»Helotrophe«- When marble starts to breathe
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At the Amberg Air Museum, the sculptures by the artist duo Venske &amp; Spänle—works of contemporary sculpture with an extraordinary presence—encounter a space that is itself attuned to space, lightness, and perception. The artist duo has been working with white Laas marble for many years, shaping it into organic, flowing sculptures that oscillate between observation of nature, transformation, and poetic condensation. The works of Julia Venske and Gregor Spänle derive their impact from the tension between hardness and movement. The marble loses its rigid appearance and takes on curved, biomorphic forms reminiscent of growth, skin, flow, and ecological processes. It is precisely within the museum space of the Luftmuseum that this sculptural language gains a special intensity: light, shadow, and lines of sight transform the viewing of the works into an aesthetic experience that directly connects body and space.
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Vernissage: 
Saturday, September 19, 2026
Duration of the exhibition: 
September 19, 2026 - January 17, 2027
Opening hours: 
Wednesday, Thursday: 2 p.m. - 5 p.m. 
Friday – Sunday, Holidays: 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Location
Luftmuseum e. V. 
Eichenforstgässchen 12 
92224 Amberg
Fon+ 49 9621 420 883 
mail@luftmuseum.de 
<a href="https://www.luftmuseum.de/startseite">www.luftmuseum.de</a>

Venske &amp; Spänle

VENSKE & SPÄNLE - Luftmuseum Amberg

We take great pleasure in being able to congratulate FRANZISKA STÜNKEL for receiving the STATE AWARD OF LOWER SAXONY 2026! 
 
The award was presented on June 15, 2026 in the Galerie Herrenhausen ballroom by Minister-President Olaf Lies. 
‘Franziska Stünkel’s films have been screened in nineteen countries at over two hundred festivals and on international general release. They deal with socio-political issues. Stünkel’s feature film The Last Execution, with Lars Eidinger, is based on the life of Dr Werner Teske, the last person to undergo capital punishment in East Germany in 1981,’ stated the jury. ‘For seventeen years Franziska Stünkel has been taking photographs around the world for her series Coexist. Her images indicate the complexity of human coexistence. Her work is shown in museums and galleries, and is represented in public collections. Franziska Stünkel is also voluntarily active as a trustee and juror. She is an appointed member of the German Society for Photography and the German Film Academy.’ 
Minister-President Olaf Lies: ‘Franziska Stünkel is an exceptional director and photographer, and therefore one of Lower Saxony’s creative ambassadors. She is also a role model above and beyond this, as her twenty-five-year commitment to humanitarian aid and democracy shows. This is not something to be taken for granted. Many grateful thanks and congratulations!’

Franziska Stünkel

FRANZISKA STÜNKEL receives the STATE AWARD OF LOWER SAXONY 2026

MUSEUM NIGHT – 6 June 2026, 6 p.m. – midnight 
Get on your bike, meet up with friends and set off into the night! It will be a wonderful stroll through the exhibition venues, and you’ll discover lots of exciting things.
OUR SCHEDULE FOR MUSEUM NIGHT:
TALK – at 8.00 pm. <a href="https://galerie-drees.de/en/artists/franziska-stuenkel">Franziska Stünkel</a> in conversation with actor and Grimme Award winner Sebastian Urzendowsky (Babylon Berlin, among others) on 
“Artistic creative processes in photography and film”. Both are involved in the “Film &amp; Democracy” working group at the German Film Academy. 
MUSIC – in the gallery’s courtyard. This year, the “Kunstfestspiele Herrenhausen” are organising, in collaboration with the “Musikzentrum”, small, intimate 
concerts at the respective exhibition venues. 
HANNOVER GIN will be serving you the finest drinks all night long in the courtyard from their unique gin bar trailer!

MUSEUM NIGHT 2026

HAAKON NEUBERT – STRABAG ART Award 
DIE VOLLE DISTANZ
Haakon Neubert, the grand prize winner of the STRABAG ART Award 2025, is exhibiting his latest works, which he created during his three-month residency in Vienna.
Vernissage: 
Wednesday, 20.05.2026, 6.30 p.m.
Welcoming remarks: 
Sebastian Haselsteiner, head of STRABAG ART
Introduction: 
Johan Holten, director ot the ARKEN Museum for contemporary art, Copenhagen and jury member STRABAG ART Award
Duration of the exhibition: 
21.05.–17.06.2026
STRABAG ART 
Donau-City-Strasse 9 
1220 Wien, Österreich 
Fon: +43 1 224 22 1850 
Mail: art@strabag.art 
<a href="https://strabag.art/">www.strabag.art</a>

HAAKON NEUBERT – DIE VOLLE DISTANZ – STRABAG ART Award

DANCE UNTIL THE END - Hanna Nitsch 
 
In her new series OPUS.MAGNUM. (WHAT REMAINS OF THE DAY), Hanna Nitsch explores her relationship with her own parents' generation by initiate a direct dialogue with the iconic works of her artistic role models, such as Peter Dreher, Hermann Nitsch, Joseph Beuys, and Günther Uecker. 
The Kunstverein Hochrhein is now showing works from this series for the first time. In addition to drawings, sculptures, and photographs, also video works will be on display.
Vernissage: 
Sunday, March 22, 11 a.m.
Guided tours: 
Sundays, 3 p.m. 
March 29 / April 5
Duration of the exhibition: 
March 22 - April 19, 2026
Opening hours: 
Saturdays: 2 p.m. – 5 p.m. 
Sundays and public holidays: 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. / 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Kunstverein Hochrhein 
Kulturhaus Villa Berberich 
Bad Säckingen 
Parkstraße 1 
79713 Bad Säckingen
<a href="https://www.kunstverein-hochrhein.de/">www.kunstverein-hochrhein.de</a>

Hanna Nitsch

HANNA NITSCH - Kunstverein Hochrhein

Art Karlsruhe 2026 
05. – 08.02.2026 
Galerie Drees - Hall 2, Booth G15
This year we are presenting the following seven artists from our gallery program:
<a href="https://galerie-drees.de/en/artists/gustavo-diaz-sosa">GUSTAVO DIAZ SOSA</a> – Canvas and paper works 
<a href="https://galerie-drees.de/en/artists/mikael-fagerlund">MIKAEL FAGERLUND</a> – Object editions and wall objects 
<a href="https://galerie-drees.de/en/artists/johannes-kersting">JOHANNES KERSTING</a> – Paintings and works on paper 
<a href="https://galerie-drees.de/en/artists/michael-laube">MICHAEL LAUBE</a> – Wall objects and installations 
<a href="https://galerie-drees.de/en/artists/haakon-neubert">HAAKON NEUBERT</a> – Paintings (winner of the Strabag Art Award 2025) 
<a href="https://galerie-drees.de/en/artists/hanna-nitsch">HANNA NITSCH</a> – Large-format ink drawings 
<a href="https://galerie-drees.de/en/artists/samuel-salcedo">SAMUEL SALCEDO</a> – Sculptures made of cast iron and aluminum 
 

Preview: Only for VIPs and press (VIP tickets are valid for 2 people for the entire duration of the artfair) 
Wednesday, February 04, 2026 from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Opening hours: 
Thursday to Saturday: 11 am to 7 pm 
Sunday: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Messe Karlsruhe 
Messeallee 1 
76287 Rheinstetten
Access via West Entrance and East Entrance
<a href="https://www.art-karlsruhe.de/en/">www.art-karlsruhe.de</a>

