Artists: Cuno Amiet, René Victor Auberjonois, Caroline Bachmann, Theodor Barth, Aimé Barraud, Pierre Bonnard, Louise Breslau, Wolfgang Breuer, Max Burgmeier, Plinio Colombi, Helen Dahm, Adolf Dietrich, Hans Dietzi, Franz Elmiger, Hans Emmenegger, Louis Eysen, Véronique Filozof Sandreuter, Arnold Fiechter, Guido Fischer, Augusto Giacometti, Werner Hartmann, Ernst Yohji Jaeger, Rudolf Löw, Charles Montag, Eugen Meister, Jean Morax, Haiggi Müller, Albert Neuenschwander, Fritz Paravicini, Odilon Redon, Ottilie W. Roederstein, Salvo, Hans Walter Scheller, Trudy Schlatter, Wilhelm Schmid, Rolf Schönenberger, Emanuel Schöttli, Kurt Schwitters, Max Seiler, Niklaus Stoecklin, Johann von Tscharner, Félix Vallotton, Dario Wokurka, Giacomo Zanolari, Anna Iduna Zehnder
Exhibition title: Blumen in Vasen
Curated by: Melanie Ohnemus
Venue: Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland
Date: February 20 – May 15, 2022
Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Kunsthaus Glarus
Blumen in Vasen shows around seventy paintings of bouquets of flowers from 1880 to the present day. The exhibition does not follow any specific or classical art-historical questions or arrangements. It merely focuses on the motif of the bouquet of flowers, the medium of painting, and exhibiting as form of representation. This leads to an arrangement of the works that is principally undirected and yet nonetheless very clear. When viewing a bouquet of flowers, the realization that the object depicted is very clearly what it is merges with the act of viewing and questioning its depiction. Appearance and banality are enticingly close together. The genre of the still life creates a kind of suspended state
by means of which visual thinking can take place. It becomes possible to notice your own act of perception.
There will several dialog tours during the exhibition period, taking different approaches to this exhibition and specific works.
Several works by the artists Wolfgang Breuer, Ernst Yohji Jaeger, and Dario Wokurka have been created especially for this exhibition.
The works of Wolfgang Breuer, Franz Elmiger, Arnold Fiechter,
Rudolf Löw, Fritz Paravicini, Max Seiler, Wilhelm Schmid and Emanuel Schöttli can be viewed in the Schaudepot on request during guided tours or by appointment.
Loaned works come from Kunsthaus Aarau, Caroline Bachmann,
Hans Rudolf and Elisabeth Bosshard-Hinderer, Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur, Adolf Dietrich Stiftung Herrenschwanden, Sammlung Arthur and Hedi Hahnloser-Bühler/Villa Flora Winterthur, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Kunstmuseum Olten, Archivio Salvo Torino, Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausen, Kurt and Ernst Schwitters Stiftung Hannover,
Helga Sonanini, Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, Peter and Séverine Suter, Kunst- museum Thurgau, Kunstmuseum Winterthur.
An interview with the curator Melanie Ohnemus is published to accompany the exhibition.
Blumen in Vasen, 2022, exhibition view, Kunsthaus Glarus
Louis Eysen, Blumenstillleben, 1893. Blumen in Vasen, installation view, Kunsthaus Glarus, 2022
Blumen in Vasen, 2022, exhibition view, Kunsthaus Glarus
Eugen Meister, Stillleben mit Blumensträusschen (Rose), around 1915. Blumen in Vasen, installation view, Kunsthaus Glarus, 2022
Trudy Schlatter, Blumenstrauss in dunkler Vase, undated. Blumen in Vasen, installation view, Kunsthaus Glarus, 2022
Blumen in Vasen, 2022, exhibition view, Kunsthaus Glarus
Johann von Tscharner, Bunter Strauss, 1944. Blumen in Vasen, installation view, Kunsthaus Glarus, 2022
Blumen in Vasen, 2022, exhibition view, Kunsthaus Glarus
Blumen in Vasen, 2022, exhibition view, Kunsthaus Glarus
Blumen in Vasen, 2022, exhibition view, Kunsthaus Glarus
Blumen in Vasen, 2022, exhibition view, Kunsthaus Glarus
Véronique Filozof Sandreuter, untitled, around 1950. Blumen in Vasen, installation view, Kunsthaus Glarus, 2022
Blumen in Vasen, 2022, exhibition view, Kunsthaus Glarus
Dario Wokurka, Untitled (Freelance), 2022. Blumen in Vasen, installation view, Kunsthaus Glarus, 2022
Blumen in Vasen, 2022, exhibition view, Kunsthaus Glarus
Blumen in Vasen, 2022, exhibition view, Kunsthaus Glarus
Blumen in Vasen, 2022, exhibition view, Kunsthaus Glarus
Blumen in Vasen, 2022, exhibition view, Kunsthaus Glarus
Dario Wokurka, Dry Aged Birthday Ikebana, 2022. Blumen in Vasen, installation view, Kunsthaus Glarus, 2022
Niklaus Stoecklin, Stillleben mit Lilien in blauer Vase, 1926. Blumen in Vasen, installation view, Kunsthaus Glarus, 2022
Blumen in Vasen, 2022, exhibition view, Kunsthaus Glarus
Odilon Redon, Mohn und andere Blumen im Krug, around 1905/10. Blumen in Vasen, installation view, Kunsthaus Glarus, 2022
Blumen in Vasen, 2022, exhibition view, Kunsthaus Glarus
Kurt Schwitters, Ohne Titel (Stillleben mit Blumenstrauß und Äpfeln), around 1934. Blumen in Vasen, installation view, Kunsthaus Glarus, 2022
René Auberjonois, Le vase chinois, around 1932. Blumen in Vasen, installation view, Kunsthaus Glarus, 2022
Caroline Bachmann, Jachintes, 2016. Blumen in Vasen, installation view, Kunsthaus Glarus, 2022
Salvo, Untitled, 2009. Blumen in Vasen, installation view, Kunsthaus Glarus, 2022
Ernst Yohji Jaeger, Untitled (Flowers), 2021. Blumen in Vasen, installation view, Kunsthaus Glarus, 2022