Exhibition history

Find all previous exhibitions of the Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken.

Holding Nut’s position - © Lukas Ratius

Erschöpfung by Hannah Mevis

In Hannah Mevis' first institutional solo exhibition, visitors could expect a multimedia exploration of exhaustion. The aim of her artistic work is to learn to understand the body as a unit. Because its mind, emotions, feelings and form are inextricably linked.

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Ausstellung Wildes Morgen kuratiert von Kindern und Jugendlichen - Foto: Hannah Mevis

Wildes Morgen curated by children and young adults

Children and young people curated the Wildes Morgen exhibition. Two school classes selected six artists: Mert Akbal, Jeppe Hein, Lene Markusen, Jonas Mayer, Rop van Mierlo and Gamze Yalçın. The group exhibition united regional and international artistic positions to answer the question: How do we want our future to be?

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Schlag Auf! - Leo Scheidt - ©Lukas Ratius

Schlag auf!

Leo Scheidt's master's project asked how we can learn new things as a community through play - during the exhibition period and also once a fortnight at the "Tischtennistreff".

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Ausstellungsansicht Arthur Debert SaarArt - Foto: Leo Scheidt

SaarART 2023

As part of SaarART 2023, the artists Suzan Noesen, Vera Loos, Margaux Moritz, Christiane Wien, Arthur Debert and François Schwamborn exhibited their works at the Stadtgalerie. The Stadtgalerie participated as one of 11 Saarland exhibition venues and showed 6 artistic positions of contemporary art from Saarland, Luxembourg and Lorraine.

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Saša Spačal's exhibition - Marius Heimburger

[UN]EARTHING by Saša Spačal

Saša Spačal (*1978, Slovenia) works at the intersection of living systems research and contemporary art. The artist employs scientific findings and laboratory practices for her artistic work while collaborating with scientists and technologists.

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Eric Schwarz's exhibition - Olivier Dietze

An Influencer Will Save the World by Eric Schwarz

The illustrator and comic author Eric Schwarz (*1996, lives and works in Saarbrücken and Paris) presents his book The Path at the Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken. Follow the path and search for an answer for a desirable future in the exhibition An Influencer Will Save the World.

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Exhibtion 663.044.400 by Hojin Kang - Oliver Dietze

663.044.400 by Hojin Kang

Through works such as 3D-printed sculptures, video works and interactive media installations the interdisciplinary graphic designer and artist Hojin Kang (*1986) brings acute physicality and our state of mind into focus.

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Our House is on Fire - curated by children and young people - Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken

Our House is on Fire

The group exhibition Our House is on Fire is curated by children artistic positions and young adults. It combines multifaceted artisitc positions that deal with aspects of the climate crisis.

RESONANZ - Stuttgarter Kammerorchester

RESONANZ - AN IMMERSIVE AR-MUSIC INSTALLATION IN THE COURTYARD OF THE STADTGALERIE

The RESONANZ project is a unique installation with music, art and animation in an augmented reality and is a meeting point and interactive experience.

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LA AIR - Paulette Penje - Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken

LA Air by Paulette Penje

The video and performance artist Paulette Penje (*1984, Berlin) works with colour and movement. With her body, she questions painting, space and the in-between. In her first institutional solo exhibition LA AIR, Paulette Penje questions her own actions and art as a whole.

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Table of Content - ConstructLab - Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken

Table of Content by ConstructLab

The Stadtgalerie invited ConstructLab to work collaboratively. Table of Content is a process. The exhibition is a platform that is activated again and again by different players.

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Anna Ehrenstein: Tupamaras Technophallus - Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken

Anna Ehrenstein | Tupamaras Technophallus

Anna Ehrenstein (born in 1993) investigates forms of knowledge and their construction. Garish sculptural and virtual installations interrogate representation and self-image. The artwork Tupamaras Technophallus was created in collaboration with the Bogota based vogueing and performance collective “House of Tupamaras”.

Lukas Ratius | Der Apparat und andere Geschichten

Lukas Ratius (born in 1989) works as a freelance photographer and documentary filmmaker in Saarbrücken. His work is characterised by an authentic closeness. With his daily life documentation, Ratius creates a space that allows the existing to be present. He makes raw vulnerability just as visible as strong self-confidence.

Lukas Ratius | Courtyard Installation

In the inner courtyard of the Stadtgalerie, excerpts from the project Sprachgewalt in which Lukas Ratius collects snatches of sentences from Saarland’s everyday life.

Art Prize Robert Schuman 2021

Every two years, the Art Prize Robert Schuman highlights current tendencies in artistic creation of the QuattroPole cities Luxembourg, Metz, Saarbrücken and Trier and exhibits the emerging artists of the Greater Region.