Haakon Neubert

ART KARLSRUHE 2026

ART SALON ZURICH 2025 
October 23–26, 2025 – at a new location in Oerlikon – 
Galerie Drees – Booth C 23 in »Hall 622«
For the fourth consecutive year, we are participating in the young Zurich art fair ART SALON ZURICH, once again presenting a diverse program of international artists. 
Heavy iron sculptures by our Catalan sculptor <a href="https://galerie-drees.de/en/artists/samuel-salcedo">Samuel Salcedo (ES)</a> stand alongside delicate busts of women by <a href="https://galerie-drees.de/en/artists/gerard-mas">Gerard Mas (ES)</a>, inspired by early Renaissance portraiture. 
The sculptures are flanked by two artistic positions that deal with the image surface in very different ways—<a href="https://galerie-drees.de/en/artists/dirk-salz">Dirk Salz (DE)</a> with his perfectly executed, shiny, and auratic-looking color object panels, and <a href="https://galerie-drees.de/en/artists/sander-reijgers">Sander Reijgers (NL)</a> with his enigmatic surface structures, which are applied to the image carrier in a fascinating way. 
<a href="https://galerie-drees.de/en/artists/johannes-kersting">Johannes Kersting (DE)</a> navigates the tension between abstraction and reality, between images of longing and depictions of the familiar in his paintings. 
Last but not least, <a href="https://galerie-drees.de/en/artists/mikael-fagerlund">Mikael Fagerlund (SE)</a>. Experience an encounter with the IKB, the original »International Klein Blue« by Yves Klein, at our booth.
Opening hours of ART SALON ZURICH 2025 
Thursday, October 23, 2025 – VIP opening from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. (by invitation) and Vernissage from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. (by invitation) 
Friday, October 24, 2025, from 12 p.m. – 8 p.m. 
Saturday, October 25, 2025, from 12 p.m. – 8 p.m. 
Sunday, October 26, 2025, from 12 p.m. – 6 p.m. 
 
ART SALON ZURICH 2025 
in »Halle 622« 
Therese-Giehse-Straße 10 
8050 Zürich-Oerlikon
www.artsalonzurich.com<a href="https://www.artsalonzurich.com/en/welcome">https://www.artsalonzurich.com/en/welcome</a>

Gerard Mas

Sander Reijgers

Dirk Salz

Johannes Kersting

Mikael Fagerlund

Samuel Salcedo

ART SALON ZÜRICH 2025

STRABAG ART Award 2025 - Haakon Neubert wins main prize
The STRABAG ART Award, one of Austria's most highly endowed private art prizes for painting and drawing, was presented for the 30th time. The main prize 2025 goes to the German artist <a href="https://galerie-drees.de/kuenstlerinnen/haakon-neubert">Haakon Neubert</a>. The jury, which included Angela Stief, Director of ALBERTINA modern, justified its decision by stating that Haakon's works impress with their graphic clarity, colorful monochrome surfaces, pop-cultural references and humorous observations of everyday life. In addition to the main prize, four recognition prizes were awarded. The award ceremony also marks the relaunch of the STRABAG Kunstforum under the new name STRABAG ART. 
 
Haakon Neubert, who was born in Münster in 1994, has always been interested in comics, video games and pop culture, and you can see this in his work: Bright colors, hard contours, monochrome surfaces and an emphasis on the graphic in the painterly. Full of humor, absurd and deeply anchored in the everyday, he depicts ordinary scenes with figures that are often preoccupied with themselves, for example while shopping, playing sports, playing, working or eating. Neubert captures his initial pictorial ideas in quick drawings that he cuts out and then assembles the cut-outs into small narrative scenes. His works are about being alone, being together and being strange, says the artist, who studied at the Kunstakademie Münster from 2016 - 2024. High and low art combine in these works and provide an unadulterated insight into a reality of life that is characterized by great immediacy.  (Angela Stief, Chief curator at the Albertina Modern) 
 
„I think that the formal and the content are mutually dependent and cannot be separated from each other. The interplay of both components forms the narrative. In my case, this means combining everyday scenes with my painting. I spent a long time thinking about why I paint until I realized that this was the wrong question. The right question is: Who am I painting for? And they are people, so I show them." (Haakon Neubert, Artist)
<a href="https://newsroom.strabag.com/en/press-releases/group/2025-06/strabag-art-award-2025-haakon-neubert-wins-main-prize-art-prize-celebrates-its-30th-anniversary">www.strabag.com</a>
Foto: Mafalda Rakoš©

Haakon Neubert, main prize winner of the STRABAG ART Award 2025

We are delighted that <a href="https://galerie-drees.de/en/artists/hanna-nitsch">Hanna Nitsch</a> will be represented at this year's 91st Autumn Exhibition of the Kunstverein Hannover. Under the theme ‘Fictional Constructions: Threads of Work and Homecoming,’ various works from her extensive oeuvre will be presentated at the Kunstverein Hannover until October 26, 2025.
The 91st edition of the Herbstausstellung at Kunstverein Hannover, taking place in 2025 in collaboration with Städtische Galerie KUBUS, offers a compelling survey of current artistic production in the region. As one of the most established platforms for contemporary art in Northern Germany, the Herbstausstellung is widely regarded as a vital barometer of emerging artistic developments. Since its founding in the 19th century, Kunstverein Hannover has presented a series of recurring exhibitions—among them the Herbstausstellung, which has been held continuously since 1907 and remains a cornerstone of the institution’s program.
91st Autumn Exhibition 
Kunstverein Hannover 
August 30 – October 26, 2025
Opening: 
August 29, 2025, 7 p.m.
<a href="https://www.kunstverein-hannover.de/en">www.kunstverein-hannover.de</a>

Hanna Nitsch »91st Autumn Exhibition«, Kunstverein Hannover

On 14 June 2025, Galerie Drees will participate in the Night of Museums in Hanover for the first time. 
 
During the Night of Museums, we will be showing the exhibition:
ALCHEMY 
SAMUEL SALCEDO – Sculpture 
MICHELLE CONCEPCIÓN – Painting
<a href="https://galerie-drees.de/en/exhibitions/alchemy">ALCHEMY</a> has always referred to the phenomenon of transforming something ordinary into something extraordinary. In art, too, alchemical processes of searching and striving for transformation, for influencing and redefining processes play a major role. It is precisely this approach that connects the work of SAMUEL SALCEDO and MICHELLE CONCEPCIÓN. Salcedo, whose cast sculptures explore human heads and bodies, uses the materiality and influence of the casting process to reveal traces of transience and manifest inner sensitivities. Concepción constructs her auratic, sometimes large-format works like a scientific experiment in individual series of investigations. Using pigment and canvas, she attempts to reproduce processes that occur in nature and integrate them into her works. 
 
