It is a long-standing tradition for the Danneil Museum to provide a platform for the visual artists who spent the previous year in Salzwedel as scholarship holders. In 2025, these were Adelheid Fuss from Potsdam and Johannes Weilandt from Berlin.
The opening of the StipendiatenART exhibition, featuring works by Adelheid Fuss and Johannes Weilandt, will take place on Thursday 18 June 2026 at 5 pm at the Danneil Museum in Salzwedel.
Adelheid Fuss
Adelheid Fuss with her first four drawings in the studio of the scholarship house; @ AF
As part of her residency, the sculptor and graphic artist explored the relationship between geography and biography, as well as the construction of identity. The result is a series of portrait-like depictions of people, combined with landscape-like elements. The exhibition will also feature works created immediately before and after her stay in Salzwedel.
Adelheid Fuss was born in Romania in 1977 and has lived in Germany since 1987. She studied sculpture at Burg Giebichenstein in Halle/Saale and at the Athens School of Fine Arts. Since graduating, she has lived and worked in Potsdam.
In 2021, she received the Brandenburg Art Prize for Graphic Art. This was followed in 2024 and 2025 by several grants for artist-in-residence stays in Germany and Switzerland. Her work focuses on people, their relationships with one another and with our ever-changing world.
Johannes Weilandt
Johannes Weilandt in the studio in front of his drawings @_AMK
During his residency at the Salzwedel Artists’ and Scholars’ House, the visual artist Johannes Weilandt explored the so-called ‘Gallian theory of the skull’, drawing on his drawings of a skull specimen from the Meckel Collections at the Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology at MLU Halle-Wittenberg. Named after the German physician Franz Joseph Gall (1758–1828), this theory claimed to be able to determine a person’s disposition and character on the basis of purely external features.
The exhibition will feature drawings created during the artist’s residency, which emerged from a critical artistic engagement with the devastating consequences of this now scientifically disproved theory of skulls. These drawings are framed by earlier works that already addressed the institutionalisation of the human body in medical-historical collections and the associated questions of representational ethics.
Johannes Weilandt lives and works in Berlin and Halle Saale. He studied Fine Art / Stage and Costume Design at the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin and the University of Fine Arts in Belgrade. In 2022, he was awarded the title of Meisterschüler. His works are usually preceded by intensive research in medical history collections and archives.
You can look forward to an interesting exhibition featuring both artists.