Gillian Brett | Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen

Gillian Brett's (*1990 in Paris) work analyzes the relationship between humans and technology, reflecting on how these formative processes inevitably impact our environment.

Matej Bosnić | πάσχειν (páskhein)

Matej Bosnić (*1990 in Croatia) lives and works in Bonn. In his artistic work he investigates belonging. He reveals seemingly hidden contexts of objects and places.

Natascha Sadr Haghighian - le lion malade

Natascha Sadr Haghighian shows multimedia installations, video and audio works as well as drawings, some of which directly link to the artist's installation in the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2019.

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Florian Huth Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts - Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken

Florian Huth - ART of the 20th century

Florian Huth (*1980 in Saarbrücken) investigates artistic ability and success. For his diploma, he copied selected works by artists who were ranked ahead of him in the Artfacts ranking.

Joni Majer - I'll fix you

The illustrator Joni Majer (*1985 in Berlin) lives and works in Saarbrücken. In her drawings she expresses complicated things as simply and clearly as possible, in black and white.

Installation in the Courtyard

It has been one year since the racist attack in Hanau. In commemoration of the victims, the artist Natascha Sadr Haghighian illuminated the boxes in the courtyard of the Stadtgalerie with the names of the victims of right-wing terror in Germany. The 21 boxes are illuminated by spectral colors and each bears a name in white lettering. They form a luminous colored band on the wall of the courtyard.

EXHIBITIONS UNDER THE PREVIOUS DIRECTOR

Sabine Hertig | BREAK UP! - Stadtgalerie - Stadtgalerie

Sabine Hertig | BREAK UP!

Her material is the omnipresent flood of images, both analog and digital. Her tools are scissors and glue. Swiss artist Sabine Hertig (*1982) works in the classic medium of collage, integrating images from conventional print media as well as information from social networks.

Sabine Hertig - Courtyard Installation

Weißt du wie viel, Sternlein stehen?

Newspaper headlines sharpen the content of an article. They are designed to attract our attention in a targeted manner in order to win us over as readers. Sabine Hertig has been collecting text headlines for several years. In the headline collage of 19 original headlines, she assembles the "everyday prose" into a new, open narrative.

IN TRANSIT - Stadtgalerie

IN TRANSIT

'In Transit' is a multidisciplinary presentation that focuses on the tentative, limbo-like experience of living between different cultures, exploring the stories of immigrants who traverse the no-man’s land that exists between home and hope.

Participating artists: Gohar Dashti, Daniel Castro Garcia, Tanya Habjouqa, George Awde, Stefanie Zofia Schulz

Banner ZIMOUN NEU - Stadtgalerie

Zimoun

With an extreme sensitivity to location and rhythmic potential, Zimoun produces works that evoke control, humor, absence, and nature. Highly ordered systems of movement are derived from simple and low-tech means.

Parastou Forouhar - Deadlines - Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken

Parastou Forouhar - Deadlines

Parastou Forouhar’s work reflects the encounter between Orient and Occident, between crisis area and comfort zone, between coercive order and cultural freedom.

Starke Stücke - Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken

Starke Stücke - Feminisms and Geographies

The cross-border exhibition project "Starke Stücke" ("Strong Works - Feminism and Geography") focuses on the difference, or more precisely, on sexual, cultural and physical diversity.

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Douglas Henderson

Douglas Henderson is a sound artist whose work encompasses all aspects of the medium, from electroacoustic sound compositions to sculptural works and installations.

Nadja Verena Marcin - OPHELIA - Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken

Nadja Verena Marcin - Ophelia

OPHELIA is an interdisciplinary performance that reflects the destruction of nature by refering to literature, art and science.

Christina Kubisch, Electrical Moods, Ausstellungsbanner: Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken - 41.2

Christina Kubisch

With the light and sound spaces by the renowned artist and former professor of the HBKsaar, Christina Kubisch (*born 1948 in Bremen), the Stadtgalerie presents a pioneer of sound art who already received international acclaim in the 1970s with her electronic sound experiments.

IN THE CUT TEASER - 41.2

IN THE CUT- The Male Body in Feminist Art

Sexuality has played a decisive role in the history of art ab initio. Until the 1970s, it was the male gaze at the female body which informed the politics of these images. In the first feminist examinations of the erotic which followed, woman artists also focused their explorations on their own body.

