The Open Studios – Open House Days at Künstlerhof Frohnau will take place this year on Saturday, September 7 from 2 PM to 8 PM and on Sunday, September 8 from 11 AM to 6 PM.
Open studios by: Marion Angulanza, Claudia Bachmann, Stefan Deckner, Gudrun Fischer-Bomert, Skadi Engeln (guest artist), Almut Flentje, Annette Frick & Wilhelm Hein, Bardo Henning, Saskia Hubert, Rosika Jankó-Glage, Nicola Jungsberger, Ray Kaczynski, Silke Kästner, Anetta Küchler-Mocny, Nora Mertes, Essam Hamdi NORREM, Ojoboca – Anja Dornieden & Juan David González Monroy, Pierre de Mougins, Kirstin Rabe, Silke Reuter, Heike Ruschmeyer, Clemens Schill, Susanne Schill, Gudrun Schlemmer, Zuzanna Schmukalla, Sylvia Seelmann, Klaus-Uwe Seelmann, Annette Selle, Hein Spellmann, Barbara Salome Trost, Daniel Stolzenburg, Gesa Titgemeyer, Michael Walter, Astrid Weichelt, Christiana Wirthwein-Vormbäumen, Birgit Wölke, Jen Yakamovich (Artist-in-Residence), Marian Zaic.
PROGRAM
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7
2:00 PM Opening with Harald Muschner (District Councilor for Culture, Education, Sports, FM), Dr. Sabine Ziegenrücker (Head of the Art and History Department, Reinickendorf District Office) and Kaya Behkalam (Künstlerhof Frohnau); music by Bardo Henning and Ulrich Orth.
The studios will be open afterward.
3:00 PM Guided tour through the Künstlerhof studios with art historian and curator Katja Hock, meeting point at the courtyard entrance.
4:00 PM Claudia Bachmann Studio, Performance: “What Remains – An Invitation to the In-Between World.” Inspired by relics from the past, the performance centers around seamstress Elisabeth Seitz, born in 1886. Claudia Bachmann tells the story of her great-aunt, who took her own life in 1979 at a very old age. Accompanied by the atmospheric sounds of musician and composer Ray Kaczynski, Carola Döbler wears clothes that Aunt Liesl sewed for her niece, bringing to life the facets of vitality that her aunt herself was denied. Afterward, visitors are invited, in silence, to invite one of their deceased loved ones to the table.
5:00 PM Guided tour through the Künstlerhof studios with art historian and curator Katja Hock, meeting point at the courtyard entrance.
7:00 PM “Simple Samples”. Ambient set by Otto Oscar Hernandez Ruiz & Sainte. Live act, jam session, live painting, performance, poetry, ambient sound, light installation. In the KHF project space.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8
1:00 PM Guided tour through the Künstlerhof studios with art historian and curator Katja Hock, meeting point at the courtyard entrance.
2:00 PM Claudia Bachmann Studio, Performance: “What Remains – An Invitation to the In-Between World.” (Same description as on Saturday.)
3:00 PM Concert by Bardo Henning (piano) and Ulrich Orth (saxophone, clarinet, flute, composition). The alto saxophonist Uli Orth, known from the Roger Cicero Orchestra and the Experimenti Berlin Orchestra, will also play clarinet and flute in this duo concert. Together with Bardo Henning on piano, they will interpret swinging original compositions as well as some jazz standards.
4:00 PM Guided tour through the Künstlerhof studios with art historian and curator Katja Hock, meeting point at the courtyard entrance.
5:30 PM Closing concert: “Impromptu” – The improvisational gesture as a musical journey, with Sainte, SHIN Hyo Jin, Otto Oscar Hernandez Ruiz and Jen Yakamovich. KHF project space.
EXHIBITIONS ON THE PREMISES
Pavilion: Artist Songwen Sun-von Berg shows her ink drawings on Chinese paper in the pavilion. It is a joint project with Gudrun Fischer-Bomert, who works with objects made of drinking straws. The two artists have known each other since a joint exhibition in 2015.
Neubau, ground floor foyer: “Hidden Realms of Reality” exhibition of paintings and digital drawings by Klaus-Uwe Seelmann. His works are understood as humorous and at the same time profound artistic interventions that aim to inspire human healing and evolutionary development.
Old building foyer: Exhibition of photographs by Saskia Hubert.
In the woods around Künstlerhof: Susanne Schill, ‚Fenster‘ from the series „Himmelstücher“.
Poster image: Gudrun Fischer-Bomert, “GIANT STRAWS on STRAWBERRY FIELDS”, 2023.
Workshops for children, organized by the German Forest Youth, located next to the pavilion.
The “Charlottenburger” offers food & drinks, coffee & cake in front of the old building foyer.
The Open Studios are supported by Dezentrale Kulturarbeit. The Künstlerhof Frohnau also receives Basisförderung für Projekträume und Initiativen from the Berlin Senate for Culture for 2024-2025.
The full program can be downloaded here.
