“I would once like to paint something that I’ve never seen before”, said Ilse Weber. This sentence describes the emergence of somnambulistic pictorial worlds in the work of this artist. At the same time, it points us to the heart of the exhibition “Träumende Dinge” (“Dreaming Things”) and to the affinity many of the featured female artists have with Surrealism: bodies and objects are alienated, detached from their context, and charged with new meaning.

With “Träumende Dinge”, the Kunsthaus Zug turns its attention to female artists who are represented with outstanding works in a collection historically dominated by male perspectives. On display are works and groups of works that revolve around objects and bodies: the familiar is transformed through the artistic process, and everyday objects become vessels of symbolic meaning. In the logic of dreams, the familiar suddenly appears enigmatic. A surreal poetics emerges in which everyday objects unfold a fascinating life of their own.

With artworks by Judith Albert, Anna Margrit Annen, Helen Balmer, Heidi Bucher, Miriam Cahn, Trudi Demut, Livia Gnos, Rut Himmelsbach, Maya Hottarek, Irma Ineichen, Annemie Lieder, Brigitte Moser, Meret Oppenheim, Klaudia Schifferle, Lou Stengele, Annelies Štrba, Josephine Troller, Annelies Ursin, Hannah Villiger, Ilse Weber and Eva Wipf.