Our group exhibition invites visitors on a journey through the artistic landscapes of eastern Germany – from Brandenburg to Berlin and Leipzig and on to Dresden. Accompanying the artists on these journeys, we explore both urban centres of artistic creativity, as well as more remote areas. Allegorical landscapes merge with real ones, offering a glimpse into the past and future, both inward and outward.
The exhibition brings together a broad spectrum of painting, photography and sculpture, revealing a very diverse artistic panorama. Geography serves as both a guide and a reference point: our journey extends spatially and temporally around four core members of our gallery programme: Volker Stelzmann, Johannes Heisig, Klaus Zylla and Beate Debus.
This brings us to the draughtsman Gerhard Altenbourg (1926-1989), a deeply poetic artist, well-versed in literature, a brilliant painter of landscapes, mental images, grotesque drawings and imaginative compositions. With the renowned photographer Evelyn Richter (1930-2021), we wander through the soulscapes of the people in the former GDR, while the young Berlin photographer Lars Wiedemann (*1973) visually captures the regional transformation processes of our time. In painting, we encounter a multifaceted complexity: from the old master technique and mannerist contortions of Volker Stelzmann (*1940) to the enigmatic, inscrutable, grotesque works of Clemens Gröszer (1951-2014) and the allegorical, psychologically nuanced imagery of Doris Ziegler (*1949). Hubertus Giebe (*1953) uses his expressive visual language to develop poignant reflections on the world and its history, much like Johannes Heisig (*1953), and yet with a very different approach. Klaus Zylla (*1953), on the other hand, seems completely freed from the conventions of ‘German’ painting, while Ellen Fuhr‘s (1958-2017) pictorial excursions across Berlin feel like the painted pages of her personal diary. The Dresden painter Frank Hoffmann (*1972) deconstructs art history down to a blur, turning it into an abstract fog. Lastly, Beate Debus (*1957) speaks her own unique language as a sculptor; her work knows no other realities than her own, gained through a physical process that transforms the heavy weight of wood or bronze into movement and dance.
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