Introduction to the exhibition: 
6.30 p.m. and 9.30 p.m. 
In the courtyard, ‘HANNOVER GIN®’ will be serving mixed drinks from its gin bar trailer.
Musical accompaniment: 
‘UNESCO City of Music’ (UCOM): Nico Gutu - Richard Häckel Duo 
Moldovan accordionist Nico Gutu and saxophonist Richard Häckel have formed a special duo that uniquely combines various styles, including tango nuevo, jazz and European folklore. Both musicians are accomplished instrumentalists with a keen sense of improvisation and musical interplay. The duo focuses primarily on the artful interpretation of selected compositions. Their repertoire includes pieces by Astor Piazzolla, Carlos Jobim and John Coltrane, among others. Each composition opens up a whole new world of sound for the audience and invites listeners on an adventurous musical journey of discovery.
<a href="https://www.hannover.de/Kultur-Freizeit/Museen-Ausstellungen/Nacht-der-Museen-in-Hannover">www.hannover.de</a>

Michelle Concepción

Gallery Drees at the Night of Museums 2025

Peter Heber – »Über das Sterben« (About dying)
The Sprengel Museum is showing the 49-part series of drawings “Über das Sterben” from 20.05.2025.
In 2023, the Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung acquired the 49-part series of drawings “Über das Sterben” by Peter Heber (*1956 Süderbrarup, lives in Hanover) for its collection, which is housed in the Sprengel Museum Hannover. The drawings, which were created within three days of visits to his aunt's deathbed in 1993, are part of a tradition of death scenes that artists such as Claude Monet, Ferdinand Hodler and Michael Morgner have dealt with intensively.
A booklet will be published in the series “Beiträge zur Sammlung”.
Curated by Karin Orchard.
Supported by the Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung.
Opening 
May 20, 2025, 6.30 p.m.
Duration of the exhibition 
May 21 - September 28, 2025
Sprengel Museum Hannover 
Kurt-Schwitters-Platz 
30169 Hannover
<a href="https://www.sprengel-museum.de/en">www.sprengel-museum.de</a>

Peter Heber

Peter Heber »Über das Sterben«, Sprengel Museum Hannover

Jürgen Paas – »Dancefloor«
The line, the circle and the square are the elementary forms that can be found in Jürgen Paas' wall and floor works. Born in Krefeld and with a studio in Essen, he works with luminous bands of color made of plastic, which he winds into spirals or assembles into fields of lines. Hardly limited in size, he also creates huge floor objects several meters in diameter that become walk-in works of art. The change of perspective in the room constantly creates new visual experiences for visitors.
Opening 
March 16, 2025, 11 a.m.
Duration of the exhibition 
March 16 – April 27, 2025
Flottmann-Hallen Herne 
Straße des Bohrhammers 5 
44625 Herne
<a href="https://www.flottmann-hallen.de/ausstellungen/">www.flottmann-hallen.de</a>

Jürgen Paas

Jürgen Paas »Dancefloor«, Flottmann-Hallen Herne

Hubertus Butin (art historian and author) will once again give a lecture on the subject in the gallery:
»NS-ROBBERY ART AT KUNSTHAUS ZURICH«
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 at 7 p.m. 
Admission is free. 
 
The department stores' giant Max Emden and the military industrialist Emil Bührle never met and yet they were connected. Both were passionate art collectors, and Bührle acquired high-calibre paintings by Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh, among others, from the Emden collection. However, one collector was persecuted and expropriated by the National Socialists due to his Jewish origins, while the other became the richest Swiss and knowingly bought Nazi-looted art during the Second World War. Works from the Bührle Foundation ended up in the Kunsthaus Zürich that are to be categorised as Nazi-looted assets. The descendants of Max Emden have been fighting in vain for 16 years for a fair and just solution. 
Hubertus Butin studied art history, philosophy and modern history in Bonn and Zurich. From 1996 to 1998, he worked as an art history assistant in Gerhard Richter's studio in Cologne. Since 1991, he has published numerous essays and books on contemporary art, art theory and cultural policy. He also organises exhibitions at international museums as a guest curator. He also works as an expert worldwide for collectors, art dealers, auction houses and the state criminal investigation offices. Hubertus Butin lives and works in Berlin.
The event is being organised in cooperation with the Bildungsverein Hannover, QBK and the Forum für Politik und Kultur e.V.

Lecture by Hubertus Butin »NS-RAUBKUNST IM KUNSTHAUS ZÜRICH«

Paul Schwer | Tube No. 3 - Tower No. 7
St. George's Church in Wismar is an architectural jewel of historical architecture and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In its monumental rooms, characterized by brick Gothic style, open up extraordinary opportunities to present contemporary art and place it in relation to history and space. 
Paul Schwer has placed two walk-in octagonal tubes there, which were originally modeled on the unbuilt elements of the Nord Stream project stored on the island of Rügen. Both tubes, one horizontal and one towering 6 meters high, were clad with colourfully painted acrylic glass panels and perforated metal sheets, making the outside and inside of the sculpture permeable. The artwork develops an immense tension with the impressive church interior - creating an intense relationship between sculptural art and sacred architecture.
Duration of the exhibition: 
February 21 - April 6, 2025
Opening hours: 
Daily from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 
From April daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Opening : 
Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 5 p.m. 
Admission is free.
KUNSTRAUM St. Georgen 
St.-Georgen-Kirche 
St.-Georgen Kirchhof 1A 
23966 Wismar
Photographer: Ferdinand Ullrich

Paul Schwer

PAUL SCHWER - Kunstraum St. Georgen, Wismar (D)

RESONANZEN (RESONANCES)
Samuel Salcedo · Sculpture 
Thomas Glas · Painting
March 22 – April 27, 2025
Vernissage: 
Friday, March 21, 2025, 7 p.m.
The encounter between the paintings of the German artist Thomas Glas (*1964) and the sculptures of the Catalan artist <a href="https://galerie-drees.de/en/artists/samuel-salcedo">Samuel Salcedo</a> (*1975) in the Städtische Galerie Villa Streccius in Landau opens up new multi-perspective experiences across borders. The absolute painting of Thomas Glas penetrates far into the cosmic space of our imagination with its pictorial instruments. The primal elements of art, “lines and color potentials”, give rise to never-before-seen realities. The pictures bring to life people's longing for creation, the beginnings of our conception of the world and the limits of our experience. Samuel Salcedo addresses the sensitivities of human existence in a profound and poetic way. With their eyes closed, the steel faces appear powerfully focused on themselves. They remind us of the lostness of time and space.
Inside and outside, these works of art transcend the genre boundaries of art and become mirror surfaces of our real and imagined world. In themselves, they are seismographic instruments for remeasuring the world and, together, they condense into a magnificent cosmological resonance of our existence.
Opening hours: 
Tue and Wed 5-8 pm 
Thu to Sun 2-5 p.m. 
Mon closed 
 
Städtische Galerie Villa Streccius 
Südring 20 
76829 Landau in der Pfalz 
 
Tel.: 06341-134111
<a href="https://villa-streccius.de/">www.villa-streccius.de</a>

SAMUEL SALCEDO - Villa Streccius, Landau

Art Karlsruhe 2025 
20. – 23.02.2025 
Gallery Drees - Hall 4, Booth P 06
This year we are presenting seven artists from the gallery program:
<a href="https://galerie-drees.de/en/artists/pertti-kekarainen">PERTTI KEKARAINEN</a> - under the label re:frame we are showing works from the estate of our Finnish photo artist who died far too young.
<a href="https://galerie-drees.de/en/artists/lucia-dellefant">LUCIA DELLEFANT</a> - word objects 
<a href="https://galerie-drees.de/en/artists/johannes-kersting">JOHANNES KERSTING</a> - paintings and works on paper 
<a href="https://galerie-drees.de/en/artists/samuel-salcedo">SAMUEL SALCEDO</a> - Cast iron and aluminum sculptures
Positions of YOUNG TALENTS
<a href="https://galerie-drees.de/en/artists/haakon-neubert">HAAKON NEUBERT</a> 
<a href="https://galerie-drees.de/en/artists/philipp-stoeckel">PHILIPP STÖCKEL</a> 
<a href="https://galerie-drees.de/en/artists/maria-trezinski">MARIA TREZINSKI</a>
Preview: for VIPs and press 
Wednesday, February 19, 2025 from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Opening hours: 
Thursday to Saturday: 11 am to 7 pm 
Sunday: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Karlsruhe Trade Fair Center 
Messeallee 1 
76287 Rheinstetten
Access via the West Entrance and East Entrance
<a href="https://www.art-karlsruhe.de/en/">www.art-karlsruhe.de</a>

