Komm Glüückck
25. June 2026 - 18. October 2026
In the exhibition *Komm Glüückck*, the open art museum in St. Gallen is showcasing works from its collection in which the interplay between words and images takes centre stage.
The diverse nature of artistic practice raises fascinating questions: when is a thought expressed in language, and when does it take the form of an image in its written form? What can an image convey that a text cannot – and vice versa? Art is particularly helpful in making feelings and experiences visible when words reach their limits.
The exhibition brings together thoughts, greetings, poems and stories, typographic works and picture stories, art postcards, as well as conceptual explorations of language and vocabulary. The ways in which artists relate image and text to one another are revealed in a variety of ways: the word itself becomes an image, is inscribed within it, accompanies it or comments on it. The exhibition thus offers a multifaceted exploration of the interplay between seeing and reading, between linguistic expression and visual imagination.
These questions take on particular urgency, especially in an artistic practice where verbal expression can sometimes be difficult or where a theoretical framework is lacking. Images can speak where words fail. They bring feelings and experiences to life and are able to convey facts directly, whereas language inevitably conjures up its own internal images. Texts, on the other hand, can describe, differentiate and clarify what is only hinted at visually.
The exhibition highlights just how productive and multifaceted the relationship between words and images is. Through their interplay, both elements reinforce one another – whether in clarifying an interpretation, in their openness, or in their ambivalence and paradox.
Tickets
Opening
Wednesday, 24 June from 6.30 pm
With typographer Roland Stieger, TGG. Everyone is warmly invited to join us for drinks and canapés.
Exhibition tours
Guided tours of the exhibition will be held on the following dates:
Wednesday, 1 July at 6 pm
Wednesday, 5 August at 6 pm
Wednesday, 16 September at 6 pm
No booking required.
Programm
Sunday, 5 July, 2 August, 6 September
Destination: Museum – Print your own art postcards
Family workshop with Isabell Krähenmann
10 am to 5 pm
Sunday, 16 August
Art, coffee and cake, and an artist talk
with Armin Andreas Pangerl
3 pm to 5 pm
Saturday, 29 August
Hand lettering workshop
with the Letterinas Nicole Friedli and Rebecca Dornbierer
1 pm to 4 pm
Friday, 4 September
Adelheid Duvanel: Verbal Images – Visual Languages
Workshop and staged reading
11 am to 8 pm
Saturday, 12 September
20th St. Gallen Museum Night
6 pm to midnight
Saturday, 27 September
Musical reading of texts from the exhibition
with the Trio Poetico
11 am to 1 pm
Sonntag, 18. Oktober
Finissage und Führung
11 Uhr
