transport of the works to the external storage facility due to the impending renovation of Kunsthaus Glarus.
23.12.2018 Invitation to curate an exhibition with the collections of the Glarner Kunstverein for the reopening of the renovated building.
01.01.2019–01.04.2019 Entering a status for the majority of the works into the new collection database.
19.06.2019 Loan request to the collection of the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst for the work Limmatstrasse 270, 8005 Zurich (2011/2018) by Maria Eichhorn.
17.07.2019 Acquisition proposal to the Glarner Kunstverein for a work by Eva Barto.
05.08.2019–22.08.2019 Examining of work specifications and measuring of a selection of works from the collections. Compiling status reports, transmitting captured information to the collection database, also with regard to publishing data related to the collections via the Kunsthaus Glarus website.
05.08.2019 Visit to the Kunsthaus construction site.
07.08.2019 Inquiring Stefan Wagner's favourite works from the collections of the Glarner Kunstverein collective viewing of Edouard Vallet’s La maison abandonnée (1924) and Max Ernst’s oil painting on wood (1958).
08.08.2019 Research in the minutes of the Glarner Kunstvereins executive committee about its first acquisition (in 1871) of Louis Auguste Veillon’s Abend bei Brunnen (1870).
09.08.2019 Discovery of the work Komposition Rot-Grün-Schwarz (undated) by Christine Gallati. Inquiring Stefan Wagner for input concerning a artistic position of regional significance, collective viewing of Vre Tschudi’s Dunkler Gugelhopf (1998).
12.08.2019–14.08.2019 Examining of work specifications and the measuring of works of the Marc Egger Collection, compiling status reports, transmitting captured gathered information to the collection database, including Bridget Riley’s serigraph on paper (1971), David Hockney’s King (1962), David Wojnarowicz’s La Derecha Contraataca (1983).
13.08.2019 Approaching Eva Barto regarding the acquisition of a work through the Glarner Kunstverein, as well as inviting her for an artist talk in the context of the exhibition. Proposal to the Glarner Kunstverein for the restoration of the work Abend bei Brunnen (1870) by Louis Auguste Veillons for the exhibition.
14.08.2019 Examining of work specifications and the measuring of works in external locations, compiling status reports, transmitting captured gathered information to the collection database, including Schwertlilien (around 1950) by Helen Dahm.
15.08.2019 Collective viewing of Helen Dahm’s Kerbel (ca. 1963), discovery of the VHS tape of the film The Watermelon Woman (1997) by Cheryl Dunye in the external storage facility, which was screened on May 15, 1997 as part of the accompanying program of Zoe Leonards exhibition. Collective viewing of sculptural works such as Carl Andre’s Glärnisch (2001) and Hermann Haller’s Flora (1908), a work of the federal government deposit holdings, which was handed over to Kunsthaus Glarus for its opening (in 1952) and installed in the foyer.
16.08.2019 Collective viewing of archival material related to Zoe Leonard’s 1997 exhibition, in particular the exhibition documentation depicting the fictional Fae Richard’s Archive, produced for The Watermelon Woman (1997). Decision to screen the film as part of the exhibition’s accompanying program.
21.08.2019 Discovery of Urs Lüthi’s photo series Just Another Story about Leaving (2006). Inquiry to Stefan Wagner for drawing miniatures—one of his earlier methods of registering the collection—of all works of the exhibition for the invitation card.
22.08.2019 Additional visit to the Kunsthaus construction site. Decision not to show Urs Lüthi's work Just Another Story about Leaving (2006) physically in the exhibition.
28.08.2019 Commission of the restoration of the first acquisition of the Glarner Kunstverein (1871) by Louis Auguste Veillons Abend bei Brunnen (1870).
06.09.2019–08.09.2019 Cropping of digitized Ektachrome slide reproductions of all the works
from the collection catalog from 1995 for their impending entry into the collection database. Discovery of the reproduction of a study by an unknown artist depicting a nude male figure in motion from behind.
09.09.2019 Approaching Urs Lüthi regarding the use of the title of his work Just Another Story about Leaving (2006) as the title of the exhibition.
20.09.2019 Writing the text for the exhibition.
01.10.2019 Translation of the text for the exhibition from German to English.
04.10.2019 Decision not to show Carl Andre’s Glärnisch (2001).
[1] Raymond Williams, “Objects and Practices” (London: Verso, 1973), 48: “But I am saying that we should look not for the components of a product but for the conditions of a practice. When we find ourselves looking at a particular work, or group of works, often realizing, as we do so, their essential community as well as their irreducible individuality, we should find ourselves attending first to the reality of their practice and the conditions of the practice as it was then executed.”
Exhibition text
(Events)
Saturday, October 26, 2019, 18.00
Opening Sam Pulitzer - The Premise of a Better Life / Just Another Story about Leaving
6pm Opening and Introductions
6–7pm Opening for children
from 7:30pm on dinner
L.D.R.