Maria Trezinski

Pertti Kekarainen

Philipp Stöckel

Lucia Dellefant

ART KARLSRUHE 2025

»WHO CAME FIRST? The path to abstract painting« 
A lecture by Julia Voss (Deutsches Museum Berlin)
Thursday, November 28, 2024, 7 p.m.
The author Julia Voss will give a lecture at Galerie Drees entitled »WHO CAME FIRST? The path to abstract painting«. 
The Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) is one of the greatest rediscoveries of the 21st century. Julia Voss has written a biography of the exceptional artist and in her lecture will take a look behind the scenes of af Klint's surprising comeback. 
Hilma af Klint was already creating huge non-figurative paintings in 1906, years before her male colleagues declared themselves the inventors of abstraction. Although she lived at almost the same time as Wassily Kandinsky, she remained almost unknown during her lifetime. Today, af Klint is celebrated in the world's great museums, from Düsseldorf to London and New York.
Moderation 
Michael Stoeber, art historian, Hannover
Location 
Galerie Drees 
Weidendamm 15 
30167 Hannover 
 
Organization 
Bildungsverein Hannover e.V. in cooperation with the Forum für Politik und Kultur e.V.
Admission is free.

Julia Voss »WHO CAME FIRST? The path to abstract painting«

PAPER POSITIONS VIENNA 2024 
November 21 – 24, 2024 
Galerie Drees - Booth 30
PAPER POSITONS will be presented in Vienna for the first time this year. Art with and on paper is the focus of this fine salon fair in the historic Kursaal. 
We will be showing selected works by four international artists from the gallery. 
 
<a href="https://galerie-drees.de/en/artists/hanna-nitsch">Hanna Nitsch (DE)</a> 
<a href="https://galerie-drees.de/en/artists/matthias-kanter">Matthias Kanter (DE)</a> 
<a href="https://galerie-drees.de/en/artists/gustavo-diaz-sosa">Gustavo Díaz Sosa (CU)</a> 
<a href="https://galerie-drees.de/en/artists/johannes-kersting">Johannes Kersting (DE)</a>
PAPER POSITIONS VIENNA 2024 
Kursaal 
Johannesgasse 33 
1010 Wien 
<a href="https://www.paperpositions.com/de/staedte/wien">www.paperpositions.com</a> 

Opening hours 
Opening, Thursday, November 21, 6 - 9 p.m. 
Friday, November 22, 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. 
Saturday, November 23, 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. 
Sunday, November 24, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Organization 
POSITIONS Berlin GmbH 
Potsdamer Str. 81a 
10785 Berlin 
+49 30 740 737 88 
info@paperpositions.com

Gustavo Diaz Sosa

Matthias Kanter

PAPER POSITIONS VIENNA 2024

ART SALON ZÜRICH 2024 
October 23 – 27, 2024 
Galerie Drees - Booth C 15
The successful, young art fair <a href="https://www.artsalonzurich.com/en/welcome">Art Salon Zürich</a> is entering its third round in 2024 and we are delighted to be part of it.
<a href="https://galerie-drees.de/en/artists/mikael-fagerlund">Mikael Fagerlund (SE)</a> will be showing floating acrylic objects that captivate with their visual clarity. In the paintings of <a href="https://galerie-drees.de/en/artists/matthias-kanter">Matthias Kanter (DE)</a> you will discover a very reflective approach to abstraction. With <a href="https://galerie-drees.de/en/artists/sander-reijgers">Sander Reijgers (NL)</a> we remain fascinated by the surface of his works and with the head sculptures by <a href="https://galerie-drees.de/en/artists/samuel-salcedo">Samuel Salcedo (ES)</a> our thoughts wander to our inner state and attitude...
ART SALON ZÜRICH 
Werkstadt-Zürich 
Halle D, Süd 
Hohlstrasse 400 
8048 Zürich - Altstetten 
(Passage Boesner!)
Opening hours 
Wednesday, October 23 - VIP Opening (by invitation only) 
Thursday, October 24 from 12 noon - 8 p.m. 
Friday, October 25 from 12 noon - 8 p.m. 
Saturday, October 26, from 12 noon - 8 p.m. 
Sunday, October 27, from 12 noon - 6 p.m.

ART SALON ZÜRICH 2024

The 9th Swiss Sculpture Triennial will take place from May 4 to October 30, 2024 in Bad Ragaz (CH) and Vaduz (LI). 
Europe's largest open-air exhibition celebrates a success story lasting over 20 years. 
Every three years since 2000, artists from all over the world have been invited to the traditional spa town of Bad Ragaz to create large-scale sculptures in the town and its landscape. 
As in 2021, Samuel Salcodo from Spain has been invited to present his fascinating head sculptures in front of the stunning mountain landscape.
Grand Opening: May 04, 2024 
14.00-16.00 Meet the artists at their sculptures. 
At the same time, young up-and-coming musicians and experienced musicians such as Scalette Stocker or a duo from Les Chouettes will perform at all the major sculpture locations 
17:00-18:00 Opening ceremony on the Giessenpark Festwiese with speeches, comedy and culinary delights 
19.00  Les Chouettes 
20.45 Ribelsteaks 
21.30-01.00 Afterparty with DJ OK
Location: 
<a href="https://badragartz.ch/en">9th Swiss Sculpture Triennial</a> 
Festwiese Giessenpark 
Seepromenade, 7310 Bad Ragaz, Switzerland
At the second venue of the Triennale in Vaduz (LI), Samuel Salcedo's head stele "Watchtower" will rise confidently and solitarily.
Opening Vaduz: May 08, 2024 
17.00 Vaduz Town Hall, Liechtenstein 
Reservations by e-mail: info@erlebevaduz.li
Admission free

Samuel Salcedo at the 9th Swiss Sculpture Triennial

Hubertus Butin (art historian and author) will give a lecture on conceptual art at Gallery Drees on Thursday, March 7, 2024 at 7 p.m. with the title: "Live in your head - aspects of conceptual art of the 1960s and 1970s". 
Ulrich Krempel (art historian, curator and former museum director of the Sprengel Museum Hannover) will host the event.
Hubertus Butin, born in 1964, worked as an art historian in Gerhard Richter's studio in Cologne in the 1990s. He has published numerous essays and books on contemporary art and art theory. He also organizes exhibitions at international museums as a guest curator and works as an expert worldwide for collectors, art dealers, auction houses and state criminal investigation offices. 
Hubertus Butin lives and works in Berlin.
Lecture by Hubertus Butin, moderated by Ulrich Krempel 
Thursday, 07.03.2024, 7 p.m.
Gallery Drees 
Weidendamm 15 
30167 Hanover
Admission is free.
The event is organized in cooperation with the Bildungsverein Hannover, QBK and the Forum für Politik und Kultur e.V.

