Print Festival
On the occasion of the fifth nationwide Printmaking Day, the Berufsverband Bildender Künstler*innen Bremen will host a festival at the Weserburg from March 17 to 19, 2023. In addition to the curated exhibition Das beste Wischwerkzeug ist der Handballen (The Best Wiping Tool is the Ball of the Hand), there will be an open presentation from which works can be purchased directly and taken home.
Three creative offerings in the form of hands-on stations are also on the program: letterpress in combination with frottage (Pia van Nuland), intaglio in combination with material printing (Udo Steinmann), and risography, a stencil printing process in the style of screen printing (D.O.C.H.: Katharina Dacrés, Karin Demuth, Julia Dambuk, Carolin Klapp, and Lucia Mendelova).
In addition to live silkscreen prints (Serigraphic Circus), there will be a stand with printed matter by Bremen artists, who will offer their printed products for sale, such as editions, monographs, posters or postcards.
Program
Friday, March 17
- 7 p.m.: Exhibition opening The best wiping tool is the ball of the hand. Introduction: Sirma Kekeç (artist and initiator) and Bettina Brach (curator at the Center for Artists’ Publications at the Weserburg)
- 7 – 9 p.m.: Participation stations and live screen printing
Saturday, March 18
- 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.: Exhibition The Best Wiping Tool is the Ball of the Hand and Open Presentation
- 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.: Participation stations and live screen printing
Sunday, March 19
- 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.: Exhibition The best wiping tool is the ball of the hand and open presentation
- 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.: Participation stations and live screen printing
- 1 pm: Performance “Printmaking is like Karate” with Shogun Bremen e.V.
Material costs for the hands-on stations : 2 Euro per station/1 Euro reduced.
For the live screen printing please bring textiles. Costs: depending on the textile to be printed
The festival is organized by the artist Sirma Kekeç and the BBK Bremen, in cooperation with the Weserburg Museum of Modern Art and the artists’ association Gedok Bremen.
Sponsored by: Gedok Bremen Artists’ Association, Karin and Uwe Hollweg Foundation, Senator for Culture of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, Berufsverband Bildender Künstler*innen Bremen, Die Sparkasse Bremen, Waldemar Koch Foundation.