Kunsthaus Glarus
Puppies Puppies (Jade Kuriki Olivo) June 6–August 22, 2021 Opening: Saturday, June 5, 2021
Diplom Redux (CANCELLED) Bri Williams / Elliot Reed 2020 Degree Show ZHdK curated by Puppies Puppies Department of Fine Arts (Jade Kuriki Olivo) February 7–21, 2021 September 5–November 28, 2021 Opening: Saturday, February 6, 2021 Opening: Saturday, September 4, 2021
EXTENDED: Until recently, the conceptual works of Puppies Puppies, which Kunstschaffen Glarus 2020 are often based on the principle of the readymade, were Ein Haus ohne Licht ist nur ein halbes Haus created by an anonymous artist-subject. Puppies Puppies— Klaus Born – Künstlerbücher the name revealed neither gender or origin, nor whether a until Sunday, March 14, 2021 group or just a single individual was behind the pseudonym. The inability to ascribe a social identity, the concealment of Check our website from the end of February for special “origin,” but also the associated rumors and stories about the opening hours and any rescheduled dates for events. potential artist persona have always been part of the works and figures appearing therein—many of them well-known characters from popular culture. But the anonymous-identity game is difficult to maintain over a longer period of time. Tourism Stepping away from this veiled identity became part of a series March 28–May 24, 2021 of works beginning in 2018 that were overlaid with the actual Opening: Saturday, March 27, 2021 transitioning of the artist from Andrew to Jade Kuriki Olivo (b. 1989 in Texas, lives and works in New York). In her works, the artist asks in particular what projection surface the concept of Tourism fills a void, an empty space with moving images identity offers today. It is less about an actual “self” than about that occupy the large and generous rooms of Kunsthaus how the idea of “self” is constructed today and what role Glarus. Tourism is a video-exhibition playing with the shift fictions play in this. Art has always contributed to and played of temporality and relation between the architectural and the a part in such constructions of the self; Puppies Puppies also filmic space. questions not least the (political) role of the artist. For Kunsthaus Glarus, she creates a project in two parts: the Tourism is conceived by Luca Beeler, Richard Sides and first part of the exhibition compiles earlier works into a kind Judith Welter and will take place in two parts in two different of biographical retrospective that contributes to the possible institutions: Kunsthaus Glarus and Stadtgalerie Bern. construction of a certain (artistic) persona. In the second part of the exhibition, Puppies Puppies (Jade Kuriki Olivo) expands the field of her artistic personality by offering two artists from her immediate circle, Elliot Reed (b. 1993, lives and works in Los Angeles) und Bri Williams (b. 1992, lives and works in New York), space for their own practice. Heimspiel December 12, 2021–January 30, 2022 Opening: Saturday, December 11, 2021
Heimspiel, a triennial, transnational exhibition format, provides a platform for contemporary art from the region of Eastern Switzerland and presents artists from the cantons of Appenzell, Ausserrhoden and Innerrhoden, Glarus, St.Gallen, Thurgau, Liechtenstein and Vorarlberg. Glarus, another canton in Eastern Switzerland, has been involved since 2018 and also serves as the exhibition venue for the first time this year. In 2021, exhibitions will be held at Kunsthaus Glarus, Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Kunsthalle Appenzell and Kunstraum Dornbirn. Effective this year, the exhibitions will be organized by the institutional curators without the input of an external jury.
Curated by Otto Bonnen, curatorial assistant Kunsthaus Glarus
Fokus Prize Karin Reichmuth December 12, 2021–January 30, 2022 Opening: Saturday, December 11, 2021
The Fokus Prize 2020 goes to Karin Reichmuth (b. 1979 in Goldingen, lives and works in Ennenda (CH) and Carrara (IT)). With the award, the jury acknowledges the artist’s technical sophistication of her stone carvings, which she creates from various types of stone such as basalt, Cristallino and Carrara marble.
Every two years, the Glarner Kunstverein awards a position from the unjuried Kunstschaffen exhibition with the Fokus Prize. The prize winner is given the opportunity to present his or her work in a solo exhibition the following year.
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