Works by Mariel Poppe and Florian Glaubitz at the Johann Friedrich Danneil Museum in Salzwedel
Traditionally, the Danneil Museum provides a platform for visual artists who spent the previous year in Salzwedel as scholarship holders to showcase their work. In 2024, these artists were Mariel Poppe from Berlin and Florian Glaubitz from Münster.
Mariel Poppe
During her three-month working scholarship, Mariel Poppe has devoted herself to the theme of towers as architectural exclamation marks. Using old found bricks and miniature bricks, she builds possible and impossible tower structures that are stripped of the power of monuments: towers that are crooked and lopsided, perfectly imperfect, manneristically playful and bizarrely surreal.
Towers are perceived in particular as markers in cities and in the landscape. From above, they offer an overview; from below, they provide orientation. Inspired by the numerous, distinctive and unique towers and gate structures of the Altmark region, a series of ‘architectural exclamation marks’ has been created.
Florian Glaubitz
During his stay at the Salzwedel Artists’ and Scholarship House, Florian Glaubitz explored the urban space and the lives of the local people through photography. Caught between everyday impressions and cultural change, Glaubitz questions the dynamics of public and private life.
‘I don’t want to create just a series of individual images, but rather a cluster of impressions that show what “togetherness” can mean,’ explains the artist. His works invite viewers to see the city from a different perspective and to become more aware of everyday processes.
Many interested visitors accepted the invitation to the exhibition opening on 5 June at the Johann Friedrich Danneil Museum.
The exhibition will be on display at the Danneil Museum in Salzwedel until 31 August 2025.