Autor: Ludwig Rauch

Never be sure

Auch wenn es schön ist! Auch wenn es schwer ist. Auch wenn es klar ist: Nichts ist wie es scheint. Nichts ist eindeutig. Es könnte ganz anders sein. Ganz anders gemeint, ganz anders gedacht, ganz anders gewollt. In einer Gegenwart voller Ambivalenz, Widersprüchlichkeit, Gegensätze, in einer Gegenwart, in der Maschinen intelligent werden und handeln lernen wie Menschen, ist die Kunst Versicherung und Verunsicherung zugleich. Was sehen wir, und was ist da wirklich? Was bedeutet es, für mich, für die anderen? Kunst hat die Menschen seit jeher gelehrt, was sie heute und in Zukunft dringender brauchen denn je: Perspektivwechsel probieren. Andere Sichtweisen für möglich halten. Vieldeutigkeit feiern statt bekämpfen. Skeptisch bleiben und trotzdem fröhlich. Bilder sind, was man in ihnen sieht. Never be sure.

Sabine Dobinsky, Beate Wätzel, Nadja Rentzsch, Kathrin von Eye, Michael Görner und Sebastian Schmidt präsentieren in dieser Ausstellung ihre aktuellen fotografischen Arbeiten.

Vernissage 3. August 2025 in der Galerie im Stammelbach-Speicher, Hildesheim
Finnisage 31.August 2025
Öffnungszeiten: Samstag und Sonntag von 11 bis 18 Uhrhttps://galerieimstammelbachspeicher.de/programm-2025

Children of the Irente School for the Blind / Tanzania

Photo Exhibition of Sabine Dobinsky at the Bernhard-Nocht Ambulanz Hamburg

Since March 31, 2025, Sabine Dobinsky has been exhibiting her project images from the Irente School for the Blind in Tanzania at the Bernhard-Nocht-Ambulanz of the UKE at the Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg – one of only three specialized schools in the country for children with visual impairments.

Two years ago, Sabine Dobinsky visited the school during a trip and learned about plans to overcome its financial challenges through projects such as raising dairy cows, chickens, pigs, and rabbits, as well as cultivating peppers. Impressed by the commitment on site, she decided to support these initiatives through her photography to facilitate fundraising.

The images are available for purchase – all proceeds go entirely to the school. A short video on her website http://(https://www.sdobinsky.de/irente-school-for-the-blind) offers additional insights into the vibrant school life.

Imaginary Ecologies

Martin Tscholl
Imaginary Ecologies
published by The Eriskay Connection (2024)

A significant part of the work of artistic researcher Martin Tscholl (DE) involves walking through meadows, forests, and mountains. Here, he encounters a web of interconnections that extends far beyond the realm of humans. This web is inhabited by a wide variety of organisms, materials, and processes that are mutually dependent and in permanent change. By actively looking out for these other beings a correspondence between the human and the non-human spheres starts to unfold. In this process the apparent opposites of the rational and irrational, life and non-life, art and nature, converge. Tscholl’s photography allows us to recognise the silent fragments of nature as being different from us, but also as originating from the same ontological ground.

Photography: Martin Tscholl
Text: Martin Tscholl
Design: Rob van Hoesel
Lithography: Sebastiaan Hanekroot (Colour&Books)
Production: Jos Morree (Fine Books)
Print: NPN Printers (NL)
Binding: Patist (NL)
225 × 308 mm
240 pages
English
Hardcover
First edition: 1000
9789083357157

https://www.martintscholl.com/book/

Of gnats, moths and dandelions

Nadja Rentzsch shows her paintings at Kunstwild – Projektraum für Fotografie

16.11. – 6.12.24
12161 Berlin, Eschenstraße 4

Nadja Rentzsch’s solo exhibition in the Friedenau project space for photography, „Kunstwild“, opens up a new perspective on nature and its inhabitants. In her series „Glanz & Gloria“ and „Lieber Löwenzahn“, she shows the beauty of the everyday and draws our attention to the artistic aesthetics of insects and plants.

The dandelion, for example, which is often fought against as a „weed“, is elevated to iconic status here. Its fine, floating seed heads symbolize both transience and the relentless vitality of nature. In a similar way, she also stages the existence of insects: Portrayed on a stage, they unfold their unique splendor and grace.

