Masterpieces of Classical Modernism Feodora Hohenlohe 06. April 2025 - 28. June 2025

About the exhibition

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Masterpieces in Transition | From Classical Modernism to Quiet Poetry by Feodora Hohenlohe April 06 - June 28, 2025 | Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld. Vernissage: Sunday, April 06, 2025, 11 a.m. - Opening talk with Alexander Baumgarte and Feodora Hohenlohe.

A journey through art history - masterpieces of expressive modernism meet the quiet poetry of Feodora Hohenlohe

The Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie invites you on an impressive art-historical journey through time with the exhibition Masterpieces in Transition. An exciting dialog unfolds in two atmospherically designed exhibition rooms: On the one side are outstanding works of classical modernism - creations from an era of profound artistic upheaval. On the other side, a specially created, illusionistic studio space opens up, allowing visitors to experience Feodora Hohenlohe's creative universe - a world of quiet intensity that combines past and present.

The presentation is conceived as a dramaturgical arc: In two art-historically curated anterooms, a panorama of modernism unfolds, paving the way to the central staging - the imaginary studio of the artist Feodora Hohenlohe. This atmospherically dense core of the exhibition was conceived in collaboration with Theater Bielefeld and is based on the artist's original studio at Schloss Ippenburg. The gallery is transformed into a contemplative experience space in which art and staging merge into an atmospheric total work of art.

Modern classics - masterpieces of an era in upheaval

The exhibition presents works by artists who had a significant influence on 20th century art. Each position is a significant contribution to the diversity of modernism: Max Beckmann with his profound, symbolically charged compositions that reflect existential questions; Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, co-founder of the “Brücke”, with his expressive power of color and nervous lines; Emil Nolde, whose watercolors unfold a mystical radiance; Gabriele Münter, central figure of the “Blaue Reiter”, with a sensitive language of color and form; Käthe Kollwitz, whose humanistic works reveal social dramas of unique urgency; Gerhard Richter, who draws the bow to the present with technical brilliance and stylistic diversity.

This tableau is complemented by important voices such as Max Ernst, Lyonel Feininger, Max Liebermann, August Macke and Christian Rohlfs - artists who shaped the spirit of modernism in their own individual ways. Lesser-known but significant positions are also honored anew: Lotte Laserstein, for example, whose psychologically profound portraits have recently been rediscovered, or Renée Sintenis, famous for her sculptural depictions of animals and the iconic Berlin bear.

Other important representatives of the expressive movement - Hermann Max Pechstein, Otto Müller, Alexej von Jawlensky - represent a wealth of art history that impressively guides the visitor through the history of modernism and paves the way to the innermost room of the exhibition: the studio of Feodora Hohenlohe.

At the center: Feodora Hohenlohe's imaginary studio

The highlight of the exhibition is a staged, walk-in studio - a homage to Feodora Hohenlohe's working and living environment between Berlin and Ippenburg Castle. This atmospherically condensed space, realized in cooperation with the Theater Bielefeld, brings over 60 of the artist's works into a sensual context and allows the viewer to immerse themselves in her quiet, poetic world. Furniture, props and lighting create an illusionistic setting that recreates the aura of the castle - a studio space that is both a place of retreat and a stage for art.

Feodora Hohenlohe's works - still lifes, flower paintings, interiors and figure compositions - are imbued with a meditative calm. They seem to be located beyond the visible: imbued with memories, charged with the silence of things. The precision of her pictorial language is reminiscent of New Objectivity, but transcends its formal code. It is a kind of painting that makes the invisible visible and allows us to sense the concealed - full of lightness, melancholy and timeless beauty.

Feodora Hohenlohe - The Poetry of the Quiet

Feodora Hohenlohe (*1952) creates a world between reality and dream with painterly virtuosity and emotional depth. Her paintings are not depictions of reality, but mirrors of inner states - flooded with a mysterious light that gives her works an almost metaphysical charge. Whether old furniture, fragile glasses or delicate flowers - everything seems to carry a deeper meaning, imbued with time, history and memory.

The artist refuses to be stylistically appropriated: her works are rooted in an examination of the European pictorial tradition, while at the same time being profoundly contemporary. Her art is both a reflection and a vision - a reflection on what remains, what fades and what is hidden in between.

In this unique exhibition, Feodora Hohenlohe's quiet poetry becomes a foil to expressive modernism. The dialog between the epochs is not confrontational, but insightful: past and present, emotion and structure, intensity and stillness meet at eye level - and open up new perspectives on the history of art.

Opening hours of the gallery

Monday - Friday from 10:00 - 18:00, Saturday from 10:00 - 14:00

Admission free

Information

Opening, Sunday, April 06, 2025, 11am

Bielefelder Nachtansichten, April 26, 2025, 6 pm - 2 pm | With two artist talks by Feodora Hohenlohe at 8 pm and 10 pm

Press

Mit Herz und Seele bei der Sache, WB 07.04.2025

Einladung ins imaginäre Atelier einer Malerin, NW 05.04.2025

Die malerische Poesie des Alltags, WB 05.04.2025

Die Dinge wollen gemalt werden, Deutsches Adelsblatt 2025

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