BABY VAL
Sunday, October 27, 2019, 14.00
Tour of the new storage area for artwork
Thursday, October 31, 2019, 18.00
Public tour with Otto Bonnen
Sunday, November 10, 2019, 16.00
Collection Picks I
with Kaspar Marti, president Glarner Kunstverein
Sunday, November 17, 2019, 14.00
Blickwechsel
Kids’ afternoon with Anne Gruber
Kunst kann Blicke auf die Welt verändern und verschieben. Wie blicken Kinder auf die Kunstwerke im Museum? Mit selbstgebauten Seh-Apparaten, werden wir Blicke auf die Arbeiten und die Ausstellungen werfen und der Frage nachgehen, was wir bei einer Ausstellung für Kinder verändern würden. Wir freuen uns auf Deinen Besuch!
Für Kinder von 4 bis 12 Jahren. Diese Veranstaltung ist kostenlos.
Sunday, December 1, 2019, 16.00
Collection Picks II
with Stefan Wagner, staff member Kunsthaus Glarus
Wir setzen die Gesprächsreihe Sammlungseinblicke mit Stefan Wagner fort. Als langjähriger Mitarbeiter des Kunsthaus Glarus wird er anhand einer Auswahl von Arbeiten seine Erfahrungen mit dem Sammlungsbestand aus praxisbezogener und persönlicher Perspektive mit uns teilen.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019, 12.30
Tour and lunch
with Anne Gruber
Participation including lunch costs CHF 20.–
(reduced CHF 15.–)
Registration at office@kunsthausglarus.ch or +41 55 640 25 35 through December 10, 2019
Thursday, January 16, 2020, 18.00
Public tour with Judith Welter
Judith Welter will guide through the exhibitions The Glacier's Essence and Just Another Story about Leaving, which can be seen until March 1. The Glacier's Essence is an exhibition on climate change and glacier shrinkage in Switzerland and Greenland. In May 2018, the two Glarner artists Fridolin Walcher and Martin Stützle were invited to join climate and ice researchers on a Swiss expedition to Greenland, with the challenge of intervening in the ecological and economic debate in their own artistic languages. They developed works that relate their own environment — the Glarner Alpine region — to the threatened Greenland ice landscape. Just Another Story about Leaving is an exhibition about the collections of the Glarner Kunstverein curated by Michèle Graf, Selina Grüter and Sveta Mordovskaya in collaboration with Stefan Wagner.
Thursday, January 16, 2020, 19.00
Film screening
The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye, 1997)
After the public tour through the exhibitions with Judith Welter, we will show the film The Watermelon Woman (1996) by Cheryl Dunye.as part of the exhibition Just Another Story about Leaving.
In 1997, the American artist Zoe Leonard showed the Fae Richards Archive in her solo exhibition at the Kunsthaus Glarus. The photographic documentation of the exhibition can be seen in the current collection exhibition Just Another Story about Leaving. The collection of black and white photographs documents the life of the fictional actress Fae Richards, about whom the film protagonist Cheryl in Cheryl Dunye's film The Watermelon Woman wants to make her first film.
The film The Watermelon Woman was shown for the first time in 1997 at the Kunsthaus Glarus as part of the exhibition. The fictional black actress Fae Richards had an affair with a white Hollywood director in the 1930s. Parallel to her research on the actress, Cheryl also develops a relationship with a white woman and is confronted with questions of the sexualisation of lesbian women and of blackness. Fae Richard's life is constructed as a film within a film, while the Fae Richard Archive in the exhibition steps out of film fiction and develops a life of its own.
The film will be shown in Englisch. Admission to the film screening is free of charge.
Sunday, January 19, 2020, 15.00
Collection Picks III
with Fred Jaumann member of the board Glarner Kunstverein
We are continuing the series of conversations Collection Picks with Fred Jaumann. As a Glarner Kunstverein board member, he will present his own selection of works from the collections housed in the Schaudepot of the Kunsthaus Glarus.
Wednesday, February 5, 2020, 12.30
Tour and lunch
with Anne Gruber
Participation including lunch costs CHF 20.–
(reduced CHF 15.–)
Registration at office@kunsthausglarus.ch or +41 55 640 25 35
Sunday, February 23, 2020, 13.30
Blickwechsel
Kids’ afternoon with Anne Gruber
Die Arbeiten in der aktuellen Ausstellung Des Gletschers Kern zeigen verschiedene Formen und Farben von Eis und Schnee auf. Dies werden wir zum Anlass nehmen, um uns im Kunsthaus auf die Suche nach verschiedenen Facetten von Weiss zu begeben. Welche Farben lassen sich im Schnee und Eis noch entdecken? Und warum sind in den meisten Museum die meisten Wände weiss gestrichen? Wir freuen uns auf Deinen Besuch!
Für Kinder von 4 bis 12 Jahren. Diese Veranstaltung ist kostenlos.
Sunday, February 23, 2020, 15.00
Artist talk with Eva Barto
Eva Barto (*1987, lives and works in Paris) discusses together with Judith Welter her work Promesse d'endettement provisoire (2019–2022), which was acquired as part of the exhibition Just Another Story about Leaving. An amount of CHF 3'000 has been agreed with the Glarner Kunstverein to produce a work within three years that will be dedicated to the Kunstverein's collection.
In the artist talk, Barto reflects on questions of different modes of production and value forms, indebtedness, the role of the audience, and a possible decommodified notion of art.