2026 First Land–Sea Connectivity Invitational Painting Exhibition (Jiangjin)
Hamburg’s Pashmin Art Consortia and the Jiangjin Comprehensive Bonded Zone in Chongqing, China, jointly present an international art exhibition The exhibition brings together works by 52 artists from seven countries, including 55 European paintings and 38 works from Jiangjin. With a total exhibition value exceeding €2 million, this German–Chinese project represents a new combination of […]
Helmut Spanner: Picturetalks
Helmut Spanner is widely known as an illustrator and picture-book artist, yet his Picturetalks reveal a distinctly conceptual dimension of his practice. In these works, writing itself becomes pictorial material. A selection of eight Picturetalks is currently on view at the Museums of the Castle and Residential City of Greiz (Museen der Schloss- und Residenzstadt […]
Martin Ryng: Bodies, Signs and Inner Worlds
From Poland to Bielefeld Martin Ryng is a Polish-born German artist who developed his artistic practice after moving to Bielefeld. Born in 1984 in Ząbkowice Śląskie, Poland, he completed his Abitur in 2003 and initially studied sociology before relocating to Germany. After a language course in Bielefeld, he entered the Fachhochschule Bielefeld in 2005 and […]
Christine Halloff: Organic Abstraction and the Poetics of Watercolor
Introduction Christine Halloff is a Swedish artist whose practice canters on experimental watercolor and pencil. Long associated with studies, landscape, and botanical observation, the medium became increasingly autonomous through Romanticism and modernism. Halloff works within this expanded history. She does not use watercolor chiefly to describe an external scene; she allows transparency, staining, capillary movement, […]
Sonia Parchet: Inner Worlds, Living Connections
A Life Shaped by Transformation Sonia Parchet’s art is rooted in a biography marked by movement, reinvention, and attention to the inner life. Born in France, raised in Germany, and now based in Switzerland, she worked across acting, directing, circus training, coaching, and complementary therapy before committing herself fully to painting. These fields required discipline, […]
Imagined Sanctuaries: Lisa Etterich’s Worlds of Matter and Mystery
Lisa Etterich is a German painter whose work moves freely between abstraction, landscape, material experimentation and spiritual reflection. Born in Dülmen, where she continues to live and work, she studied design at the “Münster University of Applied Sciences” (Fachhochschule Münster) from 1971 to 1974. She subsequently pursued art studies through the “Hamburg School of Art” […]
Olena Linse: The Female Body as Labyrinth, Language and Source of Power
Introduction Born in 1978, Olena Linse is a Swiss artist whose paintings explore femininity, identity, sensuality and the inner life of the body. She began studying drawing and painting at a young age and later completed studies in urban planning at the Technical University of Rivne. After periods in the Czech Republic and Austria, she […]
Ambro Louwe: The Instability of Form
Across painting, sculpture, glass, spatial intervention, education, and embodied practice, Ambro Louwe has developed an art centered on a persistent question: how does form change when it is placed under pressure? A Life Shaped by Learning Ambro Louwe’s career does not follow the familiar route from art academy to studio, gallery, and museum. Born in […]
Kiko Morales: The Architecture of Endurance
Introduction Kiko Morales, born Francisco Morales Muñoz in Doña Mencía, Spain, in 1996, is a contemporary figurative artist trained at the Alonso Cano Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Granada. His practice is centred primarily on drawing on paper, combining black pen, coloured pencil, and restrained applications of acrylic. From an early stage, […]
Andreas Schmidt: Transforming Vinyl, Memory, and Identity
Origins: Displacement and Identity Transformation is central to Andreas Schmidt’s artistic practice. Working mainly with discarded vinyl records, he explores memory, migration, perception, renewal, and the possibility of giving new meaning to overlooked materials. Although his work is associated with sustainability and technical innovation, its deeper source is a life shaped by displacement and cultural […]