'ROUND ABOUT' Kunstraum Meißen, residence and solo exhibition by Winnie Seifert
from 07.04. – 07.06.2025

Opening: Saturday 10.05.2025
with introduction to the work of the scholarship holder

Finissage: Saturday 07.06.2025
with catalog presentation and artist talk

Winnie Seifert transforms the exhibition space itself into a total work of art: with ROUND ABOUT, she transcends the boundaries of the pictorial space and creates an immersive experience in which the entire wall and vaulted ceiling of the medieval room become the image carrier. The abstract, moving and sprawling forms are complemented and continued by works on canvas - inviting the audience to immerse themselves in emotional interstices: between reality and imagination, identity and moment. Seifert makes it possible to experience art as a sensual retreat in a complex world and opens up new spaces for reflection, empathy and creative encounters.

Kunstverein Meißen e.V.
Burgstraße 2
01662 Meißen 

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Spring Tour & Anniversary Weekend 2025

Saturday 03.05. 11:00 – 20:00 Uhr
Sunday 04.05. 11:00 – 18:00 Uhr

On the occasion of the SpinnereiGalleries Spring Tour and the 20th Anniversary of the SpinnereiGalleries, Galerie Laetitia Gorsy is showing the solo exhibition 'NICHT_OHNE_EINANDER' by Leipzig-based painter Doris Ziegler.

Join us for a special weekend celebrating two decades of contemporary art at the Spinnerei Leipzig!

More info: spinnereigalerien.de

Find us at Booth U5 , with a solo presentation by Josefine Schulz
from 07.05. – 10.05.2025

Josefine Schulz presents an intimate and poetic body of work exploring the everyday lives and emotional landscapes of her generation. With a painterly sensibility shaped by her studies in Dresden and Paris, Schulz’s works center around themes of friendship, vulnerability, and quiet companionship. Her figures—often accompanied by dogs—inhabit domestic spaces and moments of introspection, subtly negotiating the boundaries between personal and collective experience.

Future Fair NYC offers a carefully curated and community-driven platform for contemporary art. We are proud to present Josefine Schulz’s thoughtful and distinctive work in this vibrant international setting—highlighting a voice that is both deeply personal and culturally resonant.

More info: https://futurefairs.com

'Olicía - Out of the Blue' with Kunsthaus Dresden
A ten-day exhibition and event series curated by Olicía in collaboration with Kunsthaus Dresden, with works by (a.o.) Claudia Kleiner.

From 04.04. – 13.04.2025
Opening 03.04.2025

How does a song come into being? How does a line of poetry emerge? How is an artwork created? For their album and the exhibition Out of the Blue, musicians Fama M’Boup and Anna-Lucia Rupp initiated a collaborative and friendly exchange with a diverse group of artists—born out of joy, curiosity, or admiration for each other’s work.
What unites the participating artists across various media is their shared search for artistic strategies and new forms that give expression to the emotions and needs of our time. The 14 songs of the new album and 10 new works in painting, photography, fashion, design, literature, film, and craftsmanship are the result of a dynamic exchange of ideas, conversations, and mutual inspiration.
Featuring music by Olicía and artistic works by Dshamila Annina (woodwork), Malene Glintborg (jewelry design), Katharina Haydeyan (fashion design), Lisa Hoffmann (film), Claudia Kleiner (painting), Gunther Kleinert (graphic design), Sudabeh Mohafez (literature), and Micha Steinwachs (photography).

More Information: kunsthausdresden.de

robotron-Kantine
Lingnerallee am Skatepark
01069 Dresden (Zentrum)

Vernissage 03.05. + 04.05.2025
Spinnereigalleries spring tour and 20th SpinnereiGalleries Anniversary
03.05.2025: 11:00 – 20:00 
04.05.2025: 11:00 – 18:00

Exhibition: 06.05. until 05.07.2025

Doris Ziegler (b. 1949) is a German painter associated with the Leipzig School. Her work navigates between documentary urban landscapes, figurative painting, and reflections on social change. She captured the realities of life in the GDR, the transformation after reunification, and themes of identity and perception. Influenced by Werner Tübke and Wolfgang Mattheuer, her style blends realism with symbolic depth.

