›tierisch menschlich‹ by Carmen Stahlschmidt

Röhrender Hirsch, Tusche auf Leinwand, 140x90cm, 2015, von Carmen Stahlschmidt. 

Animals and humans are represented in the different art forms. Margret Augst and Hildegard Enders play the piano and recite: Frieder Meschwitz, Robert Schumann, Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, Petr Eben and Maurice Ravel, text by Manfred Kyber. This music in particular inspired Carmen Stahlschmidt to create free works in the fields of drawing, etching and sculpture.

»One must take one's nature as it is,« the turtle sums up in one of the animal prayers in the setting for piano and speaker, which are at the beginning of the program. But this art-literature-music project is not only about the immovable. The absurd texts in the piano pieces ›Avant-Dernières Pensées‹ by Erik Satie find their place here just as much as the subtle four-handed piano pieces 'Ma Mère L'Oye' by Maurice Ravel. You can also discover his portrait in terracotta.

We welcome you to the opening of the exhibition on 28 January 2016 at 6 pm - only on this evening will the visual arts be combined with music and literature. The artists will be present.

With Margret Augst and Hildegard Clara Enders (music) and Andreas Preywisch (introduction)

In cooperation with the Essenheimer Kunstverein.

Programme

Opening hours:

29 January 2016 until 1 April 2016

Mon-Thu 9am - 12 | 2pm - 4pm

Fri 9am - 1pm

Admission free

 

›Farbe & Identität‹ by Rozbeh Asmani

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The Cologne-based conceptual artist Rozbeh Asmani is intensively engaged with the aesthetics of capitalism. With his most extensive group of works to date, »Colourmarks«, he examines so-called colour marks, which are registered with the German Trademark and Patent Office to be used exclusively by companies for their corporate identity.

In 2009, Asmani had his own experience with trademark law when he designed the multiple »Shirin«, a chocolate figure wrapped in a black chador. Originally, the figure was to be wrapped in purple tin foil. However, since purple is only permitted for the Milka brand in connection with chocolate production, the design was colour modified and at the same time the idea for his comprehensive series of works, Colourmarks, was born.

Rozbeh Asmani was born in Shiraz (Iran) in 1983. From 2003-2009 he studied media art at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig. In 2012 he made his master student with Prof. Günther Selichar. As a postgraduate student at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, he received the award for his work Colourmarks in 2013. The North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts accepted Rozbeh Asmani as the first artist to join the Young College in 2015. His work has been shown in renowned institutions such as the Kupferstichkabinett Berlin, the Kunstmuseum Bonn and the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg.

We cordially invite you to the opening of the exhibition ›Colour & Identity‹ by Rozbeh Asmani on 3 May 2016 at 6 pm. The artist will be present. An introduction will be given by the art journalist Marianne Hoffmann. 

To the website of  Rozbeh Asmani

Opening hours:

4 May until 24 June 2016

Mon-Thu 9am - 12 | 2pm - 4pm

Fri 9am - 1pm

Admission free

 

›MEIN RADIO MOZART‹ by ROLAND SIEGRIST

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The exhibition shows 349 watercolours by the graphic artist Roland Siegrist. For one year he listened to all compositions by Mozart, which were broadcast on the radio stations SWR 2, HR 2 and Bayern Klassik. The minutes of the broadcasts he made immediately after the radio transmissions contain the date, the name of the composition, the Köchel list and the performers. An intuitively chosen colour completes the recording of what was heard. The colour is an attempt to make what is heard comprehensible, the written record shows the profane nature of the radio broadcast.

Roland Siegrist, born in Basel in 1941, was a professor of design at the University of Mainz from 1973 to 2006. Stays abroad took him to the University of Utah, Salt Lake City and Pyongtaek University, Korea. He curated several exhibitions in Mainz, including at the Gutenberg Pavilion in 2000 and for the Mainzer Kunstverein, of which he was director from 1976 to 1982. He has also worked as a curator on an international level and has been involved in numerous art projects in Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Italy.

The exhibition will be opened with an artist talk between Roland Siegrist and Philipp Mosetter. Philipp Mosetter, who worked for six years at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna with students in the field of text and conception, finds the right words for agencies and clients. He lives as a freelance author and actor in Frankfurt and Vienna.

Opening hours:

14 September until 14 October 2016
Mon-Thu 9am - 4pm | Fri 9am - 1pm
Admission free

 

Fotoausstellung ›Zwischen Erde und Himmel. Religion im 20. Jahrhundert‹ by Barbara Klemm

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We are pleased to invite you to the opening of the exhibition ›Between Earth and Heaven. Religion in the 20th Century‹ by Barbara Klemm on 09 November 2016 at 6 pm. On this occasion you can expect an exhibition talk by Barbara Klemm with the theologian Prof. Dr. Johannes Meier.

Barbara Klemm has traveled for decades through Germany and the world as an editorial photographer for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. She visited political scenes and diplomatic stages, large cities and villages, streets and markets, factories, schools and churches. She has often travelled in Eastern Europe, the Mediterranean countries and Latin America. Her black-and-white photographs are remembered by many readers, especially from the political section of the FAZ and from the supplement ›Bilder und Zeiten‹. She developed a specific style of formative, constructive seeing. Empathy and a humane view characterize her photographs. On the fringes of major events in contemporary history, she perceives everyday life in miniature, curious occurrences, mystical moments.

The exhibition in the foyer of the Academy with 33 of her photographs from the period 1970 to 2006 conveys unusual views of the presence of religion ›between earth and heaven‹.

Opening hours:

31 October 2016 until 13 January 2017
Mon-Thu 9am - 4pm | Fri 9am - 1pm
Admission free