Invitation to the exhibition WRITE THE FUTURE
On Saturday, October 12, 2024, at 3 p.m., the great artist Monika Schrickel will be remembered at the Wintringer Chapel Cultural site and her work "Zukunft Schreiben II" will be presented and discussed as part of a moderated local discussion.
Cut-out, lettering, transparent Japanese paper, acrylic, pigments, 2014
At the end, musical reflections create a space for contemplation in order to venture a look into a future worth living.
Afterwards (around 4.30 pm): Good conversation and the opportunity to stop off at the Wintringer farm's Country inn.
Note: A brochure on the exhibition is available on site.
To the project pageAdvance notice: Exhibition WRITE THE FUTURE
From June 21, 2024, the Cultural site Wintringer Chapel will be showing a work entitled "Write the Future", which the artist Monika Schrickel created especially for the site in 2003 to kick off the art projects that have followed every year since then. At the time, curator Peter Michael Lupp was able to persuade the artist to develop a work based on her intention "Open book. Book projects" for the formerly monastic site in order to create a connection between time and space. Since then, the vision of writing a future worth living through the signs of art has become the guiding principle of the Cultural site Wintringer Chapel. This impulse has run like a red thread through 20 years of cultural work in the former medieval priory church and has been reflected in a wide variety of artistic reflections.
Reason enough, in the anniversary year 2024, to remember how it all began in 2003/2004 and to pay tribute to the painter Monika Schrickel (1940-2022), who was one of the most important female artists in Saarland, with a renewed presence of her work. The aim is to incorporate her poetic work into a contemporary artistic discourse that deals with the current issues of society and its ability to "write" - in the sense of shape - a sustainable future.
In the run-up to the event, a selection of the artist's works will be on display at the gallery in Kleinblittersdorf town hall, which traces her artistic career and has been carefully compiled by her son Ralph Schrickel.
The exhibition of the work "Write the Future" at the Wintringer Chapel Cultural site is also a contribution to this year's celebration of the Bliesgau UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, which will take place in Kleinblittersdorf on June 30, 2024.
Exhibition EX VOTO - I Believe in Miracles
Under the title EX VOTO - I Believe in Miracles , the Saarland artist Vera Loos will be a guest at the Wintringer Chapel Cultural site from September 1, 2023 with her site-specific works for an annual cycle.
You are cordially invitedto the opening on Wednesday, August 30, 2023, at 6:00 pm!
Opening program
Welcome
Klaus Posselt (Managing Director Lebenshilfe für Menschen mit Behinderung Obere Saar e.V.)
Rainer Lang (Mayor of Kleinblittersdorf)
Peter Gillo (Regional Association Director and Patron)
Introduction
Peter Michael Lupp, Cultural site consultant Regionalverband Saarbrücken and curator of the art projects Cultural site Wintringer Chapel in dialogue with the artist Vera Loos
Musical reflections on the work
Bernd Wegener (Percussion)
Afterwards: good conversation and drinks
To the project pageUlrike Donié - "SYNERGIEN"
Those who linger in the silence at the Cultural site Wintring Chapel can - inspired by the works of Ulrike Donié - let their gaze wander between the medieval space and nature.
The change of perspective invites us to trace the creative moments of a synergetic encounter between humans and nature in the present: Where do fruitful connections arise that make a new togetherness recognizable in a future that is not yet visible but can be felt? Synergetic encounters are a central aspect of creative renewal - art connects!
Peter Michael Lupp, curator cultural site Wintringer Chapel
Advance notice: Art project "SYNERGIES" by Ulrike Donié
Ulrike Donié - panel (detail)
Under the title "SYNERGIES", the artist Ulrike Donié will address the long and arduous journey of man through a nature that threatens him to a threat to nature by man at the Wintringer Chapel Cultural site from May onwards through the visual language of two opposing paintings on the west wall (panel painting) and on the east wall (tondo).
