A new book with 1 preamble, 83 german poems, 86 drawings and 3 shortstories is now published! It comes by the eerie title »Über das letztendlich unvermeidbare Zerwürfnis rationaler Wesen mit den immer häufiger kursierenden, klammheimlichen, nicht mehr im geringsten Ansatz beurteilbaren, rein gefühlten, nicht erdachten Weltanschauungen« [»About the ultimately unavoidable discord of rational beings with the more and more frequently circulating, clandestine, purely in the least approach assessable, purely felt, not conceived world-views« google.translate]. On 150 pages you can navigate through illustrations from the exhibition »Wahnsinn™ und Methode®« [Madness™ & Method™] and German poetry I mostly wrote on the smartphone while traveling.

German Poetry & Illustration by Falk v. Schönfels
150 Pages
ISBN: 978-3-945296-66-0
Kastner Verlag 2018
Size 10 x 15 x 1 cm // 141 g

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… and all the way back. Peter Lindbergh is a phenomenon in fashion-shooting, there’s no question about it. His ability to catch the individual in its natural beauty without magnificent makeup and overwhelming setting has become a unique style of his creative work. So it is only fair that he is now honored in Munich with an outstanding exhibition (Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung till the 27th of August 2017). But you shouldn’t expect a walkthrough with just framed works of prominent people. Meandering through the premisses of the Kunsthalle you can discover a lot more than that: A nicely sorted storeroom with his equipment from the past analog times will be followed with a darkroom-installation explaining some of his scoops. Walls covered wildly with plenty of images supported by video-explanations. All in all it is worth seeing to get a peek of the spirit of that creative mind. Thanks to the Hypo-Kunsthalle for the invitation even if the opening was run down by too many people. The cue was going far down Theatinerstreet. No chance to get in. So we had a dinner in-between and enjoyed the show than later pretty privately even if the wine was already depleted. Here are some impressions of the exhibition.

Peter Lindbergh // Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung
Opened daily from 10 am to 8 pm till 27th of August 2017
www.kunsthalle-muc.de/ausstellungen/details/peterlindbergh/

The german-ingushian artist Ira Blazejewska has been meditating about Wladimir Putin for the last seven months. Her colourful outcome is currently shown at the Galerie Christoph Dürr in Munich. Altogether Ira produced about 30 pieces, mostly portraits. It has been written a lot about powerful people in the press and on the net, so it is nice to have a refreshing artistic view on a person like Wladimir Putin. Ira manages that without the normal loud accusations and criticisms. Her analysis is critical in a much more gentle and intellectual way.

The exhibition is running till the 12th of Mai 2017. More information and photos from the opening you can find on the website from Galerie Christoph Dürr [www.galerie-ch-duerr.de].

More about Ira Blazejewska and her work you can find here: www.ira-blazejewska.de

Credits: Ira Blazejewska, Alexander Winterstein, Mr. Lippert, Galerie Christoph Dürr

Quite a while ago I visited the exhibition »Face to Face« at Atelier Alen in Munich, showing works of Max Theo Kehl, Edvardas Racevicius, Anatoly Rudakov and Joseph A. Ryan. Here we go with a few impressions of this beautiful exhibition, which was all about contemporary portraiture in the fields of drawing, sculpture, photography and painting. You can find more information and more photographs here: www.atelier-alen.com/face-to-face
The artist’s websites: www.projectart.com/artist/Max-Theo-Kehl, www.holz-bildhauer.de, www.rudakov.de, www.josephandrewryan.com

The Gallery Størpunkt is presenting three amazing upstarting artists these days: Lia Melissa Wehrs, An Laphan & Lena Theresa Flohrschütz! The theme of the exhibition is “Nikelodeon”. But don’t worry. You don’t get what you might expect. The whole thing has nothing to do with a childish view of the world as experienced in tv-networks for kids worldwide. No! Lia Melissa is showing us the overpopulation of Superheros in the mental sphere, and their whole inflation and their separation as stand-alone-figures, fighting their work on justice through … all alone or in a million. Cutout-collages in obejct-frames capture the viewer in worlds of phat action and quietness. Lena Theresa is showing us the life as it is without a human being intervening, beautiful philosophical collages in the matter of photo and paint, breathing a fine emptiness of nothingness but also fulfillment. Strange places in the nowhere conspiring against a world which has never been real. An Laphan is catching it up on a collateral side with his portrait-studies in picture and object dividing the personality of his vis-à-vis into open space with his hanging sculptures and his de-framed play with the consistency of faces. All in all it was a beautiful opening and I very advice you to visit this exhibition till the 6th of November 2015 at >> Størpunkt – Galerie für Gegenwartskunst. [Thanx for this nice opening Størpunkt]

The exhibition is running till the 6th of November 2015. Make a visit! I had a good time there.
>> størpunkt Galerie für Gegenwartskunst: www.stoerpunkt.de

