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Hhh – Ahhh: Breathwork + Artist Live Drawing Performance Friday, May 22, 2026 Check-in from 6:15 pm Workshop starts at 6:30 pm MEP, Bürgenstrasse 6, 6005 Luzern Join us for a special evening at MEP in connection with Hhh – Ahhh, Tobias Gutmann’s current solo exhibition. The evening begins with a guided breathwork session using Conscious Connected Breathing following the Naikando Method® — a flowing breath rhythm without pauses between inhale and exhale. Through breath, music, rhythm, toning, and optional touch, participants are invited to leave everyday stress behind, settle into the body, and enter a deeper state of presence. From there, the evening continues into a live drawing performance by Tobias Gutmann, whose exhibition grows out of breathwork and explores breath, tension, interruption, and release through line and gesture. This is an evening shaped by breath, body awareness, and drawing — a chance to step out of the everyday and enter the exhibition through lived experience. After the breathwork session, MEP will host a short break with drinks and light refreshments before the live drawing performance. Program 6:15 pm Doors open / check-in 6:30 pm Welcome and introduction 6:45 pm Embodiment and settling in 7:00 pm Guided breathwork session 8:00 pm Integration and quiet arrival 8:10 pm Short break with drinks and light refreshments 8:25 - 9:00 pm Live drawing performance by Tobias Gutmann Please bring comfortable clothing optionally a light blanket or scarf optionally a notebook if you would like to write afterwards Yoga mats will be provided. Tickets Student Ticket – CHF 68 Standard Ticket – CHF 88 Supporter Ticket – CHF 128 ( supporter ticket includes “Hhh- Ahhh” Pen designed by Tobias Gutmann) Good to know No previous breathwork experience is needed. Please arrive on time so the group can begin together. Advance ticket purchase required. Limited spots available. #tobiasgutmann #breathworkart #tobiasgutmannart

A little hidden, but worth finding 🌸 The red dot is MEP 💕 Follow the beige path and come find us for matcha, art, and little surprises. 📍Bürgenstrasse 6, 6005 Luzern Mon-Fri 10-18 Sat 10-17 #matcha #mep #lucerne #artspace #matchalove

A soft Sunday morning with movement, matcha, and so many beautiful moments in between 💚 Thank you to everyone who joined us for Matchalates — our special collaboration with @alignbyfrankie From morning pilates to whisking pure matcha, and discovering each post-flow mood drink, this was such a gentle and joyful way to spend the morning together. We loved seeing everyone slow down, reconnect with their bodies, and step into the ritual with us. Thank you for moving, sipping, and sharing this experience with us. More soft mornings like this soon ✨ #mep #matcha #luzern #pilateslife #visitlucerne

Artist Q&A, episode 2 🎙️ This time, we asked Tobias Gutmann: @tobiasgutmann What is the idea behind the calligraphy pen you designed for the exhibition? A small object, but very much part of the larger practice behind Hhh – Ahhh. In this short video, Tobias speaks about the thinking behind the pen — somewhere between drawing tool, breathing guide, and an invitation to slow down and enter the line differently. This Friday, May 22, we’ll also host a special evening of breathwork + live drawing performance at MEP. You’re very welcome to join us — book your spot via the link in bio ✨ Hhh – Ahhh on view now at MEP 📍Bürgenstrasse 6, Luzern #mep #matcha #luzern #breathwork #livedrawing

see you in a few days for our matcha run💚 meeting point: mep time: 17

What a beautiful mindful morning 🍵 Matchalates in the inspiring space of @themep.ch - connecting through grounding rituals surrounded by art ✨ Feeling endlessly inspired after learning from the best and collaborating on something that felt so aligned. Thank you so much Chen & everyone who moved with us 🤍 Keep an eye out for our next Matchalates soon… #pilatesevent #luzern #matcha #sunday #morningmovement

PEACH PARTY Peach season has arrived at MEP 🍑🍵 This summer, we are bringing fresh yellow peaches into our matcha world. Slowly cooked into a homemade peach jam, bright, juicy and softly sweet, they become the heart of our two new seasonal drinks: Peach Jasmine Matcha Latte🍵 Homemade yellow peach jam with creamy matcha latte — smooth, fruity and gently sweet. Peach Party🍑 Jasmine tea with homemade yellow peach jam, topped with our fluffy matcha cloud — light, floral and refreshing. Let’s get party started ✨✨ #matcha #mep #luzern #matchalatte