The human being has developed about 6 million years ago from a being completely integrated in the nature until today to a being completely dominating the nature. The abilities to subdue the hostile world for physical survival have led to technical and later scientific achievements which are both a curse and a blessing. The legitimate interest in using nature to secure life has turned into an environmental and climatic destruction that is existentially threatening to nature and thus to man himself, and which can hardly be stopped.... Now in the course of human development different answers have been given to the same questions. Religions, politics, secular ethics, art and science often offer different solutions to the same problems, which makes orientation difficult... (My) art is supposed to support the process of becoming aware of the present environmental situation through its own symbolic language and mode of expression, which appeals to the subconscious of the viewer and is emotionally effective. Conflicting feelings are generated.
Ulrike Donié
Short vita and exhibitions
| 1961 | Born in Saarbrücken |
| 1984- | Saarbrücken University of Applied Sciences (basic training) |
| 1991 | Start of work as an artist |
| 2008 | Artist in residence, Nagoya Art Academy, Japan |
| 2018 | Kunstverein Emmerich (E) Kunstverein Duisburg, June (E) Kunstverein Soest, October (E) Städtische Galerie, Kunstforum Neuenrade, September (E) |
| 2019 | Pavillon du Centenaire Esch, Luxembourg (E) Kunstforum Neureut (E) Kunst im Landtag Rheinland-Pfalz (E) Kunstverein Ingelheim (E) Museum für Bildende Kunst im Landkreis Neu-Ulm (G) Kulturring Meschede (E) (K) |
| 2020 | Neuer Kunstverein Aschaffenburg "Strong Women" Symposium with exhibition Large object for the outdoor area "Big Bugs" Kunstverein b-05 Kultur- Kunst-Natur Kunstverein Montabaur Kunstfreunde Lindau, Kunst in St. Stephan (E) KunstWerk Fellbach e.V. Fellbach (E) Museum Koenraad Bosman, Rees (E) Kunstverein Meppen (E) Kunst in der Maschinenhalle Scherlebeck, Herten (E) Projektraum k-Salon, Berlin with Susanne Husemann (E) Museum Pachen, Rockenhausen (E) |
| 2021 | Kunstverein Weiden (E) Museen Miltenberg (E), purchase Kunsthalle Hilsbach (E) Museum Mölln (E) Kunstverein Ladenburg (E) Kunstausstellung Natur-Mensch St. Andreasberg Kunstverein Germersheim "VIELFACH NATUR" (G) Kunstverein Frechen (G) Kunstverein Bad Salzdetfurth (G) Galerie Kunstzone M1, Gera (G) |
| 2022 | Peripherie galerie im sudhaus, Tübingen (E) Gmünder Kunstverein, Galerie im Kornhaus (E) Städtische Galerie Stapflehus, Weil am Rhein (E) Kunstgalerie "Altes Rathaus" Schwarzenbach an der Saale (Corona limited to 2023) Museum im Deutscherrenschloss, Münnerstadt (E) Cultural site Wintringer Chapel Kleinblittersdorf, Saarbrücken (E) Museum Schloss Ratibor, Roth (E) |
Film presentation: Transformation - World Circle Earth
An accompanying film to the current art project was realized by Peter Michael Lupp and Hannah Bernardy.
Transformation - World Circle Earth
part of the annual art projects per annum, sculptor Martin Steinert created a wooden sculpture in the shape of a sphere at the Wintringer Chapel Cultural site in April 2021 using the same technique as in Auersmacher. It bears the title "[Ver]Wandlung - Weltenkreis Erde" and is an artistic response to the installation Mensch - Heil oder Dorn der Schöpfung, which the artist created in the Maria Heimsuchung Catholic Church in Auersmacher in 2020.
The sculpture "World Circle Earth" articulates through the language of art the healing process of social and ecological change of humanity in favor of a better world. In the global network of currently 714 UNESCO biosphere reserves, this "transformation" can experience a special dynamic.
To the project pageWindows meanwhile the worlds
Genc Mulliqi
An artistic reflection in the mirror of the symbolic meaning of the windows of the late gothic "Wintringer Chapel".
