CIRCUS WOLS

He is one of the most prominent artists of the 20th century, yet scarcely anyone knows his name. Art history views him as the pioneer of Art Informel painting, and yet the complexity of his artistic existence defies any categorization. In 1932, just nineteen years old, he leaves Germany to have his finger on the pulse of time in Paris. He gains access to bohemian circles there but continues to be a loner. For throughout his life he struggled for an existence beyond the middle-class, and in doing so not lastly slid into the vicissitudes of the National Socialist war against European culture. [more]

Roma Publications

This exhibition features the publications released from 1998 onwards by Roma Publications, the publishing house founded in Amsterdam by the artist Mark Manders and the graphic designer Roger Willems. In close collaboration with artists and writers, Roma Publications has produces individual and very diverse publications in editions ranging from two to 150,000 copies. Their artists’ books, artists’ magazines as well as the graphic works they release are circulated widely, as supplements in other publications or as “give aways”.  [more]

Tobias Premper - Boxenbücher

His personal notes and his unique perception of the world form the foundation of the so-called “Box Books”, the text and image publications composed of groups of lose pages realized by Tobias Premper, Berlin-based artist, writer and freelance author. These cardboard-box treasure chests are produced in signed and limited editions. Each individual box contains between 50 and 100 pages that have been partially made by hand (e.g. original drawings), collaged, stamped, glued, torn, sprayed, printed or simply copied. [more]

Rebecca Horn

Rebecca Horn is one of the most prominent contemporary artists. Known worldwide for her space-consuming installations, her protean oeuvre comprises drawings, collages, performances, films, as well as objects and moving sculptures that develop a secret life of their own. Concurrent with the TANZ BREMEN festival, the Weserburg is going back to the beginnings of her creative work and is mounting an exhibition centered around her films and performances. Her early works already exhibit striking poetic force and iconographic diversity; their point of departure and source of energy is the human body, whose possibilities and limitations she explores and seeks to overcome. [more]

Kabinettstücke

Zur Ausstellung sprechen Carsten Ahrens | Direktor der Weserburg und Peter Friese | Hauptkurator und Stellvertretender Direktor.

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Kabinettstücke | Cabinet Pieces

Jürgen Wesseler has been presenting works by international artists in a small, former store in Bremerhaven since 1967. The special thing about his exhibition concept is that he succeeds in convincing the artists he has invited to let themselves in for exhibiting in a space that measures thirty-five square meters and has a display window. And they have been doing this for forty-five years how in a way that has meanwhile become exemplary for the international art and curator scene! It is not an overstatement to maintain that the small space opposite Bremerhaven’s Municipal Theater has been inscribed in the annals of art history and enjoys an international reputation. [more]

Lange Nacht der Bremer Museen

 

Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt

Begrüßung: Dr. Anne Thurmann-Jajes, Leiterin Studienzentrum

Grußwort: Regina Dyck, Festival-Management "poetry on the road"

Einführung: Dr. Annette Gilbert, Freie Universität Berlin

Die Künstlerin ist anwesend.

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Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt

Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, born in 1932 in Wurzen, Saxony, is one of the few women artists from the former GDR to address in depth the relationship between text and image. Through their involvement in the Mail Art network, she and her husband Robert Rehfeldt were able to surmount the ban on exhibitions and publications by alternative artists during the GDR period. Her artistic activity came to an end with the unification of Germany in 1989. This is the first ever exhibition of her poetic and visual “Typewritings”. [more]

Ray Johnson | I like funny stories

Zur Ausstellung sprechen Carsten Ahrens | Direktor der Weserburg und Ingo Clauß | Kurator.

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Ray Johnson

The New York Times called him "the most famous unknown artist in New York." In fact Ray Johnson (1927–1995) remained an insider's tip for a long time. The significance and influence of his oeuvre, though, cannot be valued highly enough. Ray Johnson was involved in a lively exchange of ideas with the most important artists of his era, from John Cage to Andy Warhol. For him, art was a communicative process which could also take place apart from established institutions. Pursuing this idea, he built up during the 1960s, under the name "New York Correspondance [sic] School," an extensive network of postal communications and is accordingly considered to be the founder of the international movement of Mail Art. He mailed to friends, acquaintances, and also to strangers innumerable, mostly small-sized works. These include drawings, collages, reworked photographs and postcards, as well as personal messages and short notes. [more]