Review of the year 2024
Great highlights and a sailing accident in 2024 The year was packed full of exciting excursions, encounters and new impressions. I worked long and hard on the creation of my card game. From the motif design to the digital development, it was a completely new project for me that was simply great fun. Organizing a…
Art? All banana!
What is art? Is sticking a banana on the wall still art? Or: what actually makes Salvador Dali famous? And why does everyone love Mona Lisa? I am sure of it: Do your own thing! The art market, and with it the financial success of art, is subject to a constant struggle for power and…
Caterpillar and butterfly…
…are actually one and the same However, they undergo a metamorphosis that changes their appearance so colossally that it seems incredible to have an individual in front of you all the time. Sounds kind of human, doesn’t it? After all, from birth to old age, we also transform in a way that seems unimaginable to…
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Make room!
It’s slowly getting a little tight – The bird perch is just 11 cm long and about 2 mm thick. How many birds fit on such a tiny bird perch? I was able to fit nine extremely rare bird species next to each other. Two more are still trying to get a perch. I had…
The moth is also an artist
Let me introduce you to an extraordinary pair of artists. To be honest, it’s once again about the very last remnants Do you still have box trees in your garden? That’s no longer a matter of course these days. A small moth called the European Box Borer has already eaten a large part of the…
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Game with new rules -MATRIA SKAT
It began with the traditional Schwalenberg blueprint and the exhibition withBLAU – This became my card deck – MATRIA SKAT What is blueprinting? 1st development: From the middle of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th century, the Lippe region was home to this fabric printing process. White patterns were created on blue-dyed…
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THE DUST OF TIME
Deconstruction|Conversion|Exhibition For the ancient Egyptians, the scarab was a symbol of death, rebirth and wealth. Our native dung beetle is related to this pill-popper – the beetles roll balls of dung into which they lay their eggs. The larvae eat dung and grow into magnificent, iridescent beetles. Exhibition Gallery HAUS BACHRACH Schwalenberg 11.8. -29.9.2024 Sat./Sun.…
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If that goes well!
Miniature collage meets baroque! The last remnants of civilization among the princely treasures of the Beletage of Bad Pyrmont Castle! Hanging contemporary art on baroque fabric wallpaper! Splendor and glory for the most banal fragments – if that ever works! It was great! The Romanticism 2.0 exhibition will close on August 20. During the three-month…
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All the birds are already here…and the beetles too
The little birds sing in the forest Fancy a little walk in the woods? A little birdsong accompanies this landscape with a few hopping, fluttering, tripping and pecking bird species. And what else are they up to in their tiny natural paradise? I’d love to know that too. So it’s fun to watch the little…
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Romanticism 2.0 – The program
Dates Public guided tours with the artist May 12 | June 9 | July 5 | August 9 each at 3 p.m. Cinema matinees in the Kronen-Lichtspiele Bad Pyrmont – July 02, 11 a.m.: Diary of a bee – August 20, 11 a.m.: The missing miniature Action days – May 21: International Museum…
