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Junges Blut

Exhibition and cooperation project with Kunstschule Wandsbek

Junges Blut goes into the next round! For the fourth time, the cooperation project with the Kunstschule Wandsbek provides insight into the thinking and work of young people. Inspired by the large special exhibition "Cindy Sherman. Works from the Olbricht Collection", a group of students has developed their own works with exciting, sometimes very personal approaches. Physicality and sexuality, identity and role models, questions that play a major role in the work of the American artist, formed a fascinating starting point. Several photo series, large-format text works, and even sculptures and objects were created.

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ERIK STEINBRECHER ZUR KASSE BITTE

Exhibition at the Centre for Artists' Publications

ERIK STEINBRECHER ZUR KASSE BITTE is an experiment lasting over six months for which the artist Erik Steinbrecher sets up his studio in the exhibition space of the Centre for Artists’ Publications and is regularly present there. Erik Steinbrecher becomes a "living sculpture" (in progress) in a studio open to the public. The experiment represents a process, i.e. a process extending over a certain period of time, in which something arises or takes place. The artistic installation of the studio situation presents both the artist Erik Steinbrecher himself and his artistic practice.

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The Way We Are 1.0

Starting at the end of March 2019, the collection presentation “The Way We Are 1.0” will be featured on two floors constituting more than half of the overall exhibition space of the Weserburg. The exhibition includes works from a large number of collections, some of which have enjoyed a long association with the institution while others are new additions; also on display will be works from the Weserburg’s own collection as well as loans by artists who will be participating in a show at the Weserburg for the first time.

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André Thomkins

everywhere, but hovering

André Thomkins, (born 1930 in Lucerne, died 1985 in Berlin) numbers among the most interesting and multifaceted artistic positions of the postwar era. But outside his native country of Switzerland, his poetical, humorous creations with their joy in experimentation have been unjustifiably overshadowed by his artist friends such as Daniel Spoerri, George Brecht, Robert Filliou or Dieter Roth. In artistic circles, on the other hand, the two-time documenta participant has been highly esteemed for generations as an inspiring catalyst.

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Kapielskis Buch-, Flach- und Krachwaren

Cabinet Exhibition at the Centre for Artists' Publications

The exhibition presents an overview of the published works of the Berlin artist, writer and musician Thomas Kapielski (born 1951), with artists’ books from "Bestwerliner Tunkfurm" (1984) to "Leuchten. A- und So-phorismen" (2016). His reflections on daily life and on art are exceptionally comical, critical and philosophical, precise and accurate in word and image. His acoustic and musical work will also be presented. Among his other activities, Kapielski is an active member of the Original Oberkreuzberg Nose Flute Orchestra.

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Meisterschüler*innen 2019. Karin Hollweg Preis 2019

The exhibitions featuring works by master pupils which have taken place at the Weserburg each year since 2011 offer a wide range of insights into the quality and diversity of current artistic production in Bremen. Participating in this year’s presentation are 16 artists, all of whom are showing new works, some of which are site-specific.

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80 years Jürgen Waller. 60 years art

Special presentation in the framework of The Way We Are 1.0

On the occasion of the 80th birthday of Jürgen Waller, four simultaneous exhibitions are being devoted to the oeuvre of this painter – at the Weserburg Museum for Modern Art, the Kunsthalle Bremen, the University of the Fine Arts in the Dechanatstraße in Bremen, and the Galerie Birgit Waller. In a room specially set up for the purpose, the Weserburg is presenting works from the series Schwarze Sonne (‘Black Sun’) which the artist has been working on since 1985.

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KlangTräume

Music, noise and sound experience in the kek kindermuseum

Try it out, experiment playfully, change it and help shape it! In the interactive exhibition KlangTräume you can reinvent the history of the Bremen Town Musicians, hop melodies, feel the volume, compose timbres, get to know the pitch in the ship in a bottle, listen to your own voice for 100 m, set different rhythms on the large music box, hear your heartbeat very loud, play with your voice.

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Artists' Books: Manifold Multi-page

Cabinet Exhibition at the Centre for Artists' Publications

Ordinary and yet exceptional: the medium of the book captivates us in the form of a work of art with many and varied manifestations. Under the title Vielfältig Mehrseitig (Manifold Multi-page), the Center for Artists’ Publications focuses on those artist’s books that depart from the conventional appearance of the book with a special kind of binding, an unusual form or a surprising detail.
The cabinet exhibition presents an international selection from its own holdings, from the 1960s to the present day.

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Andrea Bowers

Light and Gravity

For the American artist Andrea Bowers (born in 1965, lives in Los Angeles), political involvement and artistic work cannot be separated. For more than two decades, she has stood for an artistic position which combines a well-thought-through aesthetic practice with acute political observation from a feminist perspective. Her creative output is characterised by a masterly balance between activist resistance and its transfer into artistic language. The exhibition at the Weserburg Museum for Modern Art is presenting the very first survey exhibition of Bowers’ creative production.

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fictionfictionfiction. Heman Chong

Exhibition at the Centre for Artists' Publications

Heman Chong is an artist whose work is located at the intersection between image, performance, situations, and writing. His practice can be read as an imagining, interrogation and sometimes intervention into infrastructure as an everyday medium of politics.

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