Agnes Barmettler

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Agnes Barmettler (actually Agnes-Christina Barmettler ; born January 23, 1945 in Stans ) is a Swiss artist who works with painting , drawing , sculpture , film and installation . She creates labyrinths in public spaces.

Labyrinth by Agnes Barmettler on the square of the Leonhardskirche (Basel 2009)

Life

Agnes Barmettler: Memorial Labyrinth - Way of Life (Dresden, 2015)

Agnes Barmettler grew up with her eight siblings in Engelberg Monastery , where her parents ran the monastery cheese dairy. She obtained her high school diploma in 1965 at the Ingenbohl high school . The following year she began studying medicine . After dropping out of her studies, she attended the general trade school in Basel , where she received her artistic training. The exchange with other artists from the fields of theater, film and dance had a major influence on their development. This is how she met Martin Disler , whom she married in 1972. In 1978 the couple divorced.

At an exhibition in Schaffhausen she met Rosmarie Schmid, with whom she researched the symbols and signs of labyrinths and from 1987 conceived the international labyrinth project. From 1970 to 1977 he stayed in Paris, Vienna, Scandinavia, Northern Germany and Italy, then in the USA, between 1979 and 2005 several times with the Hopi in Arizona . Together with Anka Schmid and the Hopi elder James Danaqyumtewa, she made the 1989 documentary Techqua Ikachi, Land - Mein Leben , which won the 1990 Culture Prize of the Canton of Solothurn, was shown at the Sundance Film Festival and in 1992 at the San Francisco International Film Festival .

In 1991, together with Rosmarie Schmid, she founded Zurich's Labyrinthplatz, a plant and rock garden in the form of a labyrinth on the Zeughaushof, and the cross-border labyrinth movement Labyrinth International , a women's project of public labyrinths, for which she also designed the logo. In 1997 she and Anka Schmid created the art video Labyrinth Projections for the Festival of the Arts in Lucerne .

Today she works as a freelance visual artist. Works by her can be found in the Olten Art Museum , among others .

Prices

  • 1985: Prize of the Canton of Solothurn for “Labyrinth”, room installation based on works by ten Swiss artists
  • 1990: With Anka Schmid, the Solothurn Cantonal Works Prize for the documentary Techqua Ikachi - Land mein Leben

Works (selection)

  • Woman with chain and earrings with a male figure in the background , gouache on paper, 15 × 10.5 cm
  • - but better maybe happy and with stories in your mouth , 1973, mixed media on canvas, 153 × 141 cm
  • Acker , 1976, tempera on canvas, 162 × 146 cm
  • Portrait of Martin Disler , 1984, gouache on paper, 21 × 29.5 cm

Movies

  • Techqua Ikachi, Land - Mein Leben , with James Danaqyumptewa and Anka Schmid, Switzerland 1989
  • Labyrinth projections , with Anka Schmid, Switzerland 1997

Exhibitions

  • 1972 Vienna: Galerie Herzog, with Martin Disler
  • 1972 Stans NW: Galerie Chäslager, with Martin Disler
  • 1973 Dulliken: Gallery Badkeller, with Elisabeth Kaufmann
  • 1973 Lucerne: City Theater
  • 1974 Winterthur: Kunsthalle zum Waaghaus
  • 1974 Bern: Galerie Kunstkeller, with Ronny Geiser
  • 1974 Bremen: Dodenhof Gallery
  • 1975 Karlsruhe: Galerie Schneider
  • 1975 Sarnen OW: Galerie Rotwyss Schlyssel, with Schang Hutter
  • 1975 Dulliken: Badkeller Gallery, Elisabeth Kaufmann, with Schang Hutter
  • 1975 Zurich: Paulus Academy
  • 1976 Balsthal: Galerie Rössli
  • 1976 Olten: Galerie Kaufmann, with Schang Hutter
  • 1977 Lucerne: Galerie Raeber
  • 1977 Bern: Bern Gallery
  • 1978 Saarbrücken: Gallery AQ Stegentritt
  • 1980 Olten: town house , and Rickenbach: school house
  • 1980 Zurich: Galerie Stummer
  • 1982 Zurich: Galerie Stummer
  • 1982 Günsberg SO: School building
  • 1984 Solothurn: Art Museum , with Tom Gerber
  • 1985 Olten: Drei-Tannen-Galerie, drawings
  • 1986 St. Gallen: Art Association
  • 1990 Zurich: Paulus Academy
  • 1993 Solothurn: Cantonal cultural center Palais Besenval
  • 1993 Wädenswil: Gallery 17
  • 1995 Zurich: Paulus Academy
  • 1998 Olten: Galleria B
  • 1999 Engelberg: Valley Museum
  • 2006 Olten: Art Museum
  • 2012 Morschach: Mattli Antoniushaus
  • 2012 Solothurn: Art Museum with Aloïse Corbaz

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annelise Zwez: Barmettler, Agnes. In: Sikart (status: 2008), accessed on August 21, 2015.
  2. ^ San Francisco International Film Festival
  3. ↑ Living in public spaces: 20 years Labyrinthplatz Zurich , book review by Antje Schrupp
  4. ↑ Labyrinth logo
  5. ↑ Labyrinth Projections , artfilm.ch
  6. ↑ Techqua Ikachi, Land - My Life, Swissfilm
  7. ↑ Labyrinth Projections, Swissfilm
personal data
SURNAME Bartender, Agnes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bartender, Agnes-Christina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Stans