Open Guest Studio

November 26 2023
11 am till 5 pm

In October and November, at the invitation of Ute Langanky, the Stiftung Insel Hombroich welcomes artist Hannah Schneider to the Raketenstation Hombroich guest studio.

Hannah Schneider works across genres in various media and materials with a focus on installation, public space, performative action, film, and drawing. Her works are based on an ongoing preoccupation with central sculptural themes, such as body and space, mass and proportion, or movement and statics. They explore the relationship of the body to the surrounding space in objects, installations, and performative film works. Architecture and landscape have a direct influence on the predominantly site-specific installations. Aspects of temporality, evident for example in the evaporation of water or the migration of shadows over the course of a day, are negotiated in their works. Time and space, light and shadow, movement and gravity play an ever-changing role.

Hannah Schneider’s artistic practice is particularly concerned with the physical properties of space as well as the ephemeral processes in nature. During her guest residency at Raketenstation Hombroich, she will create large-format prints of the pond surfaces, which she will make accessible to visitors as part of an open guest studio.

– Stiftung Insel Hombroich

sculpturegarden 2023: playground & nature

Kunsthaus NRW

14/05/2023 – 22/10/2023
Opening: Saturday 13th May 2023, 3 p.m.

Kunsthaus NRW
Abteigarten 6
52076 Aachen – Kornelimünster

With new works by Marco Biermann & Tomas Kleiner, Vera Drebusch & Florian Egermann, Selma Gültoprak, Jonas Hohnke, Evamaria Schaller & Andreas Gehlen, Christian Odzuck, Hannah Schneider, Fari Shams

In 2023, the exhibition in the sculpture garden of the Kunsthaus is dedicated to the relationship between humans and nature in play. The game with fixed »rules« and the wild nature only seem to oppose each other. Playgrounds should enable children to play freely – and are nevertheless traditionally extremely artificially designed places that specify a specific use.

Newer playground concepts develop natural spaces that offer a different sensory experience. The artistic works in the exhibition also challenge the senses of the visitors: in Jonas Hohnke’s “White Cube” the visitors are invited to use their own bodies in the exhibition space. Hannah Schneider stages a rainbow laboratory in the old monastery kitchen; Vera Drebusch & Florian Egermann lay out a chessboard-like pattern. Evamaria Schaller & Andreas Gehlen mark an enigmatic play area in the museum garden; Selma Gültoprak questions the end of childhood. The duo Marco Biermann & Tomas Kleiner lets a potted plant wander through the garden and a new work by Fari Shams fundamentally questions the connection between educational concepts and garden design.

The inauguration of the new large installation »KIOSK (for G. T.)« by Christian Odzuck will be celebrated with a concert on International Museum Day (May 21). In summer, the newly sown wildflower meadow in the large garden of the Kunsthaus will attract two-legged and winged visitors. You will also meet good friends again: the installation made of cube fragments by Vera Lossau and the plant labyrinth by Stefanie Klingemann also invite you to play freely in summer 2023.