Do. 1. März 2012, 19 h: Zündend – ein Ideenaustausch mit VertreterInnen des Zollhauses und des Kulturbüros Luzern (u.a.)

Do. 15. März 2012, 19 h: Moderierte Lesung mit Christian Saehrendt

with Irene Bisang, Furin Bisig, Samuli Blatter, Jonas Etter, Susanne Hofer, Tatjana Marusic, Nils Nova und Camillo Paravicini.

Exhibition with the winners of the grants provided by the Canton and City of Lucerne. These grants shall offer a financial support to realise a project or work or to further develop the artist's activities in general.

November 18, 7 p.m.: Opening

November 19, 5 p.m.: Award ceremony Werkbeiträge 2011 at Südpol.

November 25, 2011, 7 p.m.: Panel discussion  Turnaround: «Get documented!»

How to document one's own artistic work? A discussion about the practice of documenting in cooperation with the Kunstforum Zentralschweiz.

A guest exhibition by the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts - Engineering & Architecture

The architecture department invited its former, now retired lecturer for visual design Josef Ittig to develop an exhibition in the context of his 39 years long teaching career. 39 alumni reflect on the impact that said lecturer has on their current works. The results – illustrated by photographs of the renowned architecture photographer Heinrich Helfenstein – are shown in the Kunsthalle Lucerne from September 23 until October 30 2011.
Josef Ittig characterised nearly four decades of architects’ education. This is all the more notable, because he did not teach architecture itself, but rather brought the students closer to visual design in general. What importance is attributed to visual design within an architect’s education and how were the individual careers of the former students influenced by Ittig’s intense teaching activities? The exhibition „In den Raum gestellt – visuelle Gestaltung und Architektur im Dialog“ centres around these questions.
The 39 chosen alumni drafted a thesis, which sums up Josef Ittig’s work: „ Together with my former students, I wanted to demonstrate the conflicting priorities between visual design and architecture“, states Josef Ittig. The occupation with the phenomenas of visual perception and their technical translations was a decisive expansion of the arcitectural horizon for many students. The involvement with the visual, pictorial worlds helped them to establish their individual draft methodology. Project leader Dieter Geissbühler adds: „Josef Ittig’s long teaching period can be seen as evidence, that visual design has to be a central aspect of a successful education for aspiring architects. Without knowledge about design no architect would be capable of creating a high-quality building.“
The 39 theses were linguistically edited by the author Robert Roos and are completed by a choice of sketchbooks from the former students.

Movie and Talk on Wednesday October 12, 7 p.m.: The screening of the documentary „How much does your building weigh, Mr. Foster?“ will be followed by a talk with Roger Bolthauser (architect), Hansjürg Buchmeier (artist), Dieter Geissbühler (architect) and Gregor Imhof (film theorist). This event takes place in the stattkino Lucerne.

with Ronny Hardliz, Damian Jurt, Kris Vleeschouwer, Katharina Wieser, www.citysharing.ch by Erik Dettwiler and Rayelle Niemann, Margot Zanni

Our launching exhibition „Zentral!“ in April already addressed the implications surrounding the new and more central location of the Kunsthalle Luzern in the Bourbaki building. The current sequel „Zentral?“ explores the topic even further. The invited artists establish unexpected connections between the Kunsthalle, its immediate environment and the world affairs.

Artists have to apply constantly: Whether for projects, exhibitions, grants or in competitions - portfolios are imperative. Since 2001 the Kunsthalle Lucerne hosts the documentation files of nearly 300 artist from Central Switzerland.

This summer all of the artist documentations have been updated. Not only the content of the portfolios but also the outer appearence of the casing will be renewed step by step. This process is introduced by the project "myCase", where the portfolio boxes will be rearranged - in a spatial and discursive sense.

Before and during "myCase - a homeBASE revision with 300 files" artists are offered a special kind of service: They are invited to dispose of their obsolete, outdated portfolios, old project submissions, out sorted work descriptions and publications. The artists are asked to remove their big administrative mountain of paper, which their career choice brings along, from their jammed desks and cellar compartiments. The shelved documents, which reflect the previous stages of an artist’s career - not unlike the portfolios - find their temporary home in the Kunsthalle after being shreded. The paper snippets will be filled into garbage bags, sealed and reused as beanbag chairs for visitors.

Behind every box filled with documentary material stands an individual artistic story and career - accordingly to the term "myCase". In line with this, audio stations are placed in the Kunsthalle, where the audience is able to listen to the voices of certain members of the documentation spot talking about their previous and future career and reflecting on the documentation of their works.

Interviews with: Daniel Häller, Susanne Hofer, Miroslav Jurendic, Radoslav Kutra, Niklaus Lenherr, Bruno Müller-Meyer, Christina Peretti, Dorothea Rust, Verena Vanoli, Esther Wicki-Schallberger.

22. Juli 2011, 19 h: Vernissage mit einer exklusiven myCase-Lesung der Autorin Sandra Künzi

The project within the re-launch of the BASIS. Concept in cooperation with Stephan Meylan www.value-konzepte.ch.