13. Culture Apéro
Tuesday, 27 October 2026 – from 5.30 pm
Hotel Bad Murtensee, with its long tradition and its roots in local history, is delighted to invite you to our 12th Culture Apéro. With the Culture Apéros, we bring the cultural and historical richness of our region closer to the local population as well as our guests.
Speaker: Alois Lichtsteiner
Topic: „Art and passion for visual stories“
Topic: About the freedom and the happiness of being able to devote oneself entirely to one’s work
Duration: approx. 60 mins. Participation incl. apéro free of charge.
No registration required.
Afterwards, you will have the opportunity, in the presence of the artist, to enjoy a 3-course menu at CHF 49.-/person (excluding drinks). From 4 people, you can reserve your own table if you wish. Otherwise, you will spontaneously share the table with other participants.
Reservations for dinner by 19 October 2026 at the latest, stating any allergies and intolerances, to ernst.joerg@bad-murtensee.ch
The team at Hotel Bad Murtensee looks forward to welcoming you to the above event. The next Culture Apéro is expected to take place on Tuesday, 08 December 2026. Pastor Andri Kober will speak about the parish church of Murten, 'St. Maurytz bey Muntelier', and about attending church on Sundays over the course of a church year.
More information about the speaker: Alois Lichtsteiner
The painter Alois Lichtsteiner was born in 1950 in Ohmstal in the canton of Lucerne. After various manual occupations, he attended the School of Applied Arts in Zürich. His first solo exhibition took place in 1978 at the Bern gallery of Johannes Gachnang. He was a lecturer at the ECAV in Sierre and until 2004 chair of the jury for Bachelor and Master at the HES-SO in Sierre. Alois Lichtsteiner lives and works in Murten and Paris. The paintings of Alois Lichtsteiner are like meditative images about the secret relationship between the sensually perceptible and the invisible.
More information about the topic: "About the freedom and the happiness of being able to devote oneself entirely to one’s work"
Alois Lichtsteiner engages with the image as a body covered by skin and its sensual perception.
Since 1998 he has used the 'mountain' as a metaphor for body and skin. The snow-covered landscapes in oil paint on canvas and on high-quality Tosa Shoji Japanese paper belong to his current cycle of works. Snowfields, which appear in nature as random phenomena, Lichtsteiner composes in his pictures into abstract landscapes of forms.
When Lichtsteiner paints a snow-covered slope, he paints a body covered by skin. The skin of paint mediates between the inner world of the picture and the outer world of the viewer, and vice versa.