Artist Q&A, episode 1 🎙️ For the first video in this new little series, we asked @tobiasgutmann Tobias Gutmann ✨What connects your art to breath?✨ A short glimpse into the thinking behind “Hhh – Ahhh” — where breath is not simply a subject, but part of the practice itself. In Tobias’s work, drawing begins with the body: with rhythm, pause, tension, release, and the subtle effort of coming back to presence. Hhh – Ahhh on view now at MEP until 3June 📍Bürgenstrasse 6, Luzern Special thanks to @corinamova for organizing the interview. #mep #matcha #artgallery #luzern #visitlucerne

Not every magic wand looks like one. ✨The Hhh – Ahhh Pen has arrived ✨ Made especially for the exhibition “Hhh–Ahhh”, @tobiasgutmann Tobias Gutmann’s little maple wood pen is laser-engraved, double-tipped, and designed to move with breath. ✨Inhale. Hold. Dip ink. Exhale. Draw.✨ Tobias created it as part of his new breathwork-based practice: somewhere between drawing tool, meditation guide, and tiny portal out of your busy brain. The Hhh – Ahhh Pen will be available at MEP during the exhibition as a way to support this new direction in his work. More events coming soon, stay tuned 🩵 Photography @yvette_ohbabala Exhibition on view until 3 June. Mon-Fri 10-18 Sat 10-17 💫 #mep #artgallery #matcha #luzern #breathwork

Lìxià 立夏 · The Beginning of Summer Today marks Lìxià 立夏, the beginning of summer in the traditional 24 Solar Terms.📅 Around Lìxià, we may feel more easily thirsty, tired, restless, or drawn to lighter food. In Eastern seasonal wisdom, this is a time to gently care for the heart, calm the mind, and help the body adapt to the warmth ahead. For this season, think of food and drinks that are light, fresh, floral, and gently cooling: green vegetables, beans, seasonal fruits, floral teas, citrus, coconut water, and simple meals. 🍋🍯🍃🥗🌴It is also a good moment to avoid too much greasy, spicy, or heavy food, which may make the body feel more heat and fatigue. At MEP, we are welcoming Lìxià with two seasonal drinks: 🍋🍊Honey Citrus Matcha A bright and refreshing matcha with honey and lemon — gently sweet, lightly tangy, and perfect for waking up the senses as the days grow warmer. 🌴🌹Rosy Coco Cold brew rose water and coconut water, topped with our matcha cloud — soft, floral, hydrating, and light, like a slow summer breath. 🤍This is the first post of our new series on the 24 Solar Terms · Eastern Seasonal Wellness, where we explore how ancient seasonal wisdom can still guide the way we eat, drink, rest, and feel today.🤍 The beautiful 24 Solar Terms Calendar by @ach.o0 is available at MEP — a gentle companion to follow the rhythm of the year. Welcome summer, slowly. 🌿 #mep #matcha #luzern #artgallery #solarterm

Meet the Artist: Tobias Gutmann @tobiasgutmann Every drawing has a beginning and an end. It lives while it is being created. Tobias Gutmann sees drawing as a way of remaining present within surroundings that constantly disperse attention. Each drawing is a necessity, digesting something, a situation, a moment, an encounter. The drawings accumulate. What begins as a single gesture becomes, over years, an extensive archive of images. Hundreds of sheets forming shifting constellations of lines, figures, and words. Instead of isolated statements these works create an open field of variation where gestures, rhythms, and visual languages reappear, transform, and circulate. Gutmann is drawn to forms of knowledge residing in the body before entering conscious thought. Mark making becomes a method for tracing those movements. Intuitive decisions allow rhythm, repetition, and flow to shape what later becomes visible. Results move freely between abstraction and figuration, registering states of awareness rather than describing external reality. A quiet tension runs through many images. Bright colour, playful energy, and lightness emerge from a place that is neither, carried quietly beneath the surface. In this sense the activity resembles tending a garden, something is cared for, and slowly grows. Small shifts of perception become possible, and the growing archive becomes a record of attention. —————— Tobias Gutmann is a Swiss artist based in Zurich whose work moves between drawing and performance. His practice is shaped by an interest in encounter, perception, and presence, and by the ways lived experience can find visual form. He is widely known for his long-term project Face-o-mat, in which abstract portrait drawings arise from direct encounters and seek to register presence rather than likeness. Gutmann holds an MFA in Storytelling from Konstfack in Stockholm and an MFA in Fine Arts from Zurich University of the Arts. His work has been presented internationally, including at Centre Pompidou, Ithra Museum, and Museum Haus Konstruktiv. Current solo exhibition at mep： Hhh–Ahhh On view until 3 June Mon-Fri 10-18 Sat 10-17 #mep #matcha #gallery #luzern

Such a cute couple: Matcha Brownie + matcha gelato 💚 It is a Match(a)🤍 #matcha #mep #matchagelato #luzern #matchalove