The Albanian sculptor Genc Mulliqi was a guest artist at the Kulturzentrum am EuroBahnhof e.V. Saarbrücken until May 2020. He lives and works in Tirana/Albania as professor of the sculpture class at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Arts in Tirana. After a visit to the cultural site Wintringer Chapel, he created a "head sculpture" of fired clay in his guest studio at KuBa under the title "WINDOWS meanwhile worlds". The work will be shown on site in the course of 2020 and become the starting point for local conversations.
Genc Mulliqi conceives his work as a metaphorical "light bridge" between the interior of the sacred space and the outside world. On another level, he wants his work to visually negotiate the relationship between man and nature.
Interview with Genc Mulliqi
Man - salvation or thorn of creation
Man
Salvation or
Thorn of
Creation
An artistic process work about the future of the earth
Martin Steinert (sculptor)
François Schwamborn (light art)
Starting in November, the models of sculptor Martin Steinert, which were created as a basis for the artistic process, will be shown under the title CONVERSION.
Sound installation STEPS SILENCE
Liquid Penguin Ensemble
Katharina Bihler Stefan Scheib
Introduction, Peter Michael Lupp
Sound sample, Katharina Bihler and Stefan Scheib
Since the Middle Ages, the cultural site Wintringer Chapel on the Wintringer farm has also been a signpost, a place marker, a stopping and orientation point for people in search of a way. A sound installation by the Liquid Penguin Ensemble, developed especially for the location, refers to this. In their multi-channel installation, Katharina Bihler and Stefan Scheib work with the audible aspect of wandering, pilgrimage, walking, as well as with texts that deal with the field of tension between fleetingness and permanence.
The Country inn at the Wintringer farm is open and offers an Advent fire with punch to warm you up.
To the project pageWintringer farm yard festival
From 10 a.m. - 6 p.m., the Wintringer Farm will host its annual farm festival.
Current exhibition
"The limits to growth - The cross in the void", Hermann Bigelmayr
Advent market with work presentation "The Cross in Nothingness".
Musical reflections: Marie Colombat, cello
Information stand about the cultural site
At the end of a five-year process with the theme "The limits of growth" , the "orientation symbol"by sculptor Hermann Bigelmayr provides an artistic impulse to explore the ethical foundation that can ensure peaceful coexistence and the preservation of creation.
The five-year process and the contents of the current exhibition have been documented in a publication. Available on site or by mail order (10,- €, plus shipping costs, pm.lupp@web.de)
Advent ritual "A light for the world"
The path to an ecologically sustainable future can only succeed if people become more aware of the fullness of creation and develop a physical, mental and spiritual connection with the earth. All guests are invited to light a candle in this spirit.
The Country inn opposite is open and invites you to stop for a bite to eat.
Wintringer farm yard festival
Current exhibitions
"The limits of growth - The cross in the void", Hermann Bigelmayr
"Il fait froid", Leslie Huppert
Il fait froid [moving identity 3]
Leslie Huppert
Since 2011, the Wintringer Chapel Cultural Site has focused on the guiding theme of "The Limits to Growth" (see per annum MMXI ff.). The artist Leslie Huppert (winner of the Saarbrücken Regional Association's 2014 Culture Prize for Art) has made reference to this in light of current events. In 2015, the artist took an artistic approach to people who are on the run.
Introduction: Peter Michael Lupp
Artist talk with Leslie Huppert and discussion
Musical reflections: Hartmut Osswald
This new artistic impulse at the cultural site Wintringer Chapel is the starting point for a cooperation with the KuBa cultural center at the Eurobahnhof in Saarbrücken. In 2016, a continuing exhibition and a topic-related public discourse will take place there.
Leslie Huppert in her studio
In interaction with her installation at the cultural site Wintringer Chapel, Leslie Huppert has been working with young refugees since spring 2016 to offer opportunities for integration through the bridge of artistic work.