Plakat Das letzte Bild, Motiv: Andres Serrano, "The Morgue - Child_Abuse", 1992. Fotografie - Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken

The last Image - The Sight of Death in Contemporary Art

In recent years, there has been much discussion about the new visibility of death.They are images that cause a shudder to run down our spines, yet, at the same time, leave us feeling indifferent, because ultimately they do not concern us and in doubt serve to confirm the illusion of our own immortality.

Helga Griffiths, "Crossing", Banner - Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken

Helga Griffiths

‘Crossing’ at Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken is the first major solo exhibition dedicated to the work of German artist Helga Griffiths (b. 1959 in Ehingen/Donau). Her multimedia and multisensory space installations explore the boundaries between art and science. Audience interaction is as important as the site-specific character of these works.

Banner Russell Maltz - Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken

Russell Maltz

The viewer is confronted with paintings without a canvas, without borders – paintings that she or he can encounter anywhere: on construction sites, in parking lots, in the mountains, or in a Baroque palace such as the Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken.

Banner Francois Martig - Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken

François Martig

Sound, its sculptural staging, and an engagement with landscape are among the essential components of his artistic works. The media artist documents places and their histories, political decisions and their consequences, and objects and their significance.

Paul Morrison, Black Grass, 2017, Einladungskarte Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken - Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken

Paul Morrison

Contemporary painting from Britain represented by to artistic positions that focus on the imagery of new media and the metropolis. The paintings and objects of Jost Münster (*1968) are abstract, playing at the same time with references to architecture and urban space. Contrarily Paul Morrison’s (*1966) realm of images stems from botanical educational books, comics and childbook illustrations.

Jost Münster, Casual Encounter, 2017, Einladungskarte Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken - Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken

Jost Münster

Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken Einladungskarte Takehito Koganezawa - Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken Einladungskarte

Heribert Friedl - Takehito Koganezawa

Mid-February our exhibition program begins with the presentation of two very different artistic stances, both of which are directly related to the spatial environment of the Stadtgalerie.

Plakat Katrin Ströbel - Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken

Katrin Ströbel

A thin, blue plastic bag carried away by the wind, a suitcase hidden in the trees, inhabited cardboard boxes squeezed in between walls like nests … moments in time that Katrin Ströbel (*1975 in Pforzheim) records in her drawings and photographs. Moments that confront us with signs of those who – involuntarily – are on a journey.

Moris and Gianfranco Foschino

With Gianfranco Foschino and Moris the Stadtgalerie presents two South American artists whose works not only reflect new tendencies in contemporary art but put a special focus on the extreme living conditions in their home countries.

Chiharu Shiota

The Berlin-based Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota (b. 1972 in Osaka) creates capacious installations that surround the public like a mental space.

HIGH FIVE RENÉE

The Swiss artist Renée Levi (b. 1960 in Istanbul) is known first and foremost for her architecture-related painting. Thus the Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken will also become the site of interventions of paintings and installations that Levi will install in collaboration with the artists‘ group HIGH FIVE

Martin Walde

In his conceptual pieces Martin Walde (*1957 in Innsbruck) works with all kinds of media. At the latest with his participation at documenta X (1997) Walde became known to a wider public.

Home In Relation - Stadtgalerie

Nezaket Ekici and Shahar Marcus

They are encounters under extreme circumstances: in the Dead Sea, in the desert, underground, as partners, in confrontation, in a fight for survival.

Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken Einladungskarte Pia Maria Martin - Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken

Pia Maria Martin

Pia Maria Martin’s artistic work makes time visible. She brings dead things to life and causes her protagonists to execute sometimes absurd choreographies.

Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken Einladungskarte Klaus Martin Treder - Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken Einladungskarte

Klaus-Martin Treder

Klaus-Martin Treder’s (b. 1961 in Biberach) paintings, objects, and spaces are clever presentations that ironically counteract the medium of painting.

Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken Einladungskarte Anahita Razmi - Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken

Anahita Razmi

For this German artist with Iranian roots, coming to terms with current political and social issues is the center of her work.

Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken Einladungskarte Andy Spyra - Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken Einladungskarte

Andy Spyra

The photographer Andy Spyra focuses on people and their country, the soil of their culture, and their common surroundings.

Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken Einladungskarte Delphine Reist & Laurent Faulent - Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken

Body Building

Delphine Reist and Laurent Faulon, a husband-and-wife artists from Geneva, ike to intervene in places where others become uncomfortable.

Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken Einladungskarte Pablo Wendel - Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken Einladungskarte

Pablo Wendel

Performance Electrics is opening its first temporary branch in the Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken.

DIEKER Broschüre - Stadtgalerie

Birgit Dieker

The Stadtgalerie presented the first solo exhibition by Birgit Dieker.