Welcome and exhibition introduction at 6pm, followed by apéro and Ryys and Boor (Risotto with leek)

Welcome and exhibition introduction at 6pm (with children's opening), followed by drinks and food

30-minute exhibition tour followed by coffee and cake. The event is included in the admission fee.

Open art studio for painting, designing, crafting, and sharing ideas in collaboration with the Swiss Red Cross Uri. 

Together with Nathalie Bissig, children explore the artworks in the museum and create their own artwork under the artist's guidance. 

Registration and information at: kunstvermittlung@kunstverein-uri.ch
The event is free. Aged 6 and over.

12.30 pm: Noor Abed, workshop: A collective reading and discussion of selected texts in relation to Noor Abed's artistic practice.
(Held in English, limited number of participants, registration: info@kunsthausglarus.ch)

2 pm: Stas Shärifulla, sound performance Tawźıñ körhönöüe

3 pm: Rebecca Solari, performance La Gigantessa

Followed by alpine cheese and bread.

The pass summit can be reached by bus from Linthal (GL) and Altdorf (UR). Parking is also available at the summit and near Hotel Klausenpass. The schedule allows for return travel by public transport. The bus departs at 10.25am from Linthal, railway station. The last bus departs at 4.44pm to Linthal, railway station.

The event is free of charge. Will only take place in good weather.

Noor Abed (*1988 in Jerusalem; lives and works in Amsterdam and Ramallah) explores in her research how landscape is bound up with ritual, resistance, collective memory, sound, and story. Working at the intersection of performance and film, she creates works in which social possibilities are both explored and enacted through performance. Her practice investigates choreography, collective formations, and social dynamics, combining staged and documentary approaches. In the exhibition, Noor Abed presents the film "A Night We Held Between" (2024), filmed at ancient sites in Palestine – in caves, underground passages, and wild, craggy valleys. Through choreographed, sometimes rhythmic and collective repetitions, Abed creates a compelling image of a community carrying centuries-old traditions into the present and future, affirming its connection to the land and its right to resistance. She also creates a landscape of memory, reminding us that beneath the rocky surface of hills and mountains lie ancient stories – an entire world.

Rebecca Solari (*1996 in Blenio; lives and works in Biel/Bienne) grew up in the Blenio Valley in Ticino, on the other side of the Gotthard, and her performances engage with the legends, traditions – including the Carnevale, the carnival – and sounds of that landscape, which she deconstructs and recontextualises with great, even explosive energy. She weaves her Ticinese dialect into songs that mix French and English, drawing sonically on punk, yodelling, opera, and techno. Her performances are populated by loud antiheroes, by lightning (she names one of her personas Fulmine, Italian for lightning), and by volcanoes – stories springing from what she calls “a bubbling primordial minestrone". At the Klausen Pass, Solari rises from the smoke as "La Gigantessa", a giantess, wearing seven-metre-long fluttering trousers and feet to match (the feet are currently on view at Kunsthaus Glarus and Haus für Kunst Uri respectively). The giantess wants, the artist says, to connect people with the surrounding landscape in a new way. She speaks of the realities of Switzerland's four linguistic regions, of political ambivalences such as the mythologised mountain idyll set against Switzerland's reputation as a destination for dubious money, and of her own fluid, slightly uncanny, and slightly tender existence as a mountain creature with oversized feet.

Stas Shärifulla (*1984 in Siberia; lives and works in Basel) is an artist and researcher working with sound and listening. Born and raised in eastern Siberia and of Yılan-Bashkir heritage (the Bashkirs of the Yilan clan), he explores the auditory cultures of Indigenous peoples in northern and central Asia, in which hearing and sound were historically of greater significance than writing. He is interested in how Indigenous knowledge in the former Soviet Union and beyond was historically subjugated and distorted, and how this process might be undone. The reduction of Indigenous knowledge to exotic museum artefacts – including musical instruments such as flutes – is one such example. For the festival at the Klausen Pass on 4 July, Stas Shärifulla invites the mountain to reveal its тауыш/tawısh – a word meaning both 'voice' and ‘sound,' regardless of context. Using various flutes, including the quray and the tashtawıq (‘rock partridge'), he calls to the mountain, setting stones and rocks vibrating, and waits for its response – its echo. Whether the Klausen Pass understands Bashkir, the artist notes, will reveal itself in the course of the performance.

30-minute exhibition tour followed by coffee and cake. The event is included in the admission fee.

Open art studio for painting, designing, crafting, and sharing ideas in collaboration with the Swiss Red Cross Uri. 

On a brief stroll through Altdorf, we'll explore the work of the Uri Circle, and in the archives of the Dätwyler Foundation, we'll discover more of Heinrich Danioth and his contemporaries. Followed by a small aperitif. The starting point is at the Tell Monument.

Registration and information at: kunstvermittlung@kunstverein-uri.ch. The event is free of charge.

30-minute exhibition tour followed by coffee and cake. The event is included in the admission fee.

Open art studio for painting, designing, crafting, and sharing ideas in collaboration with the Swiss Red Cross Uri. 

Lecture by Chiara Zgraggen, historian. The event is included in the admission fee.

How do political and social realities inform our understanding of landscapes? Of the landscapes we live in or dream of – today, and in the past? Dialogical tour to discuss landscape painting in the exhibition, which is featuring contemporary works alongside paintings from the collections of the Glarner Kunstverein and Haus für Kunst Uri. The event is included in the admission fee.