Rut Himmelsbach, who was born in Zug in 1950 and grew up here (she has lived in Basel for a long time), has realized a major (probably her largest to date) exhibition with numerous new works for the Kunsthaus Zug. Himmelsbach is one of the most important contemporary artists from Zug and has made a name for himself nationally through numerous exhibitions, for example in 1992 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Basel. The project is part of exhibitions at the Kunsthaus Zug by two other "Zugers": Hannah Villiger, 1991/1992, and Josef Herzog, autumn 1994.

For more than ten years, the artist has been moving indefinably in the intermediate area of almost all media of visual art, from photography to painting to object art. She is concerned with bringing together a wide variety of realms and levels of reality. On the one hand, there is a span between aspects of her private environment and everyday life, photos of people close to her, household things, lovingly collected "trivialities" that usually go unnoticed, and on the other hand, general questions and problems, such as wars, environmental pollution, gender relations, the role of religions, new media, etc. Again and again, she surprisingly relates to what escapes in the practice of life as if through an ever-widening gap: the mediation of the large with the small. In this way, the large is re-anchored in daily life and the importance of the small is emphasized. This is sometimes done by intuitively assembling foreign elements, then also by intensive mental work on possible chains of associations and symbols. Rut Himmelsbach's mostly multi-part works float in precarious balance, literally, but also figuratively: creative joy of playing, wit and enigmatic, sometimes oppressive seriousness are superimposed in it. For example, an angelic configuration with outstretched wings - Icarus - surprisingly turns into a falling bomb - Lucifer - at second glance.