Academies from Rhine-Main dominate
Robin Stretz explores the myths and anecdotes surrounding two pieces of furniture in a film that will be shown at FILIALE starting September 8.
The influence of the important and internationally recognized local academies—Städelschule, HfG Offenbach, and also the Mainz Academy of Fine Arts—is clearly evident. The exhibition "Complex" at the Filiale features film works by Robin Stretz, who studied at the Mainz Academy of Fine Arts and at the Städelschule in Frankfurt in Tobias Rehberger's class. Nadja Adelmann and Alyona Volkova, who work together at the Heike Strelow Gallery , studied under sculptor Tobias Rehberger, or, in the case of Alyona Volkova, who hails from Odessa, are still doing so. They create paintings and installations that captivate visitors not only with their content, but also with their surprising and meticulously crafted visual details.
Alyona Volkova, The Art of Doing Nothing IV, 2023, oil on canvas, 240 x 180 x 4 cm, Galerie Heike Strelow.
A new place worth seeing for sculpture, painting and photography has been opened with MARS in Bockenheim, run by the art trio Anna Nero (Kunsthochschule Mainz and HGB Leipzig), Robert Schittko and Marcel Walldorf (both HfG Offenbach). They will be showing their own works in the group exhibition "This could be us" from September 8 to 15.
Other artists associated with the Städelschule include Sandra Kranich (Philipp Pflug Contemporary), Margarete Zahn (Kunstraum Bernusstraße), Larry Bonćhaka (Sakhile&Me) Xue Liu and Ulrich Diekmann (Galerie Hübner & Hübner), Jan Schmidt (Anita Beckers Gallery), Winfried Skrobek (Arte Giani), Volker Steinbacher (Das Bilderhaus), Franziska Kneidl (Kai Middendorff Gallery) and Janus Hochgesand (Kunsthandel ), Andreas Diefenbach and John Hussain Flindt (Jean-Claude Maier).
