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From June 20, 2020 Opening: June 20, 2020 Curator: Daniel Blochwitz This year's Provincia special exhibition combines four positions with photographs by Ingar Krauss, Ute Mahler & Werner Mahler, Hans-Christian Schink and Ulrich Wüst, which deal with life in different ways away from the metropolises dedicate. The Photographic Collection - Kummerow Castle thus also introduces the new format of an annual temporary exhibition.
The Latin term Provincia was used in the administrative terminology of Rome: here the supply of the ancient metropolis was ensured.
And while the late Latin meaning of the word is still used today in large parts of Europe as a "region" or "district" in neutral language, the corresponding German term "province" has a negative connotation here. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is such for many people an epitome of province - a near-natural and poorly populated federal state with comparatively few and rather small cities.
The youth in particular always seem to be on the go here. At the same time, the area is also a place of longing for stressed city dwellers with promises of freedom for dreams and experiments, as well as space for relaxation and seclusion. The exhibition in Kummerow Castle does not represent the province as a lost or even detached region.
Instead, the unexcited and often poetic images show one neglected, but quiet area full of potential.
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June 3 to July 12, 2020 | Frommannscher Garten | Fürstengraben 18, 07743 Jena | Mon - Fri: 8 a.m. - 8 p.m. The ninth Frommann's Sculpture Garden shows works by the sculptor Dana Meyer: sculptures of haunting physicality are presented on Frommann's estate. The artist creates her works in the medium of steel. She forms material finds in the forge and joins them together by welding; piece by piece, animal or human figures develop from a steel patchwork. When assembling, the artist is intuitively guided by the material. The gaps between the segments allow insight into and through the objects. The resulting permeability and the impression of fragility contrast with the solid material. opening hours June 3 - July 12 Frommannscher Garten: Fürstengraben 18, 07743 Jena Mon - Fri: 8 a.m. - 8 p.m. (free entry) The FrommannscheSkulpturenGarten is a cooperation project that has been taking place every year in early summer since 2012 between the Chair for Art History at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, the Jena Art Association and the Kunsthof Jena e.V. The exhibition is supported with the kind support of: JenaKultur, SV Sparkassen Versicherung, Sparkasse Jena-Saale-Holzland, Stadtwerke Jena-Pößneck, Thüringer Kulturstiftung.

Creamy Feelings Curdle Ellen Akimoto's (* 1988) painting is figurative, contemporary and captivates with its ingenuity. As Wolfgang Ullrich writes, she “not just quotes stylistic devices from the repertoire of recent painting history”, rather she puts them “into surprising, funny relationships with each other and transforms them into something new in their connection.” So change "monochrome surfaces in the style of suprematism" with a new, factual detailed realism or a "painted landscape painting suddenly turns into an abstract painting" and "merges with the face of a woman". Ellen Akimoto June 2020 ISBN 978-3-7356-0714- 0 21 × 27 cm 64 pages 34 color imagesHardcover Languages: German, English Editor Gallery Rothamel Texts by Wolfgang Ullrich Design by Jan Motyka The catalog costs 28 euros and can be ordered from us now.

Herakles im Augiasstall, 2020, Öl auf Leinwand, 40 x 50 cm, 2700 Euro

Herakles und Antaios, 2020, Öl auf Leinwand, 40 x 50 cm, 2700 Euro

Herakles und der erymanthische Eber, 2020, Öl auf Leinwand, 40 x 50 cm, 2700 Euro

Herakles und der Gürtel der Hippolyte, 2020, Öl auf Leinwand, 40 x 50 cm, 2700 Euro

Herakles und der nemäische Löwe, 2020, Öl auf Leinwand, 40 x 50 cm, 2700 Euro

Herakles und der Stier des Poseidon, 2020, Öl auf Leinwand, 40 x 50 cm, 2700 Euro

Herakles und die Äpfel der Hesperiden, 2020, Öl auf Leinwand, 40 x 50 cm, 2700 Euro

Herakles und die lernäische Hydra, 2020, Öl auf Leinwand, 40 x 50 cm, 2700 Euro

Herakles und die stymphalischen Vögel, 2020, Öl auf Leinwand, 40 x 50 cm, 2700 Euro

Herakles und Kerberos, 2020, Öl auf Leinwand, 40 x 50 cm, 2700 Euro

Annette Schröter cuts her pictures, works with the cutter, paper, sprays, colored acrylic glass and wallpaper scraps. Since 2015, Annette Schröter has made several trips to South and North America, including Buenos Aires, Montevideo, New York, Vancouver and Montreal. Her impressions, especially of everyday culture, architecture and vegetation, are reflected in an extensive group of paper cuts. The "silhouette", a technique that is particularly known from the 18th and 19th centuries and was often used by laypeople, deliberately serves as a contemporary artistic expression. Schröter not only explores the diverse and previously underestimated possibilities of this technology. In her work, she also questions content-related and artistic clichés that we associate with the term ÜBERSEE. This comes from a time when people - obeying existential hardship - left their homeland, but on the other hand it always stood for the unreachable distance and the exotic unknown as the goal of all desires - for 28 euros with us or at MMKoehn Verlag