current exhibition
UNERHÖRTE SEQUENZEN
07 September - 10 November 2024
With Paula Degenhardt, Gabi Deremaux, Gernot Gross, Anneliese Haase, Volker Klein, Pascal Lawaldt, Werner Lukas, Doris Peter, Antonio Potes Reina, Michael Runkel, Renate Sandig, Holger Schmidt, Lilli Wolff and Helga Zeidler, we present fourteen artistic positions from the region who (with the exception of Paula Degenhardt) have not been exhibited in Mannheim before. All fourteen are participants in the art workshop established by Volker Kühnemund and Wolfgang Sautermeister in 1998 and run by the disability support organisation Lebenshilfe in Bad Dürkheim. Sautermeister, who also initiated this exhibition, is the studio’s artistic director to this day.
Lilli Wolff, ohne Titel, 2021, acrylic and pencil on paper, 82 x 62 cm
Imagine that a life story becomes a case history, and taking part in ‘normal’ everyday life is not an option – and so networking, that vital part of making artists and the works visible, is also ruled out – how, then, can art get noticed? Art needs to be seen, it needs spectators: and ideally, it has spectators who cast a non-judgmental, curious eye. Spectators who see the art and perhaps give some further thought to how, in fact, artworks are created or what general conditions art and artists require. Spectators who, potentially, also reflect on the question of what constitutes an artist.
In the exhibition, ‘Unerhörte Sequenzen’, vibrant, gestural painting, nailed pictorial objects, abstract and figurative drawings, fanciful and lyrical imaginings and contemplations on self and the world are presented alongside fantastical stories in pictures. A whole variety of techniques, materials and signature styles, then, with the sole common feature that all pieces were created in the Bad Dürkheim painting workshop. But how crucial is that information, anyway? Does it alter the way we beholders view and receive the art?
The opening on Friday, 6 September 2024 will feature the performance, ‘Fang erst gar nicht so an’ by the Ensemble Divers and guests. Our statement: ‘we need to keep in mind that seeing takes up x amount of time, reading needs so many minutes, and hearing such and such a length of time. That an adhesive strip on the wall can change everything. That it was a bag of fries that set us thinking.’
Concept / direction: Gabriele Oßwald, Wolfgang Sautermeister. With: Michael Black, Monika Dietrich, Thilo Eichhorn, Johannes Instinsky, David Julian Kirchner, Gabriele Oßwald, Michael Runkel, Paula Rönnebeck, Mathis Walter, Edith und Seraphin Weckesser, Helga Zeidler
The performance is enabled by funding from AKTION MENSCH and the Cultural Office of the City of Mannheim.
RAINER NEGRELLI
03 September - 13 October 2024
For many years, Rainer Negrelli has spent the summer in the studio of an artist friend in Paris. He draws in the cafés, at Père Lachaise and time and again by the Seine. And he continues what he has done continuously since his own student days: drawing what he sees, capturing the moment with its peculiar mood and atmosphere. Negrelli also regularly draws en plein air on the Atlantic. On the ground floor of PORT25, these two groups of works are the focus of an exhibition and thus facets of Rainer Negrelli's work that are rarely shown.
Rainer Negrelli, ohne Titel (Paris), 2023, mixed media on paper, 25 x 50 cm
EVENTS
Thursday, 12 September 2024 | 7 pm
Opening Rainer Negrelli at the ground floor at PORT25 - Raum für Gegenwartskunst
Friday 18 Oktober 2024 | 7 pm
Opening HEIMSPIEL 6 at the ground floor at PORT25 - Raum für Gegenwartskunst
LECTURE SERIES "SPRECHEN WIR ÜBER..."
in cooperation with Künstlernachlässen Mannheim
Thursday, 19 September 2024 | 6 pm
"Sprechen wir über..." #3: Gabriele Dahms, "ohne Titel"
Thursday, 17 October 2024 | 6 pm
"Sprechen wir über..." #4: Gerd Reutter, "Aufstieg"
GUIDED TOURS & TALKS (participation free of charge)
Sunday, 15 September 2024 | 3 pm
guided tour in German with Kim Behm
Saturday, 21 September 2024 | 4 pm
guided tour with Dr. Thomas Röske and Wolfgang Sautermeister
Friday till Sunday, 20 - 22 September 2024
29. Galerientage at Mannheimer Kunstverein
Friday 20 September 2024 7 pm till 10 pm
Saturday 21 September 2024 12 pm till 10 pm
Sundayg 22 September 2024 12 pm till 5 pm
Thursday, 26 September 2024 | 6 pm
guided tour in Turkish with Melek Kilic
Friday, 11 October 2024 | 6 pm
Artist talk with Rainer Negrelli
Sunday, 20 Oktober 2024 | 3 pm
guided tour in Russian with Anna Siebert
Thursday, 24 Oktober 2024 | 7 pm
BBK Werkgespräch #11 with Sonja Scherer and Marcus Centmayer
OTHER EVENTS
Sunday, 13 October 2024 | 3 pm
"...die schönheit kann so schön sein..." Aufgelegtes und Textliches u. a. von Helga Zeidler, Michael Runkel, Wolfgang Sautermeister und Spaziergänge durch die Ausstellung
Tuesday, 15 October 2024 | 7 pm
25-jähriges Jubiläum KulturQuer QuerKultur Rhein-Neckar e.V.
Friday und Saturday, 25/26 October 2024 | 7 pm till 0 am
Nachtwandel at PORT25 - Raum für Gegenwartskunst
Thursday, 14 November 2024 | 6:30 pm
"Mannheim liest ein Buch" in Kooperation mit dem Kulturamt der Stadt Mannheim
Lesung "Drei Kameradinnen" von Shida Bazyar (12 € Eintritt, Kulturpass frei)