Cabinet exhibition in the Center for Artists' Publications

The exhibition is devoted to the conceptual work of Hungarian-born artist Géza Perneczky, created since the early 1970s. He developed conceptual works, conceptual photographs and artist books. Perneczky's artworks can be located not only in conceptual art, but also in mail art and the late Fluxus movement.

In an exciting sequence, the Weserburg presents new artists' spaces for the third time. The artists self-confidently put their works and concepts up for debate. The exhibition thus provides insight into the diversity and quality of artistic production today, which are impressively reflected in the Weserburg's collections. 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.

It is a classic of German design history - the Wilhelm Wagenfeld table lamp, known worldwide as the Bauhaus lamp. With its clear formal language reduced to the essentials, it is still an epitome of good design today. The exhibition at the Weserburg shows the design icon in an unusual light. Since 1995, 25 nationally and internationally renowned artists have been invited to artistically rework the luminaire. The result is a surprising variety of new works. They range from appreciative rebuttals to ironic commentaries to grotesque alienations.

For fifty years, Switzerland's Montreux has hosted a now world-famous jazz festival. Every year in July, international musical greats take to the stages of the city on Lake Geneva and delight an equally international audience. Founded in 1967, the festival has become one of the most important cultural festivals in the world, attracting 250,000 visitors each summer on an international level. And every year, a new jazz poster is published that has been and will be created by artists, designers, and musicians. To mark the anniversary, the Weserburg is presenting the complete posters that have appeared so far.

Cabinet exhibition in the Center for Artists' Publications

A cabinet exhibition in cooperation with the Hochschule für Künste Bremen with current artists' books by students from Bremen, Vienna, London, Bergen and Stockholm. Exhibition and two-day symposium are part of the interdisciplinary HfK project "Artists as Independent Publishers".

The exhibition "Mir ist das Leben lieber" (I prefer life) brings together more than 100 paintings, sculptures and video works that explore questions of identity, social role attribution, but also existential areas such as life and death in a very sensual and convincingly provocative way. Presented are highlights and never before shown works from the Reydan Weiss Collection.

Cabinet exhibition at the Center for Artists' Publications.

The poetic work of the Scottish artist, poet and writer Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006) goes beyond traditional forms. He also realized his poems as outdoor installations in the landscape, such as the large garden "Little Sparta" in the Pentland Hills, where he lived since 1966.

Exhibition at the Center for Artists' Publications

"I, too, wondered if I couldn't sell something and succeed in life. For some time I have been good for nothing. I am forty years old. Finally the idea came to my mind to invent something insincere, and on the spot I set to work. After three months had passed, I showed the results to Philippe Edouardo Toussaint, the owner of the St. Laurent Gallery. But, this is art, he said, and I will gladly exhibit it all. [...]"

Cabinet exhibition at the Center for Artists' Publications

Paul Heimbach created an extensive oeuvre of artists' books and edition objects. Beginning with early experimental approaches in the 1960s, in later phases he produced mathematically and calendar-based groups of works in which he developed his own unique visual language through the precise use of color.