Lecture by Hubertus Butin - Aspects of conceptual art of the 60s and 70s

Paul Schwer – refuge
The Kunstverein Lippstadt e.V. is showing current works of the Düsseldorf artist Paul Schwer. 
As soon as you enter the exhibition entitled refuge, you are surrounded by dynamic colors and unlimited forms. They seem to burst the surfaces, move in space and dissolve into light.
Duration of the exhibition: 
February 4, - March 24, 2024
Opening: 
February 4, 2024, 11.30 a.m. 
Welcome by Franz-Josef Laforet (Chairman) 
Introduction and artist talk with Prof. Dr. Erich Franz 
and Kathrin Heyer
Opening hours: 
Tue, Thu, Fr: 3. p.m. - 6 p.m. 
We: 3. p.m. - 8 p.m. 
Sa and Sun: 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Kunstverein Lippstadt e. V. 
Am Bernhardbrunnen 1 
59555 Lippstadt 
Fon: 02941 7436560
<a href="https://www.kunstverein-lippstadt.net/">www.kunstverein-lippstadt.net</a>

Paul Schwer – Kunstverein Lippstadt. e. V.

Art Karlsruhe - Fair for Classical Modern and Contemporary Art 
22. - 25.02.2024 
Gallery Drees - Stand R 01
We present Jürgen Jansen as a one-person-show in our booth, as well as the latest works by Venske &amp; Spänle, Tine Benz, Samuel Salcedo and Thomas Dillmann. 
Large-format steel works by Pieter Obels will be shown on the sculpture square in DM Hall 4 / R02.
Preview: for VIPs and press 
Wednesday, February 21, 2024 from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Opening hours: 
Thursday to Saturday: 11.00 am to 7.00 pm 
Sunday: 11.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m.
Karlsruhe Trade Fair Center 
Messeallee 1 
76287 Rheinstetten
Access via the West Entrance and East Entrance
<a href="https://www.art-karlsruhe.de/en/">www.art-karlsruhe.de</a>

Pieter Obels

Jürgen Jansen

Thomas Dillmann

Tine Benz

GALERIE DREES at the Art Karlsruhe

HANNA NITSCH – WENN WIR DURCH FLURE GEHEN #1 
 
The Kunstverein Ludwigsburg's first exhibition in its anniversary year 2024 is entitled »WENN WIR DURCH FLURE GEHEN«. 
The "WE" in the title says it all, as the artist Hanna Nitsch has invited both the Berlin musician and sound artist Katharina Schmidt and her daughter Lilli to perform together in the rooms of the Kunstverein. The result is a cooperative project that deals with floating, fleetingness and transparency, farewells and departures, and remembering. Fragments create an imaginary transparency where the context of a story no longer exists. Three generations of women present fragments of these themes side by side in the exhibition. Ink drawings, photographs, texts and a sound installation created especially for the Kunstverein space can be seen and heard.
A cooperative artistic project with Hanna Nitsch, Katharina Schmidt and Lilli Nitsch.
Vernissage: 
Thursday, January 18, 2024, 6.30 p.m.
Kunstverein Kreis Ludwigsburg e.V. 
In the MIK 
Eberhardstraße 1 
71634 Ludwigsburg
Entrance: Via Eberhardstraße (corner of Wilhelmstraße)
Opening hours: 
Thursday - Sunday: 14.00 - 18.00 p.m.
Admission is free.
Phone: 0 71 41 / 92 91 96 
mail@kunstverein-ludwigsburg.de 
<a href="https://www.kunstverein-ludwigsburg.de/">www.kunstverein-ludwigsburg.de</a>

Hanna Nitsch – Kunstverein Ludwigsburg

Pepa Salas Vilar – Weißer Rabe Cuervo Blanco
The Poetic Realism that Pepa Salas Vilar presents us with her new pictorial work aims to praise the different, unusual or rare. 
That which is often discriminated in society is given an extraordinary, sacred or magical value by the artist. She manages to create a personal world of symbols and metaphors in a figurative black and white scenario with color accents.
Vernissage 
Sunday, October 15, 2023, 12.15 noon 
 
Opening remarks 
Jesús Gómez, Künstler
Kunstverein Wedemark e.V. 
Im Bürgerhaus 
Am Markt 1 
30900 Wedemark / Bissendorf 
Phone 05130 95 49 853 
info@imago-kunstverein.de 
www.imago-kunstverein.de 
www.kunstregion.de
Opening hours 
We - Fr 11 a.m. -1 p.m. and 3 p.m. - 6 p.m. 
Sa 11 a.m. -1 p.m. and 3 p.m. - 5 p.m. 
Su 3 p.m. - 5 p.m. 
And by appointment

Pepa Salas Vilar

Pepa Salas Vilar – Kunstverein Wedemark e.V.

Hanna Nitsch _ADORE_LES
Hanna Nitsch's work is concerned with the construction of individual and collective identities. From the perspective of the triad - woman, artist and mother - she questions the role models and stereotypes of our society and culture.
Opening 
Friday, September, 15, 2023, 7 p.m. – 8.30 p.m.
Introduction 
Julia Sonnefeld-Wurthmann M.A.
Duration of the exhibition 
September, 16 – November 12, 2023
Opening hours 
Wed – Fri and Sun: 3 p.m. – 6 p.m. 
Sat: 11 a.m. – 14 p.m.
Entrance is free.
Kunstverein Paderborn e.V. 
Kamp 13 
33098 Paderborn
<a href="https://kunstverein-paderborn.de/">www.kunstverein-paderborn.de</a>

Hanna Nitsch – Kunstverein Paderborn

ART SALON ZÜRICH 2023 
27.09. - 01.10.2023 
Galerie Drees - Stand C 16
ART SALON ZÜRICH 
Werkstadt-Zürich 
Halle D, Süd 
Hohlstrasse 400 
8048 Zürich
The young art fair Art Salon Zurich is entering its second round in 2023 and we are happy to be part of it again. This year we are once again presenting in friendly cooperation with Galerie Obrist from Essen. For the first time we will be showing sensational canvas works by the Leipzig artist Hans Aichinger (DE). Also figurative paintings by Johannes Kersting (DE) and abstract wall objects by Dirk Salz (DE). We also present unique sculptures by Catalan artist Samuel Salcedo (ES) and Dutch artist Pieter Obels (NL).

ART SALON ZÜRICH 2023

Paul Schwer shows sculptures at »BLICKACHSEN 13« in the Kurpark and the Schlosspark Bad Homburg. 
 
