Artistic Landscapes of East Germany
April 22, 2026 – September 9, 2026
Group Exhibition
Die Galerie
We invite you to take a journey throughthe art scenes of Eastern Germany—from Brandenburg through Berlin and Leipzig to Dresden. Our new group exhibition brings together painting, photography, and sculpture, each offering a distinct artistic perspective. Both spatially and temporally, we trace a path centered around our core artists Volker Stelzmann, Johannes Heisig, Klaus Zylla, and Beate Debus.
This leads us to Gerhard Altenbourg (1926–1989), a deeply poetic artist and brilliant figurative draftsman. With the renowned photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021), we explore the inner landscapes of people in the former GDR, while the young Berlin photographer Lars Wiedemann (*1973) brings to light the regional processes of transformation in our time. In painting, a diverse range of tensions emerges: Old Master-like and Mannerist in the work of Volker Stelzmann (*1940); enigmatic, inscrutable, and grotesque in that of Clemens Gröszer (1951–2014); and allegorical and psychologically charged in the work of Doris Ziegler (*1949). Hubertus Giebe (*1953) creates striking parables about the world and world history, similar to Johannes Heisig (*1953) and yet quite different from him. Klaus Zylla (*1953) seems completely liberated from the conventions of “German” painting, while Ellen Fuhrs’ (1958–2017) painterly forays through Berlin resemble the illustrated pages of her diary. The Dresden-based painter Frank Hoffmann (*1972) deconstructs art history into a blurred abstraction. Finally, as a sculptor, Beate Debus (*1957) speaks her very own language—that of dance and movement.
OnWednesday, April 22, 2026, at 6:30 p.m., we will open the exhibition inthe presence of many artists and would like to cordially invite you to join us for this festive occasion. Please register by email at info@die-galerie.com or by phone at +49 69 9714710
DIE GALERIE
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Email: info@die-galerie.com