Dear friends, ladies and gentlemen,

As this eventful year 2025 draws to a close, we wish you a happy, healthy, peaceful, and successful 2026! May everything fall into place to make our world a brighter place again.

We cordially invite you to our New Year's receptions in Erfurt and Frankfurt am Main.

Erfurt: Saturday, January 10, 7 p.m.
Frankfurt: Friday, January 16, 5:30 p.m.

We look forward to seeing you again!

With best wishes on behalf of the team and artists of the gallery
Yours sincerely, Jörk Rothamel

On behalf of the artist, the art collection, and the Romantic House, we cordially invite you and your friends to the opening of the exhibitions on Friday, December 5, 2025, at 7 p.m.!




The starry sky has always been fascinating. The view into space, which is full of secrets and possibilities, has motivated humanity for many centuries to unravel the phenomena hidden within it. Artist Hiroyuki Masuyama (*1968 in Tsukuba, Japan) approaches his work with the relentless curiosity of a researcher, devoting himself to the universe with the same passion he brings to a mundane patch of grass outside his front door.




Hiroyuki Masuyama's lightboxes exude a peculiar magic. Like radiant windows to a strange world, they shine into the exhibition space and instinctively draw viewers into their spell. Their motifs appear familiar, however, as they depict well-known paintings by the Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich, reproduced by Masuyama as seemingly realistic photographs.

ÜBER LAND
Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig
27 November 2025 to 1 March 2026








Hans-Christian Schink (born in Erfurt in 1961) is one of the most renowned photographic artists of our time. His series ‘Verkehrsprojekte Deutsche Einheit’ (German Unity Transport Projects) and ‘1h’, which broke new ground in black-and-white photography, made photographic history. As part of his projects, he travelled, lived and photographed our planet from Spitsbergen to Antarctica, from Machu Picchu to Kochi.

Under the title Über Land (Over Land), the MdbK is showing Schink's latest group of works. This time, the subject of the work is the landscape in the far north-east of Germany, which the photographer illuminates from different perspectives in three different sub-projects: Hinterland, Unter Wasser (Under Water) and Am Weg (On the Way). From an artistic point of view, Über Land is a multi-layered, contemporary examination of the influential tradition of European and North American landscape depictions – especially Romanticism. At the same time, the work stands at the interface of current social debates about the overexploitation of the landscape, the associated loss of biodiversity and the effects of these processes on people's experience of nature.


Wednesday, 25 February, 6 p.m
Hans-Christian Schink. Über Land (Across Country)
Conversation in the exhibition with references to works from the collection with Hans-Christian Schink and curators Philipp Freytag and Jan Nicolaisen.
Admission: €5 / €2.50, no registration required.

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27 September to 22 November 2025
Galerie Rothamel Erfurt

We cordially invite you and your friends to an artist talk with handmade artist quiche and exquisite quince punch this coming Saturday, November 8, at 6 p.m.

Am Weg (Along the Path)
Book launch at Paris Photo. Book signing November 14, 2025, 4:30pm at Hartmann Books (Booth K10).
Preorder here: Book or Special edition with book