Duration of the exhibition 
May 14 - October 01, 2023 
in cooperation with the Foundation Insel Hombroich, Neuss 
Curated by Christian Scheffel and Roland Nachtigäller
Artists 
Gili Avissar, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Michael Dekker, Tamara Grcic, Sabine Groß, Erwin Heerich, Judith Hopf, Gereon Krebber, Norbert Kricke, Oliver Kruse, Arik Levy, Wilhelm Mundt, Katsuhito Nishikawa, Bettina Pousttchi, Thomas Rentmeister, Fernando Sánchez Castillo, Thomas Schütte, Paul Schwer, Esther Stocker, William Tucker, Sonja Vordermaier, Ina Weber, Winter/Hoerbelt
Vernissage 
Sunday, May 14, 2023, 11.30 a.m. 
on the Schmuckplatz in the Kurpark 
(opposite the Kaiser-Friedrich-Promenade 55) 
61348 Bad Homburg v. d. Höhe
<a href="https://www.blickachsen.de/en/blickachsen-13">www.blickachsen.de</a>

Paul Schwer – BLICKACHSEN 13

The Marburger Kunstverein shows in a solo exhibition the project OURCONOMY in which Lucia Dellefant wants to sensibilize our view on the globalized world.
Duration of the exhibition 
August 11  - October 5, 2023
Opening hours 
Thuesday – Sunday: 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. 
Wednesday: 11 a.m. – 8 p.m.
Marburger Kunstverein 
Gerhard-Jahn-Platz 
535037 Marburg
info@marburger-kunstverein.de 
<a href="http://marburger-kunstverein.de/event/jahresprogramm-2023/">www.marburger-kunstverein.de</a>

Lucia Dellefant – Marburger Kunstverein

The Kunstverein "Kunst und Kultur zu Hohenaschau e.V." shows from July 7 – August 6, 2023 a comprehensive retrospective of 51 works from the creative years from 1999 to today.
Latest, unknown paintings of the longtime gallery artist Thomas Dillmann will be presented next to well-known canvases.
The opening will take place on July 07 at 7:30 pm. Andrea Kühnhackl, chairwoman of "Kunst und Kultur zu Hohenaschau e.V." will introduce the exhibition.
THOMAS DILLMANN – Painting 
July 7 – August 6, 2023
Kunst und Kultur zu Hohenaschau e.V. 
An der Festhalle 4 
83229 Aschau 
<a href="http://www.kuku-hohenaschau.de/kunst-und-kultur/kuenstler.htm">www.kuku-hohenaschau.de</a> 
<a href="mailto:info@kuku-hohenauschau.de">info@kuku-hohenauschau.de</a>
Opening hours 
Friday and Saturday 4 p.m. – 7 p.m. 
Sunday 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Thomas Dillmann Painting – Kunst und Kultur zu Hohenaschau e.V.

Samuel Salcedo is one of 200 artists selected to take part in NordArt 2023 at the Kunstwerk Carlshütte. It is the 24th showing of work by international artists in an area of over 100,000 square metres in and around the historical iron foundry in Schleswig-Holstein. NordArt is one of the largest annual exhibitions of contemporary art in Europe, and this year runs from 3 June to 8 October.
We are delighted the Samuel Salcedo is a part of this story.
It will be well worth a visit to rediscover his unique sculptured heads, whose portrayal of the human countenance is always both profound and humorous, in this remarkable atmosphere. Samuel Salcedo will be represented by 17 works, made of iron, polished aluminium and epoxy resin. The Carlshütte in Büdelsdorf is only 35 km from Kiel, and can eminently be combined with a journey north … 
Samuel Salcedo and Robert Drees will be there on the opening day, 3 June 2023, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.!
NordArt 2023 
Vorwerksallee 
24782 Büdelsdorf
Duration of the exhibition 
June 3 – October 8, 2023
Opening hours 
Thuesday bis Sunday 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. Uhr
<a href="https://www.nordart.de/">www.nordart.de</a>

Samuel Salcedo auf der NordArt 2023

From 19.05. to 17.06. the Kunstverein Viernheim dedicates a multimedia solo exhibition to our gallery artist Hanna Nitsch. 
In MADONNA, MEDEA &amp; ICH #1 she deals primarily with the ambivalence of individual and collective identity, cultural role models and pictorial stereotypes.
Also shown in the public space is a multi-part photographic work that Hanna Nitsch developed especially for this purpose. On the six billboards distributed in Viernheim's urban space, VIERNHEIM_BILLBOARDS_MADONNA # she confronts the viewer with questions about contemporary motherhood between Maria and Medea, happiness and pain.
Kunstverein Viernheim 
c/o Kunsthaus Viernheim Rathausstr. 36 68519 Viernheim
Opening 
Friday, May 5, 2023, 7 p.m.
Greeting 
Fritz Stier, Kunstverein Viernheim
Introduction 
Marcus Körber, Städt. Galerie Wolfsburg
Duration of the exhibition 
May 5, – June 17, 2023
Opening hours 
Thursday – Friday 3 p.m. - 6 p.m Saturday 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
<a href="https://kunstverein-viernheim.de/">www.kunstverein-viernheim.de</a>

Hanna Nitsch – Kunstverein Viernheim

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Markus Fräger has fascinated us for years with his concentrated and haunting figurative painting. He died sadly far too young in 2020.
The Museum Schloss Cappenberg in the district of Unna (where Fräger grew up) is now showing a large retrospective exhibition of his work. Fräger’s emotionally charged scenes, playing out in moodily lit interiors with something of the old masters about them, always deal with a ‘before’ and an ‘after’. Yet their stories seem to be open-ended …
MUSEUM SCHLOSS CAPPENBERG KREIS UNNA 
Schlossberg 1 b 59379 Selm
Duration of the exhibition 
April 30 – September 24, 2023
Opening hours 
Thuesday - Sunday, Public holidays: 10 a.m. – 5.30 p.m.
<a href="https://www.kreis-unna.de/Erleben/Kultur/Museum-Schloss-Cappenberg/">www.kreis-unna.de</a>
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Markus Fräger – Retrospective in the Museum Schloss Cappenberg Kreis Unna

With his fictional landscape compositions, the Hungarian-German artist Szilard Huszank takes us to sceneries that are apparently idyllic and full of longing. Starting from a large repertoire of classical motifs, he transforms them into a play of colors and surfaces via his individual artistic language. The virtuosically designed works, which combine technical skill with content, are being shown for the first time at the Kunstverein Ludwigsburg.
Vernissage 
February 2, 2023, 6.30 p.m., the artist is present
Welcome 
Harald Jahnke
Exhibition remarks 
Dr. Martin Hellmold, art historian
Duration of the exhibition 
February 2, – March 23, 2023
Finissage 
March 23, 2023, 6.30 p.m.
Kunstverein Ludwigsburg 
Eberhardstraße 1 
71634 Ludwigsburg 
Fon: 0 71 41.92 91 96 
kunstverein-ludwigsburg.de
Opening hours 
Thrusday – Sunday: 2 p.m.  – 6 p.m.
<a href="https://www.kunstverein-ludwigsburg.de/">www.kunstverein-ludwigsburg.de</a>

Szilard Huszank

Szilard Huszank – Kunstverein Ludwigsburg

Nothing influences us as much as the family. We associate it with love, support, trust – but also pain, disappointment and effort. Today, the definition of family is no longer clear: In addition to the typical middle-class family, a wide variety of forms of cohabitation are becoming established. 
What role does family background play in one’s own life concept? What influence do money, power and social role models have on family life? Can love and care also be constricting? What stories and secrets shape our relationship with relatives or friends? 
The group show “doing family” focuses on the influences and challenges that characterize family life.
With artworks by Johan Bävman, Olga Bushkova, Nesa Gschwend, Diana Karklin, Tanja Krebs, Isabelle Krieg, Janaina Mello Landini, Hanna Nitsch, Caroline Minjolle, Tim Rod, Peter Sauerer, Klaudia Schifferle, Magnus Wennman
Vögele Kultur Zentrum 
Gwattstrasse 14 
8808 Pfäffikon SZ
Duration of the exhibition 
15.11.2022 – 19.03.2023
Opening hours 
Tue – Su: 11 a.m. – 17 p.m. 
Thursday: 11 a.m. – 20 p.m.
<a href="http://www.voegelekultur.ch/">www.voegelekultur.ch</a>

Hanna Nitsch – Vögele Kulturzentrum (CH)

Since September 24, 2022 the sculpture AUTOEATER by the artist duo Venske &amp; Spänle can be seen at the Stachus in front of the Palace of Justice (Munich).