A lot of people know the very unique art-gallery WELTRAUM in Munich. Since 1997 Rudolf Maximilian Becker had over 1500 artist displaying their work in his off-space. That is why the city-hall-gallery honors the 18 years of gratuitous possibilities for all kind of artists issuing activity there. And it’s a tribute of course to the founder of this special place himself. The whole thing is running for 7 weeks! Here I would like to give a short excursion in pictures about the first three exhibitions which have taken place so far. [Thanx for the great show to the curators Maresa Bucher & Tina Hudelmaier and the whole team of the event: Johannes Muggenthaler, Rudolf Maximilian Becker, Holger Rackelmann, Florian Froese-Peeck]

The Team has built a one2one-model of the gallery WELTRAUM in the city-hall [Actually it is located in the Rumfordstreet]. This is where the seven exhibitions are being hold. Every friday another opening is happening with new artists, performances and concerts. Find out more and keep updated on www.weltraum26.de

Artists of exhibition 1/7: Benjy Barnhart, Almut Determeyer, Matthias Goppel, Matthias Hirtreiter, Johnny Koch, Jadranka Kosorcic, Markus Krug, Albert Lohr, nomdeplum, Peter Riss, Christian Schönwälder, Asja Schubert, Daniel Schüßler, Elisabeth Wieser & High Voltage Humans gave a nice concert dressed in space afterwards.

Artists of exhibition 2/7: Albert Coers, Daniel Engelberg, Christiane Fleissner, Tim Freiwald, Florian Froese-Peeck, Patricija Gilyte, Antje Hanebeck, Florian Huber, Phoebe Lesch, Nicola Müller, Alexi Tsioris, Laura Wagner, Nikolai Vogel

Artists of exhibition 3/7: Tim Bennett / Leonhard Hurzlmeier, Johann Büsen, Mike Spike Froidl, Maximilian Kehl, Siyoung Kim, Carolina Camilla Kreusch, Nina Annabelle Märkl, Expedition Medora, Vincent Mitzev, Duncan Swann, Oliver Westerbarkey

Next exhibition-openings: Today, the 29.5.2015; 5.6.2015; 12.6.2015; 19.6.2015
More information here: >> WELTRAUM and here >> City-Hall

»Sans Titre« (Untitled) was the title of the exhibition Maximilian Theo Kehl gave at the Gallery “Weltraum” in Munich in december 2014. The young artist, who is currently studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, was already influenced growing up in an art-inspired environment. His granddad was an art historian and he himself started drawing and painting pretty early. Since one and a half years he has kind of specialized to portraits. And he does that very well. His attempt is about getting close to people he draws with the traditional methods of painting and drawing. Therefore he is mostly portraying family and friends. In his series you will always find self-portraits as well. I really like his unstrained style. I look forward seeing more of his work. [Thanx to Rudi from the “Weltraum” for the invitation]

An exhibition of father and son. That’s »One + One = Equal (… but also different)«. Nikola and Timor Miscevic are showing selected works at the Werkstatt-Gallery in Munich presenting 19 beautiful pieces. The pictures are seeking an inner dialogue between them two, because they are put into an interesting relation producing effectual tension. (Another tension the artworks gets into it, is with the fine jewellery displayed there too. The Werkstatt-Gallery is run by a goldsmith and some of her crafts were set up in order of colour to the pictures).

The Exhibition is running till the 5th of December 2014. For opening-times you may visit the gallery’s webpage [>>]. [Thanx to the Miscevics for the invitation and the nice evening!]

Bianca Kennedy & The Swan Collective (Felix Kraus) had this strange but beautiful exhibition at the Gallery Esther Donatz. I abdicate my own interpretation here, because the one written due to the exhibition is truly accurate and asserts everything you need to know in a nice way [Thanx to Bianca & Felix for the invitation to this fine event.]

»Hybrids – Not only are they of importance for animal and plant breeding; they have also contributed to the development of the human being.Under the premise of an advancing evolution and the potential of technical and digital innovations, Bianca Kennedy & The Swan Collective have radically taken the idea of genetic cross-over to the next level and invented a microcosm where diverse hybrids of human, plant and animal co-exist. The film “Hybrid” (2014) reflects the story of a highly intelligent composite creature in the year 3.000 which has gained new strengths, however, struggles with inner and outer conflicts. What, for instance, would be the consequences if oxygen ran short because the photosynthesis could not be performed anymore?«

»Bianca Kennedy & The Swan Collective have created a science fiction scenario which seems to be strange and frighteningly familiar at the same time. The fun fair setting that the artists have created for Esther Donatz Gallery appears similarly surreal and dense in atmosphere. Besides wooden inlay works and neon objects, a bizarre market stall offers DNA-extending substances which are not sold according to capitalist principles but raffled off. Get lucky and boost your body with the power of gills or roots!«

Helene Getty took her visitors on a nice tour through her work at the Academy of Arts in Munich. But actually it was more like an aesthetic road trip into the deep philosophies of her legislating. In her paintings she takes the observer to exile places, from the clutches of reality to a constructed utopia, asking questions about the terms making people want to escape. Is it the bland feeling of just living in a work-sleep-balance, regorging Sisyphus-maintainance? Or is it rather the social environment, the expectations and the behavior-clusters that make us want to abscond? The final personal question is: »If you could start of from the beginning, would you do everything exactly the way you did it before again?« Escaping is here a reset button for the breakout from a home-made jailhouse, from the own bereft liberty. Apart from the paintings Helene Getty showed two of her installations: »Sky Valley« and »Everlasting Fight«. [Thank you Helene for such a fine insight on your work!]