Advent at the Wintringer farm with work presentation "Il fait froid"
Introduction: Peter Michael Lupp
Followed by a talk with the artist and discussion
Musical reflections: Hartmund Osswald
Wintringer farm yard festival
Sale of Bioland products, natural goods and products from our own production
Painting, crafts, activities for children and families, straw castle
With Peter Michael Lupp
Musical reflections: Marta Hemkemeier (violin), Anso Fiedeler (bassoon)
Advent at the Wintringer farm
At the cultural site Wintringer Chapel: "The Limits to Growth" by Hermann Bigelmayr with the new addition to his process work "In the Balance"
Texts and musical reflections
Yard festival at the Wintringer farm with work presentation "In the Balance".
At the cultural site Wintringer Chapel: "The Limits to Growth" by Hermann Bigelmayr
Presentation of the new addition to its process work "In the Balance"
Information booth
Under the title "In the Balance", Hermann Bigelmayr once again uses nature as a source of inspiration to conclude his work. The scene is a late summer wheat field in the early morning. On the silken thread of a spider, a broken leaf of a wheat stalk that has grown too high floats and moves seemingly weightless in the wind...
Since fall 2013, a quotation of that extremely filigree wheat leaf can be observed at the cultural site Wintringer Chapel. The leaf floats "on a silken thread" under the stalk of wheat already created by Hermann Bigelmayer in 2011. The artist had already been working on this with care in his Munich studio since 2012. Bigelmayr peeled thereby proverbially an increasing feeling of distress from a mighty maple trunk: Despite a meanwhile widespread knowledge about possible solutions, the threats to our planet caused by us humans ourselves, one does oneself with acting heavily. It remains predominantly with symptom treatments and political lip service.
To the project pageAdvent at the Wintringer farm
At the cultural site Wintringer Chapel: "The Limits to Growth" by Hermann Bigelmayr with the new addition to his process work "Seeds"
Information stand, literature about the cultural site and the Way of St. James
Musical reflections, Stefan Scheib (double bass)
Yard festival at the Wintringer farm
Large market with natural goods, gift and decorative items
At the cultural site Wintringer Chapel: Exhibition "The Limits to Growth" by Hermann Bigelmayr
The Limits to Growth - Discourse III
"... and the seed crops shall not be ground."
Accompanying, topic-specific public discourse on the exhibition "The Limits to Growth" at the Cultural site Wintringer Chapel.
More informationThe Limits to Growth - seeds
Since 2011, the renowned Munich sculptor Hermann Bigelmayr has presented his work "The Limits to Growth" on site. The artist's work is completed and deepened in several annual cycles, reflecting a theme-specific public discourse.
In 2012, he expanded his installation under the title SAATGUT. In terms of content, he enters into a dialog with an important short formulation of the concept of sustainability by J. W. von Goethe (1795): "...baked bread is tasty and satisfying - for one day; but flour cannot be sown, and the seeds should not be ground."
To the project pageThe Limits to Growth - Discourse II
Courage to do less, fullness of being - explorations on sustainability
Accompanying, topic-specific public discourse on the exhibition "The Limits to Growth" at the Cultural site Wintringer Chapel.
More informationAdvent at the Wintringer farm
At the cultural site Wintringer Chapel: "The Limits to Growth" by Hermann Bigelmayr
Information stand, literature about the cultural site and the Way of St. James
Yard festival at the Wintringer farm
Large market with natural goods, gift and decorative items
At the cultural site Wintringer Chapel: Exhibition "The Limits to Growth" by Hermann Bigelmayr
Information stand about the Way of St. James
The Limits to Growth - Discourse I
On the 7th day there was silence. Finally
Accompanying, topic-specific public discourse on the exhibition "The Limits to Growth" at the Cultural site Wintringer Chapel.
More informationThe Limits to Growth
The cultural site Wintringer Chapel shows in the annual cycles MMXI-MMXII a work of the sculptor Hermann Bigelmayr. Under the title "The Limits to Growth," the group of works shows, among other things, an oversized stalk of wheat that appears to have grown through the floor of the chapel, grown unchecked into the vault of the late Gothic chapel, and broken off there. The installation postulates the fatal consequences of a socio-political basic attitude that is oriented towards constant growth and promotes a completely different evaluation of nature and its essential potentials.
To the project page