Venske & Spänle — AUTOEATER am Stachus, München

UNDERCOVER – hiding one’s true identity, covert action. UNDERCOVER – this exhibition shows that artistic work may entail both presentation and deliberate concealment. WOLFGANG FLAD develops large-format sculptures characterised by dynamism, movement and organic growth structures. Coloured reflective glass gives the visible aspect of his wall objects another layer, in which forms emerge and disappear again beneath the surface. Their materiality remains inconclusive. In his object painting, JÜRGEN PAAS deals with the relationship between colour and surface, system and confusion. Colour, rhythm and order fuse into a surprising visual language whose materiality also defies interpretation. 
UNDERCOVER describes the attitude of both artists – the essence is concealed beneath the superficially visible.
The artists will be present.

Wolfgang Flad

UNDERCOVER

FRANZISKA STÜNKEL has been out and about with her Leica M photographing the multiple layers of human coexistence around the world for 17 years. Central to the new photographs, taken in Mexico City, Naples, Belfast and Little Havana, the Cuban district of Miami, is the idea of dialogue. Stünkel’s documentary and poetic gaze always gives rise to an associative back and forth – not only between people, but also between cultures, perspectives and realities. At the present time of digital communication, social tension and often entrenched positions it can be seen how demanding dialogue is – but at the same time how vital for a peaceful coexistence.
COEXIST PART 7 – DIALOGUE is amplified by participative live interventions. Franziska Stünkel is curating two evenings when the exhibition space becomes a place of interchange. DIALOGUE #1 (June 17, 7 p.m.) and DIALOGUE #2 (August 14, 7 p.m.) are invitations to join in the conversation.
NIGHT OF THE MUSEUMS: 
June 6, 2026, 6 p.m. – midnight 
TALK at 8 p.m. 
Franziska Stünkel in conversation with actor and Grimme Award winner Sebastian Urzendowsky (Babylon Berlin) about "Artistic Creative Processes in Photography and Film". Both are active in the “Film &amp; Democracy” working group at the German Film Academy.
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COEXIST PART 7 — DIALOGUE

JUST DO IT! – Is this a challenge to step outside your comfort zone? Or an alarming demand to do something out of the ordinary? HAAKON NEUBERT certainly steps out of his comfort zone – in his image worlds he goes onto the street, into corner pubs and where the atmosphere’s rough. He doesn’t make accusations; he captures moments. We become keen observers, readily drawn into his comic-trashy, high-contrast, colourful scenarios. Sculptures by the artist duo JULIA VENSKE &amp; GREGOR SPÄNLE are vivid proof that what apparently doesn’t go together can give us a glimpse behind the social façade. Classical white marble, that art-historical sculptural constant, oozes out of disposable packaging or gets jammed onto signboards. JUST DO IT! An invitation to take a closer look…
The artists will be present.
The Gallery is closed from May 14 - 18, 2026.

MACH DOCH!

HIDDEN SURFACE – the juxtaposition of work by SZILARD HUSZANK &amp; AJA VON LOEPER is a pointer to what lies beneath the surface, to layers of perception, memory and transformation. Szilard Huszank undertakes this exploration in vividly coloured, sometimes large-format fragments of landscape in thickly applied oils. His colouration exhibits a deep sensibility in the interplay of landscape painting and abstract poetry. Aja von Loeper’s works on paper, by contrast, are white, paper-white. Elevations and structures that come about through physically working the paper itself stand out in relief from the material’s smoothness and generate a tremendous, almost sculptural tension. Von Loeper brings structures to the surface, awakens the two-dimensional sheet of paper to three-dimensional vigour – face and depth – hidden surface.

Aja von Loeper

HIDDEN SURFACE

The quote from Nietzsche’s Zarathustra describes the scepticism about the spoken word shared by many artists. With this exhibition we initiate a discussion between what an image shows and what the viewer discerns. In his object panels, Dirk Salz explores spaces of depth, reflection and time that emerge through the many-layered application of pigments and resins beneath a high-gloss seal. Not only in his artistic accomplishment does he seek an ideal ‘that is yet to be reached’. Lara Kaiser, another YOUNG TALENT in our gallery programme, blurs space and representation, figuration and abstraction in her small- and medium-format oil paintings that examine art-historical motifs, perception and illusion. Dirk Salz and Lara Kaiser both question the limits of the inexpressible.
The artists will attend the opening.

Lara Kaiser

IT IS A BEAUTIFUL FOLLY, SPEAKING

ALCHEMY has long denoted the transformation of something ordinary into something extraordinary. Alchemical processes of searching and striving for transformation, manipulation and redetermination also play a large role in art, and it is exactly this approach that connects the work of SAMUEL SALCEDO and MICHELLE CONCEPCIÓN. Salcedo, whose cast sculptures seek the essence of human heads and bodies, manipulates the casting process in its materiality in order to reveal traces of impermanence and manifest states of mind. Concepción builds up her auratic, sometimes large-format works like the individual stages of a scientific experiment. Using pigment and canvas she attempts to reproduce natural processes and to integrate them into her paintings. 
 
The artists will be in attendance.

ALCHEMY

PAINTING IS NO PROBLEM – this bold assertion, and the title of a work by 
Eberhard Ross, inevitably raises the question ‘What is painting?’ 
‘Painting is an artform that involves the application of paint onto 
a surface such as paper, canvas or wood’, says the dictionary. 
The three artists EBERHARD ROSS, PAUL DIESTEL and SANDER REIJGERS 
deal very differently with this artform. Ross, in his mysteriously luminous paintings 
with their fine chromatic gradations and delicately lineated surfaces, 
is interested in the impact of colour. Diestel paints his nature-inspired sculptures 
so as to heighten their expressive power, while Reijgers conceives painting as the 
expression of a fascination with the materiality of paint and the physical 
act of its application.
The artists will be in attendance.
The gallery is closed from May 1 - 4, 2025.

Eberhard Ross

Paul Diestel

PAINTING IS NO PROBLEM

OCTOPUS’S GARDEN – this famous song title from the Beatles evokes sounds in us and immediately stimulates the imagination. Exactly what happens on looking at the works of Sun-Rae Kim, which carry us off to a magical, mysterious, narrative, micro-fantasy cosmos. The South Korean-born artist moves with artistic virtuosity through the Asian and European worlds, combining them with fascinating playfulness, vividness and technical ability. In her new series too she transforms familiar everyday material into ornate objects or small picture panels. With enigmatic underwater creatures or utopian fantasy worlds, Sun-Rae Kim plays with our sensory perception …
The artist will be in attendance.

