Six renowned curators, the director of the Kunsthalle Bremen and the Pauli Prize donors have each independently nominated an artist whose works will be on view at the Kunsthalle Bremen in an exhibition from 24 August to 13 October 2024: Katrin Brause (*1972), Benjamin Hirte (*1980), Christof John (*1984), Annika Kahrs (*1984), Marcus Neufanger (*1964), Cemile Sahin (*1990), Gabriele Stötzer (*1953) Jenna Sutela (*1983) are the 2024 finalists.
The Pauli Prize was awarded to Gabriele Stötzer on 17 Sept. 2024.

In the sixth annual Made in Düsseldorf exhibition, photographic works from the Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf collection by Janice Guy, Martina Sauter, Elger Esser, Anna Vogel, Eileen Quinlan and Frauke Dannert will be on display until October 27, 2024.

curated by Dr. Ute Bopp-Schumacher
until January, 12, 2025

Book to thte show: Elger Esser. Die engen Wasser, Dr. Ute Bopp-Schumacher, Dr.-Hanns-Simon-Stiftung (publishers)
Texts by Dr. Ute Bopp-Schumacher, Julian Gracq, Stephanie Kaak (preface), Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld/Berlin

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.