Bonn art scene Fifth Godesberg Night of the Galleries
Bad Godesberg · Visitors to the Night of the Galleries were treated to paintings, sculptures and installations at eleven venues between Katharinenhof in Schweinheim and Galerie 62 in Plittersdorf on Friday.
All aboard for the next station please! Visitors to the fifth Night of the Galleries on Friday night were particularly keen to use the shuttle bus service for the uphill journey to the Katharinenhof. Petra and Ulrich Birkenheier from Meckenheim had already been to three venues. “If time allows, we want to see everything,” they said - a total of eleven venues spread between Bad Godesberg, Schweinheim, Friesdorf and Plittersdorf.
Business was going well in the galleries, whether at the opening of Sabrina Haunsperg’s show at Judith Andraie’s gallery or at Irmgard Hofmann’s exhibition “To the moon and back” at the Haus an der Redoute. Much was on offer, from paintings to sculptures and objects made of wire to art installations.
Mario Fuchs from Bonn and Birgit Brück from Bad Breisig have been visiting the event for three years. “We always start with the art association. They always have interesting artists.” This year Gisela Späth, Nina Kruser and Andrea Tewes from Hockenheim and Brühl (Baden) were exhibiting in a joint exhibition “KlangKreisGedanke.” Tewes said they had already come across events similar to the Night of the Galleries in other cities. “I think the concept is great.” Her view was shared by most of the artists and visitors.
When he first visited the event, Fuchs was amazed that the area had so much art on offer. He respects, “that the artists find their niche in their difficult field.”
Mark Römisch would have had to come a long way to attend; he is a lecturer in Boston. He was not present at the opening of his installation “Broken – Lessons in Darkness” at the Kunstkabinett S.M. A chair and plastic bucket stood in front of 16 pictures. The pictures showed everyday items: pliers, headphones, needles, the cover of a Metallica CD. A description set out a connection with an Amnesty International report on torture methods still in use today. The work provoked discussion about its worth, among other things. Gallery head Stefan Moll said the individual pictures were also for sale – Euro 390 for the piece of paper with the picture on it. You really need to appreciate art for that, said one visitor.
At Anne Beikircher’s new exhibition “Baboons and other gods” the bronze and aluminium monkey figures were brand new and only came out of the furnace last week. The other studios in the Katharinenhof were also open. Beikircher was very happy with business and her only regret was not being able to join the tour.
Sculptures by Martin Langer, abstract representations of people by Silke Frosch as well as metal vehicle sculptures by Georgian Giorgi Okropiridse were on show at Galerie 62 in Plittersdorf. Gallery owner Harald Gesterkamp said Okropiridse’s sculptures depicted his journey between his homeland and his adopted home of Austria. (Orig. text: Stefan Knopp)