In the 1990s, her focus shifted to urban landscapes, documenting Leipzig’s industrial decline with a precise yet atmospheric style. Her Passage-Zyklus (1988–1993) explores societal transition through architecture and reflections. Ziegler also examined gender and identity in striking self-portraits. Alongside these themes, she painted still lifes, using everyday objects to evoke transience, memory, and historical change, often employing muted tones and precise composition.

While overlooked post-reunification, her work has gained renewed recognition, notably in the Point of No Return – Turning the World Upside Down exhibition at the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig (MdbK) in 2019. As a chronicler of a changing society, Ziegler remains a significant voice in figurative painting.

More information: info@shebam.art

Galerie Lætitia Gorsy
Spinnereistr. 7, Halle 18.H
04179 — Leipzig 

28.02. - 15.03.2025, Kunstraum Ortloff

An immersive adventure between fiction and existence, an extravagant scenery demands a sensual exploration rather than a rational analysis. Another world unfolds: like a 19th-century salon, the abundant fabric drapes create a boundary that the large-scale paintings of Winnie Seifert and Philippa Brück simultaneously transcend on various levels.

As early as 1853, the renowned French writer Victor Hugo attended séances while in exile on the island of Jersey, firmly believing he was communicating with spirits. Shakespeare, Dante, and mysterious entities such as the Shadow of the Ocean spoke to him. The "tables tournantes" were not only en vogue for Hugo but also for his contemporaries—first on the East Coast of America and soon thereafter throughout Europe.

Long before spiritualist practices like table-turning regained popularity during the Romantic era—that is, after the Enlightenment—the mystic and philosopher Jakob Böhme (1575–1624) from Görlitz sought a different kind of connection to the invisible. His visions and insights into a higher reality beyond the visible resonated centuries later with artists like Wassily Kandinsky and Hans Arp, who sought to capture the spiritual in their works. In a spontaneous moment of revelation, Jakob Böhme recognized God as a binary, fractal, and self-replicating algorithm and the universe as a genetic matrix, born from the existential tension and divine longing for self-awareness. Under this premise, distinguishing between different gods in various religions was inconceivable to him.

Osho, the charismatic, charming, and humorous founder of the Bhagwan movement—a master manipulator par excellence—introduced the New Age movement from India to the USA in the early 1980s. This sect-like formation made its rounds across the globe, establishing a presence not only in India and the USA but also worldwide today. Moreover, we are now familiar with other esoteric phenomena that manifest in broader social and even political dimensions.

The supernatural refers to a higher reality beyond our five senses. Can painting depict more than the visible world? Pliny the Elder described the competition between Zeuxis and Parrhasius, in which both sought to render reality most convincingly. While Zeuxis deceived birds with his exquisite grapes, Parrhasius managed to fool Zeuxis himself with his delicate curtain. Beyond mere imitation, artists of later epochs, such as Caspar David Friedrich, Hilma af Klint, Wassily Kandinsky, and Salvador Dalí, aspired to make an invisible dimension beyond reality tangible through color, composition, and atmosphere.

The supernatural in painting, in particular, is the attempt to make the invisible visible—whether through spiritual symbols, abstract forms, intuitive creative processes, or the depiction of the sublime. Beyond the purely material world, spaces open up for personal or collective mystical, spiritual, or transcendent experiences.

A subjective and emotional perception of nature challenges the familiar and awakens the unknown. In her paintings, Philippa Brück plays with the limits of hyper-aestheticization, distorting, alienating, and deconstructing her motifs. Only upon a second or third glance do other organic forms and elements emerge within the floral structures. Between and behind silky, delicate textures, seemingly endless cosmic spheres glow and radiate. Philippa Brück's velvety-surreal visual worlds surpass everyday viewing habits and, in their opulence, resemble transcendent parallel universes.

