Exhibition in the Center for Artists' Publications

This year's DAY OF ARCHIVES coincides with International Women's Day and is therefore oriented towards gender issues. 25 Bremen archives present exemplary archival materials in the joint exhibition. These are posters, documents of individual biographies, record covers, films, television programs, interviews, literary works and much more.

In this exhibition, a young private collection from Hamburg is presented to a wider public for the first time. The works are by artists who belong primarily to the same generation as the collector couple themselves. Dominic and Cordula Sohst-Brennenstuhl attach great importance to this consensus. What the two are able to discover in art relates to their own thinking, their own perceptions, questions and insights.

Fifteen artists' rooms have been set up on the second floor of the Weserburg, which is largely laid out in a labyrinthine fashion. The positions assigned to the rooms stand for themselves and for the respective artistic oeuvre, but are also able to correspond with each other in the sense of a contrasting program. Painting, sculpture, photography, video, and text works are presented, inviting visitors to take a varied tour.

For the eighth time, museums, art associations and galleries from Bremen and the surrounding area will present contemporary art on a total exhibition area of 14,000 m² in the Gleishalle am Güterbahnhof. At the center of the 2014 Art Spring is the exhibition "Notausgang am Horizont" ("Emergency Exit on the Horizon"), conceived by guest curator Ludwig Seyfarth. In parallel, the Weserburg is presenting contemporary art from the Reinking Collection in Hamburg in its own pavilion. Two expansive sculptures by the French artists Hermine Anthoine and Ange Leccia and a video work by Vanessa Beecroft will be on display.

Exhibition in the Center for Artists' Publications

Yuri Albert is one of the most consistent representatives of Moscow Conceptualism. In the 1970s he began his artistic work in the unofficial Soviet cultural scene. Influenced by the experience of self-organization in this milieu found to his critical and ironic reflections of the system art. In his works Yuri Albert investigates the conditions of production and reception of art, he is interested in the relations between artwork and interpretation, between image and text, visibility and invisibility, original and copy.

Welcome and farewell, graduation and departure: this year, the master students of the Fine Arts program at the Bremen University of the Arts are once again bidding farewell at the end of their studies with a large collective exhibition at the Weserburg. Under the title "Of the Universe," current works by sixteen young artists are on view. They impressively demonstrate the high quality and diversity of contemporary art production in Bremen. Aesthetic discourses are negotiated here just as convincingly as questions about the social role of art.

Exhibition in the Center for Artists' Publications

The Italian artist Guglielmo Achille Cavellini was in lively exchange with numerous international artists. He produced large numbers of documents, artist books, postcards and stamps as part of his "self-historicization". In his honor, the Center for Artists' Publications, curated by Guy Schraenen, presents artists' publications by Cavellini from the holdings of the Archive for Small Press & Communication.

The second exhibition in the series "Young Collections" presents works from the private collection of Kelterborn in Frankfurt. The focus of this extraordinary collection is on socially relevant, philosophically profound and politically explosive works by internationally renowned artists. The von Kelterborn collectors are convinced that art enables us to make "the present" comprehensible in its complexity, its contradictions and cruelties, but also in its thoroughly positive potential, and indeed to experience it through the senses and the mind. She is particularly interested in photographic and video works.

Cabinet exhibition in the Center for Artists' Publications

Photography is represented in the international collections, archives and funds of the Center for Artists' Publications in a variety of ways - in photo series, editions and printed publications. The range of artistic directions includes conceptual art, land art and performances. The selection presented on the occasion of fotokunstbremen reflects the artistic preoccupation with one's own person, the relationship between image and text, or with art itself.

15 rooms. 15 artistic worlds. The Weserburg once again presents highly diverse artists' spaces in an exciting sequence. The exhibition provides insight into the diversity and quality of artistic production today, which are impressively reflected in the Weserburg's collections. The artists self-confidently put their works and concepts up for debate. It is precisely in the differences, contradictions, and confrontations that come to light in the process that the Weserburg's artists' spaces respond to the complexity of today's experience of the world.