July, 6 to  September, 29 2024 – free entrance

Book to the show: Elger Esser, Lacus Rubresus
104 pages with texts by Sylvain Prudhomme, published by Maison des Arts de Bages and Bernard Chauveau

Pixerina Witcherina, curated by Julie Heffernan brings together the work of Joan Bankemper, Ruth Marten and Jenny Lynn McNutt in a conversation about slant authority, languages of the absurd, and the abundant pleasures of too muchness.

Elger Esser’s latest project is dedicated to a highlight of French medieval architecture, the Benedictine abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel in the Normandy mud flats. Commissioned by the French government to celebrate the abbey’s millennium in 2023, he photographed Mont-Saint-Michel and its surrounding landscape and turned it into breathtaking images to be exhibited in the abbey.

Since 2006, Ruth Marten has been using antique found prints as the starting point for her original painted additions and interventions. The source for this current series of gouache on photo gravure paintings is a 1923 portfolio of prints by a Polish photographer who called himself Laryew. Shot in Paris of young dancers from the Folies Bergère, they showed up on the table at a local Flea Market frequented by the artist. The works on view demonstrate Marten’s ongoing interest in the following phenomena: Cinema, World War I and its aftermath, modern art, and women liberating themselves from male expectations.

To celebrate the millennium of Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey, Elger Esser has photographed the Mont and the surrounding seascape in all seasons and sea states. The anniversary of this one of the most important sights in France will be accompanied by an exhibition of the photographs by the Franco-German artist on site.

January, 20 to March, 9
With drawings by, among others, Joachim Bandau, Lothar Baumgarten, Joseph Beuys, Heinz Butz, Otto Freundlich, Hokusai, Harriet Korman, Shigeko Kubota, Thomas Müller, Gabriele Münter, Kazuki Nakahara, Marcus Neufanger, Gerta Overbeck, Philadelphia Wireman, A.R. Penck, Lorenzo Pompa, Kishi Renzan, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Horio Sadaharu, Takako Saito, Andrea Tippel and Xu Lincun.

17 galleries located in the inner city of Cologne are open on Sunday 28 January.
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In his current exhibition, “A Twitter at the Palisades”, Lorenzo Pompa brings together all the recent works created for this “stage”. The title, as always with Pompa a profoundly amusing creation with a double meaning, could be harmless tweeting on top of a fence, but also tweeting behind a fortification or defense system.

What is at stake in his work and his artistic attitude, Johanna Adam, curator at the Bundeskunsthalle, will ask in a direct conversation with the artist.

Rebecca Stevenson wurde als Shifting Perspectives Artist in Residence für das Victoria & Albert Museum in London ausgewählt.
Die Residenz fiel mit der Ausstellung Donatello: Sculpting the Renaissance zusammen. Stevenson entwickelte und präsentierte neue bildhauerische Arbeiten, die mit Werken aus den Sammlungen interagierten.

The exhibition Sex and Violence – Deadly Desire in Art explores the darkest sides of desire and passion: from Salome to prostitution, lust murder and war crimes, to raising awareness of sexualized violence in contemporary art.

Exclusive pre-release event* with the vinyl art label GRAND CHESS Records.
It features the new album “Spark Like Living Mothers” by two-time Grammy Award winner Simon Goff and new works by New York artist Ruth Marten, who designed the entire visuals for the release.
Simon Goff performs live in the gallery at 4 pm and introduces the music.

(Registration requested)

*Supported by the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Department for Culture and Media.