Winnie Seifert weaves colors and emotions into her paintings, creating personal memories, fleeting moments, and sensitive observations that resonate with all of us. Layer by layer, transparent veils and dense impulses unfold into a synesthetic cartography that oscillates between remembering and discovering. Her color choices follow intuition: deep blue flows into delicate pink, bright yellow flares up like a sudden thought. Spots, signs, and blurred traces conjure an open space where thoughts can drift. A place that does not exclude contradictions but embraces them—a terrain for the unspoken, which only reveals itself through contemplation.

Before, during, and after the Middle Ages, following the Enlightenment, or in the wild seventies—the intangible has always fascinated us. Whether attempting to communicate with higher beings or engaging in dialogue with a cosmic or, more recently, an artificial intelligence. Art has long served as a medium to translate and render otherworldly experiences and encounters tangible.

Isabella Engelhardt and Winnie Seifert 

Kunstraum Ortloff
Jahnallee 73
04177 Leipzig
ortloff.org

'The Cute Escape. Empathie, Empowerment, Empfindsamkeit'
A group exhibition at Kunsthalle Erfurt with works by (a.o.) Josefine Schulz & Mona Broschár
From 09.03. – 18.05.2025

The exhibition The Cute Escape. Empathy, Empowerment, Sensitivity at Kunsthalle Erfurt explores the aesthetics of cuteness in contemporary art. Over 20 artists from different countries present works featuring soft colors, playful motifs, and charming figures. The exhibition questions how art can use gentle forms to convey strong critique and when care becomes political. Visitors are invited to immerse themselves in a world of wondrous creatures, captivating colors, and moments of deep emotional connection.

With works by Neven Allgeier, Jacob Samuel Beck, Mona Broschár, Niclas Castello, Christa Dichgans, Famed, Harry Hachmeister, Hypernormalisa, Zsófia Keresztes, Lena Kuzmich, Rachel Maclean, Tomoko Nagai, Nhozagri, Christiane Peschek, Monira Al Qadiri, Mary-Audrey Ramirez, Ayako Rokkaku, Theresa Rothe, Mark Ryden, Jamie Scholnick, Josefine Schulz, Nina Vandeweghe, Marta Vovk u.a.

Curated by Annekathrin Kohout & Philipp Schreiner

Kunsthalle Erfurt
Fischmarkt 7
99084 Erfurt
kunstmuseen.erfurt.de

Find us BOOTH D07, with a solo presentation by Laura Sachs
from 10.04. to 13.04.2025

Laura Sachs presents her distinctive approach to the intersection of painting and sculpture. Her multi-perspective objects challenge the conventional boundaries of both mediums, creating works that shift dynamically depending on the viewer’s position. Rooted in her background in painting and further developed through her sculptural studies at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Sachs’ works explore spatial depth, materiality, and perception.

With precise yet experimental compositions, she manipulates surfaces, structures, and spatial illusions, inviting a dialogue between two-dimensionality and three-dimensionality. Her works have been exhibited at renowned institutions such as K21, Kunstsammlung NRW, and Museum Kunstpalast, affirming her position as an artist who redefines the language of contemporary art.

Art Düsseldorf 2025 will once again serve as a key meeting point for galleries, collectors, and curators, showcasing a curated selection of international contemporary art. With its focus on innovative artistic approaches, the fair offers an exciting platform for discovering cutting-edge positions like those of Laura Sachs, whose works challenge perception and expand the possibilities of visual experience.

More info: https://www.art-dus.de/de/

Agave Magazine ‘BLAU’ by Maike Salazar Kämpf und Moritz Rudolph
with a.o. Philippa Brück, Ellen Akimoto, Inga Kerber, Wolfgang Ullrich, etc
READ ONLINE: agavemagazin.com

Sarah Pschorn: interview with Hub Magazine ‘Clay whispers’
hubemag.com