Exhibition 2025: „Open Studios in Brandenburg 2025“
This year again I am participating in the Open Studio Days of the State of Brandenburg that are organized by the Berufsverband Bildender Künstlerinnen und Künstler Brandenburgs (BBK) (professional association of visual artists in Brandenburg). I will show paintings produced recently.
| Location: Studio Alexandra Weidmann, Banzendorfer Str. 49, 16835 Lindow Ortsteil Banzendorf. (Map here) |
| Duration: Saturday, May 3, from 2 pm to 7 pm, and Sunday, May 4, 2025 from 11 am to 6 pm |
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Exhibition 2025: „DREI WEGE * DREI BLICKE * DREI BILDER * “
Again I got the opportunity to exhibit in Galerie TRAFO.1. The exhibition shows three of my paintings with the titles „Kommen“, „Bleiben“, and „Gehen“ (Coming, Staying and Leaving) together with an installation of Sabine Pommerening.
The gallery in the transformer house in Regenmantel is located at the intersection of three roads. The three exhibited pictures refer to this. They represent coming, staying and leaving. Roads connect places and people but also lead to separation. Sometimes people are forced to stay in one place when there is no way forward.
The painting “Kommen” (Coming) shows a man laden with luggage approaching the viewer. What is he bringing with him? Is he an enrichment or a burden for the place of arrival? The picture points to the east, where a military cemetery from the Second World War is located near the Seelower Höhen. It brings to my mind associations of German refugees from that time, of marching armies, of the waves of emigration after reunification and, to come back to today, of new refugee movements.
The painting in the middle “Bleiben” (Staying) shows a man sitting calmly on a car without wheels. On the one hand, he symbolizes the lack of freedom to travel in the GDR, but also the happiness of having found a place to stay.
The painting “Gehen” (Leaving) points to the West. It shows a woman, heavily laden with luggage, walking towards an empty and distant horizon. Will she experience goodwill or rejection there? Will she find a better life? Or just an existence on call? Can the gap left by her departure be compensated for?
What would we do if an enemy army invaded our homeland, if a civil war raged, if the population group to which we happened to belong suffered hostility? Or if, quite simply, there was no work? And wouldn't we then be relatively indifferent to whether our arrival in a safe place would be perceived as an imposition by those living there?
In Sabine Pommerening's installation footprints are made visible by black light. They symbolize the permanent coming and going.
| Location: Galerie TRAFO.1, Regenmanteler Str. 34, 15306 Regenmantel (Mark), (Map here) |
| Inauguration ceremony: Saturday, April 26, 2025, 3:00 pm |
| Duration: April 26, 2025 to August 31, 2025 |
| Opening times: daily |
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Exhibition 2025: „HELDINNEN / SHEROS“
The
Frauenmuseum Bonn is showing work on the topic of “HELDINNEN / SHEROS”.
It is a comprehensive project on 2,000 square meters for the entire year 2025 with 60 female artists, their installations,
video work and documentary areas. Some of the artists are heroines themselves due to their biography, while others
honor “their” heroine more or less documentary. Many questions arise: who is a heroine and why? In view of the memory
of the Second World War and its end 80 years ago, encouragement is needed for everyone to stand up for
peace and a humane world.
About the structure of the project
Entrance: Women resistance fighters under National Socialism, nationwide and from Bonn,
Heroines of history and mythology,
helpers, nurses, founders of charitable projects, including Savita Wagner from Bonn
who died herself while rescuing soldiers in the Ukraine.
On the 1st floor, there are artists who have researched heroines from other countries, from Latin America,
the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and we meet artists who are already legendary and produce groundbreaking art like
Marina Abramovic, Selma Selman, Eva Partum, Parastou Forouhar, Pussy Riot and others.
I show drawings that address the heroic resistance of women in Iran against the regime.
| Location: Frauenmuseum Bonn, Im Krausfeld 10, 53111 Bonn, Germany |
| Opening Ceremony: Sunday, May 11, 2025, 2 pm |
| Duration: May 11, 2025 – December 31, 2025 |
| Opening Times: Tuesday to Saturday, 2 pm – 6 pm, Sunday 11 am – 6 pm |
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