Art Karlsruhe 2026
4. bis 8. Februar

Our stand will be located in Hall 1 at position A 30.

We are looking forward to your visit!

We are offering free tickets exclusively to our collectors. Unfortunately, the number is limited. Please write to us as soon as possible. Tickets will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.

Kind regards
Jörk Rothamel

We present works by

Hjördis Baacke
Moritz Götze
Hiroyuki Masuyama
Dana Meyer
Nguyen Xuan Huy
Hans-Christian Schink
Thitz

Hall 1 / A 30
 
Karlsruhe Trade Fair Center, Messeallee 1, 76287 Rheinstetten, Germany
+49 177 599 84 45
 
VIP  Preview on Wednesday, February 4 from 1 to 8 pm
 
Regular opening hours
Thursday to Saturday: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Sunday: 11 am to 6 pm.




You can find a preview of our program below.



In 2010, photographer Hans-Christian Schink embarked on a trip around the world, spending two weeks in Antarctica. The pictures he took there with an analog camera are full of devotion to the monumental and elemental nature of the landscape. Schink's large-format landscapes appear so sober, so pure, and so grandiose in their silence and vastness that they take your breath away. 
(From a text by Katrin Bettina Müller)

 
In 2025, Nguyen Xuan Huy created his painting “Mission Phoenix.” We are exhibiting it for the first time in Karlsruhe. In ancient Greece and Egypt, the phoenix was considered a legendary eagle-like bird that burst into flames at the end of its long life and left behind an egg in the ashes, from which it hatched again. The peacock-like mythical creature Fenghuang, associated with fire, is referred to as the “Chinese phoenix.” 

Nguyen Xuan Huy layers the different aspects of the phoenix concept into a monumental painting with numerous allusions: the Nike of Samothrace, a sculpture now kept in the Louvre, represents ancient Greece, while charred roof beams are reminiscent of the devastating fire at Notre-Dame de Paris in 2019.

For painter, illustrator, sculptor, and photographer Hiroyuki Masuyama, time travel is more than just a fictional possibility. It brings him into contact with fellow artists from the past and with exhibition guests from the future.

Masuyama particularly enjoys visiting the era of European Romanticism. Using hundreds of photographs, he recomposes the works of the great masters and allows us to experience their fascination anew in a contemporary form. He encounters Joseph Mallord William Turner in Venice, Rome, and London. He appears in Caspar David Friedrich's metaphysical worldviews.



Moritz Götze is one of the most important pop art artists of our time. His warm-hearted and alert works enchant viewers with their unique aura. 

He is currently embarking on a new series of large-scale works. “At my age,” says Moritz Götze (born 1964), “it's time to start exploring myths.” Myth (ancient Greek: narrative) links human existence with the world of gods, spirits, and supernatural forces. The artist combines retrospection with prophecy and erects beacons on the shores of the present to guide the course toward the future.



Shopping bags are both a reflection of our culture and cultural artifacts. Thitz recycles them in his works and paints over them with fantastic cityscapes. He creates grandiose utopias full of astonishing details and ironic allusions. Shopping bags may soon be a thing of the past. That's the way things go. This gives Thitz's paintings a new dimension: in addition to their intrinsic value as coveted art objects, they also gain the aura of irretrievable historical artifacts. The artist's works can be found in numerous public and private collections around the world.



Hjördis Baacke is new to our program. She paints forests. Her works are realistic, yet full of fascinating moments, with a special focus on light, which sometimes gives her canvases an impressive effect. Every forest has its own character, its own personality, and Baacke's forest paintings are, so to speak, unmistakable portraits.

Hjördis Baacke (born in Leipzig in 1980) studied painting at the HGB under Arno Rink and Neo Rauch. She wrote her thesis in 2007 in the field of philosophy on the topic “The Forest as a Promise” under Christoph Türcke. The artist has received various art prizes and awards. Hjördis Baacke lives in Leipzig.

We look forward to your visit!

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.

WIELAND PAYER
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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