Anna & Roman Küffner – Blackbird Street
PHOTOGRAPHERS Anna & Roman Küffner Blackbird Street Behind the artistic name BlackBird Street are Anna and Roman Küffner, a photographer couple from Cologne specializing in the exploration and photographic documentation of abandoned places. Since 2012, they have been searching for so-called “lost places” – deserted houses, theaters, cinemas, castles, and hospitals – throughout Germany and […]
Gabriele Musebrink
PAINTER Gabriele Musebrink Gabriele Musebrink was born in 1955 in Essen, Germany. From 1975 to 1983, she studied art – including at the Folkwang School in Essen-Werden and at the Comprehensive University of Essen. In 1983, she moved into a loft apartment in the southern part of Essen. The space had previously been used as […]
Mechthild Ehmann
SKulptor Mechthild Ehmann In her stone sculptures, Mechthild Ehmann develops an abstract, organic-looking formal language that combines sensuality with clarity. Polarities are her theme and she always finds new ways to emphasise properties of the raw material and combine them with apparent opposites such as lightness and sensuality. The result is a harmonious balance in […]
Frank Teufel
SCulptor Frank Teufel Frank Teufel draws seemingly effortless lines in with the stone that challenge the limits of statics and give the stone an unexpected lightness. These lines weave a diverse network, interacting with each other or with themselves. Sometimes they move concavely, then convexly again, sometimes they run parallel or set off from each […]
Finkbeiner & Salm
PHOTOGRAPHERS Finkbeiner & Salm Frieder Salm and Carl Finkbeiner are professional photographers and cinematographers who have worked in feature films, nature documentaries and commercials both nationally and internationally. The starting point of their artistic works are photographs of extraordinary places worldwide, which are transformed in an individual process. In the process, deliberately broken symmetries and […]
Carsten Westphal
Painter Carsten Westphal View the 2023 Exhibition Carsten Westphal became known as a desert painter because he loves the silence and untouched nature of the boundless expanses. So he travels with camels through sandy deserts to find the perfect place to paint, climbs volcanoes, climbs mountains or walks through icy landscapes. The mystical magic of […]
Christoph Jakob
SCULPTOR Christoph Jakob “The work on the stone is often a balancing act. Hard rock is like glas, it simply splinters, if you tackle it wrongly. I love these surfaces, which tell stories, and the cold core, which you can peel out.” Christoph Jakob works with a special procedure: with the splitter he breaks on […]
Fancher Brinkmann
PAINTER Fancher Brinkmann Natural Phenomena AbstractIn Fancher’s abstract colour fields and colour surfaces, the viewer believes to recognise something that is familiar to him: landscapes, impressions of nature, endless plains, clouds and sky, the elements earth, water, fire and air, morning and evening moods, light phenomena at different times of the day and year. All […]
Dieter Laue
Painter Dieter Laue FindingsD.r Gerhard Kolberg, Curator Modern Art, Museum Ludwig Cologne on Dieter Laue’s painting:The paintings of Cologne painter Dieter Laue, painted with colours enriched with fillers such as graphite, marble powder and Kassel brown, often look like old leather. They are interspersed with spider-like craquelé structures, which the artist creates by mixing acrylic […]
Sybille Abel-Kremer
CERAMICS Sybille Abel-Kremer Work Biography Sybille Abel-Kremer 1954 Born in Wiesbaden1973 Abitur in Duisburg1973 – 1979 Studied Biology and Geography at the Albert-Ludwig-University in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany1975/76 Guest semester in California, focus: fine arts; study trip through the USA, Mexico and Guatemala with special emphasis on Indian high culturessince 1983 married, two children1991 – […]