January 12–March 1, 2020

Martin Stützle and Fridolin Walcher – The Glacier's Essence

The two Glarner artists Martin Stützle (b. 1959, lives and works in Ennenda) and Fridolin Walcher (b. 1951, lives and works in Nidfurn and Linthal) traveled to Greenland in May 2018. They were part of an interdisciplinary group of Swiss scientists, business representatives and diplomats, who were invited to visit the two Swiss arctic research stations located there – Swiss Camp and East GRIP – and to exchange ideas. They traveled further, far past the edge of civilization, to the Humboldt and Petermann glaciers, as far as 81°north latitude spent three weeks in Kullorsuaq, an Inuit village in Greenland and one of the northernmost settlements in the world. Based on their on-site research and impressions, the two artists created a series of works last year that will be shown for the first time at Kunsthaus Glarus. The Glacier’s Essence is an exhibition on climate change and glacier shrinkage in Switzerland and Greenland. Fridolin Walcher’s photographs of Greenland and the two Glarner glaciers Biferten and Clariden and Martin Stützle’s prints, sculptures and performances raise not least the question of which kind of (visual) language can be used to communicate clear scientific facts in “another” way.

This exhibition is part of a biennial series of exhibitions focusing on artistic practices in the region of Glarus.

(Events)

Wednesday, February 5, 2020, 12.30 PM

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

Friday, February 7, 2020, 06.00 PM

Public tour
with Fridolin Walcher and Judith Welter

Fridolin Walcher and Judith Welter guide together through the current exhibition Des Gletschers Kern. In May 2018 the two Glarus artists Martin Stützle and Fridolin Walcher travelled to Greenland as part of a research expedition. On the basis of the research carried and their impressions, the two artists created a series of works last year that can be seen for the first time in Kunsthaus Glarus. In doing so, the two artists relate their own environment – the Glarus Alpine region – to the threatened Greenlandic ice landscape and present us with the abstract phenomenon of climate change.

Friday, February 7, 2020, 08.00 PM

Movie screening SPOTNIX Filmclub
“Zwischen Himmel und Eis” (Luc Jaquet, 2015)

The SPOTNIX Filmclub is screening the French documentary film by Luc Jacquet from 2015 about the life's work of glaciologist Claude Lorius. After eight years of research in the Antarctic, Lorius was one of the first scientists to warn of the consequences of global warming in 1965. The now 88-year-old researcher traveled to the Antarctic in the mid-1950s as part of an expedition and subsequently dedicated his entire research life to the ice. He soon showed that humans are responsible for the previously proven global warming. The proof was provided by evaluating dozens of ice layers that stored the climate of the earth's history over thousands of years. Lorius came to the conclusion that the air bubbles trapped in the ice provided information about the composition of the atmosphere and thus provided a portrait of the Earth's climate.

There is a bar and snacks between the guided tour and the film.

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
duration: 89 min

Sunday, February 23, 2020, 01.30 PM

Blickwechsel
Kids’ afternoon with Anne Gruber

Sunday, March 1, 2020, 04.00 PM

Glarus climate-neutral?

Two inputs by
Prof. Dr. Konrad Steffen, glaciologist and director of the WSL
Prof. Dr. David N. Bresch, professor for weather and climate risks

Followed by discussion with Lisa Hämmerli, environmental scientist, Nils Birkeland, IT engineer, Sophie Ellinger and Rina Lampietti from the Glarus Climate Youth and the artists

Moderation: Ernst Baumgartner

An event on the occasion of the publication of the book The Glacier's Essence and at the end of the exhibition by Martin Stützle and Fridolin Walcher.