New works by the video artist Judith Albert (b. 1969 in Sarnen) are being shown in a cabinet exhibition. As well as large-format video stills, the artist will be showing video works all produced in 2009. Although Judith Albert is entirely devoted to the moving image, her videos are hardly characterised by major events. Instead, they reveal her as the fine observer of the inconspicuous moment. The videos draw their tension from the slowness of the observation. Reality condenses into a poetic mood-picture. While the works contain a reference to art history, they are also clearly located within a personal pictorial language. In her videos Judith Albert is always her own protagonist. In different roles she appears as a classical nude model or, at the hour of the wolf, as a fairy-tale figure in the forest. In the work Space, her body shimmers like a shadow in the twilight, while she unwinds a gleaming rope and stretches it into a rectangular space.

With Judith Albert’s exhibition Kunstmuseum Luzern is starting a new exhibition format for local, regional artists. The sponsorship of local art-work represents a major task of Museum of Art Lucerne, not least in view of the fact that Museum of Art Lucerne is the most important institution for the communication of visual art in Central Switzerland and receives grants from public bodies.