The impressions from the exhibition 'Proof of Life - Lebenszeichen' are processed in the temporary workshops in the participating schools, playhouses, daycare centers, children's and youth facilities. Many questions arise and inspire the children and young people to come up with ideas. Here, 30 professional artists work together with the children and young people to raise the 'treasure trove of pictorial experience' and support the creation of their own ideas about it.

Cabinet exhibition in the Center for Artists' Publications

Letters, invitations, faxes, and postcards from artists are often works of art themselves. John Cage transforms his message into a mesostichon, in which the middle letters of the text, read one below the other, represent their own verse form related to the recipient. Andrzej Dudek-Dürer uses his graphic works simultaneously for his correspondence. Robert Rehfeldt writes and draws letters, which he reproduces as art letters and then adds individual greetings and stamp impressions.

Appealing equally to the heart and the mind, the exhibition offers a glimpse into an outstanding Polish private collection. The pointed selection of works shown here is on view in this form for the first time in Germany. The works come from the Signum Foundation, based in Poznań but also located in Łódź and Venice, which was founded in 2002 by Hanna and Jarosław Przyborowski. Their range of media extends from painting to sculpture to performance and process art to photography, neon text works, conceptual art, and quite provocative and disturbing self-presentations.

Cabinet exhibition in the Center for Artists' Publications

The oeuvre of Cia Rinne is one of the most significant current developments in the succession of concrete, visual and auditory poetry from the 1950s to the 1980s and leads to a repositioning of this art and literary movement. In accordance with the various media forms of her work, works by Cia Rinne can be seen and heard in the cabinet exhibition.

Exhibition in the Center for Artists' Publications
Works from the collection of the Brokken Zijp Foundation of Art.

The exhibition is dedicated to the oeuvre of the Dutch artist herman de vries. Not only will a retrospective of his extensive edited oeuvre be shown, but it will at the same time be located within his fascinating artistic cosmos.

In a large solo exhibition, the Weserburg is presenting over 60 photographic works by the American artist Cindy Sherman from nearly all phases of her work. This will be the first time that such a large collection of images by the world-famous artist has been shown in northern Germany.

The title MESH already hints at it: Art can also be understood as a fabric that connects and holds together. It is about meaningful references and connections in which the relationship between subject and community, between individual settings and their tense coexistence comes into view. This interconnectedness and interweaving serves as a model of thought for the master student exhibition of the Hochschule für Künste Bremen 2018. This year, 14 artists present their latest works. The entire range of media is represented, from drawing, painting, and sculpture to expansive installations, video, performance, and a kinetic sound object.

Cabinet exhibition in the Center for Artists' Publications.

The Stuttgart artist Dietrich Fricker (1928-2011) was an outstanding draftsman and created numerous publications, collages and graphics on current topics. In them he criticized, among other things, the consumer society, armament, xenophobia and environmental pollution or also, from his own experience, the conditions in the "recovery bureaucracy".

I am not a piece of shit I am a piece of society - with letters powerfully painted on the canvas, the artist Bjarne Melgaard puts it in a nutshell: art demands its place in society. Since the mid-1990s, Florian Peters-Messer, a real estate entrepreneur from Viersen, has collected more than 350 works of contemporary, international art, which are being presented in this form for the first time in a museum context. The exhibition presents a pointed and sharply contoured selection of highly political, sometimes explosive works that address the social upheavals of our time in a critical, often oppressive way.

On September 26, the Weserburg will bid farewell to its longtime curator and director Peter Friese, who will retire in October 2018 after more than 25 years as a collector's museum. In his honor, artists have donated works for a personal farewell exhibition-a tribute that reflects the high esteem in which he is held in the art scene thanks to his passionate commitment to contemporary art.

Cabinet exhibition in the Center for Artists' Publications

Is ARTIC a magazine? Is ARTIC art? Is ARTIC a concept? ARTIC has driven booksellers, printers, designers, artists, authors and itself to the brink of despair. But maybe it also makes sense to do something that actually can't be done, because it turns the economy on its head.