Academies from Rhine-Main dominate
Robin Stretz researches the myths and anecdotes surrounding two pieces of furniture in a film that can be seen in the FILIALE from September 8.
The influence of the important and internationally recognized local academies - Städelschule, HfG Offenbach, but also the Kunsthochschule Mainz - is clearly visible. The "Complex" exhibition in the branch shows film works by Robin Stretzwho studied at the Kunsthochschule Mainz and at the Städelschule in Frankfurt in Tobias Rehberger's class. Also Nadja Adelmann and Alyona Volkovawho work together at the Heike Strelow Gallery have studied under the sculptor Tobias Rehberger or are still doing so, like Alyona Volkova, who comes from Odessa. They create painterly and installative works of art that captivate visitors not only with their content, but also with their surprising and visually meticulously crafted details.
Alyona Volkova, The Art of Doing Nothing IV, 2023, oil on canvas, 240 x 180 x 4cm, 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 from the Städelschule environment include Sandra Kranich (Philipp Pflug Contemporary), Margarete Zahn (Kunstraum Bernusstraße), Larry Bonćhaka (Sakhile&Me) Xue Liu and Ulrich Diekmann (Gallery Hübner & Hübner), Jan Schmidt (Anita Beckers Gallery), Winfried Skrobek (Arte Giani), Volker Steinbacher (Das Bilderhaus), Franziska Kneidl (Kai Middendorff Gallery) and Janus Hochgesand (Kunsthandel Hagemeier), Andreas Diefenbach and John Hussain Flindt (Jean-Claude Maier).