Sun-Rae Kim

Kyle Egret

OCTOPUS´S GARDEN

ELYSIUM – the place of the blessed, a place of reverie, of longing … 
Is this what we associate, what we sense, when we take in Johannes Kersting’s images? The light, the gentleness, the atmospheres that Kersting elaborates on canvas and paper leave us with a resounding calm. Kersting, who also trained as a photographer, is a master of the art of lighting in his scenarios, and not by chance do his image worlds recall the paintings of Edward Hopper. Do we long for these places too?
The artist will attend the opening.
A new catalog will be published – <a href="https://galerie-drees.de/en/artists/johannes-kersting">LAST CALL UTOPIA</a>

Hirofumi Fujiwara

ELYSIUM

25 YEARS OF GALLERY DREES, 125 EXHIBITIONS AND ONE OPENING!
We could give ourselves a retrospective pat on the back for everything we’ve achieved over the years. But if we hadn’t done it right, we wouldn’t still be here after 25 years! So we aren’t looking back but pleasurably ahead!
We have invited four talents with different artistic backgrounds to take part in the exhibition ANGRILLEN – YOUNG TALENTS #1. All four took their MFAs between 2018 and 2024.
Carolin Israel (Düsseldorf) 
Haakon Neubert (Münster) 
Maria Trezinski (Speyer) 
Philipp Stöckel (Leipzig)
ANGRILLEN – The German word for opening the barbecue season. One of the most popular leisure activities worldwide, and unusual in an art context. For us it means firing up, sparking curiosity, looking ahead. New artists. New to the gallery. New to Hanover. YOUNG TALENTS!
The gallery is closed from October 31 - November 3, 2024.

Carolin Israel

ANGRILLEN

SUN MASCHINE – the title Tine Benz has given to this radiant image. 
Light, sun, summer – the sense of ease we all love! 
The play of light and colour is intriguingly captured 
in many of our artists‘ works. Bright landscapes, 
clear abstractions or vibrant sculptures can create a summery 
atmosphere of light-hearted pleasure. We have curated an exhibition 
of painting, photography, wall objects and sculptures that radiates the vitality of summer.
Raise a glass with us to the summer and to art!

Jens Hausmann

Ramon Surinyac

Sebastian Menzke

Torsten Ruehle

Eric Butcher

Gisela Krohn

Michael Laube

Update #Summer

Leave-taking, departure, suspension, elusiveness, transparency and again and again recollection – in her exhibition »Wandering through Corridors #2« Hanna Nitsch places unusually delicate ink drawings of fragmentary faces beside powerful photographs in order to examine this very difference. The photographs document the dialogue between the artist and her daughter in everyday images. All these fragmentary insights create an imaginary transparency, a kind of ‘interface’, through which interior and exterior, light and shadow, time and place can connect into a possible whole. The site-specific exhibition is accompanied by a sound installation by the Berlin audio artist Katharina Schmidt. 
 
Hanna Nitsch will attend the opening.

WENN WIR DURCH FLURE GEHEN #2

Constructed scenes, melancholy landscapes, architectural images as the reflections of hopeful utopia – we show three artists who are preoccupied with the creative drive of civilised society. They illustrate, reduce, stage. The paintings by our gallery artist Thomas Dillmann and the works of Jens Hausmann are suffused with strong contrasts of light and shadow, while the photographs by the young graduate Max van Dorsten contain a mysterious tension. The images are charged with what can’t be seen – similarly to the SUSPENCE of a Hitchcock film …

Max van Dorsten

DILLMANN, HAUSMANN, VAN DORSTEN

It is often said that ‘less is more’. In our overstimulated world the works by these six artists are havens of undisturbed sensory experience. The exhibition shows positions that combine a geometric-technical compositional principle with colour fields, lines and clear basic forms. This art is concrete and constructive. A fine distincition is revealed between the further development and minimisation of theoretical boundaries. The versatility of the apparent strictness, and the wealth of approaches, materials and image carriers, is presented in oil paintings by Daniel Behrendt (DE) and Sander Reijgers (NL), wall objects by Mikael Fagerlund (SE) and Jürgen Paas (DE), sculptures by Julia Mangold (US) and image-objects by Dirk Salz (DE).

Daniel Behrendt

Julia Mangold

KON- KRET +STRUKTIV

What do Hans Aichinger, Matthias Kanter and Gerard Mas have in common? It’s their fascination with composition, light distribution, fall of fabric and coloration in the way of the old masters, which they translate into the here and now. Their subversive interventions play with the hollow concept of a historically situated cultural appropriation, opening doors to new interpretations. Aichinger captures his protagonists on canvas by means of exact stage directions and moody, dramatic lighting. Kanter’s abstractions relate to the composition and coloration of the Renaissance and Baroque. Mas translates old-master portraits into majestic sculptural figures and mischievously transfers them to the present day through the addition of ironic accessories. The artists’ reference to the Renaissance and Baroque is especially noticeable …
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WHO IS WHO IS WHO

Coexist − Local Global − in this sixth part of her continuing Coexist series, Franziska Stünkel guides us from the urban space emptied by the pandemic to the revitalised big cities. In 2021 and 2022 she photographed in Germany at first, then in Europe, America and Australia. Her recent reflections of our variously interconnected societies show us people in increasingly digital environments and a domesticated natural world, surrounded by complexity. Tension-charged and calm, multicoloured and withdrawn, moving and melancholy − Franziska Stünkel’s photographs turn a many-faceted gaze onto up-to-the-minute questions of global coexistence.
Finissage with Franziska Stünkel 
Saturday, August 19, 2023, 12 p.m.

Coexist — Local Global

DIE WAT SPAART, DIE WAT HEEFT – Gallery artist <a href="https://galerie-robert-drees.de/en/kuenstler/eric-butcher/">Eric Butcher</a> developed the idea for the new exhibition. His mother, grewing up during the war and was marked by constant scarcity, carried this Dutch proverb into the family. All artists exhibit an economy or frugality of which my mother would approve and which ironically seems to capture something of the spirit of our times. A concern for the environment, a desire to step more lightly on the planet, or a preoccupation – for various reasons – with objects with histories, the drivers for their creative strategies are multifarious.
The eight international artists in the group exhibition have developed innovative and artistically fruitful approaches to the concepts of “reduction”, “reuse” and “recycling” and implemented them in painting, installation and sculpture.

DIE WAT SPAART, DIE WAT HEEFT

FOLLOW THE LINE – everything proceeds from the line, the common thread of the new exhibition, presented in the expressive forms of sculpture, painting and drawing. This international show with the Dutch sculptor <a href="https://galerie-robert-drees.de/en/kuenstler/pieter-obels/">Pieter Obels</a>, the Berlin-based painter American <a href="https://galerie-robert-drees.de/en/gastkuenstler/benjamin-rubloff/">Benjamin Rubloff</a> and the Venezuelan graphic artist <a href="https://galerie-robert-drees.de/en/gastkuenstler/maribel-mas/">Maribel Mas</a>, now resident in Leipzig, shows how impressive, varied and compelling the compositional element of the line can be in the artistic process. 
The exhibition shows the very varying characteristics of the ‘object of artistic examination’ in Pieter Obels’ steel sculptures, Benjamin Rubloff’s graffiti paintings or Maribel Mas’s pen-and-ink drawings. Now robust and vibrant, now strong and direct, now light and delicate. 
The uniqueness of the artistic handwriting is characterised by the form and configuration of the line, which crucially influences the emotional impression that the work sparks in the viewer.
Pieter Obels, Benjamin Rubloff and Maribel Mas will attend the opening.

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Jürgen Paas, Wolfgang Flad

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