Everlasting Fight (2014) [»The gradual decline of the creator within the own work is symbolized with the ficus – which stand for fertility and creation – and the method of piling starting with the loss of power through numbness.«]

From the series »Escape/Preparadise Sorry Now«, acrylic, printing, pigment, paint on canvas, 130 x 160 cm, 2014

From the series »Escape/Preparadise Sorry Now«, acrylic, printing, pigment, paint on canvas, 150 x 130 cm, 2014

From the series »Escape/Preparadise Sorry Now«, acrylic, printing, pigment, paint on canvas, 140 x 160 cm, 2014

Sky Valley 2014 [»What makes a human being successful? What is success? Is it cash, safety or the living dream? Financial freedom versus the death of a dream? What is it all about? What will finally succeed? The ace of spades stuck on the wheel emblematizes the card of death in vernacular. In war-psychological sight it was contrariwise used by american soldiers in Vietnam to encourage them in their mission.«]

All photos © by Helene Getty 2014

Helene Getty’s Website: helenegetty.com | www.flachware.de/helene-getty

Pleasure, pleasure! The UAMO-Festival opened its doors again. »The prettier, the uglier? Or the uglier, the prettier?«, that’s the theme of the festival this year. And it is massively packed with artworks from all kind of creative branches you can ever imagine: Paintings, illustrations, objects, animations & videoarts, photography and performances! As well there will be certain bands giving gigs and some workshops will take place. So there is a good program for the whole weekend and a lot so see, experience and enjoy. I myself have the pleasure showing the work »My Life in Receipts 2004-2014« there.

Artists in the exhibition: Žarko Aleksić, Fakhriya Al-Yahyai, Dimitri Dimov & Lora Azza, René Behrendt, Anna Blumenkranz, Shelly Bradon, Grace Eakins, Martin Geck, Christiane Haag, Hubert von Hayek, Werner Härtl, Marco Hühn, Mehrdad Khataei, Andreas Kopp, Agnes Lison, Sophia Lube, Gregor Micheler, Tatiana Pancewicz, Angela Proyer, Linus Riepler, Giuditta Rustica, Falk von Schönfels, Ronit van Sendling, Heike Siegert, J. C. Torre and Evalie Wagner // Videoscreening-Artists: Barbara Herold & Florian Huth, Sandra Araújo, Karl Heinz Jeron, Kayleigh O’Keefe, Oscar Salamanca, Ulf Kristiansen, David Theobald, Jon Purnell and Josh Bricker // And a lot more stuff … Here are a few impressions:

The UAMO-Festival is taking place at the EinsteinKultur in Munich, Einsteistr. 42, till Sunday the 18th of Oktober 2014. More Information on the program you can find here >>

Oben ist es still [Above it’s silent] is the topic of the current exhibition at the Artothek in Munich. Wolfgang Aichner, Barbara Bernrieder, Christiane Fleissner, Isabel Haase, Chaya Nouriani, Moritz Partenheimer, Daniel Schüßler and Christian Stock are presenting works which are all in relation to this very specific kind of mountain environment: the Alps. The artists went into the hills as a group and reflected the philosophical perspectives of them with the final goal of making artwork due to it. It must have been a nice trip! The whole thing is curated by Tina Hudelmaier. You can still visit the exhibition till the 31st of Oktober 2014 at the Munich Artothek, Rosental 16, 80331 München. [Thanx to Tina & Maresa for the peek!]

There will be a guided tour and a talk to the artists at the Long Night of the Museums in Munich at the 18th of Oktober 2014, and there will be the Finissage on the 30th of Oktober 2014. More Information you may find here >>

Last week I visited this overwhelmingly nice exhibition in Munich on the Prater-Island. All rooms of that pretty big location were massively packed with about a thousand artworks produced by over three-hundred israeli artists. All kinds of skills were present: You could wander through the premisses looking at paintings, photography, sculptures and installations. Almost all varieties of arts human beings can create were present. Gladly I went there two times, because there was really quite much to see. It also was an very important exhibition. In times when israel-bashing becomes so popular, it’s good to show that this small country has a massive creative engine and it allows artist to freely produce the works they are on about, without any censorship. [Thanx to the artworks-munich team for this beautiful event!]

More info: artworks-munich.com | There was in deed so much artwork, that I can’t show it all here. But I have put up an album on flickr with a lot more pictures from the exhibition. >>>

>>> Don’t forget to check out the photo-album on flickr. There are exactly one-hundred photos with impressions from the exhibition waiting for you to be seen. >>>