Exhibitions

Angela Hampel: Das Künstlerische Werk / The Artistic Work

Exhibition at the Städtische Galerie Dresden
May 25 - September 11, 2022   

co-curated by Drs. Gisbert Porstmann and April A. Eisman

Angela Hampel has been actively engaged in the Dresden art scene for more than forty years. It is here where she has created her extensive body of artistic work. Best known as a painter and graphic artist, she also creates installations, performance art, and even poetry. As a founding member of the Dresden Secession 89, she has advocated for the visibility of women’s art and engages actively in cultural debates.

This exhibition focuses on Angela Hampel’s artwork from the early 1980s to the present, with an emphasis on her paintings and drawings. It is the first comprehensive exhibition of her work to take place in Dresden. In the museum, paintings on pleated blinds from the 1980s will greet you in the foyer, where they hang from the ceiling near the stairs. There are also two large installations from around 1990. Another important part of her oeuvre, her printed work, can be found in our Project Space »New Gallery«, curated separately by Carolin Quermann.

Life and death, animal and human, the relations- hip between man and woman. These are the existen- tial themes at the heart of Angela Hampel’s work. They are often expressed through mythological archetypes. Striking are the expressive forms – vibrant and strong – with which she creates her images.

Angela Hampel also creates public works. In the accompanying program, we invite you to join us on excursions to see some of them.

The exhibition is accompanied by a comprehensive catalog (German / English).  ISBN 978-3-7356-0854-3

Umbruch & Beständigkeit. Neue Einblicke in der Dresdner Kunst um 1989/90

Upheavals and Continuities. New Insights into Dresden Art around 1989/90

Exhibition in the Gallery of the Kustodie, TU-Dresden
May 8 - June 28, 2024   

What impact did the momentous events of 1989/90 have on artists active in Dresden? This is the question that underlies the exhibition “Upheavals and Continuities. New Insights into Dresden Art around 1989/90”. Curated by students from the Department of Art History at the TUD Dresden University of Technology, this exhibition brings together paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, and textiles by ten artists born between 1925 and 1959 who were active in Dresden before and after the peaceful revolution and German unification.

Agathe Böttcher, Kerstin Franke-Gneuß, Hubertus Giebe, Johannes Heisig, Elke Hopfe, Petra Kasten, Friedrich Kracht, Christine Schlegel, Charlotte Sommer-Landgraf and Christoph Wetzel are represented with works from the University’s Art Collection” (Office for Academic Heritage), the Kunstfonds and the Albertinum of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Dresden State Art Collections) as well as from private collections.

Additional questions asked when preparing this exhibition include: To what extent can changes in material, technique, format and content be seen in the artists’ work? Were there only breaks, or were there also continuities in what artists created before and after 1989/90? We leave these questions open and let the artworks speak for themselves.

The exhibition and accompanying program were designed by Lisa-Marie Gutte, Nathaniel Heinicke, Philipp Karmann, Anouk Nolte, Melissa Rothe, Isabell Stickler, Luise Stölzel, and Adriaen Wallendorf, art history students from the Institute for Art and Music History at the TU-Dresden as part of an MA Seminar, "The Impact of 1989/1990 on Artists in Dresden" that was taught by Professor April Eisman and Gwendolin Kremer in the Winter Semester 2023, with exhibition support from Andreas Kempe.