The staged photographs allow moths, gnats and dandelions to shine. With detailed precision and finely tuned light, Nadja Rentzsch unfolds the „splendor and glory“ of nature and makes us reflect on the importance and value of biodiversity and natural beauty.
https://nadjarentzsch.com/

A look at the Schloss Fachsenfeld Collection – Caspar David Friedrich meets…

Caspar David Friedrich meets… Rainer Enke

at Schloß Fachsenfeld
05.10. – 3.11.2024
73434 Aalen – Fachsenfeld, Am Schlß 1

 

Caspar David Friedrich postulated that artists should paint what appears before their inner eye. Friedrich thus gazed into nature and created landscapes that still characterize our image of Romanticism today: full of sublimity, longing and melancholy.

But what do contemporary artists see in their mind’s eye when they look at nature? Is it idyll or catastrophe, is it hope or despair?

The Fachsenfeld Castle Foundation is presenting two original sepia drawings by Caspar David Friedrich from its own collection. In artistic dialog with them are the works of contemporary artists who have explored Friedrich’s work and his inner view of nature.

The works of the following artists enter into an exciting artistic dialog with Caspar David Friedrich:

Alfred Bast • Andreas Böhm • Ulrich Brauchle • Hanne Dittrich • Martina Ebel • Artur Elmer • Rainer Enke • Christian Frumolt • Paul Groll • Rudolf Haegele • Simon Maier • Hubert Minsch • Thomas Raschke • Günther Raupp • Jessica Rühmann • Silke Schwab-Krüger • Ines Tartler • Andreas Welzenbach • Werner Zaiß

Moments of staged Realities

Nadja Rentzsch shows her paintings at the KleppArt gallery in Paderborn

15.2.24 bis 6.3.24

Kleppartgasse 10 33098 Paderborn

The Magic of Silence – Homage to C.F.D.

Rainer Enke’s Photographic Impressions
based on the novel of the same name by Florian Illies
are on display from 12.4. to 30.6. 2024 in the waiting room
Dresden Bahnhof -Neustadt.

Zauber der Stille – Hommage an C.D.F.

Rainer Enke zeigt seine fotografischen Impressionen nach dem gleichnamigen Roman von Florian Illies

 

ab 16.3.24 im Buchkultur Nuthetal

14558 Nuthetal OT Rehbrücke
Zum Springbuch 2

Der sechste Sinn, Meisterklasse Ludwig Rauch

SABINE DOBINSKY
NADJA RENTZSCH
RUSLAN HRUSHCHAK
MICHAEL MATTHEWS
MARTIN TSCHOLL
RAINER ENKE

Kunstraum Potsdam
22.10 – 19.11.2023
www.kunstraumpotsdam.de

Als „Sechster Sinn“ wird die Intuition beschrieben, das Bauchgefühl, die Eingebung, das Empfinden im Raum. Es ist etwas, das man mehr spürt und ahnt, als dass man es mit Zahlen und Fakten beschreiben könnte. Vielleicht liegt gerade in diesem Sechsten Sinn ein Ursprung der Schönheit und Einzigartigkeit der Kunst.

Sechs außergewöhnliche Künstlerinnen und Künstler, Sabine Dobinsky, Nadja Rentzsch, Rainer Enke, Martin Tscholl, Ruslan Hrushchak und Michael Matthews haben sich in den vergangenen Jahren in der Meisterklasse von Ludwig Rauch zusammengefunden um einen intensiven Diskurs über Fotografie zu führen, einander zu hinterfragen und zu ermutigen. Hier haben wir daran gearbeitet, die unterschiedlichen künstlerischen Positionen und ihre individuelle Bildsprache weiterzuentwickeln um damit die bestmögliche Umsetzung des eigenen Anspruches an das selbst gewählte Thema zu erreichen.

Portrait of a Lady

The series „Portrait of a Lady“ consists of 15 portraits of women from my extended personal circle. The works were created in their homes, incorporating their familiar environment and treasures from their personal collections. As part of our getting to know one another, I gained insights into entire worlds of stories from lives richly lived, insights that helped me to visualise the wonderful personalities of these women. The staging process allowed me to create a framework in which the women were allowed to tell their own stories, utilizing their own deep self-understanding and charisma. I was fascinated to realize that in addition, a female archetype became recognizable, one in which not only their own roots but those of an era seemed to live on. Working with these ladies revealed to me how the outward expression of a life fully lived enriches the definition of beauty.

Exhibition 8.6.23 bis 30.6.23 Stadtpfarrkirche Müncheberg
https://www.stadtpfarrkirche-muencheberg.de/09-juni-2023-bis-30-juli-2023/